CELEX: 32000R0278
Language: en
Date: 2000-02-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 278/2000 of 4 February 2000 fixing the maximum export refund on wholly milled round grain rice in connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2180/1999

L 31/4                   EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                     5. 2. 2000
                                           COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 278/2000
                                                             of 4 February 2000
                fixing the maximum export refund on wholly milled round grain rice in connection with the
                                    invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2180/1999
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                       whose tender is equal to or less than the maximum
                                                                                  export refund.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                                 (3)    The application of the abovementioned criteria to the
                                                                                  current market situation for the rice in question results
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of 22                         in the maximum export refund being fixed at the
December 1995 on the common organization of the market in                         amount specified in Article 1.
rice (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2072/98 (2), and           (4)    The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
in particular Article 13 (3) thereof,                                             accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                                  Committee for Cereals,
Whereas:
(1)      An invitation to tender for the export refund on rice was         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
         issued pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No
         2180/1999 (3).
                                                                                                       Article 1
(2)      Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 584/                  The maximum export refund on wholly milled round grain rice
         75 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 299/95 (5),         to be exported to certain third countries pursuant to the invita-
         allows the Commission to fix, in accordance with the              tion to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2180/1999 is
         procedure laid down in Article 22 of Regulation (EC) No           hereby fixed on the basis of the tenders submitted from 28
         3072/95 and on the basis of the tenders submitted, a              January to 3 February 2000 at 155,00 EUR/t.
         maximum export refund; whereas in fixing this
         maximum, the criteria provided for in Article 13 of                                           Article 2
         Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 must be taken into
         account; whereas a contract is awarded to any tenderer            This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 February 2000.
                        This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                        Done at Brussels, 4 February 2000.
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                         Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                    Member of the Commission
(1) OJ  L  329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ  L  265, 30.9.1998, p. 4.
(3) OJ  L  267, 15.10.1999, p. 16.
(4) OJ  L  61, 7.3.1975, p. 25.
(5) OJ  L  35, 15.2.1995, p. 8.