CELEX: 32000R1432
Language: en
Date: 2000-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1432/2000 of 30 June 2000 opening a standing invitation to tender for the resale on the internal market of approximately 12 000 tonnes of rice held by the Spanish intervention agency

1.7.2000                 EN                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                         L 161/55
                                             COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1432/2000
                                                                of 30 June 2000
                opening a standing invitation to tender for the resale on the internal market of approximately
                                   12 000 tonnes of rice held by the Spanish intervention agency
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                  approximately 12 000 tonnes of paddy rice held by that
                                                                             agency, in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 75/91.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of 22                                                  Article 2
December 1995 on the common organisation of the market in
rice (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2072/98 (2), and             1.    The closing date for the submission of tenders in
in particular the last indent of Article 8(b) thereof,                       response to the first partial intivation to tender shall be 13 July
                                                                             2000.
Whereas:
(1)      Commission Regulation (EEC) No 75/91 (3) lays down                  2.    The closing date for the submission of tenders in
         the procedures and conditions for the disposal of paddy             response to the last partial invitation to tender shall be 3
         rice held by intervention agencies.                                 August 2000.
(2)      There is strong demand on the Community market at                   3.    Tenders must be lodged with the Spanish intervention
         present for certain varieties of Japonica rice consumed             agency at the following address:
         on the internal market, with market prices higher than
         the intervention price. At the same time, certain quant-            Fondo Español de Garantía Agraria (FEGA)
         ities of rice of those varieties are available in the Spanish       C/Beneficencia 8
         intervention agency's stores. Under those circumstances,            E-28004 Madrid
         a standing invitation to tender should be opened for the            (telex 23427 FEGA E;
         resale on the internal market of approximately 12 000               fax 915 21 98 32/915 22 43 87).
         tonnes of paddy rice held by the Spanish intervention
         agency.
                                                                                                           Article 3
(3)      The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
         accordance with the opinion of the Management                       By Tuesday of the week following the closing date for the
         Committee for Cereals,                                              submission of tenders, the Spanish intervention agency shall
                                                                             notify the Commission of the quantities and the average prices
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                                 of the various lots sold.
                                Article 1
                                                                                                           Article 4
The Spanish intervention agency shall open, under the condi-
tions laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 75/91, a standing                     This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
invitation to tender for the resale on the internal market of                publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
                        This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                        Done at Brussels, 30 June 2000.
                                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                                           Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                      Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 265, 30.9.1998, p. 4.
(3) OJ L 9, 12.1.1991, p. 15.