CELEX: 31985R1278
Language: en
Date: 1985-05-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1278/85 of 20 May 1985 opening an invitation to tender for the sale for export of baled tobacco held by the Italian intervention agency

21 . 5. 85                             Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 132/9
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1278/85
                                                       of 20 May 1985
               opening an invitation to tender for the sale for export of baled tobacco held by
                                              the Italian intervention agency
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                                            Article 3
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                 The deadline for the submission of tenders at the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            headquarters of the Commission of the European
Economic Community,                                              Communities shall -be at 12 noon, local time, on 19
                                                                 July 1985.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 727/70
of 21 April 1970 on the common organization of the
market in raw tobacco ('), as last amended by Regula­                                     Article 4
tion (EEC) No 1461 /82 (2), and in particular Article 7
(4) thereof,                                                     The closing date referred to in Article 9 (1 ) of Regula­
                                                                 tion (EEC) No 3389/73 for removal of the tobacco by
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No                           the successful tenderer shall be :
3389/73 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
313/79 (4), lays down the procedure and conditions for           (a) at the end of the fourth month following the date
the sale of tobacco held by intervention agencies ;                   of publication of the result of the tendering proce­
                                                                      dure in the Official Journal of the European
Whereas, on account of the problems caused by the                     Communities, in respect of at least one-third of the
storage of baled tobacco, and in particular the costs of              lots ;
storage, an invitation to tender should be opened for            (b) at the end of the sixth month following the said
the sale of the tobacco in lots ; whereas this tobacco                date for the remaining tobacco.
should be intended for export, without refund ;
Whereas payment for all these lots is made before the                                     Article 5
tobacco is removed ; whereas it should be provided
that, at the request of the successful tenderer, the secu­       1 . The security specified in Article 5 of Regulation
rity should be released progressively as the quantities          (EEC) No 3389/73 must be lodged with and by the
of tobacco are exported ;                                        Azienda di Stato per gli interventi nel mercato agri­
                                                                 colo, sezione specializzata per il tabacco (AIMA), via
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation             Duccio Galimberti 47, 00136 I-Roma.
are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Committee for Tobacco,                                           2.     The Commission shall inform the relevant inter­
                                                                 vention agency forthwith of the result of the sale by
                                                                 tender. The agency shall immediately release the secu­
                                                                 rities of tenderers whose tenders were inadmissible or
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                 who were unsuccessful .
                          Article 1                              Save as otherwise provided in the second subparagraph
                                                                 of Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 3389/73, the secu­
Three lots of baled raw tobacco from the 1982 harvest,           rities of the successful tenderer or tenderers shall be
held by the Italian intervention agency, with a total            released once the conditions laid down in Article 7 (c)
weight of 4 137 365 kilograms divided by varieties as            of that Regulation have been fulfilled.
shown in the Annex hereto, shall be sold for export.
                                                                 3. On application by the person concerned, the
                                                                 security shall be released by instalments in proportion
                          Article 2                              to the quantities of tobacco in respect of which the
                                                                 proof referred to in Article 7 (c) of the said Regulation
The sale shall take place in accordance with the                 has been furnished.
tendering procedure provided for in Regulation (EEC)
No 3389/73 .
                                                                                          Article 6
(') OJ  No  L 94, 28 . 4. 1970, p. 1 .                           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 2) OJ  No  L  164, 14. 6. 1982, p. 27.
(3) OJ  No  L 345, 15. 12. 1973, p. 47.                          following its publication in the Official Journal of the
(4) OJ  No  L 43, 20. 2. 1979, p. 5.                             European Communities.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 20 May 1985.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                       Vice-President
                                                   ANNEX
                    Lot                                                           Weight
                    No                 Variety                 Harvest
                                                                                (kilograms)
                     1       Beneventano                        1982                39 600
                             Forchheimer Havanna                1982              962 325
                             Badischer Geudertheimer            1982              416 323
                             Kentucky                           1982              208 012
                          l                                                     1 626 260
                    2        Forchheimer Havanna                1982            1 067 507
                             Badischer Geudertheimer            1982                44 540
                          \                               \                     1 112 047
                    3        Forchheimer Havanna               1982             1 399 058
                                                                 Total          4 137 365