CELEX: 31997R2489
Language: en
Date: 1997-12-12 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2489/97 of 12 December 1997 fixing the maximum buying-in price and the quantities of beef to be bought in under the 194th partial invitation to tender as a general intervention measure pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 1627/89

L 343/8                EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                13 . 12. 97
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2489/97
                                                     of 12 December 1997
                  fixing the maximum buying-in price and the quantities of beef to be bought in
                  under the 194th partial invitation to tender as a general intervention measure
                                         pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 1627/89
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        differences in prices and the quantities tendered for,
                                                                   several reducing coefficients should accordingly be
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              applied to the quantities which may be bought in in
Community,                                                         accordance with Article 13 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   2456/93 ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of             Whereas the scale of the quantities awarded warrants the
27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market              application of the possibility provided for in Article 16 (2)
in beef and veal ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC)           of Regulation (EEC) No 2456/93 of extending the period
No 2321 /97 (2), and in particular Article 6 (7) thereof,          during which the intervention products are to be
                                                                   delivered:
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
2456/93 of 1 September 1993 laying down detailed rules
for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
805/68 as regards the general and special intervention             in accordance with the opinion of the Management
measures for beef (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC)          Committee for Beef and Veal,
No 1956/97 (4), an invitation to tender was opened
pursuant to Article 1 (1 ) of Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 1627/89 of 9 June 1989 on the buying in of beef by
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
invitation to tender (5), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 2302/97 (6);
                                                                                             Article 1
Whereas, in accordance with Article 13 ( 1 ) of Regulation
(EEC) No 2456/93, a maximum buying-in price is to be                Under the 194th partial invitation to tender opened
fixed for quality R3, where appropriate, under each partial         pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 1627/89 :
invitation to tender in the light of tenders received;             (a) for category A, it has been decided not to proceed
whereas, in accordance with Article 13 (2) of that Regula­              with the tendering procedure;
tion, a decision may be taken not to proceed with the
tendering procedure; whereas, in accordance with Article           (b) for category C:
 14 of that Regulation , only tenders quoting prices not
                                                                        — the maximum buying-in price shall be ECU 259
exceeding the maximum buying-in price and not                               per 100 kg of carcases or half-carcases of quality
exceeding the average national or regional market price,                    R3 ,
plus the amount referred to in paragraph 1 of that Article,
are to be accepted;                                                     — the maximum quantity of carcases, half-carcases or
                                                                            forequarters accepted shall be 4 374 tonnes,
Whereas, once tenders submitted in respect of the 194th                 — the quantities offered at a price less than or equal
partial invitation to tender have been considered and                       to ECU 259 shall be multiplied by a coefficient of
taking account, pursuant to Article 6 (1 ) of Regulation                    50 % , in accordance with Article 13 (3) of Regula­
(EEC) No 805/68, of the requirements for reasonable                         tion (EEC) No 2456/93 .
support of the market and the seasonal trend in slaugh­
terings and prices, it has been decided not to proceed                                       Article 2
with the tendering procedure for category A and to fix the
maximum buying-in price and the quantities which may                By derogation to Article 16 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
be accepted into intervention for category C;                       2456/93 , the time limit for delivery to intervention stores
                                                                    is extended by one week to 7 January 1998 . However, in
Whereas the quantities offered at present exceed the                Member States where no deliveries may be made during
quantities which may be bought in; whereas a reducing               the period 24 December 1997 to 2 January 1998 or
coefficient or, where appropriate, depending on the                 during part thereof, the time limit for delivery shall be
                                                                    extended by the corresponding number of days.
 ') OJ  L 148, 28 . 6. 1968, p. 24.
 2) OJ  L 322, 25. 11 . 1997, p. 25.                                                         Article 3
 3) OJ  L 225, 4. 9. 1993, p. 4.
 *) OJ  L 276, 9. 10. 1997, p. 34.
 s) OJ  L 159, 10. 6. 1989, p. 36.                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 December
 6  OJ  L 319, 21 . 11 . 1997, p. 10 .                              1997 .
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            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