CELEX: 31994R2306
Language: en
Date: 1994-09-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2306/94 of 26 September 1994 opening an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled medium grain and long grain A rice to certain third countries

27. 9. 94                                Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 251 /9
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2306/94
                                                     of 26 September 1994
                   opening an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled
                            medium grain and long grain A rice to certain third countries
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        shall be issued and the date for submission of tenders
                                                                   shall be determined in the notice of invitation to tender.
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Community,                                                        3. The invitation to tender shall take place in accord­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
                                                                   ance with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 584/75
 of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the                 and with the following provisions.
 market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
 1869/94 (2), and in particular Article 17 thereof,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1431 /76
 of 21 June 1976 laying down general rules for granting                                     Article 2
 export refunds on rice and criteria for fixing the amount
 of such refunds (3), and in particular Article 4 thereof,         A tender shall be valid only if it covers a quantity for
                                                                   export of at least 50 tonnes but not more than 5 000
 Whereas examination of the balance sheet shows that               tonnes .
 exportable amounts of rice are currently held by pro­
 ducers ; whereas this situation could affect the normal
 development of producer prices during the 1994/95                                          Article 3
 marketing year ;
                                                                   The security referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
 Whereas, in order to remedy this situation, it is appro­
                                                                   No 584/75 shall be ECU 20 per tonne.
 priate to make use of export refunds to zones which may
 be supplied by the Community ; whereas the special situ­
 ation of the rice market makes it necessary to limit the                                   Article 4
 refunds, and therefore to apply Article 4 of Regulation
 (EEC) No 1431 /76 enabling the refund amount to be
 fixed by tendering procedure ;                                    1 . Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21 (1 ) of
                                                                   Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 Q, export
 Whereas it should be stated that the provisions of                licences issued within this invitation to tender shall, for
 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 584/75 of 6 March                  the purposes of determining their period of validity, be
 1975 laying down detailed rules for the application of the        considered as having been issued on the day the tender
 system of tendering for export refunds on rice (4), as last       was submitted.
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 409/90 (*), apply to this
 invitation to tender ;                                            2.    The licences shall be valid from their date of issue,
                                                                   within the meaning of paragraph 1 , until the end of the
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are           third month following.
 in accordance with the opinion of the Management
 Committee for Cereals,
                                                                                            Article 5
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                     Tenders submitted must reach the Commission through
                                                                   the Member States not later than one and a half hours
                            Article 1                              after expiry of the time limit for weekly submission of
                                                                   tenders as laid down in the notice of invitation to tender.
 1 . An invitation to tender is hereby opened, for the             They must be transmitted in accordance with the table
export refund referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC)         given in the Annex.
No 1431 /76, for Zones II (a), (b), (d) and III as specified in
Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2145/92 (6).               If no tenders are submitted, the Member States shall
                                                                   inform the Commission accordingly within the same time
2. The invitation to tender shall be open until 29 June            limit as that given in the above subparagraph.
 1995. During that period weekly invitations to tender
                                                                                            Article 6
(') OJ  No  L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L 197, 30. 7. 1994, p. 7.
(3) OJ  No  L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 36.                             The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian time.
(4) OJ  No  L 61 , 7. 3. 1975, p. 25.
0   OJ  No  L 43, 17. 2. 1990, p. 21 .
(Ó OJ No L 214, 30. 7. 1992, p. 20.                                o OJ No L 331 , 2. 12. 1988, p. 1 .
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                             Article 7                                                            Article 8
1.    On the basis of tenders submitted, the Commission               The time limit for submission of tenders for the first
shall decide in accordance with the procedure referred to             partial invitation to tender shall be 10 a.m. on 13 October
in Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 :                        1994.
— either to fix a maximum export refund, taking account               The final date for submission of tenders is hereby fixed at
    of the criteria laid down in Articles 2 and 3 of Regula­          29 June 1995.
    tion (EEC) No 1431 /76,
— or not to take any action on the tenders.                                                       Article 9
2.    Where a maximum export refund is fixed, an award                This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
shall be made to the tenderer or tenderers whose tenders              following its publication in the Official Journal of the
are at or below the maximum export refund level.                      European Communities.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 26 September 1994.
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                    Rene STEICHEN
                                                                            Member of the Commission
                                                              ANNEX
                  Weekly invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled medium grain and
                                           l°ng grain A rice to certain third countries
                                       (Closing date for the submission of tenders (date/time))
                               1                2                                      3
                       Serial number        Quantities                     Amount of export refund
                         of tenders         in tonnes                          in ecu per tonne
                              1
                              2
                              3
                              4
                              5
                             etc.