CELEX: 32001R0162
Language: en
Date: 2001-01-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 162/2001 of 25 January 2001 fixing the maximum reduction in the duty on sorghum imported in connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2829/2000

26.1.2001              EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                        L 24/35
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 162/2001
                                                           of 25 January 2001
               fixing the maximum reduction in the duty on sorghum imported in connection with the invitation
                                       to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2829/2000
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                     equal to or less than the maximum reduction in the
                                                                                duty.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                               (3)    The application of the abovementioned criteria to the
                                                                                current market situation for the cereal in question results
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 of 30                      in the maximum reduction in the import duty being
June 1992 on the common organisation of the market in                           fixed at the amount specified in Article 1.
cereals (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1666/
2000 (2), and in particular Article 12(1) thereof,                       (4)    The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
                                                                                accordance with the opinion of the Management
Whereas:                                                                        Committee for Cereals,
(1)     An invitation to tender for the maximum reduction in
        the duty on sorghum imported into Spain was opened               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
        pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2829/
        2000 (3).                                                                                    Article 1
(2)     Pursuant to Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EC) No           For tenders notified from 19 to 25 January 2001, pursuant to
        1839/95 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No               the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2829/
        2235/2000 (5), the Commission, acting under the proce-           2000, the maximum reduction in the duty on sorghum
        dure laid down in Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No              imported shall be EUR/t 29,94 and be valid for a total
        1766/92, may decide to fix a maximum reduction in the            maximum quantity of 646 t.
        import duty. In fixing this maximum the criteria
        provided for in Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation (EC) No                                       Article 2
        1839/95 must be taken into account. Whereas a
        contract is awarded to any tenderer whose tender is              This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 January 2001.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 25 January 2001.
                                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                                        Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                  Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L  181, 1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L  193, 29.7.2000, p. 1.
(3) OJ L  328, 23.12.2000, p. 11.
(4) OJ L  177, 28.7.1995, p. 4.
(5) OJ L  256, 10.10.2000, p. 13.