CELEX: 31979R2292
Language: en
Date: 1979-10-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2292/79 of 16 October 1979 on an invitation to tender for the refund for the export of common wheat to the People's Republic of China

No L 263/ 12                          Official Journal of the European Communities                              19 . 10 . 79
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2292/79
                                                    of 16 October 1979
              on an invitation to tender for the refund for the export of common wheat to the
                                                People's Republic of China
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,
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in cereals (*), as last amended by
                                                                                           Article 1
Regulation (EEC) No 1 547/79 (2),
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
                                                                 2746/75.
rules for granting export refunds on cereals and
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 the People's Republic of China.
Whereas there is an exportable surplus of common
wheat on the Community market ; whereas, so that it              3 . The invitation shall remain open until 31
can be exported under the most favourable conditions,            January 1980 . During this period weekly awards shall
an invitation to tender for the export refund should be          be made, the time limits for the submission of tenders
opened ; whereas, for the sake of better control over            to be as prescribed in the notice of invitation to
                                                                 tender.
the refund amount to be granted and the quantities to
be exported, the invitation to tender should be
restricted to exports to the People's Republic of
China ;                                                                                    Article 2
Whereas detailed rules for the application of the                A tender shall be valid only if it relates to an amount
                                                                 of not less than 1 000 tonnes .
system of tendering for fixing export refunds have
been adopted in Commission Regulation (EEC) No
 279/75 (4), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 2944/78 (5) ; whereas among the obligations of                                            Article 3
 tenderers is that of lodging an application for an
 export licence ; whereas compliance with this obliga­           The tendering security referred to in Article 3 of Regu­
 tion may be ensured by requiring tenderers to lodge a            lation (EEC) No 279/75 shall be 12 ECU per tonne.
 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 ncessary 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 and the time limit and                the day on which the tender was submitted.
  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
 (A OJ No L 188, 26. 7. 1979, p. 1 .                              end of the seventh 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.                         (6) OJ No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 10.
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                            Article 5                              — brought forward by one hour in Ireland and the
The tenders submitted must reach the Commission
                                                                       United Kingdom during the period in which
                                                                       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 inform
the Commission of this 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, 16 October 1979 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                   Vice-President
                                                           ANNEX
             Weekly tender for the refund for the export of common wheat to the People 's Republic
                                                           of China
                                      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
                         4
                          5
                        etc.