CELEX: 32000R0272
Language: en
Date: 2000-02-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 272/2000 of 3 February 2000 fixing the maximum reduction in the duty on sorghum imported in connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2774/1999

4. 2. 2000              EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                       L 29/17
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 272/2000
                                                            of 3 February 2000
               fixing the maximum reduction in the duty on sorghum imported in connection with the invitation
                                        to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2774/1999
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                     is awarded to any tenderer whose tender is equal to or
                                                                                less than the maximum reduction in the duty;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                                (3)   the application of the abovementioned criteria to the
                                                                                current market situation for the cereal in question results
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 of 30                      in the maximum reduction in the import duty being
June 1992 on the common organisation of the market in                           fixed at the amount specified in Article 1;
cereals (1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC)                (4)   the measures provided for in this Regulation are in
No 1253/1999 (2), and in particular Article 12(1) thereof,                      accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                                Committee for Cereals,
Whereas:
(1)     an invitation to tender for the maximum reduction in              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
        the duty on sorghum imported into Spain was opened
        pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2774/
        1999 (3);                                                                                     Article 1
                                                                          For tenders notified from 28 January to 3 February 2000,
(2)     pursuant to Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EC) No            pursuant to the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC)
        1839/95 (4), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1963/               No 2774/1999, the maximum reduction in the duty on
        95 (5), the Commission, acting under the procedure laid           sorghum imported shall be EUR/t 52,88 and be valid for a
        down in Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92,                total maximum quantity of 10 000 t.
        may decide to fix a maximum reduction in the import
        duty; whereas in fixing this maximum the criteria                                             Article 2
        provided for in Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation (EC) No
        1839/95 must be taken into account; whereas a contract            This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 February 2000.
                       This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                       Done at Brussels, 3 February 2000.
                                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                                        Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                  Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L  181,  1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L  160,  26.6.1999, p. 18.
(3) OJ L  334,  28.12.1999, p. 5.
(4) OJ L  177,  28.7.1995, p. 4.
(5) OJ L  189,  10.7.1995, p. 22.