CELEX: 32000R0447
Language: en
Date: 2000-02-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 447/2000 of 25 February 2000 fixing the maximum export refund on wholly milled round grain rice in connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2180/1999

26. 2. 2000              EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                       L 54/41
                                           COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 447/2000
                                                            of 25 February 2000
                fixing the maximum export refund on wholly milled round grain rice in connection with the
                                    invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2180/1999
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                (3)    The application of the abovementioned criteria to the
                                                                                  current market situation for the rice in question results
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                             in the maximum export refund being fixed at the
Community,                                                                        amount specified in Article 1.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of 22
December 1995 on the common organization of the market in                  (4)    The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
rice (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2072/98 (2), and                  accordance with the opinion of the Management
in particular Article 13 (3) thereof,                                             Committee for Cereals,
Whereas:
(1)      An invitation to tender for the export refund on rice was         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
         issued pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No
         2180/1999 (3).                                                                                Article 1
(2)      Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 584/
         75 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 299/95 (5),         The maximum export refund on wholly milled round grain rice
         allows the Commission to fix, in accordance with the              to be exported to certain third countries pursuant to the invita-
         procedure laid down in Article 22 of Regulation (EC) No           tion to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2180/1999 is
         3072/95 and on the basis of the tenders submitted, a              hereby fixed on the basis of the tenders submitted from 18 to
         maximum export refund. In fixing this maximum, the                24 February 2000 at 165,00 EUR/t.
         criteria provided for in Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No
         3072/95 must be taken into account. A contract is                                             Article 2
         awarded to any tenderer whose tender is equal to or less
         than the maximum export refund.                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 February 2000.
                        This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                        Done at Brussels, 25 February 2000.
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                         Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                    Member of the Commission
(1) OJ  L  329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ  L  265, 30.9.1998, p. 4.
(3) OJ  L  267, 15.10.1999, p. 16.
(4) OJ  L  61, 7.3.1975, p. 25.
(5) OJ  L  35, 15.2.1995, p. 8.