CELEX: 31980R1429
Language: en
Date: 1980-06-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1429/80 of 6 June 1980 on the opening of an invitation to tender for the refund for the export of common wheat to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and the German Democratic Republic

7 . 6 . 80                                Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 143/9
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1429/80
                                                          of 6 June 1980
               on the opening of an invitation to tender for the refund for the export of
               common wheat to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and the
                                                  German Democratic Republic
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
COMMUNITIES,                                                         are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                     ment Committee for Cereals,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1 547/79 (2),                                                             Article 1
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         1 . Tenders shall be invited for the export refund
2746/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down general                       provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No
rules for granting export refunds on cereals and                     2746/75.
criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3), and
in particular Article 5 thereof,                                     2.    The invitation to tender shall relate to common
                                                                    wheat for export to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
Whereas there is an exportable surplus of common                     Romania, Bulgaria and the German Democratic
wheat on the Community market ; whereas, so that it                  Republic.
can be exported under the most favourable conditions,
an invitation to tender for the export refund should be              3 . The invitation shall remain open until 30 June
opened ; whereas, in view of the situation on the                    1981 . During this period weekly awards shall be
world cereals market, and for the purpose of keeping                 made, for which the time limits for the submission of
better control of the refund amount to be granted and                tenders shall be as prescribed in the notice of invita­
of the quantities to be exported, the invitation to                  tion to tender.
tender should be restricted to exports to Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and the
German Democratic Republic ;                                                                  Article 2
Whereas detailed rules for the application of the                   A tender shall be valid only if it relates to an amount
system of tendering for fixing export refunds were                  of not less than 1 000 tonnes .
adopted in Commission Regulation (EEC) No
279/75 (4), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
2944/78 (5) ; whereas among the obligations on the                                            Article 3
part of tenderers is that of lodging an application for
an export licence ; whereas compliance with this obli­              The tendering security referred to in Article 3 of Regu­
gation may be ensured by requiring tenderers to lodge                lation (EEC) No 279175 shall be 12 ECU per tonne.
a tendering security of 12 ECU per tonne when they
submit their tenders ;
                                                                                              Article 4
Whereas, in order to ensure equal treatment to all
concerned, it is necessary to specify that all licences              1 . By way of derogation from the provisions of
issued be valid for equal lengths of time ;                         Article 9 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 193/75 (6), export
                                                                     licences issued under Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)
Whereas, for the proper running of an invitation to                  No 279/75 shall, for the purpose of determining their
tender for export refunds, a minimum representative                  period of validity, be deemed to have been issued on
quantity must be specified as well as the time limit                the day on which the tender was submitted.
and form of communication of the tenders submitted
to the competent authorities ;                                       2.    Export licences issued in connection with this
                                                                     invitation to tender shall be valid from their date of
(») OJ   No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                            issue, as defined in the previous paragraph , until the
(2) OJ   No L 188 , 26. 7. 1979 , p. 1 .                             end of the fourth month following that of issue .
(3) OJ   No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 78.
(«) OJ   No L 31 , 5. 2. 1975, p. 8 .
(5) OJ   No L 351 , 15. 12. 1978, p. 16.                            (") OJ No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 10 .
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                          Article 5                              — brought forward by one hour in Ireland and the
                                                                     United Kingdom during the period in which
The tenders submitted must reach the Commission
                                                                     summer time does not apply in those Member
through the intermediary of Member States at the                     States,
latest one and a half hours after expiry of the period
for the weekly submission of tenders as specified in             — extended by one hour in the other Member States
the notice of invitation to tender. They must be                     when the latter are applying summer time.
communicated in the form indicated in the Annex .
If no tenders are received, Member States shall so
inform the Commission within the time limit indi­
cated in the preceding paragraph .                                                         Article 7
                          Article 6
                                                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
The time limits fixed for the submission of tenders              following its publication in the Official Journal of
shall be :                                                       the European Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 6 June 1980 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                             Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                Vice-President
                                                          ANNEX
             Weekly tender for the refund for the export of common wheat to Poland, Czechoslovakia,
                            Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and the German Democratic Republic
                                     Time limit for the submission of tenders (date/time)
                          1                   2                                     3
                     Number of             Quantity            Amount of export refund in national currency
                       tender             in tonnes                             per tonne
                          1
                          2
                          3         II
                         4          llI
                          5         ll\
                        etc.