CELEX: 31995R2016
Language: en
Date: 1995-08-21
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2016/95 of 21 August 1995 on the sale of olive oil residues held by the Spanish intervention agency

No L 197/4         [ EN                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                  22. 8 . 95
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2016/95
                                                         of 21 August 1995
                      on the sale of olive oil residues held by the Spanish intervention agency
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         the product in question, it is not advisable to use the sale
                                                                     by tender procedure previously applied for the olive oil ;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              whereas the Spanish intervention agency should therefore
  Community,                                                         sell the product for the best price it can obtain ;
  Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC of               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common                  in accordance with the opinion of the Management
 organization of the market in oils and fats ('), as last            Committee for Oils and Fats,
 amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and
 Sweden and Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 (2), and in parti­
 cular Article 12 (2) thereof,                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                                              Article 1
 2754/78 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 2203/90 (4), provides that olive oil held by the interven­          1 . The Spanish intervention agency 'Servicio Nacional
 tion agencies shall be put up for sale by tender except             de Productos Agrarios', hereinafter referred to as 'SENPA',
 when particular conditions necessitate recourse to other            shall sell for the best price it can obtain, 209 tonnes of
 procedures ;                                                        the vat bottom residues which it is holding as a result of
                                                                     the olive oil it bought in up to 31 March 1995.
 Whereas Article 1 ( 1 ) of Commission Regulation (EEC)
 No 2960/77 0, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                2.    The notice of sale shall be displayed by SENPA at
 3818/85 (% provides that intervention agencies may not              its head office at calle Beneficencia, No 8, 28004 Madrid,
 sell the olive oil which they hold until a Regulation to            Spain, at least 10 days before the date set for the sale.
 that effect has been adopted under the procedure
 provided for in Article 38 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC ;            3 . Sale of the product referred to in paragraph 1 shall
                                                                     be effected before 15 September 1995. Delivery of the
Whereas, following sales by tender of olive oil by the               product sold must take place before 15 November 1995.
 Spanish intervention agency, the intervention agency still          4.    SENPA shall inform the Commission as soon as
 holds in stock a quantity of vat bottom residues ; whereas
 these residues contain a considerable percentage of oil ;           possible of the outcome of the sale.
whereas correct management of the olive oil bought in by
 the intervention agency requires that these residues                                          Article 2
 should therefore be put up for sale ;
                                                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
Whereas, for commercial reasons based chiefly on the fact            publication in the Official Journal of the European
that there is no well-defined market or price system for             Communities.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .
                   Done at Brussels, 21 August 1995.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                Karel VAN MIERT
                                                                          Member of the Commission
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