CELEX: 31989R2000
Language: en
Date: 1989-07-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2000/89 of 5 July 1989 on the sale of olive oil residues held by the Italian intervention agency

No L 191 / 12                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                  6 . 7 . 89
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2000/89
                                                        of 5 July 1989
                    on the sale of olive oil residues held by the Italian intervention agency
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       (EEC) No 325/89 (4), because of the level of the offers
                                                                   received ; whereas they should therefore, the same terms
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              applying, be again put up for sale ;
Economic Community,
                                                                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC of               in accordance with the opinion of the Management
22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common                 Committee for Oils and Fats,
organization of the market in oils and fats ('), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1225/89 (2), and in
particular Article 12 thereof,                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                                             Article 1
2754/78 (') provides that olive oil held by the intervention
agencies shall be put up for sale by tender except when            1.    The Italian intervention agency, 'Azienda di Stato
particular conditions necessitate recourse to other                per gli interventi nel mercato agricolo', hereinafter
procedures ;                                                       referred to as 'AIMA', shall sell for the best price it can
Whereas, during the marketing years from 1985/86 to                obtain, all vat bottom residues which it is holding as a
1987/88 , approximately 70 000 tonnes of olive oil of all          result of its purchases on the olive oil market until the
qualities held by the Italian intervention agency were sold        1987/88 marketing year.
by tender ; whereas following these sales the intervention         2. The notice of sale shall be displayed by AIMA at its
agency still holds in stock a quantity of vat bottom               head office at Via Palestro, 81 , 1-00185 Rome, Italy for at
residues ; whereas these residues contain a considerable           least 10 days before the date set for the sale.
percentage of oil ; whereas correct management of the
intervention agency's purchases of olive oil requires that         3 . Sale of the product referred to in paragraph 1 shall
these residues should therefore be sold ;                          be effected before 15 September 1989 . Delivery of the
                                                                   product sold must take place before 30 November 1989.
Whereas, for commercial reasons based chiefly on the fact
that there is no well-defined market or price system for           AIMA shall inform the Commission as soon as possible
the product in question, it is not advisable to use the sale       of the outcome of the sale.
by tender procedure previously adopted for the olive oil ;
whereas the intervention agency should therefore sell the                                    Article 2
product for the best price it can obtain ;
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
Whereas it has not been possible to sell the residues in           publication in the Official Journal of the European
question, as provided for in Commission Regulation                 Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 5 July 1989 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                         Member of the Commission \
(') OJ No 172, 30. 9- 1966, p. 3025/66 .
(J) OJ No L 128, 11 . 5. 1989, p. 15.
O OJ No L 331 , 28 . 11 . 1978, p. 13 .                            (4) OJ No L 38 , 10 . 2. 1989, p. 16.