CELEX: 32001R0169
Language: en
Date: 2001-01-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 169/2001 of 26 January 2001 on the opening of a standing invitation to tender for the resale on the internal market of some 20000 tonnes of rice held by the Italian intervention agency

27.1.2001              EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                          L 26/17
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 169/2001
                                                           of 26 January 2001
                on the opening of a standing invitation to tender for the resale on the internal market of some
                                  20 000 tonnes of rice held by the Italian intervention agency
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                              some 20 000 tonnes of rice held by that agency, in accordance
                                                                         with Regulation (EEC) No 75/91.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
                                                                                                      Article 2
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of 22
December 1995 on the common organisation of the market in                1.    The closing date for the submission of tenders in
rice (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1667/2000 (2),           response to the first partial invitation to tender shall be 7
and in particular the last indent of Article 8(b) thereof,               February 2001.
Whereas:                                                                 2.    The closing date for the submission of tenders in
(1)      Commission Regulation (EEC) No 75/91 ( ) lays down
                                                     3                   response to the last partial invitation to tender shall be 27 June
         the procedures and conditions for the disposal of paddy         2001.
         rice held by intervention agencies.                             3.    Tenders must be lodged with the Italian intervention
(2)      The Italian intervention agency has been storing for a          agency at the following address:
         very long time now a very significant quantity of paddy         Ente Nazionale Risi (ENR)
         rice. A standing invitation to tender should be opened          Piazza Pio XI, 1
         for the resale on the internal market of some 20 000            I-20123 Milan
         tonnes of paddy rice held by the Italian intervention           (Tel. (39) 02 885 51 11; fax (39) 02 86 13 72/86 55 03).
         agency.
(3)      The measures provided for in this Regulation are in                                          Article 3
         accordance with the opinion of the Management
         Committee for Cereals,                                          By Tuesday of the week following the closing date for the
                                                                         submission of tenders, the Italian intervention agency shall
                                                                         notify the Commission of the quantities and the average prices
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                                         of the various lots sold.
                              Article 1
                                                                                                      Article 4
The Italian intervention agency shall open, under the condi-
tions laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 75/91, a standing                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
invitation to tender for the resale on the internal market of            publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 26 January 2001.
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                       Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                  Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 193, 29.7.2000, p. 3.
(3) OJ L 9, 12.1.1991, p. 15.