CELEX: 32000R0294
Language: en
Date: 2000-02-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 294/2000 of 8 February 2000 amending Regulation (EC) No 1393/1999 increasing to 84 234 tonnes the quantity of barley held by the Belgian intervention agency for which a standing invitation to tender for export has been opened

L 34/6                 EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                     9. 2. 2000
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 294/2000
                                                           of 8 February 2000
                amending Regulation (EC) No 1393/1999 increasing to 84 234 tonnes the quantity of barley held by
                the Belgian intervention agency for which a standing invitation to tender for export has been
                                                                   opened
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                      store. Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1393/1999 must
                                                                                 therefore be amended.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                               (4)     The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
                                                                                 accordance with the opinion of the Management
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 of 30
                                                                                 Committee for Cereals,
June 1992 on the common organisation of the market in
cereals (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1253/
1999 (2), and in particular Article 5 thereof,                           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas:
                                                                                                      Article 1
(1)     Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93 (3), as last
        amended by Regulation (EC) No 39/1999 (4), lays down             Regulation (EC) No 1393/1999 is hereby amended as follows:
        the procedures and conditions for the disposal of cereals
        held by the intervention agencies;                               1. Article 2 is replaced by the following:
                                                                             ‘Article 2
(2)     Commission Regulation (EC) No 1393/1999 (5), as last
        amended by Regulation (EC) No 2050/1999 (6), opened                  1.     The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum of
        a standing invitation to tender for the export of 53 483             84 234 tonnes of barley for export to third countries, with
        tonnes of barley held by the Belgian intervention agency.            the exception of the United States of America, Canada and
        Belgium informed the Commission of the intention of                  Mexico.
        its intervention agency to increase by 30 751 tonnes the             2.     The regions in which the 84 234 tonnes of barley are
        quantity for which a standing invitation to tender for               stored are stated in Annex I to this Regulation.’
        export has been opened. The total quantity of barley
        held by the Belgian intervention agency for which a              2. Annex I is replaced by the Annex hereto.
        standing invitation to tender for export has been opened
        should be increased to 84 234 tonnes.                                                         Article 2
(3)     This increase in the quantity put out to tender makes it         This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
        necessary to alter the list of regions and quantities in         tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 8 February 2000.
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                         Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                   Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L  181, 1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L  160, 26.6.1999, p. 18.
(3) OJ L  191, 31.7.1993, p. 76.
(4) OJ L  5, 9.1.1999, p. 64.
(5) OJ L  163, 29.6.1999, p. 26.
(6) OJ L  255, 30.9.1999, p. 13.
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                                                ANNEX
                                              ‘ANNEX I
                                                                       (tonnes)
                               Place of storage               Quantity
              Hainaut                                         16 771
              Liège                                           11 366
              Namur                                           22 167
              Oost-Vlaanderen                                 23 308
              West-Vlaanderen                                 10 622’