Commission Regulation (EC) No 2094/2005 of  20 December 2005  opening an invitation to tender for the reduction in the duty on sorghum imported into Spain from third countries
Date: 2005-12-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: award of contract, originating product, sorghum, tariff quota, tariff reduction, third country

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2094/2005

of 20 December 2005

opening an invitation to tender for the reduction in the duty on sorghum imported into Spain from
third countries

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 of 29
September 2003 on the common organisation of the market in
cereals (1), and in particular Article 12(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Pursuant to the Community’s international obligations in
the context of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade
Negotiations (2),
the Community has undertaken to
import a certain quantity of sorghum into Spain.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1839/95 of 26 July
1995 laying down detailed rules for the application of
tariff quotas for imports of maize and sorghum into
Spain and imports of maize into Portugal (3),
lays
down the special additional detailed rules necessary for
implementing the invitations to tender.

Taking into account the current market demand in Spain,
an invitation to tender for the reduction in the duty on
sorghum is appropriate.

Council Regulation (EC) No 2286/2002 of 10 December
2002 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural
products and goods resulting from the processing of
agricultural
the African,
Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP States) (4) provides in
particular for a 60 % reduction in the duty applicable to
imports of 100 000 tonnes of sorghum per calendar
year, and a 50 % reduction over this quota. Cumulation

originating

products

in

(1) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 78. Regulation as

(EC) No 1154/2005 (OJ

amended by
L 187,

Commission Regulation
19.7.2005, p. 11).

(2) OJ L 336, 23.12.1994, p. 22.
(3) OJ L 177, 28.7.1995, p. 4. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1558/2005 (OJ L 249, 24.9.2005, p. 6).

(4) OJ L 348, 21.12.2002, p. 5.

of this benefit and the benefit resulting from the invi-
tation to tender for the reduction in the import duty
would disturb the Spanish cereals market. Such cumu-
lation must therefore be ruled out.

(5)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Cereals,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

An invitation to tender is hereby opened for the reduction
1.
in the import duty referred to in Article 10(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 1784/2003 on sorghum to be imported into Spain.

2.

Regulation (EC) No 1839/95 shall apply.

3.
The reduction in the import duty for sorghum laid down
in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 2286/2002 shall not apply
in the case of this invitation to tender.

Article 2

The invitation to tender shall be open until 29 June 2006.
During that time weekly invitations shall be issued, with quan-
tities and closing dates laid down by a notice of invitation to
tender.

Article 3

Import licences issued under this invitation to tender shall be
valid for 50 days from the date they are issued, within the
meaning of Article 10(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1839/95.

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi-
cation in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 20 December 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission