CELEX: 31999R0770
Language: en
Date: 1999-04-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 770/1999 of 14 April 1999 on an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled round grain rice to certain third countries

L 100/14               EN              Official Journal of the European Communities                               15. 4. 1999
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 770/1999
                                                     of 14 April 1999
                   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,                       tenders; whereas paragraphs 3 and 4 of that Article specify
                                                                  the operative events applicable to advances and securities;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                        Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
                                                                  in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of            Committee for Cereals,
22 December 1995 on the common organisation of the
market in rice (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
2072/98 (2), and in particular Article 13(3) thereof,
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas examination of the balance sheet shows that
exportable amounts of rice are currently held by pro-
ducers; whereas this situation could affect the normal                                       Article 1
development of producer prices during the 1998/1999
                                                                  1.    An invitation to tender is hereby opened for the
marketing year;
                                                                  refund on export of wholly milled round grain rice
                                                                  referred to in Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95,
Whereas, in order to remedy this situation, it is appro-
                                                                  for Zones I to VI, excluding Turkey, and Zone VIII
priate to make use of export refunds to zones which may
                                                                  excluding Guyana, Madagascar and Suriname, as specified
be supplied by the Community; whereas the special situ-
                                                                  in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2145/92.
ation of the rice market makes it necessary to limit the
quantities of rice benefiting from the refunds, and there-        2.    The invitation to tender shall be open until 24 June
fore to apply Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95            1999. During that period weekly invitations to tender
enabling the amount of refund to be fixed by tendering            shall be issued and the date for submission of tenders
procedure;                                                        shall be determined in the notice of invitation to tender.
Whereas it should be stated that the provisions of                3.    The invitation to tender shall take place in accord-
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 584/75 of 6 March                  ance with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 584/75
1975 laying down detailed rules for the application of the        and with the following provisions.
system of tendering for export refunds on rice (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 299/95 (4), apply to this
invitation to tender;                                                                        Article 2
Whereas, in order to avoid disturbances on the markets of         A tender shall be admissible only if it covers a quantity
the producing countries, the markets of destination               for export of at least 50 tonnes but not more than 3 000
should be limited to Zones I to VI, excluding Turkey, and         tonnes.
Zone VIII, excluding Guyana, Madagascar and Suriname,
noted in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
2145/92 (5), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 3304/                                          Article 3
94 (6);
                                                                  The security referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
Whereas pursuant to Article 14 of Commission Regula-              No 584/75 shall be EUR 30 per tonne.
tion (EC) No 2808/98 of 22 December 1998 laying down
detailed rules for the application of the agrimonetary
system for the euro in agriculture (7), amounts quoted in                                    Article 4
tenders submitted in response to invitations to tender
organised under an instrument forming part of the                 1.    Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21(1) of
common agricultural policy must be expressed in euro;             Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 (8), export
whereas Article 5(1) of that Regulation provides that in          licences issued within this invitation to tender shall, for
such cases the operative event for the agricultural               the purposes of determining their period of validity, be
exchange rate is the final day for the submission of              considered as having been issued on the day the tender
                                                                  was submitted.
(1) OJ  L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ  L 265, 30.9.1998, p. 4.                                   2.    The licences shall be valid from their date of issue,
(3) OJ  L 61, 7.3.1975, p. 25.                                    within the meaning of paragraph 1, until the end of the
(4) OJ  L 35, 15.2.1995, p. 8.                                    fourth month following.
(5) OJ  L 214, 30.7.1992, p. 20.
(6) OJ  L 341, 30.12.1994, p. 48.
(7) OJ  L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 36.                                 (8) OJ L 331, 2.12.1988, p. 1.
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                        Article 5                                 either to fix a maximum export refund, taking account
                                                                     of the criteria laid down in Article 13 of Regulation
Tenders submitted must reach the Commission through                  (EC) No 3072/95,
the Member States not later than one and a half hours
after expiry of the time limit for weekly submission of           or not to take any action on the tenders.
tenders as laid down in the notice of invitation to tender.      2.    Where a maximum export refund is fixed, an award
They must be transmitted in accordance with the table            shall be made to the tenderer or tenderers whose tenders
given in the Annex.                                              are at or below the maximum export refund level.
If no tenders are submitted, the Member States shall
inform the Commission accordingly within the same                                          Article 8
time limit as that given in the above subparagraph.              The time limit for submission of tenders for the first
                                                                 partial invitation to tender shall expire on 29 April 1999
                        Article 6                                at 10 a.m.
                                                                 The final date for submission of tenders is hereby fixed at
The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian time.
                                                                 24 June 1999.
                        Article 7                                                          Article 9
1.    On the basis of tenders submitted, the Commission          This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
shall decide in accordance with the procedure referred to        following its publication in the Official Journal of the
in Article 22 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95:                     European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 14 April 1999.
                                                                            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 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 euro per tonne
                     1
                     2
                     3
                     4
                     5
                    etc.