CELEX: 32000R2318
Language: en
Date: 2000-10-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2318/2000 of 19 October 2000 opening tendering procedure No 38/2000 EC for the sale of wine alcohol for new industrial uses

L 267/26               EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                    20.10.2000
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2318/2000
                                                          of 19 October 2000
               opening tendering procedure No 38/2000 EC for the sale of wine alcohol for new industrial uses
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 1493/1999 of 17              Tendering procedure No 38/2000 EC is hereby opened for the
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in                     sale of wine alcohol for new industrial uses. The alcohol
wine (1), as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1622/              concerned has been produced from distillation under Articles
2000 (2),                                                                35 and 36 of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 and is held by the
                                                                         French intervention agency.
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000
                                                                         The volume put up for sale is 100 000 hectolitres of alcohol at
of 25 July 2000 laying down detailed rules for implementing
                                                                         100 % vol. The vat numbers, places of storage and the volume
Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation
                                                                         of alcohol at 100 % vol contained in each vat are detailed in
of the market in wine with regard to market mechanisms (3),
                                                                         the Annex hereto.
and in particular Article 80 thereof,
Whereas:
                                                                                                     Article 2
(1)     Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 lays down, inter alia, the          The sale shall be conducted in accordance with Articles 79, 81,
        detailed rules for disposing of stocks of alcohol arising        82, 83, 84, 85, 95, 96, 97, 100 and 101 of Regulation (EC) No
        from distillation under Articles 27, 28 and 30 of Regula-        1623/2000 and Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 2799/98.
        tion (EC) No 1493/1999 held by intervention agencies.
(2)     Tendering procedures should be organised for the sale of                                     Article 3
        wine alcohol for new industrial uses with a view to
        reducing the stocks of wine alcohol in the Community
        and enabling small-scale industrial projects to be carried       Tenders must be submitted to the intervention agency holding
        out and such alcohol to be processed into goods                  the alcohol concerned:
        intended for export for industrial uses. The wine alcohol
        of Community origin in storage in the Member States              Onivins-Libourne, Délégation nationale, 17 avenue de la Ballas-
        consists of quantities produced from distillation under          tière, boîte postale 231, F-33505 Libourne Cedex (tel. (33)
        Articles 35, 36 and 39 of Council Regulation (EEC) No            557 55 20 00; telex 57 20 25; fax (33) 557 55 20 59) or sent
        822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organisation               by registered mail to that address.
        of the market in wine (4), as last amended by Regulation
        (EC) No 1677/1999 (5).                                           Tenders shall be submitted in a sealed double envelope, the
                                                                         inside envelope marked: ‘Tender under procedure No 38/2000
                                                                         EC for new industrial uses’, the outer envelope bearing the
(3)     Since the adoption of Council Regulation (EC) No 2799/           address of the intervention agency concerned.
        98 of 15 December 1998 establishing agrimonetary
        arrangements for the euro (6), the prices offered in             Tenders must reach the intervention agency concerned not
        tenders and securities must be expressed in euros and            later than 12 noon Brussels time on 6 November 2000.
        payments must be made in euro.
                                                                         All tenders must be accompanied by proof that a tendering
                                                                         security of EUR 4 per hectolitre of alcohol at 100 % vol has
(4)     Minimum prices should be fixed for the submission of             been lodged with the intervention agency concerned.
        tenders, broken down according to the type of end use.
(5)     The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
        accordance with the opinion of the Management                                                Article 4
        Committee for Wine,
                                                                         The minimum prices which may be offered are EUR 7,5 per
(1) OJ L  179, 14.7.1999, p. 1.                                          hectolitre of alcohol at 100 % vol intended for the manufacture
(2) OJ L  194, 31.7.2000, p. 1.                                          of baker's yeast, EUR 7,5 per hectolitre of alcohol at 100 % vol
(3) OJ L  194, 31.7.2000, p. 45.                                         intended for the manufacture of amine- and chloral-type chem-
(4) OJ L  84, 27.3.1987, p. 1.
(5) OJ L  199, 30.7.1999, p. 8.                                          ical products for export and EUR 7,5 per hectolitre of alcohol
(6) OJ L  349, 24.12.1998, p. 1.                                         at 100 % vol intended for other industrial uses.
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                            Article 5                                                                    Article 6
                                                                           The performance guarantee shall be EUR 30 per hectolitre of
The formalities for sampling shall be as set out in Article 98 of          alcohol at 100 % vol.
Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000. The price of samples shall be
EUR 10 per litre.
                                                                                                         Article 7
The intervention agency shall provide all the necessary infor-             This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
mation on the characteristics of the alcohol put up for sale.              tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                    Done at Brussels, 19 October 2000.
                                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                                            Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                       Member of the Commission
                                                                    ANNEX
             INVITATION TO TENDER No 38/2000 EC FOR THE SALE OF ALCOHOL FOR NEW INDUSTRIAL USES
                             Place of storage, volume and characteristics of the alcohol put up for sale
                                                                         volume in
                                                                        hectolitres of    Regulation                  Alcoholic
               Member State           Location               Vat No      alcohol at         (EEC)     Type of alcohol strength
                                                                            100 %         No 822/87                    (% vol.)
                                                                             vol.
             France         Port-la-Nouvelle                  24           12 840             36           raw        + 92 %
                            Av. Adolphe-Turrel
                            BP 62
                            F-11210 Port-la-Nouvelle
                            Longuefuye                          1          22 330             35           raw        + 92 %
                            F-53200 Longuefuye                  2          22 400             35           raw        + 92 %
                                                                7          22 320             36           raw        + 92 %
                                                              10           20 110             36           raw        + 92 %
                                                Total                    100 000