CELEX: 31980R2684
Language: en
Date: 1980-10-21
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2684/80 of 21 October 1980 opening a standing invitation to tender for the sale for export of olive oil held by the Italian intervention agency

22. 10. 80                                Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 278/ 5
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2684/80
                                                        of 21 October 1980
              opening a standing invitation to tender (or the sale (or export o( olive oil held
                                                by the Italian intervention agency
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       only to countries other than the United States of
COMMUNITIES,                                                         America and Canada ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                Whereas Article 20 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
Economic Community,                                                  No 2730/79 of 29 November 1979 laying down
                                                                     common detailed rules for the application of the
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC                    system of export refunds on agricultural products (6),
of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a                       as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1607/ 80 (7),
common organization of the market in oils and                        specifies the evidence required to prove importation
fats (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                     into non-Community countries ;
1917/80 (2), and in particular Article 12 (4) thereof,
                                                                     Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2566/79
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                     of 15 November 1979 on the country nomenclature
2754/78 (3) provides that olive oil held by the interven­            for the external trade statistics of the Community and
tion agencies is to be put up for sale by tender ;                   statistics of trade between Member States (8) lists the
                                                                     non-member countries of Europe, Africa and the Near
Whereas, pursuant to Article 12 ( 1 ) of Regulation No               and Middle East ;
136/66/EEC, the Italian intervention agency has
bought in, since the 1975/76 marketing year, large                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
quantities of olive oil ;                                            are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                     ment Committee for Oils and Fats,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2960/77
of 23 December 1977 on detailed rules for the sale of
olive oil held by intervention agencies (4), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2309/80 (5), laid                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
down the conditions for the sale by tender of olive oil
for the Community market and for export ; whereas at
                                                                                              Article 1
the present time there exist opportunities for
exporting edible virgin olive oil ; whereas, therefore,
the said oil should be put up for sale under a standing              1 . The Italian intervention agency 'Azienda di Stato
invitation to tender ;                                               per gli interventi nel mercato agricolo', hereinafter
                                                                     referred to as 'AIMA', shall open a standing invitation
Whereas the minimum selling price is so fixed that                   to tender in accordance with the provisions of this
the Community operators enjoy equal conditions of                    Regulation and of Regulation (EEC) No 2960/77 for
competition with operators in non-member countries ;                 the sale for export of about 10 000 tonnes of extra
whereas, accordingly, oil should under this Regulation               quality virgin olive oil out of intervention purchases
qualify neither for the export refund provided for in                made during the 1978/79 and 1979/ 80 olive oil
Article 20 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC nor for the                   marketing years at a rate of 2 000 tonnes per month ,
consumption aid provided for in Article 1 1 of the                   this latter quantity being increased the following
same Regulation ;                                                    month by any quantity of olive oil remaining unsold
                                                                     from the previous invitations to tender.
Whereas there is an established export trade in olive
oil put up in small containers from the Community to                 2. The quantities of olive oil awarded shall not be
the United States of America and to Canada ; whereas                 exported in bulk or in immediate containers of a net
if oil subject of an award by tender under this Regula­              content of more than five litres to the United States of
tion were to be exported in bulk to these two coun­                  America or Canada .
tries, it might well damage this traditional export
trade ; whereas to guard against this danger exporta­
tion in bulk or in immediate containers of a net                                              Article 2
content of more than five litres should be allowed
                                                                     The invitation to tender shall be made public on 20
                                                                     October 1980 .
 ') OJ   No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p. 3025/66.
 2) OJ   No L 186, 19 . 7 . 1980 , p. 1 .
 *) OJ   No L 331 , 28 . 11 . 1978 , p. 13 .                         (") OJ No L 317, 12. 12. 1979, p. 1 .
 4) OJ   No L 348, 30 . 12. 1977, p. 46.                             O OJ No L 160, 26. 6. 1980, p. 42.
 s) OJ   No L 233 , 4. 9 . 1980 , p. 13 .                            (8) OJ No L 294, 21 . 11 . 1979 , p. 5 .
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Particulars of the lots of oil offered for sale and the     A list of the lots put up for sale and a list of the lots
places where they are stored shall be displayed at the       remaining unsold from the previous invitations to
head office of AIMA, Via Palestro 81 , Rome, Italy. A        tender shall be displayed at the head office of AIMA
copy of the invitation to tender referred to above shall     not later than the seventh day of each month .
be sent without delay to the Commission .
                                                                                       Article 7
                        Article 3
                                                            The security referred to in Article 7 of Regulation
The first series of tenders must reach AIMA, Via             (EEC) No 2960/77 shall be 9-50 ECU/ 100 kg.
Palestro 81 , Rome, Italy, not later than 2 p.m . (local     The security referred to in Article 12 (3) of Regulation
time) on 7 November 1980 .                                   (EEC) No 2960/77 shall be 135 ECU per 100 kg of
                                                             olive oil .
Subsequent series of tenders must be lodged by 2 p.m .
on :
                                                             For the purposes of applying the provisions of Article
— 12 December 1980,                                          1 (2), the security referred to in the second subpara­
— 20 January 1981 ,                                          graph of this Article shall not be released in the event
                                                             of olive oil being exported in bulk or in immediate
— 20 February 1981 ,                                         containers of a net content of more than five litres
— 20 March 1981 .
                                                             unless proof is provided that the oil was imported into
                                                             a non-member country other than the United States
                        Article 4                            of America or Canada, except in cases where it has
                                                             been destroyed during transport as a result of force
Not later than three days after the expiry of each time       majeure, or that it has been used for supplies as indi­
limit laid down for the submission of tenders, AIMA
                                                             cated in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79.
shall send the Commission a list, without mentioning
names, stating the highest tender received for each lot      The Member States may, however, exempt the
put up for sale.                                             exporter from producing the documentary evidence,
                                                             other than the transport document, specified in
                        Article 5                            Article 20 of Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 in the
                                                             case   of   a   transaction  where   there is  reasonable
The minimum selling price shall be fixed, in accor­          certainty of arrival at destination of products for which
dance with the procedure laid down in Article 38 of          a declaration of export to a non-member country in
Regulation No 136/66/EEC, on the basis of the                Europe, Africa, or the Near or Middle East, listed in
tenders received, not later than the last working day of     Regulation (EEC) No 2566/79, was made.
the month during which the tenders were submitted .
The decision fixing the minimum selling price shall                                    Article 8
be notified forthwith to the Member State concerned .
                                                             The storage charge provided for in Article 1 5 of Regu­
                        Article 6                             lation (EEC) No 2960/77 shall be Lit 1 700 per 100
                                                              kilograms.
The olive oil shall be sold by AIMA not later than the
 fifth day of each month following that during which                                   Article 9
 the tenders were submitted .
                                                             This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
AIMA shall supply the agencies responsible for                publication in the Official Journal of the European
storage with a list of the lots remaining unsold.             Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 21 October 1980 .
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                          Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                             Vice-President