CELEX: 31999R0606
Language: en
Date: 1999-03-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 606/1999 of 19 March 1999 fixing the maximum export refund on wholly milled medium round grain and long grain a rice in connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2565/98

L 75/16                EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                             20. 3. 1999
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 606/1999
                                                     of 19 March 1999
                   fixing the maximum export refund on wholly milled medium round grain and
                   long grain A rice in connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation
                                                      (EC) No 2565/98
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 organisation of the                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
market in rice (1), as last 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 2565/98 (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 medium
95 (5), allows the Commission to fix, in accordance with           round grain and long grain A rice to be exported to
the procedure laid down in Article 22 of Regulation (EC)           certain third countries of Europe pursuant to the invita-
No 3072/95 and on the basis of the tenders submitted, a            tion to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2565/98 is
maximum export refund; whereas in fixing this                      hereby fixed on the basis of the tenders submitted from
maximum, the criteria provided for in Article 13 of Regu-          15 to 18 March 1999 at EUR 155,00 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 20 March 1999.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 19 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. 46.
(4) OJ  L  61, 7. 3. 1975, p. 25.
(5) OJ  L  35, 15. 2. 1995, p. 8.