CELEX: 31981R0533
Language: en
Date: 1981-02-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 533/81 of 26 February 1981 opening an invitation to tender for the sale for export of baled tobacco held by the Italian intervention agency

No L 54/58                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                28 . 2. 81
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 533/81
                                                   of 26 February 1981
               opening an invitation to tender for the sale for export of baled tobacco held by
                                             the Italian intervention agency
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  intervention agency, of a total weight of 5 151 994
 COMMUNITIES,                                                    kilograms divided by varieties as shown in the Annex
                                                                 hereto, shall be sold for export.
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                            Article 2
 727/70 of 21 April 1970 on the common organization
 of the market in raw tobacco (J), as last amended by           The sale shall take place in accordance with the
 the Act of Accession of Greece, and in particular Arti­         tendering procedure provided for in Regulation (EEC)
 cles 7 (4) and 9 (5) thereof,                                   No 3389/73 .
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3389/73
 of 13 December 1973 (2), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                                         Article 3
 tion (EEC) No 313/79 (3), lays down the procedure
 and conditions for the sale of tobacco held by inter­
 vention agencies ;                                             The deadline for the submission of tenders at the
                                                                 headquarters of the Commission of the European
 Whereas, on account of the problems caused by the               Communities shall be at 1 p.m. local time on 23 April
 storage of baled tobacco, and in particular the costs of        1981 .
 storage, and in view of the quantities of tobacco avail­
 able on the internal Community market, an invitation
 to tender should be opened for the sale of the tobacco                                  Article 4
 in lots ; whereas this tobacco should be intended for
 export without refund ;
                                                                The closing date referred to in Article 9 ( 1 ) of Regula­
 Whereas, in view of the size of Lot 1 and of the fact          tion (EEC) No 3389/73 for removal of the tobacco by
 that payment of the total amount of this lot is made           the successful tenderer shall be as follows :
 before the tobacco is removed, it should be specified
                                                                — in the case of Lot 1 :
 that, at the request of the successful tenderer, the
 security should be released at the same rate as the
                                                                     (a) at the end of the sixth month following the
 quantities of tobacco removed are being exported ;                      date of the publication of the result of the
 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3389/73 fixed the                           tendering procedure in the Official Journal of
 amount of the security which must accompany any                         the European Communities, in respect of at
 tender at a level which discourages re-import of the                    least one third of the lot ;
 tobacco into the Community ; whereas, in the case of                (b) at the end of the ninth month following the
 the Sumatra I variety, the amount thus fixed is insuffi­                said date for the remaining tobacco ;
 cient to serve that purpose ; whereas, therefore, it is
 convenient that a higher amount should exceptionally           — in the case of Lots 2, 3 and 4 on the 60th day
 be fixed for the security relating to the lot composed              following that of the publication of the result of
 of tobacco of that variety ;                                        the tendering procedure in the Official Journal of
                                                                     the European Communities.
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 ment Committee for Tobacco,
                                                                                         Article 5
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                  1.     The security specified in Article 5 of Regulation
                                                                (EEC) No 3389/73 must be lodged with the Azienda
                         Article 1                              di Stato per gli interventi nel mercato agricolo,
                                                                sezione specializzata per il tabacco (AIMA), via Duccio
 Four lots of baled raw tobacco from the 1974, 1975,            Galimberti 47, 00136 I-Roma.
 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979 crops, held by the Italian
                                                                By way of derogation from Article 5 ( 1 ) of Regulation
(') OJ No L 94, 28 . 4. 1970, p. 1 .                            (EEC) No 3389/73, the amount of the security shall
(2) OJ No L 345, 15. 12. 1973, p. 47.                           be fixed, for the lot of tobacco of the Sumatra I
(3) OJ No L 43, 20. 2. 1979, p. 5.                              variety, at 0-71.8 ECU per kilogram .
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2.    The Commission shall inform the relevant inter­       ments in proportion to the quantities of tobacco in
vention agency forthwith of the result of the sale by       respect of which the proofs referred to in Article 7 (c)
tender. The agency shall immediately release the            of this Regulation have been provided.
securities of tenderers whose tenders were inadmis­
sible or who were unsuccessful .
The securities of the successful tenderer or tenderers                               Article 6
shall be released once the conditions laid down in
Article 7 (c) of that Regulation have been fulfilled.
                                                            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
3. In the case of Lot 1 , and on application by the         following its publication in the Official Journal of
person concerned, the security is released by instal­       the European Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 26 February 1981 .
                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                       Poul DALSAGER
                                                                 Member of the Commission
                                                      ANNEX
                                         Varieties          Harvest
                                                                           Weight
                                                                         (kilograms)
                              Beneventano                    1974          98 9 284
                                                             1975        2 444 342
                              Sumatra I                      1976             6 072
                                                             1979            33 864
                              Burley I                       1977          262 451
                                                             1978          645 833
                              Forchheimer Havanna            1978          574 773
                              Badischer Geudertheimer        1978           195 375
                                                   Total                 5 151 994