CELEX: 31992R2748
Language: en
Date: 1992-09-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2748/92 of 21 September 1992 on an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled round grain rice to certain third countries

No L 279/ 10                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                  23 . 9. 92
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2748/92
                                                     of 21 September 1992
                   on an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled round grain
                                                rice to certain third countries
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         No 1431 /76, for Zones I to VI and Zone VIII excluding
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               Guyana, Madagascar and Suriname, of Annex to Regula­
Economic Community,
                                                                    tion (EEC) No 2145/92.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76                2.    The invitation to tender shall be open until 1 July
of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the                   1993. During that period weekly invitations to tender
market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)             shall be issued and the date for submission of tenders
 No 674/92 (2), and in particular Article 17 thereof,               shall be determined in the notice of invitation to tender.
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1431 /76
of 21 June 1976 laying down general rules for granting              3. The invitation to tender shall take place in accord­
export refunds on rice and criteria for fixing the amount           ance with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 584/75
of such refunds (3), and in particular Article 4 thereof,           and with the following provisions.
Whereas examination of the balance sheet shows that
exportable amounts of rice are currently held by pro­                                        Article 2
ducers ; whereas this situation could affect the normal
development of producer prices during the 1992/93                  A tender shall be valid only if it covers a quantity for
marketing year ;                                                   export of at least 50 tonnes but not more than 5 000
                                                                   tonnes.
Whereas, in order to remedy this situation, it is appro­
priate to make use of export refunds to zones which may
be supplied by the Community ; whereas the special situ­
ation of the rice market makes it necessary to limit the                                     Article 3
quantities of rice benefiting from the refunds, and there­
 fore to apply Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1431 /76           The security referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
enabling the amount of refund to be fixed by tendering             No 584/75 shall be ECU 20 per tonne.
procedure ;
Whereas it should be stated that the provisions of
                                                                                             Article 4
 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 584/75 of 6 March
 1975 laying down detailed rules for the application of the
system of tendering for export refunds on rice (4), as last         1 . Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21 (1 ) of
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 409/90 (*), apply to this           Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 Q, export
invitation to tender ;                                             licences issued within jthis 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
                                                                   was submitted.
the producing countries, the markets of destination
should be limited to Zones I to VI and Zone VIII,
excluding Guyana, Madagascar and Suriname, noted in                2.     The licences shall be valid from their date of issue,
Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2145/92 (6) ;                         within the meaning of paragraph 1 , until the end of the
                                                                   third month following.
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Committee for Cereals,                                                                       Article 5
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                      Tenders submitted must reach the Commission through
                                                                   the Member States not later than one and a half hours
                            Article 1                              after expiry of the time limit for weekly submission of
                                                                   tenders as laid down in the notice of invitation to tender.
 1 . An invitation to tender is hereby opened, for the             They must be transmitted in accordance with the table
export refund referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC)         given in the Annex.
(') OJ  No L  166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .                             If no tenders are submitted, the Member States shall
O   OJ  No L  73, 19. 3. 1992, p. 7.                               inform the Commission accordingly within the same time
(3) OJ  No L  166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 36.                             limit as that given in the above subparagraph.
(4) OJ  No L  61 , 7. 3. 1975, p. 25.
0   OJ  No L 43, 17. 2. 1990, p. 21 .
O   OJ  No L  214, 30. 7. 1992, p. 20.                             O OJ No L 331 , 2. 12. 1988, p. 1 .
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                             Article 6                                2.     Where a maximum export refund is fixed, an award
                                                                      shall be made to the tenderer or tenderers whose tenders
The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian time.            are at or below the maximum export refund level.
                                                                                                   Article 8
                                                                      The time limit for submission of tenders for the first
                             Article 7
                                                                       partial invitation to tender shall expire on 8 October 1992
                                                                      at 10 a.m.
1.    On the basis of tenders submitted, the Commission
shall decide in accordance with the procedure laid down               The final date for submission of tenders is hereby fixed at
in Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 :                         1 July 1993.
— either to fix a maximum export refund, taking account                                            Article 9
    of the criteria laid down in Articles 2 and 3 of Regula­
    tion (EEC) No 1431 /76,                                           This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
                                                                      following its publication in the Official Journal of the
— or not to take any action on the tenders.                            European Communities.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Brussels, 21 September 1992.
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                   Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                            Member of the Commission
                                                              ANNEX
                  Weekly invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled round grain 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.