CELEX: 32000R1978
Language: en
Date: 2000-09-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1978/2000 of 19 September 2000 amending Regulation (EC) No 2198/98 increasing to 8 515 422 tonnes the quantity of barley held by the German intervention agency for which a standing invitation to tender for export has been opened

L 236/10               EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                     20.9.2000
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1978/2000
                                                         of 19 September 2000
               amending Regulation (EC) No 2198/98 increasing to 8 515 422 tonnes the quantity of barley held
               by the German intervention agency for which a standing invitation to tender for export has been
                                                                   opened
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                      store. Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 2198/98 must
                                                                                 therefore be amended.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                               (4)     The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
                                                                                 accordance with the opinion of the Management
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 of 30
                                                                                 Committee for Cereals,
June 1992 on the common organisation of the market in
cereals (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1666/
2000 (2), and in particular Article 5 thereof,
                                                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas:
(1)     Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93 (3), as last                                           Article 1
        amended by Regulation (EC) No 1630/2000 (4), lays                Regulation (EC) No 2198/98 is hereby amended as follows:
        down the procedures and conditions for the disposal of
        cereals held by the intervention agencies.                       1. Article 2 is replaced by the following:
(2)     Commission Regulation (EC) No 2198/98 (5), as last                   ‘Article 2
        amended by Regulation (EC) No 1580/2000 (6), opened
                                                                             1.     The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum of
        a standing invitation to tender for the export of
                                                                             8 515 422 tonnes of barley for export to third countries,
        8 050 021 tonnes of barley held by the German inter-
                                                                             with the exception of the United States of America, Canada
        vention agency. Germany informed the Commission of
                                                                             and Mexico.
        the intention of its intervention agency to increase by
        465 401 tonnes the quantity for which a standing invi-               2.     The regions in which the 8 515 422 tonnes of barley
        tation to tender for export has been opened. The total               are stored are stated in Annex I to this Regulation.’
        quantity of barley held by the German intervention
        agency for which a standing invitation to tender for             2. Annex I is replaced by the Annex hereto.
        export has been opened should be increased to
        8 515 422 tonnes.                                                                             Article 2
(3)     This increase in the quantity put out to tender makes it         This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
        necessary to alter the list of regions and quantities in         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 September 2000.
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                         Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                   Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L  181, 1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L  193, 29.7.2000, p. 1.
(3) OJ L  191, 31.7.1993, p. 76.
(4) OJ L  187, 26.7.2000, p. 24.
(5) OJ L  277, 14.10.1998, p. 9.
(6) OJ L  181, 20.7.2000, p. 43.
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                                                ANNEX
                                              ‘ANNEX I
                                                                       (tonnes)
                               Place of storage               Quantity
             Schleswig-Holstein/Hamburg/Niedersachsen/
             Bremen/Nordrhein-Westfalen                      2 771 729
             Hessen/Rheinland-Pfalz/Baden-Württemberg/
             Saarland/Bayern                                   780 519
             Berlin/Brandenburg/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern       2 033 203
             Sachsen/Sachsen-Anhalt/Thüringen                2 929 971’