Commission Regulation (EC) No 923/2006 of  22 June 2006  amending Regulations (EC) No 1164/2005, (EC) No 1165/2005, (EC) No 1168/2005, (EC) No 1700/2005 and (EC) No 1845/2005 opening standing invitations to tender for the resale on the Community market of maize held by the Czech, Hungarian, Austrian, Polish and Slovak intervention agencies
Date: 2006-06-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, award of contract, intervention agency, maize, sale

23.6.2006

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 923/2006

of 22 June 2006

amending Regulations
(EC)
No 1700/2005 and (EC) No 1845/2005 opening standing invitations to tender for the resale on
the Community market of maize held by the Czech, Hungarian, Austrian, Polish and
Slovak intervention agencies

(EC) No 1168/2005,

(EC) No 1164/2005,

(EC) No 1165/2005,

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

faith by traders during those weeks, although no
Management Committee meetings are scheduled.

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,

(4)

(5)

Whereas:

Regulations (EC) No 1164/2005,
(EC) No 1168/2005,
No 1845/2005 should be amended accordingly.

(EC) No 1165/2005,
(EC) No 1700/2005 and (EC)

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

(1)

(2)

(EC) No 1168/2005 (4),

(EC) No 1845/2005 (6)

Commission Regulations (EC) No 1164/2005 (2),
(EC)
No 1165/2005 (3),
(EC) No
1700/2005 (5)
open
and
standing invitations to tender
the resale on the
Community market of maize held by the Czech,
Hungarian, Austrian, Polish and Slovak intervention
agencies. Those invitations to tender expire on 28 June
2006.

for

In order to guarantee livestock farmers and the livestock-
feed industry supplies at competitive prices at
the
beginning of the 2006/2007 marketing year, the stocks
of maize held by the Czech, Hungarian, Austrian, Polish
and Slovak intervention agencies should continue to be
made available on the cereal market.

(3)

In the context of this extension, however, the weeks from
28 June 2006 when no invitation to tender will be made
were not specified. Tenders could thus be lodged in good

(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 188, 20.7.2005, p. 4. Regulation as

last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 714/2006 (OJ L 124, 11.5.2006,
p. 11).

(3) OJ L 188, 20.7.2005, p. 7. Regulation as

(EC) No 1990/2005 (OJ

last amended by
L 320,

Commission Regulation
8.12.2005, p. 23).

(4) OJ L 188, 20.7.2005, p. 16. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 800/2006 (OJ L 144, 31.5.2006,
p. 7).

(5) OJ L 273, 19.10.2005, p. 3.
(6) OJ L 296, 12.11.2005, p. 3. Regulation as amended by Commission

Regulation (EC) No 703/2006 (OJ L 122, 9.5.2006, p. 7).

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The second subparagraph of Article 4(1) of Regulations
1.
(EC) No 1164/2005, (EC) No 1165/2005, (EC) No 1168/2005,
(EC) No 1700/2005 and (EC) No 1845/2005 is hereby replaced
by the following:

‘The time limit for the submission of tenders for subsequent
partial
invitations to tender shall be 15.00 (Brussels time)
each Wednesday, with the exception of 2 August 2006,
16 August 2006 and 23 August 2006, i.e. weeks when no
invitation to tender shall be made.’

2.
In the third subparagraph of Article 4(1) of Regulations
(EC) No 1164/2005, (EC) No 1165/2005, (EC) No 1168/2005,
(EC) No 1700/2005 and (EC) No 1845/2005, ‘28 June 2006’ is
replaced by ‘13 September 2006’.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

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

Done at Brussels, 22 June 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission