CELEX: 31983R3515
Language: en
Date: 1983-12-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3515/83 of 13 December 1983 on the sale by tender, for export to Tunisia, of olive-residue oil held by the Italian intervention agency

No L 351 / 14                         Official Journal of the European Communities                             14. 12. 83
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3515/83
                                                   of 13 December 1983
              on the sale by tender, for export to Tunisia, of olive-residue oil held by the
                                                Italian intervention agency
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN
                                                                 common detailed rules for the application of the
 COMMUNITIES,
                                                                 system of export refunds on agricultural products («), as
                                                                 last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 519/83 0»
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           specifies the evidence required to prove importation
 Economic Community,                                             into non-Community countries ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a                   are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
common organization of the market in oils and fats ('),          Committee for Oils and Fats,
as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1413/82 (2),
and in particular Article 12 (4) thereof,
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
2754/78 (3) provides that olive oil held by the interven­
tion agencies is to be put up for sale by tender ;                                       Article 1
Whereas, pursuant to Article 12 ( 1 ) of Regulation No           The Italian intervention agency 'Azienda di Stato per
 136/66/EEC, the Italian intervention agency has                 gli interventi nel mercato agricolo', hereinafter referred
bought in, since the 1975/76 marketing year, large               to as 'AIMA', shall open an invitation to tender in
quantities of olive oil ;                                        accordance with the provisions of this Regulation and
                                                                 of Regulation (EEC) No 2960/77 for the sale for export
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No                           to Tunisia of approximately 2 000 tonnes of olive­
2960/77 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No              residue oil. By way of derogation from Article 1 (2) of
2041 /83 Q, laid down the conditions for the sale by             Regulation (EEC) No 2960/77 this oil must not have
tender of olive oil for the Community market and for             been made edible.
export ; whereas at the moment there is a market for
crude olive-residue oil in Tunisia ;
                                                                                         Article 2
Whereas the Community has large quantities of olive­
residue oil, held by the Italian intervention agency ;           The invitation to tender shall be published on 15
                                                                 December 1983 .
whereas some of this oil has been in storage for several
years ; whereas this oil should be sold by tender and a
                                                                 Particulars of the lots of oil offered for sale and the
derogation introduced from Article 1 (2) of the above­
mentioned Regulation specifying that exported oil                places where they are stored shall be displayed at the
must be directly edible ;                                        head office of AIMA, via Palestro 81 , Rome, Italy.
                                                                 A copy of the invitation to tender referred to above
Whereas the minimum selling price is so fixed that
                                                                 shall be sent without delay to the Commission.
the Community operators enjoy equal conditions of
competition with operators in non-member countries ;
whereas, accordingly, oil should under this Regulation                                   Article 3
qualify neither for the export refund provided for in
Article 20 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC nor for the
                                                                 Tenders must reach AIMA, via Palestro 81 , Rome,
consumption aid provided for in Article 11 of the
same Regulation ;                                                Italy, not later than 2 p.m. (local time) on 16 January
                                                                  1984.
Whereas Article 20 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 2730/79 of 29 November 1979 laying down                                               Article 4
(') OJ  No 172, 30. 9.  1966, p. 3025/66.                         1.    Tenders shall be made for an oil of 1 5° acidity.
0   OJ  No L 162, 12.   6. 1982, p. 6.
0   OJ  No L 331 , 28 . 11 . 1978, p. 13.
(4) OJ  No L 348, 30.   12. 1977, p. 46.                         («) OJ No L 317, 12. 12. 1979, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No L 200, 23 .  7. 1983, p. 25.                          0 OJ No L 58, 5. 3 . 1983, p. 5.
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2. Where the oil awarded has a different degree of                                  Article 7
acidity from that for which the tender was submitted,        The security referred to in Article 7 of Regulation
the price to be paid shall be equal to the price
tendered, reduced or increased by Lit 2 682 for each         (EEC) No 2960/77 shall be 9,50 ECU per 100 kilo­
                                                             grams .
degree or fraction of degree above or below 15° .
                                                             The security referred to in Article 12 (3) of Regulation
                                                             (EEC) No 2960/77 shall be 100 ECU per 100 kilo­
                       Article 5                             grams of olive-residue oil.
The minimum selling price for olive-residue oil of 1 5°                             Article 8
acidity shall be Lit 50 000 per 100 kilograms.
                                                             The storage charge provided for in Article 1 5 of Regu­
                                                             lation (EEC) No 2960/77 shall be Lit 3 500 per 100
                       Article 6                             kilograms.
The oil shall be sold by AIMA not later than 23                                     Article 9
January 1984.
                                                             This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
AIMA shall supply the agencies responsible for storage       publication in the Official Journal of the European
with a list of the lots remaining unsold.                     Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 13 December 1983.
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                        Poul DALSAGER
                                                                   Member of the Commission