CELEX: 31999R0498
Language: en
Date: 1999-03-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 498/1999 of 5 March 1999 fixing the maximum export refund on wholly milled long grain rice in connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2566/98

6. 3. 1999              EN              Official Journal of the European Communities                                   L 59/21
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 498/1999
                                                      of 5 March 1999
                   fixing the maximum export refund on wholly milled long grain rice in connec-
                       tion with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2566/98
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Whereas the application of the abovementioned criteria
                                                                   to the current market situation for the rice in question
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                   results in the maximum export refund being fixed at the
Community,
                                                                   amount specified in Article 1;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of
22 December 1995 on the common organization of the                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
market in rice (1), as amended by Regulation (EC) No               in accordance with the opinion of the Management
2072/98 (2), and in particular Article 13 (3) thereof,             Committee for Cereals,
Whereas an invitation to tender for the export refund on
rice was issued pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC)             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
No 2566/98 (3);
                                                                                             Article 1
Whereas, Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No
584/75 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 299/             The maximum export refund on wholly milled long grain
95 (5), allows the Commission to fix, in accordance with           rice falling within CN code 1006 30 67 to be exported to
the procedure laid down in Article 22 of Regulation (EC)           certain third countries pursuant to the invitation to tender
No 3072/95 and on the basis of the tenders submitted, a            issued in Regulation (EC) No 2566/98 is hereby fixed on
maximum export refund; whereas in fixing this                      the basis of the tenders submitted from 1 to 4 March 1999
maximum, the criteria provided for in Article 13 of Regu-          at EUR 318,00 per tonne.
lation (EC) No 3072/95 must be taken into account;
whereas a contract is awarded to any tenderer whose                                          Article 2
tender is equal to or less than the maximum export
refund;                                                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 March 1999.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 5 March 1999.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                 Franz FISCHLER
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(1) OJ  L  329, 30. 12. 1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ  L  265, 30. 9. 1998, p. 4.
(3) OJ  L  320, 28. 11. 1998, p. 49.
(4) OJ  L  61, 7. 3. 1975, p. 25.
(5) OJ  L  35, 15. 2. 1995, p. 8.