CELEX: 32001R0572
Language: en
Date: 2001-03-23
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 572/2001 of 23 March 2001 opening a standing invitation to tender for the resale on the internal market of approximately 10000 tonnes of rice held by the French intervention agency

24.3.2001                EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                           L 85/3
                                             COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 572/2001
                                                               of 23 March 2001
                opening a standing invitation to tender for the resale on the internal market of approximately
                                    10 000 tonnes of rice held by the French intervention agency
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                 approximately 10 000 tonnes of Japonica paddy rice held by
                                                                            that agency.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of 22                                                 Article 2
December 1995 on the common organisation of the market in
rice (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1667/2000 (2),              1.    The closing date for the submission of tenders in
and in particular the last indent of Article 8(b) thereof,                  response to the first partial invitation to tender shall be 4 April
                                                                            2001.
Whereas:
                                                                            2.    The closing date for the submission of tenders in
(1)      Commission Regulation (EEC) No 75/91 (3) lays down                 response to the last partial invitation to tender shall be 27 June
         the procedures and conditions for the disposal of paddy            2001.
         rice held by intervention agencies.
(2)      There is strong demand on the Community market at                  3.    Tenders must be lodged with the French intervention
         present for certain varieties of Japonica rice consumed            agency at the following address:
         on the internal market, with market prices higher than             ONIC
         the intervention price. At the same time, certain quant-           Office national interprofessionnel des céréales
         ities of rice of those varieties are available in the French       Service des interventions
         intervention agency's stores. Under those circumstances,           21, avenue Bosquet
         a standing invitation to tender should be opened for the           F-75341 Paris Cedex 07
         resale on the internal market of approximately 10 000              (Tel. (33) 144 18 21 36 — Fax (33) 144 18 20 80).
         tonnes of Japonica paddy rice held by the French inter-
         vention agency.
(3)      The measures provided for in this Regulation are in                                              Article 3
         accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                            By Tuesday of the week following the closing date for the
         Committee for Cereals,
                                                                            submission of tenders, the French intervention agency shall
                                                                            notify the Commission of the quantities and the average prices
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                                of the various lots sold.
                                Article 1
                                                                                                          Article 4
The French intervention agency shall open, under the condi-
tions laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 75/91, a standing                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
invitation to tender for the resale on the internal market of               publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
                        This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                        Done at Brussels, 23 March 2001.
                                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                                          Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                     Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 193, 29.7.2000, p. 3.
(3) OJ L 9, 12.1.1991, p. 15.