CELEX: 31983R3294
Language: en
Date: 1983-11-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3294/83 of 21 November 1983 on an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled long grain rice to certain third countries

No L 326/ 10                              Official Journal of the European Communities                            23 . 11 . 83
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3294/83
                                                        of 21 November 1983
              on an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled long grain
                                                   rice to certain third countries
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        (EEC) No 1431 /76, for zones I to VI of Annex I to
 COMMUNITIES,                                                         Regulation (EEC) No 11 24/77 (6).
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum of
 Economic Community,                                                  50 000 tonnes of wholly milled long grain rice.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          2. The invitation to tender shall be open until 31
 1418 /76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organization                  May 1984. During that period weekly invitations to
of the market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation              tender shall be issued and the date for submission of
(EEC) No 1566/83 (2), and in particular Article 17                    tenders shall be determined in the notice of invitation
thereof,                                                              to tender.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          3 . The invitation to tender shall take place in accor­
 1431 /76 of 21 June 1976 laying down general rules for               dance with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No
granting export refunds on rice and criteria for fixing               584/75 and with the following provisions.
the amount of such refunds (3), and in particular                                              Article 2
Article 4 thereof,
                                                                     A tender shall be valid only if it covers a quantity for
Whereas examination of the balance sheet shows that
                                                                     export of at least 350 tonnes but not more than 10 000
substantial stocks of rice are currently held by produ­               tonnes .
cers ; whereas this situation may affect the normal
development of producer prices during the 1983/84                                              Article 3
marketing year ;
                                                                     The security referred to in Article 3 of Regulation
Whereas, in order to remedy this situation, it is appro­             (EEC) No 584/75 shall be 30 ECU per tonne.
priate to make use of export refunds to zones which
may be supplied by the Community ; whereas the                                                 Article 4
special situation of the rice market makes it necessary
to limit the quantities of rice benefiting from the                   1 . Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21 ( 1 )
refunds, and therefore to apply Article 4 of Regulation               of Regulation (EEC) No 3183/80, export licences
                                                                      issued within this invitation to tender shall, for the
(EEC) No 1431 /76 enabling the amount of refund to
be fixed by tendering procedure ;                                     purposes of determining their period of validity, be
                                                                      considered as having been issued on the day the
Whereas it should be stated that the provisions of                    tender was submitted.
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 584/75 of 6 March                      2.    The licences shall be valid from their date of
 1975 laying down detailed rules for the application of               issue, within the meaning of paragraph 1 , until the
the system of tendering for export refunds on rice (4),               end of the third month following.
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3491 /80 Is), apply
to this invitation to tender ;                                                                 Article 5
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation                  Tenders    submitted    must    reach   the Commission
are in accordance with the opinion of the Management                  through the Member States not later than one and a
Committee for Cereals,                                                half hours after expiry of the time limit for weekly
                                                                      submission of tenders as laid down in the notice of
                                                                      invitation to tender. They must be transmitted in
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                         accordance with the table given in the Annex.
                                                                      If no tenders are submitted, the Member States shall
                             Article 1
                                                                      inform the Commission accordingly within the same
 1.    An invitation to tender is hereby opened, for the              time limit as that given in the above subparagraph .
export refund referred to in Article 4 of Regulation                                           Article 6
(') OJ  No  L 166, 25 .   6 . 1976, p. 1 .                            The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian
0   OJ  No  L 163, 22.    6. 1983, p. 5.                              time.
(3) OJ  No  L 166, 25.    6. 1976, p. 36.
(4) OJ  No  L 61 , 7. 3 .  1975, p. 25.
n   OJ  No  L 365, 31 .   12. 1980 , p. 15.                           (6) OJ No L 134, 28 . 5 . 1977, p. 53 .
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                           Article 7                                                             Article 8
1.   ' On the basis of tenders submitted, the Commis­                 The time limit for submission of tenders for the first
sion shall decide in accordance with the procedure                    partial invitation to tender shall expire on 15
laid down in Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No                        December 1983 at 11 a.m. (Belgian time).
1418 /76 :
— either to fix a maximum export refund, taking                       The final date for submission of tenders is hereby
     account of the criteria laid down in Articles 2 and              fixed at 31 May 1984.
     3 of Regulation (EEC) No 1431 /76,
— or not to take any action on the tenders.
                                                                                                 Article 9
2.     Where a maximum export refund is fixed, an
award shall be made to the tenderer or tenderers                      This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
whose tenders are at or below the maximum export                      following its publication in the Official Journal of the
refund level .                                                        European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 21 November 1983 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                   Poul DALSAGER
                                                                            Member of the Commission
                                                               ANNEX
               Weekly invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled long grain rice to
                                                       certain third countries
                                     (Closing date for the submission of tenders (date/time))
                          1                     2                                        3
                   Serial number            Quantities                       Amount of export refund
                     of tenders  \          in tonnes                     in national currency per tonne
                          1
                          2
                          3                                 \
                          4         Il\
                          5         ||\
                         etc.
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