CELEX: 31998R0071
Language: en
Date: 1998-01-09 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 71/98 of 9 January 1998 fixing the maximum export refund on wholly milled round grain rice in connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2098/97

10. 1. 98           ¬ EN ¬             Official Journal of the European Communities                                 L 6/23
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 71/98
                                                       of 9 January 1998
                 fixing the maximum export refund on wholly milled round grain rice in
                     connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2098/97
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       results in the maximum export refund being fixed at the
                                                                  amount specified in Article 1;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                        Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of            in accordance with the opinion of the Management
22 December 1995 on the common organization of the                Committee for Cereals,
market in rice (1), and in particular Article 13 (3) thereof,
Whereas an invitation to tender for the export refund on
rice was issued pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC)            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
No 2098/97 (2);
Whereas Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                                        Article 1
584/75 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
299/95 (4), allows the Commission to fix, in accordance           The maximum export refund on wholly milled round
with the procedure laid down in Article 22 of Regulation          grain rice to be exported to certain third countries
(EC) No 3072/95 and on the basis of the tenders                   pursuant to the invitation to tender issued in Regulation
submitted, a maximum export refund; whereas in fixing             (EC) No 2098/97 is hereby fixed on the basis of the
this maximum, the criteria provided for in Article 13 of          tenders submitted from 5 to 8 January 1998 at ECU 135
Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 must be taken into account;            per tonne.
whereas a contract is awarded to any tenderer whose
tender is equal to or less than the maximum export
refund;                                                                                    Article 2
Whereas the application of the abovementioned criteria to         This Regulation shall enter into force on 10 January
the current market situation for the rice in question             1998.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 9 January 1998.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              Franz FISCHLER
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 329, 30. 12. 1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 292, 25. 10. 1997, p. 25.
(3) OJ L 61, 7. 3. 1975, p. 25.
(4) OJ L 35, 15. 2. 1995, p. 8.