CELEX: 32001R0573
Language: en
Date: 2001-03-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 573/2001 of 23 March 2001 amending Regulation (EC) No 169/2001 and increasing the quantity covered by the standing invitation to tender for the resale on the internal market of rice held by the Italian intervention agency to 50000 tonnes

L 85/4                  EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                    24.3.2001
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 573/2001
                                                            of 23 March 2001
                amending Regulation (EC) No 169/2001 and increasing the quantity covered by the standing
                invitation to tender for the resale on the internal market of rice held by the Italian intervention
                                                         agency to 50 000 tonnes
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                      by the Italian intervention agency, made up of 20 000
                                                                                 tonnes of Japonica rice and 10 000 tonnes of Indica rice.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                                (4)    The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of 22                        accordance with the opinion of the Management
December 1995 on the common organisation of the market in                        Committee for Cereals,
rice (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1667/2000 (2),
and in particular the final indent of Article 8(b) thereof,               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas:
(1)      Commission Regulation (EEC) No 75/91 (3) lays down                                           Article 1
         the procedures and conditions for the disposal of paddy          In Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 169/2001, the words ‘some
         rice held by intervention agencies.                              20 000 tonnes of rice held by that agency, in accordance with
(2)      Commission Regulation (EC) No 169/2001 (4) opened a              Regulation (EEC) No 75/91’ are replaced by ‘50 000 tonnes of
         standing invitation to tender for the resale on the              paddy rice, comprising 40 000 tonnes of Japonica rice and
         internal market of some 20 000 tonnes of rice held by            10 000 tonnes of Indica rice’.
         the Italian intervention agency.
                                                                                                      Article 2
(3)      In view of the current market situation, the quantity of
         rice placed on sale on the internal market should be             This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
         increased to include 30 000 tonnes of paddy rice held            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, 23 March 2001.
                                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                                        Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                   Member of the Commission
(1) OJ  L  329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ  L  193, 29.7.2000, p. 23.
(3) OJ  L  9, 12.1.1991, p. 9.
(4) OJ  L  26, 27.1.2001, p. 17.