CELEX: 32000R1977
Language: en
Date: 2000-09-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1977/2000 of 19 September 2000 amending Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 increasing to 1 477 420 tonnes the quantity of barley held by the United Kingdom intervention agency for which a standing invitation to tender for export has been opened

L 236/8                EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                     20.9.2000
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1977/2000
                                                         of 19 September 2000
               amending Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 increasing to 1 477 420 tonnes the quantity of barley held
               by the United Kingdom intervention agency for which a standing invitation to tender for export
                                                            has been opened
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                      store. Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 must
                                                                                 therefore be amended.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                               (4)     The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
                                                                                 accordance with the opinion of the Management
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 of 30
                                                                                 Committee for Cereals,
June 1992 on the common organisation of the market in
cereals (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1666/
2000 (2), and in particular Article 5 thereof,
                                                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas:
(1)     Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93 (3), as last                                           Article 1
        amended by Regulation (EC) No 1630/2000 (4), lays                Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 is hereby amended as follows:
        down the procedures and conditions for the disposal of
        cereals held by the intervention agencies.                       1. Article 2 is replaced by the following:
(2)     Commission Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 (5), as last                   ‘Article 2
        amended by Regulation (EC) No 1458/2000 (6), opened
                                                                             1.     The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum of
        a standing invitation to tender for the export of
                                                                             1 477 420 tonnes of barley to be exported to all third
        1 476 214 tonnes of barley held by the United Kingdom
                                                                             countries with the exception of the United States of
        intervention agency. The United Kingdom informed the
                                                                             America, Canada and Mexico.
        Commission of the intention of its intervention agency
        to increase by 1 206 tonnes the quantity for which a                 2.     The regions in which the 1 477 420 tonnes of barley
        standing invitation to tender for export has been                    are stored are stated in Annex I to this Regulation.’
        opened. The total quantity of barley held by the United
        Kingdom intervention agency for which a standing invi-           2. Annex I is replaced by the Annex hereto.
        tation to tender for export has been opened should be
        increased to 1 477 420 tonnes.                                                                Article 2
(3)     This increase in the quantity put out to tender makes it         This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
        necessary to alter the list of regions and quantities in         tion 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, 19 September 2000.
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                         Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                   Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L  181, 1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L  193, 29.7.2000, p. 1.
(3) OJ L  191, 31.7.1993, p. 76.
(4) OJ L  187, 26.7.2000, p. 24.
(5) OJ L  221, 8.8.1998, p. 8.
(6) OJ L  164, 5.7.2000, p. 3.
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                                                ANNEX
                                              ‘ANNEX I
                                                                       (tonnes)
                               Place of storage               Quantity
             Aberdeenshire                                     42 146
             Angus                                              9 684
             Bedfordshire                                      15 041
             Berwickshire                                      71 344
             Cambridgeshire                                    16 761
             Cheshire                                           2 727
             Dorset                                            22 436
             Dumfries                                          35 221
             East Lothian                                      72 136
             Edinburgh                                         33 570
             Essex                                              8 760
             Fife                                              21 791
             Gloucester                                        25 314
             Gloucestershire                                   65 008
             Grimsby                                              235
             Keith                                              7 852
             Kidderminster                                      1 277
             Kirkcaldy                                          7 508
             Leicestershire                                    11 753
             Lincolnshire                                    201 064
             Mid Lothian                                       12 074
             Norfolk                                           92 235
             North Humberside                                  65 066
             North Lincolnshire                                49 246
             Northampton                                        2 510
             Northamptonshire                                  26 888
             Northumberland                                    10 040
             Norwich                                           44 789
             Nottinghamshire                                   20 700
             Pocklington York                                  12 876
             Salisbury                                         45 901
             Shropshire                                        40 515
             Somerset                                           8 240
             Strathclyde                                     110 735
             Suffolk                                           35 431
             Taunton                                           13 744
             Tayside                                           40 390
             West Sussex                                       31 075
             Wiltshire                                         10 911
             Worcestershire                                    51 890
             York                                              75 135
             Yorkshire                                          5 401’