CELEX: 31998R2566
Language: en
Date: 1998-11-27
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2566/98 of 27 November 1998 opening an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled long grain rice to certain third countries

28. 11. 98            EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 L 320/49
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2566/98
                                                  of 27 November 1998
                 opening an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled long
                                          grain rice to certain third countries
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       Suriname) as specified in the Annex to Regulation (EEC)
                                                                  No 2145/92.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                        2. The invitation to tender shall be open until 24 June
                                                                  1999. During that period weekly invitations to tender
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of            shall be issued and the date for submission of tenders
22 December 1995 on the common organisation of the                shall be determined in the notice of invitation to tender.
market in rice (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
2072/98 (2), and in particular Article 13(3) thereof,             3. The invitation to tender shall take place in accord-
                                                                  ance with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 584/75
Whereas examination of the balance sheet shows that               and with the following provisions.
exportable amounts of rice are currently held by produ-
cers; whereas this situation could affect the normal devel-
opment of producer prices during the 1998/99 marketing                                       Article 2
year;
                                                                  A tender shall be admissible only if it covers a quantity
Whereas, in order to remedy this situation, it is appro-          for export of at least 50 tonnes but not more than 3 000
priate to make use of export refunds to zones which may           tonnes.
be supplied by the Community; whereas the special situ-
ation of the rice market makes it necessary to limit the
refunds, and therefore to apply Article 13 of Regulation                                     Article 3
(EC) No 3072/95 enabling the refund amount to be fixed
                                                                  The security referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
by tendering procedure;
                                                                  No 584/75 shall be ECU 30 per tonne.
Whereas it should be stated that the provisions of
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 584/75 of 6 March                                             Article 4
1975 laying down detailed rules for the application of the
system of tendering for export refunds on rice (3), as last       1. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21(1) of
amended by Regulation (EC) No 299/95 (4), apply to this           Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 (7), export
invitation to tender;                                             licences issued under this invitation to tender shall, for
                                                                  the purposes of determining their period of validity, be
Whereas, in order to avoid disturbances on the markets of         considered as having been issued on the day the tender
the producing countries, the markets of destination               was submitted.
should be limited to certain zones specified in the Annex
to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2145/92 (5), as                 2. The licences shall be valid from their date of issue,
amended by Regulation (EC) No 3304/94 (6);                        within the meaning of paragraph 1, until the end of the
                                                                  fourth month following that date.
Whereas the Management Committee for Cereals has not
delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its
chairman,                                                                                    Article 5
                                                                  Tenders submitted must reach the Commission through
                                                                  the Member States not later than one and a half hours
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                      after expiry of the deadline for weekly submission of
                                                                  tenders as laid down in the notice of invitation to tender.
                                                                  They must be transmitted in accordance with the table
                           Article 1                              given in the Annex.
1. An invitation to tender is hereby opened for the               If no tenders are submitted, the Member States shall
refund on export of wholly milled long grain rice falling         inform the Commission accordingly within the same
within CN code 1006 30 67 for Zones I to VI (except               deadline as that given in the above subparagraph.
Turkey) and Zone VIII (except Guyana, Madagascar and
(1) OJ L 329, 30. 12. 1995, p. 18.                                                           Article 6
(2) OJ L 265, 30. 9. 1998, p. 4.
(3) OJ L 61, 7. 3. 1975, p. 25.                                   The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian time.
(4) OJ L 35, 15. 2. 1995, p. 8.
(5) OJ L 214, 30. 7. 1992, p. 20.
(6) OJ L 341, 30. 12. 1994, p. 48.                                (7) OJ L 331, 2. 12. 1988, p. 1.
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                          Article 7                                                      Article 8
1. On the basis of tenders submitted, the Commission             The deadline for submission of tenders for the first partial
shall decide in accordance with the procedure referred to        invitation to tender shall be 10 a.m. on 10 December
in Article 22 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95:                     1998.
— either to fix a maximum export refund, taking account          The final date for submission of tenders is hereby fixed at
    of the criteria laid down in Article 13 of Regulation        24 June 1999.
    (EC) No 3072/95,
— or not to take any action on the tenders.                                              Article 9
2. Where a maximum export refund is fixed, an award              This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
shall be made to the tenderer or tenderers whose tenders         following its publication in the Official Journal of the
are at or below the maximum export refund level.                 European Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 27 November 1998.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                              Franz FISCHLER
                                                                        Member of the Commission
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                                                           ANNEX
           Weekly invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled long grain rice to certain
                                                       third countries
                                   Deadline for the submission of tenders (date/time)
                        1                        2                                    3
                 Serial number              Quantities                     Amount of export refund
                  of tenderers              in tonnes                         in ecus per tonne
                        1
                        2
                        3
                        4
                        5
                       etc.