CELEX: 31998R2564
Language: en
Date: 1998-11-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2564/98 of 27 November 1998 opening an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled round grain, medium grain and long grain a rice to certain third countries

28. 11. 98            EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 L 320/43
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2564/98
                                                  of 27 November 1998
                 opening an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled round
                      grain, medium grain and long grain A rice to certain third countries
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland,
                                                                  Slovenia and Turkey) and for Zone VIII (except Guyana,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Madagascar and Suriname), as specified in the Annex to
Community,                                                        Regulation (EEC) No 2145/92.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of            2. The invitation to tender shall be open until 24 June
22 December 1995 on the common organisation of the                1999. During that period weekly invitations to tender
market in rice (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No         shall be issued and the date for submission of tenders
2072/98 (2), and in particular Article 13(3) thereof,             shall be determined in the notice of invitation to tender.
Whereas examination of the balance sheet shows that
exportable amounts of rice are currently held by produ-           3. The invitation to tender shall take place in accord-
cers; whereas this situation could affect the normal devel-       ance with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 584/75
opment of producer prices during the 1998/99 marketing            and with the following provisions.
year;
Whereas, in order to remedy this situation, it is appro-                                     Article 2
priate to make use of export refunds to zones which may
be supplied by the Community; whereas the special situ-
ation of the rice market makes it necessary to limit the          A tender shall be admissible only if it covers a quantity
refunds, and therefore to apply Article 13 of Regulation          for export of at least 50 tonnes but not more than 3 000
(EC) No 3072/95 enabling the refund amount to be fixed            tonnes.
by tendering procedure;
Whereas it should be stated that the provisions of                                           Article 3
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 584/75 of 6 March
1975 laying down detailed rules for the application of the
system of tendering for export refunds on rice (3), as last       The security referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
amended by Regulation (EC) No 299/95 (4), apply to this           No 584/75 shall be ECU 30 per tonne.
invitation to tender;
Whereas, in order to avoid disturbances on the markets of                                    Article 4
the producing countries, the invitation to tender should
be limited to certain zones specified in the Annex to
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2145/92 (5), as                    1. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21(1) of
amended by Regulation (EC) No 3304/94 (6);                        Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 (7), export
                                                                  licences issued within this invitation to tender shall, for
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are          the purposes of determining their period of validity, be
in accordance with the opinion of the Management                  considered as having been issued on the day the tender
Committee for Cereals,                                            was submitted.
                                                                  2. The licences shall be valid from their date of issue,
                                                                  within the meaning of paragraph 1, until the end of the
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                      fourth month following.
                           Article 1
                                                                                             Article 5
1. An invitation to tender is hereby opened for the
refund on export of wholly milled round grain, medium             Tenders submitted must reach the Commission through
grain and long grain A rice for Zones I to VI (except             the Member States not later than one and a half hours
                                                                  after expiry of the deadline for weekly submission of
(1) OJ L 329, 30. 12. 1995, p. 18.                                tenders as laid down in the notice of invitation to tender.
(2) OJ L 265, 30. 9. 1998, p. 4.                                  They must be transmitted in accordance with the table
(3) OJ L 61, 7. 3. 1975, p. 25.                                   given in the Annex.
(4) OJ L 35, 15. 2. 1995, p. 8.
(5) OJ L 214, 30. 7. 1992, p. 20.
(6) OJ L 341, 30. 12. 1994, p. 48.                                (7) OJ L 331, 2. 12. 1988, p. 1.
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If no tenders are submitted, the Member States shall             — or not to take any action on the tenders.
inform the Commission accordingly within the same
deadline as that given in the above subparagraph.                2. Where a maximum export refund is fixed, an award
                                                                 shall be made to the tenderer or tenderers whose tenders
                                                                 are at or below the maximum export refund level.
                          Article 6
                                                                                         Article 8
The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian time.       The deadline for submission of tenders for the first partial
                                                                 invitation to tender shall be 10 a.m. on 10 December
                                                                 1998.
                          Article 7
                                                                 The final date for submission of tenders is hereby fixed at
1. On the basis of tenders submitted, the Commission             24 June 1999.
shall decide in accordance with the procedure referred to
in Article 22 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95:                                             Article 9
— either to fix a maximum export refund, taking account          This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
    of the criteria laid down in Article 13 of Regulation        following its publication in the Official Journal of the
    (EC) No 3072/95,                                             European Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 27 November 1998.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                              Franz FISCHLER
                                                                        Member of the Commission
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                                                        ANNEX
           Weekly invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled round grain, medium grain
                                   and long grain A rice to certain third countries
                                    Deadline for the submission of tenders (date/time)
                        1                        2                                      3
                 Serial number              Quantities                      Amount of export refund
                  of tenderers              in tonnes                           in ecu per tonne
                        1
                        2
                        3
                        4
                        5
                       etc.