CELEX: 31994R2710
Language: en
Date: 1994-11-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2710/94 of 8 November 1994 opening an invitation to tender for the reduction in the levy on maize imported into Spain from third countries

9. 11 . 94                              Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 288/3
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2710/94
                                                     oí: 8 November 1994
                 opening an invitation to tender for the reduction in the levy on maize imported
                                              into Spain from third countries
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       the security to be lodged by operators to ensure compli­
                                                                  ance with their obligations and, in partiular, the obliga­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             tion to process or use the imported product on the
Community,                                                        Spanish market ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3640/93 of            Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
17 December 1993 on special arrangements for imports              in accordance with the opinion of the Management
of maize and sorghum into Spain for the year 1993 (:),            Committee for Cereals,
and in particular Articles 3 (2) and 8 thereof,
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, as part of an agreement with the United! States
of America, the Community has undertaken to import a                                        Article 1
certain quantity of maize and sorghum into Spain in
1993 ; whereas by Regulation (EC) No 532/94 (2) exten­            1 . An invitation to tender is hereby opened for the
ding the measures taken under the abovementioned                  reduction in the import levy referred to in Article 10 of
agreement, the Council approved the extension of that             Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 (*) on maize to be imported
agreement to 1994 ;                                               into Spain, in addition to the invitations to tender opened
                                                                  by Regulation (EC) No 10/94.
Whereas, within the framework of those rights and obli­           2. The invitation to tender shall be open until 8
gations, Commission Regulation (EC) No 10/94 (3) opened           December 1994. During that period, weekly invitations
invitations to tender for the reduction in the levy on            shall be issued with quantities and closing dates as shown
import of the quantities remaining in 1993 ; whereas              in the notice of invitation to tender.
these quantities were not covered by the invitations to
tender ; whereas, in the light of current market needs in         3. Regulation (EC) No 675/94 shall apply save as
Spain, the balance left for import should be earmarked for        otherwise provided for in this Regulation.
that country ; whereas, to that end, a new invitation to
tender should be opened ;                                                                   Article 2
                                                                  Import licences issued under these invitations to tender
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 675/94 of 25                shall be valid from the date they are issued, within the
March 1994 laying down detailed rules for the application
                                                                  meaning of Article 6 (4) of Regulation (EC) No 675/94,
of the special arrangements for Council Regulations (EC)          until 31 December 1994.
No 3640/93, (EC) No 1799/94 and (EC) No 3670/93
concerning imports of maize and sorghum into Spain and                                      Article 3
of maize into Portugal (4), as amended by Regulation (EC)
No 2660/94 0, lays down the special additional detailed           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
rules necessary for implementing the invitation to tender,        following its publication in the Official Journal of the
in particular those relating to the lodging and release of         European Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 8 November 1994.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              Rene STEICHEN
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(') OJ  No L 333, 31 . 12. 1993, p. 13.
(2) OJ  No L 68, 11 . 3. 1994, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No L 4, 6. 1 . 1994, p. 3.
(4) OJ  No L 83, 26. 3. 1994, p. 26.
0   OJ  No L 284, 1 . 11 . 1994, p. 29.                           f) OJ No L 181 , 1 . 7. 1992, p. 21 .