CELEX: 31979R0037
Language: en
Date: 1979-01-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 37/79 of 9 January 1979 on an invitation to tender for the refund for the export of common wheat to Zone IV

10 . 1 . 79                                Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 6/21
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 37/79
                                                           of 9 January 1979
                 on an invitation to tender for the refund for the export of common wheat to
                                                                 Zone IV
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 COMMUNITIES,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                           Article 1
 Economic Community,
                                                                        1 . Tenders shall be invited for the export refund
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No
 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                     2746/75.
 tion of the market in cereals (1), as last amended by
 Regulation (EEC) No 1254/78 (2),                                       2.    The invitation to tender shall relate to common
                                                                        wheat for export to Zone IV as defined in Annex I to
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           Regulation (EEC) No 1124/77.
 2746/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down general
 rules for granting export refunds on cereals and                       3 . The invitation shall remain open until 17 May
 criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3), and                1979 . During this period weekly awards shall be
 in particular Article 5 thereof,                                       made, the time limits for the submission of tenders to
                                                                        be as prescribed in the notice of invitation to tender.
 Whereas there is an exportable surplus of common
wheat on the Community market ; whereas, so that it
 can be exported under the most favourable conditions,                                           Article 2
 an invitation to tender for the export refund should be
 opened ; whereas, for the sake of better control over                 A tender shall be valid only if it relates to an amount
 the refund amount to be granted and the quantities to                  of not less than 1 000 tonnes.
 be exported, the invitation to tender should be
 restricted to exports to Zone IV as defined in Annex I
 to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 24/77 (4);                                                Article 3
Whereas detailed rules for the application of the                      The tendering security referred to in Article 3 of Regu­
system of tendering for fixing export refunds have                      lation (EEC) No 279/75 shall be 10 units of account
been adopted in Commission Regulation (EEC) No                          per tonne .
279/75 (5), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
2944/78 (6) ; whereas among the obligations of
                                                                                                 Article 4
tenderers is that of lodging an application for an
export licence ; whereas compliance with this obliga­
tion may be ensured by requiring tenderers to lodge a                   1 . By way of derogation from the provisions of
tendering security of 10 units of account per tonne                    Article 9 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 193/75 (7), export
when they submit their tenders ;                                       licences issued under Article 8 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                        No 279/75 shall, for the purpose of determining their
Whereas, in order to ensure equal treatment to all                     period of validity, be deemed to have been issued on
concerned, it is necessary to specify that all licences                the day on which the tender was submitted.
issued be valid for equal lengths of time ;
                                                                       2.     Export licences issued in connection with this
Whereas for the proper running of an invitation to                     invitation to tender shall be valid from their date of
tender for export refunds a minimum representative                     issue, as defined in the previous paragraph, until the
quantity must be specified and the time limit and                      end of the fourth month following that of issue.
form of communication of the tenders submitted to
the competent authorities ;
                                                                                                 Article 5
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­                      The tenders submitted must reach the Commission
ment Committee for Cereals,                                            through the intermediary of Member States at the
                                                                       latest one and a half hours after expiry of the period
(»)  OJ   No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                            for the weekly submission of tenders as specified in
(2) OJ    No  L 156, 14. 6. 1978, p. 1 .                               the notice of invitation to tender. They must be
(3) OJ    No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 78 .                           communicated in the form indicated in the Annex.
(<) OJ    No  L 134, 28 . 5. 1977, p. 53 .
(s) OJ    No  L 31 , 5. 2. 1975, p. 8 .
 *) OJ    No  L 351 , 15 . 12. 1978 , p. 6.                            (7) OJ No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 10.
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If no tenders are received, Member States shall inform               summer time does not apply in those Member
the Commission of this within the time limit indi­                   States,
cated in the preceding paragraph.                                — extended by one hour in the other Member States
                                                                     when the latter are applying summer time.
                          Article 6
The time limits fixed for the submission of tenders                                             Article 7
shall be :
                                                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
— brought forward by one hour in Ireland and the                 following its publication in the Official Journal of
    United Kingdom during the period in which                    the European Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 9 January 1979 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                 Vice-President
                                                         ANNEX
                     Weekly tender for the refund for the export of common wheat to Zone IV
                                    Time limit for the submission of tenders (date/time)
                        1                    2                                        3
                    Number of             Quantity               Amount of export refund in national currency
                     tender              in tonnes                               per tonne
                       2
                        1
                                   II
                       3                               i
                       4
                        5                              I
                      etc.