CELEX: 31988R2971
Language: en
Date: 1988-09-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2971/88 of 28 September 1988 opening an invitation to tender for the sale of olive oil held by the Italian intervention agency

No L 269/ 18                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                  29 . 9 . 88
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2971/88
                                                     of 28 September 1988
                  opening an invitation to tender for the sale of olive oil held by the Italian
                                                       intervention agency
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       Unsold quantities from the first tender will be put on sale
                                                                    at the following tender.                         .
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Economic Community,
                                                                                               Article 2
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
  136/66/EEC of 22 September 1966 on the establishment              The invitation to tender shall be published on 30
 of a common "organization of the market in oils and                September 1988 .
 fats ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 2210/88 (2), and in particular Article 12 (4) thereof,             Particulars of the lots of oil offered for sale and of the
                                                                    places where they are stored shall be dispayed at the
                                                                    central office of AIMA, via Palestro 81 , Rome, Italy.
 Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 2754/78 (3), provides that olive oil held by the                   A copy of the invitation to tender shall be sent without
 intervention agencies shall be put up for sale by tender ;         delay to the Commission.
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 12 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)
 No 136/66/EEC, the Italian intervention agency holds                                         Article 3
 certain quantities of olive oil ;
                                                                   The first series of tenders must reach AIMA at the central
 Whereas Commission Regulation • (EEC) No 2960/77 (4),              office, via Palestro 81 , Rome, Italy not later than 2 p.m.
 as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3818/85 (*), laid          (local time) on 10 October 1988 .
 down the conditions for the sale . by tender on the
 Community market and for export of olive oil ; whereas •          The next series of tenders must be lodged by 2 p.m. (local
 the state of the market in olive oil is at present favourable      time) on 25 October 1988 .
 for the sale of part of the said oil ;
 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are                                     Article 4
 in accordance with the opinion of the Management
 Committee for Oils and Fats,                                       1 . With regard to virgin lampante olive oil, tenders
                                                                   shall be submitted for an oil of 5° acidity.
                                                                   2.     Where the oil awarded has a different degree of
                                                                   acidity from that for which the tender was submitted, the
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                   price to be paid shall be equal to the price tendered
                                                                   increased or reduced in accordance with the scale below :
                                                                   — up to 5° acidity :
                            Article 1
                                                                        increase of Lit 5 162 for each degree or fraction of
                                                                        degree of acidity below 5° ,
The Italian intervention agency, 'Azienda di Stato per gli
interventi nel mercato agricolo', hereinafter referred to as       — above 5° up to 8° acidity :
'AIMA', shall open an invitation to tender in accordance                reduction of Lit 5 162 for each degree or fraction of
with the provisions of this Regulation and of Regulation                degree of acidity above 5° ,
(EEC) No 2960/77 for the sale on the Community market              — above 8 9 :
of the following quantities of olive oil :
                                                                        additioned reduction of Lit 5 646 for each degree or
— approximately 1 0 000 tonnes of virgin olive oil,                     fraction of degree above 8° .
— approximately 8 000 tonnes of virgin lampante olive
     oil .
                                                                                              Article 5
(') OJ No 172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.                            Not later than two days after the expiry of each time limit
(2) OJ No L 197, 26. 7. 1988, p. 1 .                               laid down for the submission of tenders, AIMA shall send
(3) OJ No L 331 , 28 . 11 . 1978, p. 13.
{") OJ No L 348, 30. 12. 1977, p. 46.                              the Commission a list, without mentioning names, stating
0 OJ No L 368, 31 . 12.- 1985, p. 20.                              the highest tender received for each lot put up for sale.
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                         Article 6                             AIMA shall supply the agencies responsible for storage
                                                               with a list of the lots remaining unsold.
The minimum selling price per 100 kilograms of oil shall
be fixed, in accordance with the procedure laid down in                                 Article 8
Article 38 of Regulation (EEC) No. 136/66/EEC, on the
basis of the tenders received, not later than the tenth        The security referred to in Article 7 of Regulation (EEC)
working day after the expiry of each final date laid down      No 2960/77 shall be Lit 30 000 per 100 kilograms.
for the submission of tenders. The decision fixing the
minimum selling price shall be notified forthwith to the                                Article 9
Member State concerned.
                                                               The storage charge referred to in Article 1 5 of Regulation
                                                               (EEC) No 2960/77 ' shall be Lit 4 000 per 100 kilograms.'
                         Article 7
                                                                                       Article 10
The olive oil shall be sold by AIMA not later than the         This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
fifth working day after the date of notification of the        publication in the Official Journal of the European
decision referred to in Article 6.                             Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 28 September 1988 .
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                         Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                            Vice-President