CELEX: 31997R2485
Language: en
Date: 1997-12-12
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2485/97 of 12 December 1997 fixing the maximum export refund on wholly milled medium grain and long grain A rice in connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2096/97

L 343 /4              EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                13 . 12. 97
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2485/97
                                                      of 12 December 1997
                  fixing the maximum export refund on wholly milled medium grain and long
                 grain A rice in connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC)
                                                            No 2096/97
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        results in the maximum export refund being fixed at the
                                                                   amount specified in Article 1 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                         Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of             in accordance with the opinion of the Management
22 December 1995 on the common organization of the                 Committee for Cereals,
market in rice ('), and in particular Article 1 3 (3) thereof,
Whereas an invitation to tender for the export refund on
rice was issued pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC)             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
No 2096/97 (2);
Whereas Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                                         Article 1
584/75 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
299/95 (4), allows the Commission to fix, in accordance            The maximum export refund on wholly milled medium
with the procedure laid down in Article 22 of Regulation           grain and long grain A rice to be exported to certain third
(EC) No 3072/95 and on the basis of the tenders                    countries pursuant to the invitation to tender issued in
submitted, a maximum export refund; whereas in fixing              Regulation (EC) No 2096/97 is hereby fixed on the basis
this maximum, the criteria provided for in Article 13 of           of the tenders submitted from 8 to 11 December 1997 at
Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 must be taken into account;             ECU 168 per tonne .
whereas a contract is awarded to any tenderer whose
tender is equal to or less than the maximum export
                                                                                            Article 2
refund;
Whereas the application of the abovementioned criteria to          This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 December
the current market situation for the rice in question              1997 .
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Brussels, 12 December 1997.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                Franz FISCHLER
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(') OJ L 329, 30 . 12. 1995, p. 18 .
(2) OJ L 292, 25. 10 . 1997, p. 19 .
0 OJ L 61 , 7. 3 . 1975, p. 25.
b) OJ L 35, 15. 2. 1995, p. 8.