CELEX: 31993R0031
Language: en
Date: 1993-01-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 31/93 of 8 January 1993 amending Regulation (EEC) No 920/92 on a standing invitation to tender to determine levies and/or refunds on exports of white sugar

No L 5/ 18                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 9 . 1 . 93
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 31/93
                                                        of 8 January 1993
                   amending Regulation (EEC) No 920/92 on a standing invitation to tender to
                                 determine levies and/or refunds on exports of white sugar
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         apply for advance fixing of the agricultural conversion
                                                                     rate in question after having been declared successful
                                                                     tenderer in respect of the levy or refund for the quantity
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               of sugar indicated in his tender ; whereas, in the case of
 Economic Community,                                                 the present tendering procedure, a derogation must be
                                                                     made from the said provisions, leaving the tenderer the
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                option of applying for advance fixing of the agricultural
 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                   conversion rate at the time when the application for the
 markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­         export certificate in question is lodged ;
 tion (EEC) No 3484/92 (2), and in particular Article 13 (2),
 Article 18 (5), Article 19 (4) and (7) and the second para­        Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
 graph of Article 39 thereof,                                        in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                     Committee for Sugar,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 608/72 of
 23 March 1972 laying down rules to be applied in cases of
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 considerable price rises on the world sugar market (3), and
 in particular Article 1 (1 ) thereof,
                                                                                              Article 1
 Whereas Article 8 ( 1 ) of Commission Regulation (EEC)
 No 3819/92 of 28 December 1992 on detailed rules for               Article 14 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 920/92 (6)
 determining and applying the agricultural conversion                is replaced by the following :
 rates (4) provides that where agricultural conversion rates              'Article 14
 are fixed in advance, on application by the party
 concerned, on the terms referred to in the second subpa­                If the tenderer intends to apply for advance fixing of
 ragraph of Article 6 (1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC)                   the agricultural conversion rate under this standing
 No 3813/92 of 28 December 1992 on the unit of account                   invitation to tender, the provisions of the second
 and the conversion rates to be appiled for the purposes of              indent of Article 8 (1) of Regulation (EEC)
 the common agricultural policy (*), such application must               No 3819/92 (*) shall not apply.
 be lodged at the same time as the submission of the
 tender as part of a tendering procedure ; whereas, for                  0 OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 17.'
 reasons specific to the sugar market, when an operator
 intends to take up the option of an advance fixing of an
 agricultural conversion rate, his decision shall be made                                     Article 2
 only when the application for the export certificate in
 question is lodged ; whereas in practice he may only               This Regulation shall enter into force on 9 January 1993.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 8 January 1993.
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                  Rene STEICHEN
                                                                           Member of the Commission
(') OJ   No  L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
O   OJ   No  L 353, 3. 12. 1992, p. 8 .
(3) OJ   No  L 75, 28. 3. 1972, p. 5.
O   OJ   No  L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 17.
O   OJ   No  L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .                           (6) OJ No L 98, 11 . 4. 1992, p. 11 .