CELEX: 31996R0144
Language: en
Date: 1996-01-26 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 144/96 of 26 January 1996 amending Regulation (EC) No 360/95 opening individual sales by invitation to tender for the export of vinous alcohol held by intervention agencies

27. 1 . 96          MEN I               Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 21 /27
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 144/96
                                                      of 26 January 1996
                  amending Regulation (EC) No 360/95 opening individual sales by invitation to
                       tender for the export of vinous alcohol held by intervention agencies
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       awarded under the individual invitations to tender Nos
                                                                  170/94 EC and 171 /94 EC, it has proved necessary to
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             grant an additional extension of the deadline for proces­
Community,
                                                                  sing the alcohol and, therefore, to postpone the deadline
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/88              fixed for the export of that alcohol to Brazil ;
of 12 December 1988 laying down general rules on the
disposal of alcohol obtained from the distillation opera­         Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
tions referred to in Articles 35, 36 and 39 of Regulation         in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                  Committee for Wine,
(EEC) No 822/87 and held by intervention agencies ('),
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 377/93 (2), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 31 52/94 (3), lays             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
down the detailed rules for the disposal of alcohol
obtained from the distillation operations referred to in                                  Article 1
Articles 35, 36 and 39 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
822/87 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No                 Article 6 (4) of Regulation (EC) No 360/95 is hereby
1 544/95 Q, and held by intervention agencies ;                   replaced by the following :
Whereas, certain types of alcohol which were the subject              *4. Alcohol awarded under the sales by invitation to
of individual sales by invitation to tender Nos 170/94 EC             tender provided for in this Regulation must be
and 171 /94 EC and were awarded under Commission                      exported not later than 30 June 1 996.'
Regulation (EC) No 360/95 (6), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EC) No 2304/95 Q, must be processed in order to                                     Article 2
comply with Brazilian rules on the fuel sector ; whereas in
the light of the limited processing capacity available for        This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
this purpose in the Community and the postponement of             publication in the Official Journal of the European
the payment deadline to 16 October 1995 for alcohols               Communities.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 26 January 1996.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                              Franz FISCHLER
                                                                        Member of the Commission
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