CELEX: 31998R2642
Language: en
Date: 1998-12-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2642/98 of 9 December 1998 amending Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 increasing to 889 230 tonnes the quantity of barley held by the United Kingdom intervention agency for which a standing invitation to tender for export has been opened

L 335/12             EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                10. 12. 98
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2642/98
                                                    of 9 December 1998
                 amending Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 increasing to 889 230 tonnes the quantity
                 of barley held by the United Kingdom intervention agency for which a standing
                                   invitation to tender for export has been opened
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 Cereals,
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92
of 30 June 1992 on the common organisation of the                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
market in cereals (1), as last amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 923/96 (2), and in particular Article 5
thereof,                                                                                    Article 1
                                                                   Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 is hereby amended as
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93 (3),                follows:
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2193/96 (4), lays
down the procedures and conditions for the disposal of             1. Article 2 is replaced by the following:
cereals held by the intervention agencies;
                                                                      ‘Article 2
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 (5), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2205/98 (6), opened                1. The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum
a standing invitation to tender for the export of 597 652             of 889 230 tonnes of barley to be exported to all third
tonnes of barley held by the United Kingdom interven-                 countries with the exception of the United States,
tion agency; whereas, the United Kingdom informed the                 Canada and Mexico.
Commission of the intention of its intervention agency to             2. The regions in which the 889 230 tonnes of
increase by 291 578 tonnes the quantity for which a                   barley are stored are stated in Annex I to this Regula-
standing invitation to tender for export has been opened;             tion.'
whereas the total quantity of barley held by the United
Kingdom intervention agency for which a standing in-               2. Annex I is replaced by the Annex hereto.
vitation to tender for export has been opened should be
increased to 889 230 tonnes;
                                                                                            Article 2
Whereas this increase in the quantity put out to tender
makes it necessary to alter the list of regions and quant-         This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
ities in store; whereas Annex I to Regulation (EC) No              publication in the Official Journal of the European
1759/98 must therefore be amended;                                 Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 9 December 1998.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                 Franz FISCHLER
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 181, 1. 7. 1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 126, 24. 5. 1996, p. 37.
(3) OJ L 191, 31. 7. 1993, p. 76.
(4) OJ L 293, 16. 11. 1996, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 221, 8. 8. 1998, p. 8.
(6) OJ L 278, 15. 10. 1998, p. 14.
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                                             ANNEX
                                           ‘ANNEX I
                                                                   (tonnes)
                             Place of storage             Quantity
              North Humberside                             64 252
              Worcestershire                               50 700
              Lincolnshire                               142 492
              Shropshire                                   40 515
              West Sussex                                  23 661
              York                                         75 135
              Dumfries                                     19 050
              Essex                                         8 760
              Dorset                                       22 436
              Leicestershire                               11 753
              Suffolk                                      20 987
              Northumberland                               10 040
              Strathclyde                                  33 744
              East Lothian                                 45 247
              Norfolk                                      19 633
              Northamptonshire                              9 247
              Berwickshire                                  6 639
              North Lincolnshire                           49 246
              Salisbury                                    45 901
              Gloucester                                   25 314
              Fife                                         10 229
              Keith                                         7 852
              Edinburgh                                    33 570
              Mid Lothian                                  12 074
              Pocklington York                             12 876
              Norwich                                      44 789
              Taunton                                      13 744
              Aberdeenshire                                18 433
              Wiltshire                                    10 911'