CELEX: 31978R2963
Language: en
Date: 1978-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2963/78 of 15 December 1978 on an invitation to tender for the refund for the export of common wheat to Zones I, II, III, V and VI

No L 352/24                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                  16 . 12. 78
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2963/78
                                                       of 15 December 1978
               on an invitation to tender for the refund for the export of common wheat to
                                                     Zones I , II , III , V and VI
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                           Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 COMMUNITIES,                                                            are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                         ment Committee for Cereals,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­
 tion of the market in cereals ( !), as last amended by
 Regulation (EEC) No 1254/78 (2),                                                                  Article 1
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                             1 . Tenders shall be invited for the export refund
 2746/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down general                          provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No
 rules for granting export refunds on cereals and                        2746/75 .
criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3), and
 in particular Article 5 thereof,                                        2.     The invitation to tender shall relate to common
                                                                         wheat for export to Zones I, II, III, V and VI as
Whereas there is an exportable surplus of common                         defined in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 1124/77.
wheat on the Community market ; whereas, so that it
can be exported under the most favourable conditions,                    3 . The invitation shall remain open until 17 May
an invitation to tender for the export refund should be                   1979 . During this period weekly awards shall be
opened ; whereas, for the sake of better control over                    made, the time limits for the submission of tenders to
the refund amount to be granted and the quantities to                    be as prescribed in the notice of invitation to tender.
be exported, the invitation to tender should be
 restricted to exports to Zones I, II, III, V and VI as
 defined in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EEC)                                                 Article 2
 No 11 24/77 (4),
                                                                         A tender shall be valid only if it relates to an amount
Whereas detailed rules for the application of the                        of not less than 1 000 tonnes.
system of tendering for fixing export refunds have
been adopted in Commission Regulation (EEC) No
 279/75 (5), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                                                   Article 3
 2944/78 (6) ; whereas among the obligations of
tenderers is that of lodging an application for an
export licence ; whereas compliance with this obliga­                    The tendering security referred to in Article 3 of Regu­
tion may be ensured by requiring tenderers to lodge a                    lation (EEC) No 279/75 shall be 10 units of account
tendering security of 10 units of account per tonne                      per tonne .
when they submit their tenders ;
Whereas, in order to ensure equal treatment to all                                                 Article 4
concerned, it is necessary to specify that all licences
issued be valid for equal lengths of time ;                               1 . By way of derogation from the provisions of
                                                                         Article 9 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 193/75 (7), export
Whereas for the proper running of an invitation to                       licences issued under Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)
tender for export refunds a minimum representative                       No 279/75 shall, for the purpose of determining their
quantity must be specified and the time limit and                        period of validity, be deemed to have been issued on
form of communication of the tenders submitted to                        the day on which the tender was submitted.
the competent authorities ;
                                                                         2.     Export licences issued in connection with this
(•) OJ   No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                                invitation to tender shall be valid from their date of
(2) OJ   No L 156, 14. 6 . 1978 , p. 1 .                                 issue, as defined in the previous paragraph, until the
(3) OJ   No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975 , p. 78 .
(4) OJ   No L 134, 28 . 5 . 1977, p. 53 .                                end of the fourth month following that of issue.
(5  OJ   No L 31 , 5 . 2. 1975, p. 8 .
(o) OJ   No L 351 , 15. 12. 1978 , p. 16.                                (7) OJ No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 10.
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                            Article 5                                                             Article 6
                                                                   The time limits fixed for the submission of tenders
                                                                   shall be :
                                                                   — brought forward by one hour in Ireland and the
                                                                       United Kingdom during the period in which
The tenders submitted must reach the Commission                        summer time does not apply in those Member
through the intermediary of Member States at the                       States,
latest one and a half hours after expiry of the period             — extended by one hour in the other Member States
for the weekly submission of tenders as specified in                   when the latter are applying summer time .
the notice of invitation to tender. They must be
communicated in the form indicated in the Annex. If                                               Article 7
no tenders are received, Member States shall inform                This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
the Commission of this within the time limit indi­                 following its publication in the Official Journal of
cated in the preceding paragraph .                                 the European Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 15 December 1978 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                   Vice-President
                                                           ANNEX
              Weekly tender for the refund for the export of common wheat to Zones I , II , III , V and VI
                                      Time limit for the submission of tenders (date/time)
                          1                     2                                       3
                     Number of               Quantity              Amount of export refund in national currency
                       tender               in tonnes                              per tonne
                          1
                         2
                         3
                         4
                          5
                        etc.