CELEX: 31999R1006
Language: en
Date: 1999-05-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1006/1999 of 12 May 1999 opening an invitation to tender for the reduction in the duty on maize imported into Spain from third countries

13. 5. 1999           EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                   L 123/27
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1006/1999
                                                       of 12 May 1999
                  opening an invitation to tender for the reduction in the duty on maize imported
                                             into Spain from third countries
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                 to process or use the imported product on the
                                                                            Spanish market;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                         (3)      Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 566/
                                                                            1999 (5) opened an invitation to tender for the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92                        reduction in the duty on maïze imported into
of 30 June 1992 on the common organisation of the                           Spain from third countries; whereas the last partial
market in cereals (1), as last amended by Commission                        invitation to tender pursuant to Regulation (EC) No
Regulation (EC) No 923/96 (2), and in particular Article                    566/1999 should be postponed;
12(1) thereof,                                                     (4)      Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula-
                                                                            tion are in accordance with the opinion of the
(1)    Whereas, pursuant to the Agreement on Agricul-                       Management Committee for Cereals,
       ture concluded during the Uruguay Round of
       multilateral trade negotiations, the Community has
       undertaken to import a certain quantity of maize            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
       into Spain;
                                                                                               Article 1
(2)    Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1839/95
       of 26 July 1995 laying down detailed rules for the          Article 1(2) of Regulation (EC) No 566/1999 is replaced
       application of tariff quotas for imports of maize           by the following:
       and sorghum into Spain and imports of maize into                 ‘2.    The invitation to tender shall be open until 24
       Portugal (3), as amended by Regulation (EC) No                   June 1999. During that period, weekly invitations
       1963/95 (4), lays down the rules governing the                   shall be issued with quantities and closing dates as
       administration of those special arrangements;                    shown in the notice of invitation to tender.'
       whereas this Regulation lays down the special addi-
       tional detailed rules necessary for implementing                                        Article 2
       the invitation to tender, in particular those relating
       to the lodging and release of the security to be            This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
       lodged by operators to ensure compliance with               publication in the Official Journal of the European
       their obligations and, in particular, the obligation        Communities.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 12 May 1999.
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                   Franz FISCHLER
                                                                            Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L  181, 1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L  126, 24.5.1996, p. 37.
(3) OJ L  177, 28.7.1995, p. 4.
(4) OJ L  189, 10.8.1995, p. 22.                                   (5) OJ L 70, 17.3.1999, p. 9.