CELEX: 31990R2849
Language: en
Date: 1990-10-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2849/90 of 2 October 1990 opening an invitation tender for the refund on export of wholly milled medium grain and long grain A rice to certain third countries and amending Regulation (EEC) No 2620/90

3 . 10 . 90                              Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 271 / 5
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2849/90
                                                       of 2 October 1990
                   opening an invitation tender for the refund on export of wholly milled medium
                   grain and long grain A rice to certain third countries and amending Regulation
                                                       (EEC) No 2620/90
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
                                                                   in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              Committee for Cereals.
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 1806/89 (2), and in particular Article 17 thereof,
                                                                                              Article 1
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1431 /76
of 21 June 1976 laying dwn general rules for granting
export refunds on rice and criteria for fixing the amount           1 . An invitation to tender is hereby opened, for the
of such refunds (3), and in particular Article 4 thereof,          export refund referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                   No 1431 /76, for Zones II (a) and III as specified in Annex
Whereas examination of the balance sheet shows that                I to Regulation (EEC) No 1124/77.
exportable amounts of rice are currently held by produ­
cers ; whereas this situation could affect the normal deve­        2.     The invitation to tender shall be open until 20 June
lopment of producer prices during the 1990/91 marketing             1991 . During that period weekly invitations to tender
                                                                   shall be issued and the date for submission of tenders
year ;
                                                                   shall be determined in the notice of invitation to tender.
Whereas, in order to remedy this situation, it is appro­
priate to make use of export refunds to zones which may            3. The invitation to tender shall take place in accor­
be supplied by the Community ; whereas the special situ­           dance with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 584/75
ation of the rice market makes it necessary to limit the           and with the following provisions.
refunds, and therefore to apply Article 4 of Regulation
(EEC) No 1431 /76 enabling the refund amount to be
fixed by tendering procedure ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2620/90 of                                            Article 2
10 September 1990 on a invitation to tender for the
refund on export of wholly milled medium grain and                 A tender shall be valid only if it covers a quantity for
long grain A rice to certain third countries (4) specified         export of at least 50 tonnes but not more than 5 000
the export markets as Zones I to VI and VIII, excluding            tonnes.
Guyana, Madagascar and Surinam, as listed in Annex I to
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1124/77 0, as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3049/89 (*) ; whereas it                                      Article J
appears that the use of a specific tendering procedure
would allow more rice to be sold for export to certain             The security referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
Eastern European countries ; whereas the destination               No 584/75 shall be ECU 20 per tonne.
zones specified in Regulation (EEC) No 2620/90 should
therefore be altered ;
                                                                                             Article 4
Whereas it should be stated that the provisions of
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 584/75 of 6 March
1975 laying down detailed rules for the application of the         1 . Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21 ( 1 ) of
system of tendering for export refunds on rice f), as last         Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 (9), export
                                                                   licences issued within this invitation to tender shall, for
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 409/90 (*), apply to this
invitation to tender :                                             the purposes of determining their period of validity, be
                                                                   considered as having been issued on the day the tender
                                                                   was submitted.
(') OJ   No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .
(2) OJ   No L 177, 24. 6. 1989, p. 1 .                             2.     The licences shall be valid from their date of issue,
0   OJ   No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 36.
(4) OJ   No L 249, 12. 9. 1990, p. 9.                              within the meaning of paragraph 1 , until the end of the
0   OJ   No L 134, 28 . 5. 1977, p. 53.                            third month following.
(6) OJ   No L 292, 11 . 10. 1989, p. 10.
0   OJ   No L 61 , 7. 3. 1975, p. 25.
(•  OJ   No L 43, 17. 2. 1990, p. 21 .                             O OJ No L 331 , 2. 12. 1988, p. 1 .
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                           Article 5                                                       Article 8
Tenders submitted must reach the Commission through              The time limit for submission of tenders for the first
the Member States not later than one and a half hours
after the time limit for weekly submission of tenders as         partial invitation to tender shall be 10 a.m. (Belgian time)
                                                                 on 18 October 1990 .
laid down in the notice of invitation to tender, they must
be transmitted in accordance with the table given in the
Annex.                                                           The final date for submission of tenders is hereby fixed at
                                                                 20 June 1991 .
If no tenders are submitted, the Member States shall
inform the Commission accordingly within the same time
limit as that given in the above subparagraph.                                             Article 9
                           Article 6
                                                                 Article 1 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2620/90 is replaced
The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian time.       by the following :
                           Article 7
                                                                     '1 . An invitation to tender is hereby opened for the
                                                                     export refund referred to in Article 4 of Regulation
1.    On the basis of tenders submitted, the Commission              (EEC) No 1431 /76, for Zones I, II (b), IV, V, VI and
shall decide in accordance with the procedure laid down              VIII (except Guyana, Madagascar and Surinam, as
in Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 :                       specified in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     1124/77.'
— either to fix a maximum export refund, taking account
    of the criteria laid down in Articles 2 and 3 of Regula­
    tion (EEC) No 1431 /76,                                                               Article 10
— or not to take any action on the tenders.
2.    Where a maximum export refund is fixed, an award           This Regulation shall enter into force on the day follo­
shall be made to the tenderer or tenderers whose tenders         wing its publication in the Official Journal of the Euro­
are at or below the maximum export refund level.                 pean Communities.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 2 October 1990.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                       Member of the Commission
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                                                     ANNEX
           Weekly invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled medium grain and
                                 long grain A rice to certain third countries
                              (Closing date for the submission of tenders (date/time))
                      1                2                                    3
              Serial number       Quantities                     Amount of export refund
                of tenders         in tonnes                         in ecu per tonne
                     1        \
                     2
                     3
                              \
                     4
                              \
                     5
                              ||
                    etc.
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