CELEX: 31999R0139
Language: en
Date: 1999-01-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 139/1999 of 21 January 1999 fixing the maximum reduction in the duty on maize imported in connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2850/98

L 17/32              EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                               22. 1. 1999
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 139/1999
                                                    of 21 January 1999
                 fixing the maximum reduction in the duty on maize imported in connection
                         with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2850/98
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       Whereas the application of the abovementioned criteria
                                                                  to the current market situation for the cereal in question
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                  results in the maximum reduction in the import duty
Community,
                                                                  being fixed at the amount specified in Article 1;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92
of 30 June 1992 on the common organisation of the                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
market in cereals (1), as last amended by Commission              in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Regulation (EC) No 923/96 (2), and in particular Article          Committee for Cereals,
12(1) thereof,
Whereas an invitation to tender for the maximum reduc-            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
tion in the duty on maize imported into Portugal was
opened pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No
2850/98 (3);                                                                               Article 1
Whereas, pursuant to Article 5 of Commission Regulation           For tenders notified from 15 to 21 January 1999, pursuant
(EC) No 1839/95 (4), as amended by Regulation (EC) No             to the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No
1963/95 (5), the Commission, acting under the procedure           2850/98, the maximum reduction in the duty on maize
laid down in Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92,           imported shall be EUR 69,85 per tonne and be valid for a
may decide to fix maximum reduction in the import duty;           total maximum quantity of 15 000 tonnes.
whereas in fixing this maximum the criteria provided for
in Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1839/95 must                                     Article 2
be taken into account; whereas a contract is awarded to
any tenderer whose tender is equal to or less than the            This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 January
maximum reduction in the duty;                                    1999.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 21 January 1999.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                               Franz FISCHLER
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 181, 1. 7. 1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 126, 24. 5. 1996, p. 37.
(3) OJ L 358, 31. 12. 1998, p. 44.
(4) OJ L 177, 28. 7. 1995, p. 4.
(5) OJ L 189, 10. 8. 1995, p. 22.