CELEX: 31999R0548
Language: en
Date: 1999-03-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 548/1999 of 12 March 1999 fixing the maximum buying-in price and the quantities of beef to be bought in under the two hundred and nineteenth partial invitation to tender as a general intervention measure pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 1627/89

L 66/10                EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                               13. 3. 1999
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 548/1999
                                                     of 12 March 1999
                  fixing the maximum buying-in price and the quantities of beef to be bought in
                  under the two hundred and nineteenth partial invitation to tender as a general
                            intervention measure pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 1627/89
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        6(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68, of the requirements
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              for reasonable support of the market and the seasonal
Community,                                                         trend in slaughterings and prices, it has been decided not
                                                                   to proceed with the tendering procedure for category A
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of             and to fix the maximum buying-in price and the quant-
27 June 1968 on the common organisation of the market              ities which may be accepted into intervention for category
in beef and veal (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC)           C;
No 1633/98 (2), and in particular Article 6(7) thereof,
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC) No                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
2456/93 of 1 September 1993 laying down detailed rules             in accordance with the opinion of the Management
for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/            Committee for Beef and Veal,
68 as regards the general and special intervention meas-
ures for beef (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
2812/98 (4), an invitation to tender was opened pursuant           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
to Article 1(1) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1627/
89 of 9 June 1989 on the buying in of beef by invitation
to tender (5), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 136/                                  Article 1
1999 (6);
                                                                   Under the two hundred and nineteenth partial invitation
Whereas, in accordance with Article 13(1) of Regulation            to tender opened pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 1627/
(EEC) No 2456/93, a maximum buying-in price is to be               89:
fixed for quality R3, where appropriate, under each partial
invitation to tender in the light of tenders received;             (a) for category A, it has been decided not to proceed
whereas, in accordance with Article 13(2) of that Regula-               with the tendering procedure;
tion, a decision may be taken not to proceed with the              (b) for category C:
tendering procedure; whereas, in accordance with Article
14 of that Regulation, only tenders quoting prices not                  — the maximum buying-in price shall be EUR 236/
exceeding the maximum buying-in price and not                              100 kg of carcases or half-carcases of quality R3,
exceeding the average national or regional market price,                — the maximum quantity of carcases and half-
plus the amount referred to in paragraph 1 of that Article,                carcases accepted shall be 594 t.
are to be accepted;
Whereas, once tenders submitted in respect of the two                                      Article 2
hundred and nineteenth partial invitation to tender have
been considered and taking account, pursuant to Article            This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 March 1999.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 12 March 1999.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                Franz FISCHLER
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L  148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24.
(2) OJ L  210, 28. 7. 1998, p. 17.
(3) OJ L  225, 4. 9. 1993, p. 4.
(4) OJ L  349, 24. 12. 1998, p. 47.
(5) OJ L  159, 10. 6. 1989, p. 36.
(6) OJ L  17, 22. 1. 1999, p. 26.