Commission Regulation (EC) No 260/2006 of  15 February 2006  amending Regulation (EC) No 1573/2005 opening a standing invitation to tender for the resale on the Community market of rye held by the German intervention agency for processing into bioethanol and its subsequent use for the production of biofuel in the Community
Date: 2006-02-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, award of contract, ethanol, intervention agency, rye, substitute fuel

16.2.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 46/17

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 260/2006

of 15 February 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 1573/2005 opening a standing invitation to tender for the resale on
the Community market of rye held by the German intervention agency for processing into
bioethanol and its subsequent use for the production of biofuel in the Community

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

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 6 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

The use of bioethanol obtained from rye made available
under the invitation to tender opened by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1573/2005 (2)
the
final
economic
production of
to the
operators and the transport of
premises of the industrialists responsible for adding the
bioethanol to other fuels.

for
various
the bioethanol

involves

biofuel

As the economic circuits used require the transport of
the bioethanol, provision should be made for the possi-
bility of storing it with intermediaries by mixing it with
identical products not obtained under the invitation to
tender concerned. It is, however, necessary to maintain
traceability of the flows of the quantities obtained under
the invitation to tender.

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

Article 8(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1573/2005 is replaced by
the following:

‘3.
Notwithstanding Article 7(1)(a) of Regulation (EEC) No
3002/92, proof that the rye has been properly used shall be
provided where it is stored in a bioethanol processing under-
taking, its processing into bioethanol has taken place and the
biofuel producer
this bioethanol has been
that
processed into biofuel. Proof of processing into biofuel
shall be provided by the stock records kept by the various
supporting
parties
documents for the movement of the products. Under these
conditions, the intermediate storage of the bioethanol may be
carried out by mixing with other bioethanols.’

involved and by the submission of

shows

Article 2

(3)

Regulation (EC) No 1573/2005 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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

Done at Brussels, 15 February 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(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 253, 29.9.2005, p. 6.