CELEX: 31994R0178
Language: en
Date: 1994-01-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 178/94 of 28 January 1994 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3503/91 on the issuing of a standard invitation to tender for the resale on the Community internal market of approximately 11 300 tonnes of rice held by the Italian intervention agency

No L 24/34                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 29 . 1 . 94
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 178/94
                                                        of 28 January 1994
                    amending Regulation (EEC) No 3503/91 on the issuing of a standard invitation to
                    tender for the resale on the Community internal market of approximately 11 300
                                    tonnes of rice held by the Italian intervention agency
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                          Article 1
 Community,
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 3503/91 is hereby amended as
                                                                    follows :
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
 of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the                   1 . Article 3 (1 ) is replaced by the following :
 market in rice (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)                 *1 .    Tenderers shall undertake to use as animal feed
 No 1 544/93 (2), and in particular Article 5 (3) thereof,               within 18 months at the latest of the date on which
                                                                         they were awarded the tender, any products that they
 Whereas Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                     are awarded unless they are prevented from so doing
 3503/91 of 2 December 1991 (3), as amended by Regula­                   by force majeure.'
 tion (EEC) No 1 191 /92 (4) lays down that the rice sold by        2. In Article 4 :
 tendering procedure must be used as animal feed by 31
 May 1992 at the latest ; whereas, given the dates on which              — in paragraph 1 the last sentence is deleted,
 the specific invitations to tender took place, the times­               — paragraph 2 is amended as follows :
 cales objectively required to use the product in animal                      '2. The security shall be released only if the
 feed were not realistic and led therefore to the application                 intervention agency has carried out all the neces­
 of disproportionate penalties ; whereas Article 3 of the                     sary checks to verify that the product has reached
 aforementioned Regulation should accordingly be                              its intended destination and has been used in
 amended ; whereas it should also be stipulated that the                      accordance with Article 1 .'
 intervention agency must carry out all the necessary
 checks to verify the end use of the product ;                                                  Article 2
 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 in accordance with the Management Committee for                    following its publication in the Official Journal of the
 Cereals,                                                            European Communities.
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States.
                    Done at Brussels, 28 January 1994.
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                   Rene STEICHEN
                                                                            Member of the Commission
(■) OJ  No L  166,   25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No  L  154,   25. 6. 1993, p. 5.
(3) OJ No  L  331 ,  3. 12. 1991 , p. 7.
(4) OJ  No L  124,   9. 5. 1992, p. 7.