CELEX: 31991R2845
Language: en
Date: 1991-09-28
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2845/91 of 27 September 1991 opening an invitation tender for the refund on export of wholly milled medium grain and long grain A rice to certain third countries

No L 272/56                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                 28 . 9 . 91
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2845/91
                                                   of 27 September 1991
                 opening an invitation tender for the refund on export of wholly milled medium
                                grain and long grain A rice to certain third countries
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                     2.    The invitation to tender shall be open until 1 8 June
                                                                 1992. During that period weekly invitations to tender
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          shall be issued and the date for submission of tenders
  Economic Community,                                            shall be determined in the notice of invitation to tender.
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76            3. The invitation to tender shall take place in accord­
 of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the               ance with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 584/75
 market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)         and with the following provisions.
 No 1806/89 (2), and in particular Article 17 thereof,
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1431 /76
  of 21 June 1976 laying dwn general rules for granting                                    Article 2
 export refunds on rice and criteria for fixing the amount
 of such refunds (3), and in particular Article 4 thereof,
                                                                 A tender shall be valid only if it covers a quantity for
 Whereas examination of the balance sheet shows that             export of at least 50 tonnes but not more than 5 000
                                                                 tonnes .
 exportable amounts of rice are currently held by pro­
 ducers ; whereas this situation could affect the normal
 development of producer prices during the 1991 /92                                        Article 3
 marketing year ;
                                                                 The security referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
 Whereas, in order to remedy this situation, it is appro­        No 584/75 shall be ECU 20 per tonne.
 priate to make use of export refunds to zones which may
 be supplied by the Community ; whereas the special situ­
 ation of the rice market makes it necessary to limit the                                  Article 4
 refunds, and therefore to apply Article 4 of Regulation
 (EEC) No 1431 /76 enabling the refund amount to be              1 . Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21 (1 ) of
 fixed by tendering procedure ;                                  Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 (®), export
                                                                 licences issued within this invitation to tender shall, for
 Whereas it should be stated that the provisions of              the purposes of determining their period of validity, be
 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 584/75 of 6 March                considered as having been issued on the day the tender
 1975 laying down detailed rules for the application of the      was submitted.
 system of tendering for export refunds on rice (4), as last
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 409/90 (*), apply to this        2.    The licences shall be valid from their date of issue,
 invitation to tender ;                                          within the meaning of paragraph 1 , until the end of the
                                                                 third month following.
 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
 in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                                          Article 5
 Committee for Cereals,
                                                                Tenders submitted must reach the Commission through
                                                                 the Member States not later than one and a half hours
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                  after expiry of the time limit for weekly submission of
                                                                 tenders as laid down in the notice of invitation to tender.
                                                                They must be transmitted in accordance with the table
                          Article 1                             given in the Annex.
                                                                If no tenders are submitted, the Member States shall
 1 . An invitation to tender is hereby opened, for the          inform the Commission accordingly within the same time
export refund referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC)      limit as that given in the above subparagraph.
No 1431 /76, for Zones II (a) and III as specified in Annex
I to Regulation (EEC) No 1124/77.
                                                                                          Article 6
O OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 177, 24. 6. 1989, p. 1 .                              The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian time.
(j OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 36.
(4) OJ Nó L 61 , 7. 3. 1975, p. 25.
Is) OJ No L 43, 17. 2. 1990, p. 21 .                            (<) OJ No L 331 , 2. 12. 1988, p. 1 .
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                                Article 7                                                           Article 8
1.     On the basis of tenders submitted, the Commission                 The time limit for submission of tenders for the first
shall decide in accordance with the procedure laid down                  partial invitation to tender shall be 10 a.m. (Belgian time)
in Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 :                           on 10 October 1991 .
— either to fix a maximum export refund, taking account                  The final date for submission of tenders is hereby fixed at
     of the criteria laid down in Articles 2 and 3 of Regula­            18 June 1992.
     tion (EEC) No 1431 /76,
— or not to take any action on the tenders.                                                         Article 9
2.     Where a maximum export refund is fixed, an award                  This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
shall be made to the tenderer or tenderers whose tenders                 following its publication in the Official Journal of the
are at or below the maximum export refund level.                         European Communities.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 27 September 1991 .
                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                     Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                              Member of the Commission
                                                                ANNEX
                 Weekly invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled medium grain and
                                            long grain A rice to certain third countries
                                         (Closing date for the submission of tenders (date/time))
                              1                   2                                     3
                      Serial number          Quantities                     Amount of export refund
                        of tenders            in tonnes                         in ecu per tonne
                              1
                             2
                             3
                             4
                             5
                            etc.