CELEX: 31998R2565
Language: en
Date: 1998-11-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2565/98 of 27 November 1998 opening an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled round grain, medium grain and long grain a rice to certain European third countries

L 320/46              EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                28. 11. 98
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2565/98
                                                  of 27 November 1998
                 opening an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled round
                 grain, medium grain and long grain A rice to certain European third countries
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       2. The invitation to tender referred to in paragraph 1
                                                                  shall be open until 24 June 1999. During that period
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             weekly invitations to tender shall be issued and the date
Community,                                                        for submission of tenders shall be determined in the
                                                                  notice of invitation to tender.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of
22 December 1995 on the common organisation of the                3. The invitation to tender shall take place in accord-
market in rice (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No         ance with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 584/75
2072/98 (2), and in particular Article 13(3) thereof,             and with the following provisions.
Whereas examination of the balance sheet shows that
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exportable amounts of rice are currently held by produ-
cers; whereas this situation could affect the normal devel-
                                                                  A tender shall be admissible only if it covers a quantity
opment of producer prices during the 1998/99 marketing
                                                                  for export of at least 50 tonnes but not more than 3 000
year;
                                                                  tonnes.
Whereas, in order to remedy this situation, it is appro-
priate to make use of export refunds to zones which may                                      Article 3
be supplied by the Community; whereas the special situ-
ation of the rice market makes it necessary to limit the          The security referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
refunds, and therefore to apply Article 13 of Regulation          No 584/75 shall be ECU 30 per tonne.
(EC) No 3072/95 enabling the refund amount to be fixed
by tendering procedure;
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Whereas it should be stated that the provisions of
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 584/75 of 6 March                  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21(1) of
1975 laying down detailed rules for the application of the        Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 (5), export
system of tendering for export refunds on rice (3), as last       licences issued under this invitation to tender shall, for
amended by Regulation (EC) No 299/95 (4), apply to this           the purposes of determining their period of validity, be
invitation to tender;                                             considered as having been issued on the day the tender
                                                                  was submitted.
Whereas, in order to avoid disturbances on the markets of
the producing countries, the invitation to tender should          2. The licences shall be valid from their date of issue,
be limited to certain countries;                                  within the meaning of paragraph 1, until the end of the
                                                                  fourth month following that date.
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Committee for Cereals,                                                                       Article 5
                                                                  Tenders submitted must reach the Commission through
                                                                  the Member States not later than one and a half hours
                                                                  after expiry of the deadline for weekly submission of
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                      tenders as laid down in the notice of invitation to tender.
                                                                  They must be transmitted in accordance with the table
                                                                  given in the Annex.
                           Article 1
                                                                  If no tenders are submitted, the Member States shall
                                                                  inform the Commission accordingly within the same
1. An invitation to tender is hereby opened, for the              deadline as that given in the above subparagraph.
refund on export of wholly milled round grain, medium
grain and long grain A rice to Cyprus, the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia.                                             Article 6
(1) OJ L 329, 30. 12. 1995, p. 18.                                The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian time.
(2) OJ L 265, 30. 9. 1998, p. 4.
(3) OJ L 61, 7. 3. 1975, p. 25.
(4) OJ L 35, 15. 2. 1995, p. 8.                                   (5) OJ L 331, 2. 12. 1988, p. 1.
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                          Article 7                                                      Article 8
1. On the basis of tenders submitted, the Commission             The deadline for submission of tenders for the first partial
shall decide in accordance with the procedure referred to        invitation to tender shall be 10 a.m. on 10 December
in Article 22 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95:                     1998.
— either to fix a maximum export refund, taking account          The final date for submission of tenders is hereby fixed at
    of the criteria laid down in Article 13 of Regulation        24 June 1999.
    (EC) No 3072/95,
— or not to take any action on the tenders.                                              Article 9
2. Where a maximum export refund is fixed, an award              This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
shall be made to the tenderer or tenderers whose tenders         following its publication in the Official Journal of the
are at or below the maximum export refund level.                 European Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 27 November 1998.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                              Franz FISCHLER
                                                                        Member of the Commission
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                                                       ANNEX
         Weekly invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled round grain, medium grain
                             and long grain A rice to certain European third countries
                                   Deadline for the submission of tenders (date/time)
                      1                         2                                     3
               Serial number               Quantities                      Amount of export refund
                of tenderers               in tonnes                          in ecus per tonne
                      1
                      2
                      3
                      4
                      5
                     etc.