CELEX: 31987R2744
Language: en
Date: 1987-09-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2744/87 of 14 September 1987 opening an invitation to tender for the sale for export of olive-residue oil held by the Italian intervention agency

15 . 9 . 87                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 264/ 5
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2744/87
                                                          of 14 September 1987
                    opening an invitation to tender for the sale for export of olive-residue oil held by
                                                     the Italian intervention agency
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             Whereas Article 20 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                        2730/79 of 29 November 1979 laying down common
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   detailed rules for the application of the system of export
Economic Community,                                                     refunds on agricultural products (*), as last amended by
                                                                        Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 80/87 (8), specifies the evidence
                                                                        required to prove importation into non-Community
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC of                    countries ;
22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common
organization of the market in oils and fats ('), as last                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1915/87 (2), and in                      in accordance with the opinion of the Management
particular Article 12 (4) thereof,                                      Committee for Oils and Fats,
Whereas Article 2 (1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 2754/78 (3) provides that olive oil held by the intervention
agencies is to be put up for sale by tender ;                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, pursuant to Article 12 ( 1 ) of Regulation No
 136/66/EEC, the Italian intervention agency has bought                                             Article 1
 in large quantities of olive oil ;
                                                                         1 . The Italian intervention agency 'Azienda di Stato per
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2960/77 (4),                    gli interventi nel mercato agricolo', hereinafter referred to
 as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3818/85 (*), laid                as 'AIMA', shall open an invitation to tender in accor­
 down the conditions for the sale by tender of olive oil ;               dance with the provisions of this Regulation and of Regu­
 whereas at the present time there exist opportunities for               lation (EEC) No 2960/77 for the sale for export of
 exporting olive oil ;                                                   approximately 2 400 tonnes of olive-residue oil.
 Whereas, in order to avoid any export problem, it shall be              2. The quantities of olive oil awarded shall be intended
 precisely stated on the package of the product to be                    for export to the countries of Africa or the Near and
 exported in one of the denominations set out in the                     Middle East referred to in Article 8 of this Regulation.
 Annex to Regulation No 136/ 66/EEC ;
                                                                         3 . By way of derogation from Article 1 (2) of Regula­
 Whereas the minimum selling price is so fixed that the                  tion (EEC) No 2960/77 this oil must not have been made
                                                                         edible .
 Community operators enjoy equal conditions of competi­
 tion with operators in non-member countries ; whereas,
 accordingly, oil should under this Regulation qualify
  neither for the export refund provided for in Article 20 of                                       Article 2
 Regulation No 136/66/EEC nor for the consumption aid
  provided for in Article 1 1 of the same Regulation ;                   The invitation to tender shall be made public on 2
                                                                         October 1987.
 Whereas, to guard against the danger of damaging the
  traditional export trade in olive oil put up in small contai­          Particulars of the lots of oil offered for sale and the places
  ners the number of countries to which the oil may be                   where they are stored shall be displayed at the head office
  exported should be limited ; whereas, for this purpose,                of AIMA, via Palestro 81 , Rome, Italy.
  reference should be made to the list of countries set out
  in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC) No                         A copy of the invitation to tender referred to above shall
  3639/86 of 28 November 1986 on annual updating of the                  be sent without delay to the Commission.
  country nomenclature for the external trade statistics of
  the Community and statistics of trade between Member
  States (6) ;                                                                                      Article 3
  0   OJ  No   172, 30. 9 . 1966, p. 3025/66.                            The tenders must reach AIMA, via Palestro 81 , Rome.
  0   OJ  No   L 183 , 3 . 7 . 1987, p. 7 .                               Italy, not later than 2 p.m. (local time) on 9 October 1987.
  (3) OJ  No   L 331 , 28 . 11 . 1978 , p. 13.
  (4) OJ  No   L 340, 30. 12. 1977, p. 46.
  0   OJ  No   L 368, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 20 .                              0 OJ No L 317, 12. 12. 1979, p. 1 .
  (6) OJ  No   L 336, 29 . 11 . 1986, p. 46.                              (8) OJ No L 113, 30 . 4. 1987, p. 27.
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                          Article 4                              The security referred to in Article 12 (3) of Regulation
                                                                 (EEC) No 2960/77 shall be Lit 100 000 per 100 kilograms
1.    Tenders shall be made for an olive-residue oil of 15°       of olive-residue oil .
acidity.
2. Where the oil awarded has a different degree of                2. For the purposes of applying the provisions of
acidity from that for which this tender was submitted, the        Article 1 (2), the security referred to in paragraph 1 ,
price to be paid shall be equal to the price tendered,            second subparagraph of this Article shall not be released
reduced or increased by Lit 2 964 for each degree or frac­        unless proof is provided that the oil was imported into
                                                                  one of the countries of Africa or the Near and Middle
tion of a degree above or below 15° .
                                                                  East listed in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 3639/86
                          Article 5                               except in cases where it has been destroyed during trans­
                                                                  port as a result of force majeure, or that it has been used
Not later than three days after the expiry of the time limit      for supplies as indicated in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC)
laid down for the submission of tenders, AIMA shall send          No 2730/79 .
the Commission a list, without mentioning names, stating
the highest tender received for each lot put up for sale.         3 . The Member States may, however, exempt the
                                                                  exporter from producing the documentary evidence, other
                          Article 6                               than the transport document, specified in Article 20 of
                                                                  Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79, in the case of a transaction
The minimum selling price per 100 kilograms of oil shall          where there is reasonable certainty of arrival at destination
be fixed, in accordance with the procedure laid down in           of products for which a declaration of export to one of the
Article 38 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC, on the basis of           countries referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article was
the tenders received, not later than the tenth working day        made .
after the expiry of the final date laid down for the submis­
sion of tenders. The decision fixing the minimum selling
price shall be notified forthwith to the Member State                                       Article 9
concerned .'
                                                                  The storage charge provided for in Article 15 of Regula­
                           Article 7
                                                                  tion (EEC) No 2960/77 shall be Lit 4 000 per 100 kilo­
The olive oil shall be sold by AIMA not later than the            grams .
fifth working day after the date of notification of the deci­
sion referred to in Article 6 .
                                                                                           Article 10
                           Article 8
                                                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
 1 . The security referred to in Article 7 of Regulation          publication in the Official Journal of the European
(EEC) No 2960/77 shall be Lit 30 000 per 100 kilograms.            Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                  Done at Brussels, 14 September 1987.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                Vice-President