CELEX: 32000R2281
Language: en
Date: 2000-10-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2281/2000 of 13 October 2000 on an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled round grain rice to certain third countries

14.10.2000              EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                          L 260/7
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2281/2000
                                                            of 13 October 2000
                on an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled round grain rice to certain
                                                               third countries
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                       for the submission of tenders; Paragraphs 3 and 4 of
                                                                                  that Article specify the operative events applicable to
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                             advances and securities.
Community,
                                                                          (6)     The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of 22                         accordance with the opinion of the Management
December 1995 on the common organisation of the market in                         Committee for Cereals,
rice (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1667/2000 (2),
and in particular Article 13(3) thereof,
                                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas:
(1)      Examination of the balance sheet shows that exportable
                                                                                                       Article 1
         amounts of rice are currently held by producers. This
         situation could affect the normal development of
         producer prices during the 2000/01 marketing year.               1.     An invitation to tender is opened for the refund on
                                                                          export of wholly milled round grain rice falling within CN
                                                                          codes 1006 30 61 and 1006 30 92, referred to in Article 13 of
(2)      In order to remedy this situation, it is appropriate to          Regulation (EC) No 3072/95, for Zones I to VI (except for
         make use of export refunds to zones which may be                 Turkey and Hungary) and for Zone VIII (except for Guyana,
         supplied by the Community. The special situation of the          Madagascar and Surinam), as specified in the Annex to Regula-
         rice market makes it necessary to limit the quantities of        tion (EEC) No 2145/92.
         rice benefiting from the refunds, and therefore to apply
         Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 enabling the            2.     The invitation to tender shall be open until 28 June
         amount of refund to be fixed by tendering procedure.             2001. During that period weekly invitations to tender shall be
                                                                          issued and the date for submission of tenders shall be deter-
(3)      It should be stated that the provisions of Commission            mined in the notice of invitation to tender.
         Regulation (EEC) No 584/75 of 6 March 1975 laying
         down detailed rules for the application of the system of         3.     The invitation to tender shall take place in accordance
         tendering for export refunds on rice (3), as last amended        with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 584/75 and with
         by Regulation (EC) No 299/95 (4), apply to this invita-          the following provisions.
         tion to tender.
(4)      In order to avoid disturbances on the markets of the                                          Article 2
         producing countries, the markets of destination should
         be limited to Zones I to VI, excluding Turkey and                A tender shall be admissible only if it covers a quantity for
         Hungary, and Zone VIII, excluding Guyana, Madagascar             export of at least 50 tonnes but not more than 3 000 tonnes.
         and Surinam, noted in the Annex to Commission Regu-
         lation (EEC) No 2145/92 (5), as amended by Regulation
         (EC) No 3304/94 (6).                                                                          Article 3
(5)      Pursuant to Article 14 of Commission Regulation (EC)             The security referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No
         No 2808/98 of 22 December 1998 laying down detailed              584/75 shall be EUR 30 per tonne.
         rules for the application of the agrimonetary system for
         the euro in agriculture (7), as amended by Regulation
         (EC) No 1410/1999 (8), amounts quoted in tenders                                              Article 4
         submitted in response to invitations to tender organised
         under an instrument forming part of the common agri-             1.     Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 23(1) of
         cultural policy must be expressed in euro; Article 5(1) of       Commission Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 (9), export licences
         that Regulation provides that in such cases the operative        issued within this invitation to tender shall, for the purposes of
         event for the agricultural exchange rate is the final day        determining their period of validity, be considered as having
                                                                          been issued on the day the tender was submitted.
(1) OJ  L  329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ  L  193, 29.7.2000, p. 3.
(3) OJ  L  61, 7.3.1975, p. 25.                                           2.     The licences shall be valid from their date of issue, within
(4) OJ  L  35, 15.2.1995, p. 8.                                           the meaning of paragraph 1, until the end of the fourth month
(5) OJ  L  214, 30.7.1992, p. 20.                                         following.
(6) OJ  L  341, 30.12.1994, p. 48.
(7) OJ  L  349, 24.12.1998, p. 36.
(8) OJ  L  164, 30.6.1999, p. 53.                                         (9) OJ L 152, 24.6.2000, p. 1.
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                             Article 5                                  — either to fix a maximum export refund, taking account of
                                                                            the criteria laid down in Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No
Tenders submitted must reach the Commission through the                     3072/95,
Member States not later than one and a half hours after expiry          — or not to take any action on the tenders.
of the time limit for weekly submission of tenders as laid down
in the notice of invitation to tender. They must be transmitted         2.    Where a maximum export refund is fixed, an award shall
in accordance with the table given in the Annex.                        be made to the tenderer or tenderers whose tenders are at or
                                                                        below the maximum export refund level.
If no tenders are submitted, the Member States shall inform the
Commission accordingly within the same time limit as that                                            Article 8
given in the above subparagraph.
                                                                        The time limit for submission of tenders for the first partial
                                                                        invitation to tender shall expire on 26 October 2000 at 10
                             Article 6                                  a.m.
The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian time.              The final date for submission of tenders is hereby fixed at 28
                                                                        June 2001.
                             Article 7                                                               Article 9
1.    On the basis of tenders submitted, the Commission shall           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
decide in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article          following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
22 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95:                                       Communities.
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                     Done at Brussels, 13 October 2000.
                                                                                     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 rice to certain third countries
                                        (Closing date for the submission of tenders (date/time))
                        1                          2                                          3
                 Serial number                 Quantities                          Amount of export refund
                  of tenderers                 in tonnes                              in euro per tonne
                        1
                        2
                        3
                        4
                        5
                       etc.