CELEX: 31998R0462
Language: en
Date: 1998-02-26 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 462/98 of 26 February 1998 fixing the maximum reduction in the duty on maize imported in connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2505/97

L 58/50               EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                 27. 2. 98
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 462/98
                                                    of 26 February 1998
                  fixing the maximum reduction in the duty on maize imported in connection
                          with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2505/97
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Whereas the application of the abovementioned criteria
                                                                   to the current market situation for the cereal in question
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                   results in the maximum reduction in the import duty
Community,
                                                                   being fixed at the amount specified in Article 1;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92
of 30 June 1992 on the common organisation of the                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
market in cereals (1), as last amended by Commission               in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Regulation (EC) No 923/96 (2), and in particular Article           Committee for Cereals,
12(1) thereof,
Whereas an invitation to tender for the maximum reduc-             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
tion in the duty on maize imported into Spain was
opened pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No
2505/97 (3);                                                                                Article 1
Whereas, pursuant to Article 5 of Commission Regula-               For tenders notified from 20 to 26 February 1998,
tion (EC) No 1839/95 (4), as amended by Regulation (EC)            pursuant to the invitation to tender issued in Regulation
No 1963/95 (5), the Commission, acting under the                   (EC) No 2505/97, the maximum reduction in the duty on
procedure laid down in Article 23 of Regulation (EEC)              maize imported shall be ECU 56,53 per tonne and be
No 1766/92, may decide to fix a maximum reduction in               valid for a total maximum quantity of 114 250 tonnes.
the import duty; whereas in fixing this maximum the
criteria provided for in Article 6 and 7 of Regulation (EC)                                 Article 2
No 1839/95 must be taken into account; whereas a
contract is awarded to any tenderer whose tender is equal          This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 February
to or less than the maximum reduction in the duty;                 1998.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 26 February 1998.
                                                                             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  345, 16. 12. 1997, p. 27.
(4) OJ L  177, 28. 7. 1995, p. 4.
(5) OJ L  189, 10. 8. 1995, p. 22.