CELEX: 31999R0370
Language: en
Date: 1999-02-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 370/1999 of 18 February 1999 fixing the maximum reduction in the duty on maize imported in connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2849/98

L 45/36              EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                               19. 2. 1999
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 370/1999
                                                   of 18 February 1999
                 fixing the maximum reduction in the duty on maize imported in connection
                         with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2849/98
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 Management Committee for Cereals has not
market in cereals (1), as last amended by Commission              delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its
Regulation (EC) No 923/96 (2), and in particular Article          chairman,
12(1) thereof,
Whereas an invitation to tender for the maximum reduc-            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
tion in the duty on maize imported into Spain was
opened pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No
2849/98 (3);                                                                               Article 1
Whereas, pursuant to Article 5 of Commission Regulation           For tenders notified from 12 to 18 February 1999
(EC) No 1839/95 (4), as amended by Regulation (EC) No             pursuant to the invitation to tender issued in Regulation
1963/95 (5), the Commission, acting under the procedure           (EC) No 2849/98, the maximum reduction in the duty on
laid down in Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92,           maize imported shall be EUR 69,91 per tonne and be
may decide to fix a maximum reduction in the import               valid for a total maximum quantity of 155 990 tonnes.
duty; whereas in fixing this maximum the criteria
provided for in Article 6 and 7 of Regulation (EC) No                                      Article 2
1839/95 must be taken into account; whereas a contract is
awarded to any tenderer whose tender is equal to or less          This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 February
than the maximum reduction in the duty;                           1999.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 18 February 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. 43.
(4) OJ L 177, 28. 7. 1995, p. 4.
(5) OJ L 189, 10. 8. 1995, p. 22.