Commission Regulation (EC) No 1555/2006 of 18 October 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 1039/2006 on opening a standing invitation to tender for the resale on the Community market of sugar held by the intervention agencies of Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and Sweden
Date: 2006-10-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, award of contract, intervention agency, sale, single market, sugar

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1555/2006

of 18 October 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 1039/2006 on opening a standing invitation to tender for the resale
on the Community market of sugar held by the intervention agencies of Belgium, the Czech
Republic, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and Sweden

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

(5)

(6)

Regulation (EC) No 1039/2006 should be amended
accordingly.

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

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of 20
February 2006 on the common organisation of the market in
the sugar sector (1), and in particular Article 40(2)(d) thereof,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Whereas:

Regulation (EC) No 1039/2006 is amended as follows:

Article 1

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

The quantities for resale stated in Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1039/2006 (2) reflect
the inter-
vention stocks on 30 June 2006. Since this date, quan-
tities have been sold by the intervention agencies and in
the case of Germany, there are no intervention stocks
remaining.

the state of

1. The title is replaced by the following:

‘Commission Regulation (EC) No 1039/2006 of 7 July 2006
opening a standing invitation to tender for the resale on the
sugar held by the intervention
Community market of
agencies of Belgium,
Ireland,
Italy, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and Sweden’.

the Czech Republic, Spain,

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1539/2006 of 13
October 2006 adopting a plan allocating resources to
the 2007
the Member States to be charged against
budget year for the supply of food from intervention
stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in
the Community (3) states that 33 224 tonnes of sugar in
storage must be withdrawn from the Community's inter-
vention stocks for distribution in the Member States in
accordance with Annex I to this Regulation.

2. Article 1 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 1

The intervention agencies of Belgium, Czech Republic, Spain,
Ireland,
Italy, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and
Sweden shall offer for sale by standing invitation to tender
on the Community internal market a total quantity of
899 896,41 tonnes of sugar accepted into intervention and
available for sale on the internal market. The quantities
involved per Member State are set out in Annex I.’.

These quantities should be taken into account in the sale
by standing invitation to tender on the Community
internal market.

3. The following paragraph is added to Article 4:

In order to ensure proper management of sugar in
storage, provision should be made for a communication
from the Member States on the quantities actually sold.

On the fifth working day at

‘3.
the
Commission fixes the minimum sale price, the intervention
agencies involved shall communicate to the Commission, in
the form laid down in Annex III, the quantity actually sold
by partial invitation to tender.’.

the latest after

(1) OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 187, 8.7.2006, p. 3.
(3) OJ L 283, 14.10.2006, p. 14.

4. Annex I is replaced by Annex I to this Regulation.

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5. An Annex III of which the text is set out in Annex II to this Regulation is added.

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

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 18 October 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

‘ANNEX I

Member States holding intervention sugar

Member State

Intervention agency

Belgium

Czech Republic

Bureau d’intervention et de restitution belge
Rue de Trèves, 82
B-1040 Bruxelles

Tél. (32-2) 287 24 11
Fax (32-2) 287 25 24

Státní zemědělský intervenční fond, oddělení pro cukr a
škrob
Ve Smečkách 33
CZ-11000 PRAHA 1

Spain

Ireland

Italy

Hungary

Poland

Slovenia

Tél. (420) 222 87 14 27
Fax (420) 222 87 18 75

Fondo Español de Garantía Agraria
Beneficencia, 8
E-28004 Madrid

Tel (34) 913 47 64 66
Fax (34) 913 47 63 97

Intervention Section
On Farm Investment
Subsidies and Storage Division
Department of Agriculture and Food
Johnstown Castle Estate
Wexford
Ireland

Tel. (353) 536 34 37
Fax (353) 914 28 43

AGEA — Agenzia per le erogazioni in agricoltura
Ufficio ammassi pubblici e privati e alcool
Via Torino, 45
I-00185 Roma

Tel.: (39) 06 49 499 558
Fax: (39) 06 49 499 761

Mezőgazdasági és Vidékfejlesztési Hivatal (MVH),
Budapest
(Agricultural and Rural Development Agency)
Soroksári út 22–24
H-1095 Budapest

Tél. (36-1) 219 62 13
Fax (36-1) 219 89 05 or (36-1) 219 62 59

Agencja Rynku Rolnego
Biuro Cukru
Dział Dopłat i Interwencji
Nowy Świat 6/12
00-400 Warszawa

Tel.: (48-22) 661 71 30
Faks: (48-22) 661 72 77

Agencija RS za kmetijske trge in razvoj podeželja
Dunajska 160
SI-1000 Ljubljana

Tel. (386-1) 580 77 92
Faks (386-1) 478 92 06

Quantities held by the intervention
agency and available for the sale on
the internal market

28 648,00

34 156,72

77 334,00

12 000,00

494 011,70

141 942,90

13 118,00

5 647,00

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Quantities held by the intervention
agency and available for the sale on
the internal market

34 000,00

59 038,00’

Member State

Intervention agency

Slovakia

Sweden

Podohospodarska platobna agentura
Oddelenie cukru a ostatných komodit
Dobrovičova, 12
SK – 815 26 Bratislava
Tél (4214) 58 24 32 55
Fax (4212) 53 41 26 65

Jordbruksverket
Vallgatan 8
S-55182 Jönköping

Tfn: (46-36) 15 50 00
Fax: (46-36) 19 05 46

ANNEX II

‘ANNEX III

Model for the notification to the Commission as referred to in Article 4(3)

Form (*)
Partial invitation to tender of … for the resale of sugar held by the intervention agencies

(Regulation (EC) No 1039/2006)

1

2

Member State selling intervention sugar

Quantity actually sold (in tonnes)

___________
(*) To be faxed to the following number: (32-2) 292 10 34.’