CELEX: 31999R2178
Language: en
Date: 1999-10-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2178/1999 of 14 October 1999 opening an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled medium grain and long grain A rice to certain European third countries

L 267/10                EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                    15. 10. 1999
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2178/1999
                                                            of 14 October 1999
                opening an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled medium grain and long
                                          grain A rice to certain European third countries
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                                                             Article 1
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of 22                 1.     An invitation to tender is hereby opened, for the refund
December 1995 on the common organisation of the market in                 on export of wholly milled medium grain and long grain A rice
rice (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2072/98 (2), and          to Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and
in particular Article 13(3) thereof,                                      Slovenia.
Whereas:                                                                  2.     The invitation to tender referred to in paragraph 1 shall
                                                                          be open until 29 June 2000. During that period weekly invita-
(1)      Examination of the balance sheet shows that exportable           tions to tender shall be issued and the date for submission of
         amounts of rice are currently held by producers. This            tenders shall be determined in the notice of invitation to
         situation could affect the normal development of                 tender.
         producer prices during the 1999/2000 marketing year.
                                                                          3.     The invitation to tender shall take place in accordance
(2)      In order to remedy this situation, it is appropriate to          with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 584/75 and with
         make use of export refunds to zones which may be                 the following provisions.
         supplied by the Community. The special situation of the
         rice market makes it necessary to limit the refunds, and
         therefore to apply Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No                                           Article 2
         3072/95 enabling the refund amount to be fixed by
         tendering procedure.                                             A tender shall be admissible only if it covers a quantity for
                                                                          export of at least 50 tonnes but not more than 3 000 tonnes.
(3)      It should be stated that the provisions of Commission
         Regulation (EEC) No 584/75 of 6 March 1975 laying
         down detailed rules for the application of the system of                                      Article 3
         tendering for export refunds on rice (3), as last amended
         by Regulation (EC) No 299/95 (4), apply to this invita-          The security referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No
         tion to tender.                                                  584/75 shall be EUR 30 per tonne.
(4)      In order to avoid disturbances on the markets of the
         producing countries, the invitation to tender should be                                       Article 4
         limited to certain countries.
                                                                          1.     Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21(1) of
(5)      Pursuant to Article 14 of Commission Regulation (EC)             Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 (7), export licences
         No 2808/98 of 22 December 1998 laying down detailed              issued under this invitation to tender shall, for the purposes of
         rules for the application of the agrimonetary system for         determining their period of validity, be considered as having
         the euro in agriculture (5), as amended by Regulation            been issued on the day the tender was submitted.
         (EC) No 1410/1999 (6), amounts quoted in tenders
         submitted in response to invitations to tender organised         2.     The licences shall be valid from their date of issue, within
         under an instrument forming part of the common agri-             the meaning of paragraph 1, until the end of the fourth month
         cultural policy must be expressed in euro. Article 5(1) of       following that date.
         that Regulation provides that in such cases the operative
         event for the agricultural exchange rate is the final day
         for the submission of tenders. Paragraphs 3 and 4 of                                          Article 5
         that Article specify the operative events applicable to
         advances and securities.                                         Tenders submitted must reach the Commission through the
                                                                          Member States not later than one and a half hours after expiry
(6)      The measures provided for in this Regulation are in              of the deadline for weekly submission of tenders as laid down
         accordance with the opinion of the Management                    in the notice of invitation to tender. They must be transmitted
         Committee for Cereals,                                           in accordance with the table given in the Annex.
(1) OJ  L  329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.                                        If no tenders are submitted, the Member States shall inform the
(2) OJ  L  265, 30.9.1998, p. 4.                                          Commission accordingly within the same deadline as that given
(3) OJ  L  61, 7.3.1975, p. 25.                                           in the above subparagraph.
(4) OJ  L  35, 15.2.1995, p. 8.
(5) OJ  L  349, 24.12.1998, p. 36.
(6) OJ  L  164, 30.6.1999, p. 53.                                         (7) OJ L 331, 2.12.1988, p. 1.
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                             Article 6                                                               Article 8
The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian time.
                                                                         The deadline for submission of tenders for the first partial
                             Article 7                                   invitation to tender shall be 10 a.m. on 28 October 1999.
1.    On the basis of tenders submitted, the Commission shall
decide in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article           The final date for submission of tenders is hereby fixed at 29
22 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95:                                        June 2000.
— either to fix a maximum export refund, taking account of
    the criteria laid down in Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No
    3072/95,                                                                                         Article 9
— or not to take any action on the tenders.
2.    Where a maximum export refund is fixed, an award shall             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
be made to the tenderer or tenderers whose tenders are at or             following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
below the maximum export refund level.                                   Communities.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 14 October 1999.
                                                                                     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 medium grain and long grain A rice to
                                                certain European 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 euro per tonne)
                      1
                      2
                      3
                      4
                      5
                     etc.