Commission Regulation (EC) No 256/2006 of  15 February 2006  opening a standing invitation to tender for the export of barley held by the Czech intervention agency in Belgium
Date: 2006-02-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Belgium, Czechia, award of contract, barley, export, intervention agency, third country

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 256/2006

of 15 February 2006

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

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

transmission of
Commission.

the

information required by

the

(1)

(2)

(3)

(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:

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.

(7)

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

The Czech intervention agency shall issue a standing invitation
to tender for the export of barley 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 Regu-
lation.

Given the current market situation, a standing invitation
to tender should be opened for the export of 53 665
tonnes of barley held by the Czech intervention agency
in Belgium, under the Commission Decision authorising
the Czech Republic to store outside its territory 300 000
tonnes of cereals from the 2004/05 marketing year (4).

The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum of 53 665
to third countries with the
tonnes of barley for export
exception of Albania, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Canada, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
Liechtenstein, Mexico, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro (5),
Switzerland and the United States of America.

Article 2

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
(EEC)
down
particular
No 2131/93.

in Regulation

those

laid

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.

(5)

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

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

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.

(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).

Article 4

(2) OJ L 191, 31.7.1993, p. 76. Regulation as last amended by

Regulation (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

Regulation (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.

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

the end of

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

1244 of 10 June 1999.

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

(a) higher than that specified in the notice of

invitation to

tender;

Article 5

Notwithstanding Article

1.
(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.

of Regulation

7(1)

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

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

invitation to tender shall expire at 09.00

Tenders must be lodged with the Czech intervention

2.
agency:

Státní zemědělský 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.

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.

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:

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

(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:

— 1 kilogram per hectolitre as regards specific weight,
which must not, however, be less than 64 kg/hl,

— one percentage point as regards moisture content,

— 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)

— 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

(b) refuse to take over the lot concerned.

(b) above,

the successful

tenderer shall be
In the case of
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.

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

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

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Article 8

Article 10

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

tenderer shall

the date of

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

taking the samples and conducting the
2.
The costs of
in Article 6, with the exception of
analyses provided for
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.

Notwithstanding Article 12 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No
3002/92, the documents relating to the sale of barley under this
Regulation, and in particular the export licence, the removal
referred to in Article 3(1)(b) of Regulation (EEC)
order
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.

2.
Notwithstanding Article 17(1) of Regulation (EEC)
No 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

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

the time-limit

Article 13

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)

53 665

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

(Regulation (EC) No 256/2006)

— 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
unimpaired quality

than basic

cereals of

— Other

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ANNEX III

Entries referred to in Article 10

— in Spanish:

Cebada de intervención sin aplicación de restitución ni gravamen, Reglamento (CE) no 256/2006

— in Czech:

Intervenční ječmen nepodléhá vývozní náhradě ani clu, nařízení (ES) č. 256/2006

— in Danish:

— in German:

Byg fra intervention uden restitutionsydelse eller -afgift, forordning (EF) nr. 256/2006

Interventionsgerste ohne Anwendung von Ausfuhrerstattungen oder Ausfuhrabgaben, Verordnung (EG)
Nr. 256/2006

— in Estonian:

Sekkumisoder, mille puhul ei rakendata toetust või maksu, määrus (EÜ) nr 256/2006

— in Greek:

Κριθή παρέμβασης χωρίς εφαρμογή επιστροφής ή φόρου, κανονισμός (ΕΚ) αριθ. 256/2006

— in English:

Intervention barley without application of refund or tax, Regulation (EC) No 256/2006

— in French:

Orge d'intervention ne donnant pas lieu à restitution ni taxe, règlement (CE) no 256/2006

— in Italian:

Orzo d'intervento senza applicazione di restituzione né di tassa, regolamento (CE) n. 256/2006

— in Latvian:

Intervences mieži bez kompensācijas vai nodokļa piemērošanas, Regula (EK) Nr. 256/2006

— in Lithuanian:

Intervenciniai miežiai, kompensacija ar mokesčiai netaikytini, Reglamentas (EB) Nr. 256/2006

— in Hungarian:

Intervenciós árpa, visszatérítés, illetve adó nem alkalmazandó, 256/2006/EK rendelet

— in Dutch:

— in Polish:

Gerst uit interventie, zonder toepassing van restitutie of belasting, Verordening (EG) nr. 256/2006

Jęczmień interwencyjny nie dający prawa do refundacji ani do opłaty,
nr 256/2006

rozporządzenie (WE)

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

n.o 256/2006

— in Slovak:

Intervenčný jačmeň, nepodlieha vývozným náhradám ani clu, nariadenie (ES) č. 256/2006

— in Slovenian:

Intervencija ječmena brez zahtevkov za nadomestila ali carine, Uredba (ES) št. 256/2006

— in Finnish:

— in Swedish:

Interventio-ohra, johon ei sovelleta vientitukea eikä vientimaksua, asetus (EY) N:o 256/2006

Interventionskorn, utan tillämpning av bidrag eller avgift, förordning (EG) nr 256/2006.

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ANNEX IV

Form (*)

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

(Regulation (EC) No 256/2006)

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).