CELEX: 31994R2307
Language: en
Date: 1994-09-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2307/94 of 26 September 1994 on an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled medium grain and long grain A rice to certain third countries

27. 9 . 94                               Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 251 / 11
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2307/94
                                                     of 26 September 1994
                   on an invitation to 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,                        No 1431 /76, for Zones I, II (c), IV, V, VI and VIII (except
                                                                   Guyana, Madagascar and Suriname, as specified in the
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2145/92.
 Community,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76              2.    The invitation to tender shall be open until 29 June
 of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the                 1995. During that period weekly invitations to tender
 market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No         shall be issued and the date for submission of tenders
 1869/94 (2), and in particular Article 17 thereof,                shall be determined in the notice of invitation to tender.
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1431 /76             3. The invitation to tender shall take place in accord­
 of 21 June 1976 laying down general rules for granting            ance with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 584/75
 export refunds on rice and criteria for fixing the amount         and with the following provisions.
of such refunds (3), and in particular Article 4 thereof,
Whereas examination of the balance sheet shows that
 exportable amounts of rice are currently held by produ­                                     Article 2
 cers ; whereas this situation could affect the normal
 development of producer prices during the 1994/95                 A tender shall be valid only if it covers a quantity for
 marketing year ;                                                  export of at least 50 tonnes but not more than 5 000
                                                                   tonnes .
Whereas, in order to remedy this situation, it is appro­
 priate to make use of export refunds to zones which may
be supplied by the Community ; whereas the special situ­                                     Article 3
 ation of the rice market makes it necessary to limit the
 quantities of rice benefiting from the refunds, and there­
 fore to apply Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1431 /76           The security referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
 enabling the amount of refund to be fixed by tendering            No 584/75 shall be ECU 20 per tonne.
 procedure ;
Whereas it should be stated that the provisions of                                           Article 4
 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 584/75 of 6 March
 1975 laying down detailed rules for the application of the         1.   Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21 (1 ) of
system of tendering for export refunds on rice (4), as last        Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 Q, export
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 409/90 (*), apply to this           licences issued within this invitation to tender shall, for
invitation to tender ;                                             the purposes of determining their period of validity, be
                                                                   considered as having been issued on the day the tender
Whereas, in order to avoid disturbances on the markets of          was submitted.
the producing countries, the invitation to tender should
be limited to certain zones specified in the Annex to              2.    The licences shall be valid from their date of issue,
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2145/92 (*) ;                       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
Committee for Cereals,
                                                                                             Article 5
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                      Tenders submitted must reach the Commission through
                                                                   the Member States not later than one and a half hours
                            Article 1                              after expiry of the time limit for weekly submission of
                                                                   tenders as laid down in the notice of invitation to tender.
1 . An invitation to tender is hereby opened, for the              They must be transmitted in accordance with the table
export refund referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC)         given in the Annex.
(') OJ  No  L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .                             If no tenders are submitted, the Member States shall
O   OJ  No  L 197, 30. 7. 1994, p. 7.                              inform the Commission accordingly within the same time
(3) OJ  No  L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 36.                             limit as that given in the above subparagraph.
(4) OJ  No  L 61 , 7. 3. 1975, p. 25.
O   OJ  No  L 43, 17. 2. 1990, p. 21 .
Ò OJ No L 214, 30. 7. 1992, p. 20.                                 0 OJ No L 331 , 2. 12. 1988, p. 1 .
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                             Article 6                                2.    Where a maximum export refund is fixed, an award
                                                                      shall be made to the tenderer or tenderers whose tenders
                                                                      are at or below the maximum export refund level.
The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian time.
                                                                                                  Article 8
                                                                      The time limit for submission of tenders for the first
                             Article 7
                                                                      partial invitation to tender shall expire on 13 October
                                                                      1994 at 10 a.m .
1.    On the basis of tenders submitted, the Commission
shall decide in accordance with the procedure laid down               The final date for submission of tenders is hereby fixed at
in Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 :                        29 June 1995.
— either to fix a maximum export refund, taking account                                           Article 9
    of the criteria laid down in Articles 2 and 3 of Regula­
    tion (EEC) No 1431 /76,
                                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
                                                                      following its publication in the Official Journal of the
— or not to take any action on the tenders.                           European Communities.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 26 September 1994.
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                   Rene STEICHEN
                                                                            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 .