CELEX: 31994R2848
Language: en
Date: 1994-11-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2848/94 of 22 November 1994 amending Regulation (EC) No 2158/94 and increasing to 200 000 tonnes the amount of durum wheat held by the Italian intervention agency for which a standing invitation to tender for resale on the internal market has been opened

25. 11 . 94                              Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 302/29
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2848/94
                                                       of 22 November 1994
                   amending Regulation (EC) No 2158/94 and increasing to 200 000 tonnes the
                   amount of durum wheat held by the Italian intervention agency for which a
                    standing invitation to tender for resale on the internal market has been opened
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Community,
                                                                                             Article 1
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92
 of 30 June 1992 on the common organization of the                   In Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 2158/94 '100 000
 market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC)           tonnes' is replaced by *200 000 tonnes'.
 No 1866/94 (2), and in particular Article 5 thereof,
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2131 /93 (3),
 as amended by Regulation (EC) No 120/94 (4), lays down                                      Article 2
 the procedure and conditions governing the offer for sale
 of cereals held by intervention agencies ;
                                                                     The following Article 2a is inserted :
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2158/94 Q
 opened a standing invitation to tender for the resale on                 Article 2a
 the internal market of 100 000 tonnes of durum wheat
 held by the Italian intervention agency ;                               Notwithstanding Article 5 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                         2131 /93, the highest bid exceeding the minimum
Whereas in the present situation on the market the quan­                 price of ECU 130 per tonne shall be accepted. The
 tity of durum wheat held by the Italian intervention                    minimum price shall be raised by monthly increases,
 agency put up for sale on the internal market of the                    to be applied to the intervention prices as laid down
 Community should be increased to 200 000 tonnes ;                       in Council Regulation (EC) No 1 867/94 (*).
Whereas the market situation for durum wheat is charac­
                                                                        0 OJ No L 197, 30. 7. 1994, p. 3.
 terized by abnormally high prices by comparison with the
support prices ; whereas no account should be taken
therefore of the market price in the appraisal of tenders,
and a minimum price should be fixed in excess of the                                         Article 3
intervention price ;
Whereas the Management Committee for Cereals has not                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its                publication in the Official Journal of the European
chairman,                                                            Communities.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .
                   Done at Brussels, 22 November 1994.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                 Rene STEICHEN
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(') OJ  No  L 181 , 1 . 7. 1992, p. 21 .
(2) OJ  No  L 197, 30. 7. 1994, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No  L 191 , 31 . 7. 1993, p. 76.
(4) OJ  No  L 21 , 26. 1 . 1994, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No  L 229, 2. 9. 1994, p. 4.