CELEX: 32000R0313
Language: en
Date: 2000-02-10
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 313/2000 of 10 February 2000 fixing the maximum reduction in the duty on sorghum imported in connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2774/1999

L 36/26                 EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                    11. 2. 2000
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 313/2000
                                                           of 10 February 2000
               fixing the maximum reduction in the duty on sorghum imported in connection with the invitation
                                        to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2774/1999
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                      any tenderer whose tender is equal to or less than the
                                                                                 maximum reduction in the duty.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                                (3)    The application of the abovementioned criteria to the
                                                                                 current market situation for the cereal in question results
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 of 30                       in the maximum reduction in the import duty being
June 1992 on the common organisation of the market in                            fixed at the amount specified in Article 1.
cereals (1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC)                (4)    The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
No 1253/1999 (2), and in particular Article 12(1) thereof,                       accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                                 Committee for Cereals,
Whereas:
(1)     An invitation to tender for the maximum reduction in              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
        the duty on sorghum imported into Spain was opened
        pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2774/
        1999 (3).                                                                                     Article 1
                                                                          For tenders notified from 4 to 10 February 2000, pursuant to
(2)     Pursuant to Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EC) No            the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2774/
        1839/95 (4), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1963/               1999, the maximum reduction in the duty on sorghum
        95 (5), the Commission, acting under the procedure laid           imported shall be EUR/t 53,42 and be valid for a total
        down in Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92,                maximum quantity of 39 500 t.
        may decide to fix a maximum reduction in the import
        duty. In fixing this maximum the criteria provided for in                                     Article 2
        Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1839/95 must be
        taken into account. Whereas a contract is awarded to              This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 February 2000.
                       This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                       Done at Brussels, 10 February 2000.
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                         Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                   Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L  181,  1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L  160,  26.6.1999, p. 18.
(3) OJ L  334,  28.12.1999, p. 5.
(4) OJ L  177,  28.7.1995, p. 4.
(5) OJ L  189,  10.7.1995, p. 22.