CELEX: 31998R2748
Language: en
Date: 1998-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2748/98 of 18 December 1998 fixing the maximum export refund on wholly milled medium round grain and long grain a rice in connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2565/98

19. 12. 98             EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                               L 345/15
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2748/98
                                                   of 18 December 1998
                   fixing the maximum export refund on wholly milled medium round grain and
                   long grain A rice in connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation
                                                      (EC) No 2565/98
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Whereas the application of the abovementioned criteria
                                                                   to the current market situation for the rice in question
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              results in the maximum export refund being fixed at the
Community,                                                         amount specified in Article 1;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of             Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
22 December 1995 on the common organisation of the                 in accordance with the opinion of the Management
market in rice (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No          Committee for Cereals,
2072/98 (2), and in particular Article 13(3) thereof,
Whereas an invitation to tender for the export refund on           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
rice was issued pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC)
No 2565/98 (3);                                                                            Article 1
Whereas Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                The maximum export refund on wholly milled medium
584/75 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 299/             round grain and long grain A rice to be exported to
95 (5), allows the Commission to fix, in accordance with           certain third countries of Europe pursuant to the invita-
the procedure laid down in Article 22 of Regulation (EC)           tion to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2565/98 is
No 3072/95 and on the basis of the tenders submitted, a            hereby fixed on the basis of the tenders submitted from
maximum export refund; whereas in fixing this                      14 to 17 December 1998 at ECU 104,00 per tonne.
maximum, the criteria provided for in Article 13 of Regu-
lation (EC) No 3072/95 must be taken into account;                                         Article 2
whereas a contract is awarded to any tenderer whose
tender is equal to or less than the maximum export                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 December
refund;                                                            1998.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 18 December 1998.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                Franz FISCHLER
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(1) OJ  L  329, 30. 12. 1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ  L  265, 30. 9. 1998, p. 4.
(3) OJ  L  320, 28. 11. 1998, p. 46.
(4) OJ  L  61, 7. 3. 1975, p. 25.
(5) OJ  L  35, 15. 2. 1995, p. 8.