Commission Regulation (EC) No 257/2006 of  15 February 2006  opening a standing invitation to tender for the export of common wheat held by the Czech intervention agency in Belgium
Date: 2006-02-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Belgium, Czechia, award of contract, common wheat, export, intervention agency, third country

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 257/2006

of 15 February 2006

opening a standing invitation to tender for the export of common wheat held by the Czech
intervention agency in Belgium

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(5)

To forestall reimportation, exports under this invitation
to tender should be limited to certain third countries.

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:

(6) With a view to modernising the management of the
system, provision should be made for the electronic
the
transmission of
Commission.

information required by

the

(7)

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

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93 (2) lays down
the procedure and conditions for the disposal of cereals
held by intervention agencies.

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3002/92 (3) lays down
common detailed rules for verifying the use and/or desti-
nation of products from intervention.

Article 1

The Czech intervention agency shall issue a standing invitation
to tender for the export of common wheat held by it in the
places listed in Annex I to this Regulation, in accordance with
Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93, save as otherwise provided in
this Regulation.

Given the current market situation, a standing invitation
to tender should be opened for the export of 105 797
tonnes of common wheat held by the Czech intervention
the Commission Decision
agency in Belgium, under
authorising the Czech Republic to store outside its
territory 300 000 tonnes of cereals from the 2004/05
marketing year (4).

Article 2

The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum of 105 797
tonnes of common wheat for export to third countries with the
exception of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia,
the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Liechtenstein,
Romania, Serbia and Montenegro (5) and Switzerland.

Special procedures must be laid down to ensure that the
operations and their monitoring are properly effected. To
that end, provision should be made for a security
lodgement scheme which ensures that aims are met
while avoiding excessive costs for the operators. Dero-
gations should accordingly be made to certain rules, in
particular
those laid down in Regulation (EEC) No
2131/93.

Article 3

No export refund or tax or monthly increase shall be

1.
granted on exports carried out under this Regulation.

Article 8(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93 shall not

2.
apply.

(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 191, 31.7.1993, p. 76. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 749/2005 (OJ L 126, 19.5.2005, p. 10).

(3) OJ L 301, 17.10.1992, p. 17. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1169/2005.

(4) Notified to the Czech Republic on 17 June 2005, as amended by
Decision 4013/2005 notified to the Czech Republic on 11 October
2005.

3.
Notwithstanding the third paragraph of Article 16 of
Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93, the price to be paid for the
export shall be that quoted in the tender, with no monthly
increase.

(5) Including Kosovo, as defined in UN Security Council Resolution

1244 of 10 June 1999.

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Article 4

1.
issue
Export licences shall be valid from their date of
within the meaning of Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No
2131/93 until the end of the fourth month thereafter.

Tenders submitted in response to this invitation to tender
2.
licence applications
need not be accompanied by export
submitted under Article 49 of Commission Regulation (EC)
No 1291/2000 (1).

Article 5

1.
Notwithstanding Article 7(1) of Regulation (EEC) No
2131/93, the time-limit for submission of tenders under the
first partial invitation to tender shall be 09.00 (Brussels time)
on 23 February 2006.

to tender

The time-limit for submitting tenders under subsequent partial
invitations
time) each
Thursday thereafter, with the exception of 13 April 2006 and
25 May 2006, i.e. weeks in which no invitation to tender shall
be made.

shall be 09.00 (Brussels

In the event of a dispute, the analysis results shall be forwarded
electronically to the Commission.

Article 7

The successful tenderer must accept the lot as established

1.
if the final result of the sample analyses indicates a quality:

(a) higher than that specified in the notice of

invitation to

tender;

(b) higher than the minimum characteristics laid down for
intervention but below the quality described in the notice
of invitation to tender, providing that the differences having
regard to those criteria do not exceed the following limits:

— one kilogram per hectolitre as regards specific weight,
which must not, however, be less than 75 kg/hl,

The last partial
(Brussels time) on 22 June 2006.

invitation to tender shall expire at 09.00

— one percentage point as regards moisture content,

Tenders must be lodged with the Czech intervention

2.
agency:

— half a percentage point as regards the impurities referred
to in points B.2 and B.4 of Annex I to Commission
Regulation (EC) No 824/2000 (2),

Statní zemědělsky intervenční fond
Odbor Rostlinných Komodit
Ve Smečkách 33
CZ-110 00, Praha 1
Tel.: (420-2) 22 87 16 67
Fax: (420-2) 96 80 64 04.

Article 6

The intervention agency, the storer and a successful tenderer
shall, at the request of the latter and by common agreement,
either before or at the time of removal from storage as the
tenderer chooses, take reference samples for counter-analysis
at the rate of at least one sample for every 500 tonnes and
shall analyse the samples. The intervention agency may be
represented by a proxy, provided this is not the storer.

— half a percentage point as regards the impurities referred
to Regulation (EC) No
for noxious
admissible

to in point B.5 of Annex I
824/2000,
grains and ergot remaining unchanged, however.

the percentages

If

the final result of

2.
the analyses carried out on the
samples indicates a quality higher than the minimum character-
istics laid down for intervention but below the quality described
in the notice of invitation to tender and the difference exceeds
the limits set out in paragraph 1(b), the successful tenderer may:

(a) accept the lot as established; or

Reference samples for counter-analysis shall be taken and
analysed within seven working days of the date of the successful
tenderer’s request or within three working days if the samples
are taken on removal from storage.

(b) refuse to take over the lot concerned.

(1) OJ L 152, 24.6.2000, p. 1.

(2) OJ L 100, 20.4.2000, p. 31. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1068/2005 (OJ L 174, 7.7.2005, p. 65).

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In the case of (b), the successful tenderer shall be discharged of
all obligations relating to the lot in question and the security
shall be released provided the Commission and the intervention
agency are immediately notified using the form in Annex II.

3. Where the final result of sample analyses indicates a
quality below the minimum characteristics laid down for inter-
vention, the successful tenderer may not remove the lot in
question. The successful tenderer shall be discharged of all obli-
gations relating to the lot in question and the security shall be
released provided the Commission and the intervention agency
are immediately notified using the form in Annex II.

Article 8

Should the cases mentioned in point (b) of the first subpar-
agraph of Article 7(2) and Article 7(3) arise, the successful
tenderer may ask the intervention agency to supply an alter-
native lot of common wheat of the requisite quality, at no extra
cost. In that case, the security shall not be released. The lot must
be replaced within three days of the date of the successful
tenderer’s request. The successful
immediately
inform the Commission thereof using the form in Annex II.

tenderer shall

If, following successive replacements, the successful tenderer has
not received a replacement lot of the quality laid down within
one month of the date of the first request for a replacement, the
successful tenderer shall be discharged of all obligations and the
security shall be released, provided the Commission and the
intervention agency have been immediately informed using
the form in Annex II.

Article 9

If the common wheat is removed before the results of the
1.
analyses provided for in Article 6 are known, all risks shall be
is
borne by the successful
removed, without prejudice to any means of
the
tenderer might have against the storer.

tenderer from the time the lot

redress

shall be borne by the
those referred to in Article 7(3),
European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF)
for up to one analysis per 500 tonnes, with the exception of the
cost of inter-bin transfers. The costs of inter-bin transfers and
any additional analyses requested by a successful tenderer shall
be borne by that tenderer.

Article 10

Notwithstanding Article 12 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No
3002/92, the documents relating to the sale of common wheat
under this Regulation, and in particular the export licence, the
removal order referred to in Article 3(1)(b) of Regulation (EEC)
No 3002/92, the export declaration and, where applicable, the
T5 copy shall carry one of the entries set out in Annex III.

Article 11

1.
The security lodged under Article 13(4) of Regulation
(EEC) No 2131/93 shall be released once the export licences
have been issued to the successful tenderers.

Notwithstanding Article 17(1) of Regulation (EEC) No
2.
2131/93,
the obligation to export shall be covered by a
security equal to the difference between the intervention price
applying on the day of the award and the price awarded, but
not less than EUR 25 per tonne. Half of the security shall be
lodged when the licence is issued and the balance shall be
lodged before the cereals are removed.

Article 12

Within two hours of
for the
the expiry of
submission of tenders, the Czech intervention agency shall elec-
tronically notify the Commission of tenders received. This noti-
fication shall be made by e-mail, using the form in Annex IV.

the time-limit

Article 13

2.
The costs of
analyses provided for

taking the samples and conducting the
in Article 6, with the exception of

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi-
cation 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

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Ghent

ANNEX I

Place of storage

ANNEX II

Quantity
(tonnes)

105 797

Communication of refusal and possible replacement of lots under the standing invitation to tender for the
export of common wheat held by the Czech intervention agency in Belgium

(Regulation (EC) No 257/2006)

— Name of successful tenderer:
— Date of award:
— Date of refusal of the lot by the successful tenderer:

Lot number

Quantity
(tonnes)

Silo address

Reason for refusal to take over

— SW (kg/hl)
— % of sprouted grains
— % of miscellaneous impurities (Schwarzbesatz)
— % of matter other than basic cereals of unim-

paired quality

— Other

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ANNEX III

Entries referred to in Article 10

— in Spanish:

Trigo blando de intervención sin aplicación de restitución ni gravamen, Reglamento (CE) no 257/2006

— in Czech:

Intervenční pšenice obecná nepodléhá vývozní náhradě ani clu, nařízení (ES) č. 257/2006

— in Danish:

Blød hvede fra intervention uden restitutionsydelse eller -afgift, forordning (EF) nr. 257/2006

— in German: Weichweizen aus Interventionsbeständen ohne Anwendung von Ausfuhrerstattungen oder Ausfuhr-

abgaben, Verordnung (EG) Nr. 257/2006

— in Estonian:

Pehme nisu sekkumisvarudest, mille puhul ei rakendata toetust või maksu, määrus (EÜ) nr 257/2006

— in Greek:

Μαλακός σίτος παρέμβασης χωρίς εφαρμογή επιστροφής ή φόρου, κανονισμός (ΕΚ) αριθ. 257/2006

— in English:

— in French:

— in Italian:

Intervention common wheat without application of refund or tax, Regulation (EC) No 257/2006

Blé tendre d'intervention ne donnant pas lieu à restitution ni taxe, règlement (CE) no 257/2006

Frumento tenero d'intervento senza applicazione di
n. 257/2006

restituzione né di

tassa,

regolamento (CE)

— in Latvian:

Intervences mīkstie kvieši bez kompensācijas vai nodokļa piemērošanas, Regula (EK) Nr. 257/2006

— in Lithuanian:

Intervenciniai paprastieji
Nr. 257/2006

kviečiai,

kompensacija

ar mokesčiai netaikytini, Reglamentas

(EB)

— in Hungarian:

Intervenciós búza, visszatérítés, illetve adó nem alkalmazandó, 257/2006/EK rendelet

— in Dutch:

Zachte tarwe uit
nr. 257/2006

interventie, zonder

toepassing van restitutie of belasting, Verordening (EG)

— in Polish:

Pszenica zwyczajna interwencyjna niedająca prawa do refundacji ani do opłaty, rozporządzenie (WE)
nr 257/2006

— in Portuguese: Trigo mole de intervenção sem aplicação de uma restituição ou imposição, Regulamento (CE)

n.o 257/2006

— in Slovak:

Intervenčná pšenica obyčajná nepodlieha vývozným náhradám ani clu, nariadenie (ES) č. 257/2006

— in Slovenian:

Intervencija navadne pšenice brez zahtevkov za nadomestila ali carine, Uredba (ES) št. 257/2006

— in Finnish:

— in Swedish:

Interventiovehnä, johon ei sovelleta vientitukea eikä vientimaksua, asetus (EY) N:o 257/2006

Interventionsvete, utan tillämpning av bidrag eller avgift, förordning (EG) nr 257/2006.

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Standing invitation to tender for the export of common wheat held by the Czech intervention agency
in Belgium

ANNEX IV

Form (*)

(Regulation (EC) No 257/2006)

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Serial numbers
of tenderers

Lot number

Quantity
(tonnes)

Tender price
(EUR/tonne) (1)

Increases (+)
Reductions (–)
(EUR/tonne)
(p.m.)

Commercial costs (2)
(EUR/tonne)

Destination

1

2

3

etc.

(1) This price includes increases and reductions affecting the lot covered by the tender.
(2) The commercial costs corresponding to insurance and services provision borne after the exit of the intervention stock up to the fob
stage at the port of export, with the exception of transport costs. The notified costs shall be established on the basis of the average real
costs recorded by the intervention agency in the six months preceding the opening of the tendering period and shall be expressed in
euro per tonne.

(*) To be sent to DG AGRI (Unit D.2).