CELEX: 31985R1277
Language: en
Date: 1985-05-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1277/85 of 20 May 1985 opening an invitation to tender for the sale for export of baled tobacco held by the Greek intervention agency

21 . 5. 85                             Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 132/7
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1277/85
                                                       of 20 May 1985
               opening an invitation to tender for the sale for export of baled tobacco held by
                                               the Greek intervention agency
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                                            Article 3
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                 The deadline for the submission of tenders at the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            headquarters of the Commission of the European
Economic Community,                                              Communities shall be at 12 noon, local time, on 18
                                                                 July 1985.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 727/70
of 21 April 1970 on the common organization of the
market in raw tobacco ('), as last amended by Regula­                                     Article 4
tion (EEC) No 1461 /82 (2), and in particular Article 7
(4) thereof,                                                     The closing date referred to in Article 9 ( 1 ) of Regula­
                                                                 tion (EEC) No 3389/73 for removal of the tobacco by
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No                           the successful tenderer shall be :
3389/73 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
313/79 (4), lays down the procedure and conditions for           (a) at the end of the fourth month following the date
the sale of tobacco held by intervention agencies ;                   of publication of the result of the tendering proce­
                                                                      dure in the Official Journal of the European
Whereas, on account of the problems caused by the                     Communities, in respect of at least one-third of the
storage of baled tobacco, and in particular the costs of              lots ;
storage, an invitation to tender should be opened for
the sale of the tobacco in lots ; whereas this tobacco           (b) at the end of the sixth month following the said
should be intended for export, without refund ;                       date for the remaining tobacco.
Whereas payment for all these lots is made before the
                                                                                          Article 5
tobacco is removed ; whereas it should be provided
that, at the request of the successful tenderer, the secu­
rity should be released progressively as the quantities           1 . The security specified in Article 5 of Regulation
of tobacco are exported ;                                        (EEC) No 3389/73 must be lodged with and by the
                                                                 Ypiresia Diachirisis Agoron Georgikon Proionton
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation             (YDAGEP) Acharnon 5, GR-Athens 108.
are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Committee for Tobacco,                                           2.     The Commission shall inform the relevant inter­
                                                                 vention agency forthwith of the result of the sale by
                                                                 tender. The agency shall immediately release the secu­
                                                                 rities of tenderers whose tenders were inadmissible or
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                    who were unsuccessful .
                          Article 1
                                                                 Save as otherwise provided in the second subparagraph
                                                                 of Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 3389/73, the secu­
                                                                 rities of the successful tenderer or tenderers shall be
Four lots of baled raw tobacco from the 1982 harvest,
held by the Greek intervention agency, with a total              released once the conditions laid down in Article 7 (c)
weight of 4 246 018 kilograms divided by varieties as            of that Regulation have been fulfilled.
shown in the Annex hereto, shall be sold for export.
                                                                 3. On application by the person concerned, the
                                                                 security shall be released by instalments in proportion
                          Article 2                              to the quantities of tobacco in respect of which the
                                                                 proof referred to in Article 7 (c) of the said Regulation
The sale shall take place in accordance with the                 has been furnished.
tendering procedure provided for in Regulation (EEC)
No 3389/73 .
                                                                                          Article 6
(') OJ  No  L 94, 28 . 4. 1970, p. 1 .                           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
(2) OJ  No  L  164, 14. 6. 1982, p. 27.
O   OJ  No  L  345, 15. 12. 1973, p. 47.                         following its publication in the Official Journal of the
(4) OJ  No  L 43, 20. 2. 1979, p. 5.                              European Communities.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 20 May 1985.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                      Vice-President
                                                  ANNEX
                          Lot                                              Weight
                                        Variety         Harvest
                          No                                             (kilograms)
                           1       Kaba Koulak           1982              760 417
                                   classic
                           2       Kaba Koulak           1982               814 141
                                   non classic
                                   Basmas
                                   Virginia
                           3       Tsebelia              1982            1 597 077
                           4       Mavra                 1982            1 074 383
                                                          Total          4 246 018