CELEX: 31998R0441
Language: en
Date: 1998-02-25 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 441/98 of 25 February 1998 on a decision to make no award in respect of the 28th partial invitation to tender for white sugar issued in connection with the standing invitation to tender referred to in Regulation (EC) No 1408/97

26. 2. 98            EN                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                L 56/7
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 441/98
                                                     of 25 February 1998
                 on a decision to make no award in respect of the 28th partial invitation to tender
                 for white sugar issued in connection with the standing invitation to tender
                                        referred to in Regulation (EC) No 1408/97
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
                                                                    in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               Committee for Sugar,
Community,
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
of 30 June 1981 on the common organisation of the                                           Article 1
markets in the sugar sector (1), as last amended by Regula-
tion (EC) No 1599/96 (2), and in particular point (b) of the        No award shall be made in respect of the 28th partial
second subparagraph of Article 17(5) thereof,                       invitation to tender for white sugar issued pursuant to
                                                                    Regulation (EC) No 1408/97 for which the time limit for
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1408/97 of 22                 the submission of tenders expired on 25 February 1998.
July 1997 on a standing invitation to tender in order to
determine levies and/or refunds on exports of white                                         Article 2
sugar (3) requires that partial invitations to tender be            This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
issued for the export of the sugar in question; whereas,            publication in the Official Journal of the European
pursuant to Article 8(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1408/97 a            Communities.
decision may be taken to make no award in respect of a
specific partial invitation to tender;                              It shall apply as from 26 February 1998.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 25 February 1998.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                 Franz FISCHLER
                                                                           Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 43.
(3) OJ L 194, 23. 7. 1997, p. 16.