Notice of invitation to tender for the reduction in the import duty on maize imported from non-member countries
Date: 2006-07-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, award of contract, import, maize, originating product, tariff reduction, third country

C 162/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

13.7.2006

Notice of invitation to tender for the reduction in the import duty on maize imported from non-
member countries

(2006/C 162/02)

I. SUBJECT

1. Notice is hereby given of an invitation to tender for the reduction in the duty on imports from non-
member countries of maize falling within subheading 1005 90 00 of the Combined Nomenclature.

2. The total quantity in respect of which the reduction in the import duty may be fixed is 100 000

tonnes.

3. Contracts will be awarded in accordance with the provisions of Commission Regulation (EC) No

1057/2006 (1).

II. TIME LIMITS

1. The period for submission of tenders for the first weekly invitation begins on 14.07.2006 and expires

on 20.07.2006 at 10 a.m.

2. The period for submission of tenders for subsequent weekly invitations begins on the Friday of each

week and expires on the following Thursday at 10.00.

This notice is published only in respect of the issue of this invitation to tender. Unless amended or
replaced, this notice is valid for all weekly invitations issued during the period of validity of this invita-
tion to tender.

However, the submission of tenders will be suspended for weeks in which there is no meeting of the
Management Committee for Cereals.

III. TENDERS

1. Tenders must be submitted in writing and must either be delivered personally against a receipt or be
sent by registered letter, telefax or telegram, arriving no later than the date and time stated in Title II, to
the following address:

Ministério das Finanças
Direcção Geral das Alfândegas e Impostos Especiais sobre o Consumo
Terreiro do Trigo — Edifício da Alfândega
P-1149-060 Lisboa
Fax: (351-21) 881 42 61
Telephone: (351-21) 881 42 63

Tenders not submitted by fax or telegram must be enclosed in a sealed envelope marked ‘Tender for the
reduction in the import duty on maize — Regulation (EC) No 1057/2006’. This envelope must itself be
enclosed in another sealed envelope bearing the address in question.

Tenders submitted shall remain firm until the Member State concerned informs the interested party that
his tender has been successful.

2. The tender and the proof and declaration referred to in Article 6(3) of Commission Regulation (EC) No
1839/95 (2) shall be written in the official language, or one of the official languages, of the Member
State whose competent authority has received the tender.

IV. SECURITY FOR TENDER

The tendering security shall be made payable to the competent authority.

V. AWARD OF THE CONTRACT

The award of the contract shall establish:

(a) the successful tenderer's entitlement to be issued,

in the Member State in which the tender was
submitted, with an import licence stating the reduction in the import duty mentioned in the tender
and awarded in respect of the quantity in question;

(b) the successful tenderer's obligation to apply, in the Member State referred to in (a), for an import

(1) OJ L 192, 13.7.2006, p. 9.
(2) OJ L 177, 28.7.1995, p. 4.