CELEX: 31995R1840
Language: en
Date: 1995-07-26 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1840/95 of 26 July 1995 opening an invitation to tender for the reduction in the duty on sorghum imported into Spain from third countries

No L 177/ 12        I EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                28 . 7. 95
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1840/95
                                                         of 26 July 1995
                   opening an invitation to tender for the reduction in die duty on sorghum
                                         imported into Spain from third countries
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        to disturb the Spanish market for cereals ; whereas such
                                                                   combined benefits should be ruled out for the sake of the
                                                                   satisfactory functioning of the invitation to tender ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              Whereas in the light of current market needs in Spain an
Community,                                                         invitation to tender for the reduction in the duty on
                                                                   imports of sorghum should be opened in the framework
                                                                   of these special arrangements for imports ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
of 30 June 1992 on the common organization of the                  in accordance with the opinion of the Management
market in cereals ('), as last amended by Commission               Committee for Cereals,
Regulation (EC) No 1 528/95 (2), and in particular Article
12 ( 1 ) thereof,
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, pursuant to the Agreement on Agriculture
concluded during the Uruguay Round of multilateral
trade negotiations the Community has undertaken to                                          Article 1
import a certain quantiy of sorghum into Spain ;
                                                                    1 . An invitation to tender is hereby opened for the
                                                                   reduction in the import duty referred to in Article 10 (2)
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1839/95 of 26                of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 on sorghum to be
July 1995 laying down detailed rules for the tariff quotas         imported into Spain ;
for maize and sorghum into Spain and maize into
Portugal (3), lays down the rules governing the administra­        2.    Under this invitation to tender, the reduction in the
tion of those special arrangements ; whereas this Regula­          import duty on grain sorghum provided for in Article 1 1
tion lays down the special additional detailed rules neces­        of Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 shall not apply.
sary for implementing the invitation ot tender, in parti­
cular those relating to the lodging and release of the secu­       3 . The invitation to tender shall be open until 14
rity to be lodged by operators to ensure compliance with           December 1995. During that period, weekly invitations
their obligations and, in particular the obligation to             shall be issued with quantities and closing dates as shown
process or use the imported product on the Spanish                 in the notice of invitation to tender.
market :
                                                                   4. Regulation (EC) No 1839/95, shall apply save as
                                                                   otherwise provided for in this Regulation.
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 of 5
March 1990 on the arrangements applicable to agricul­
tural products and certain goods resulting from the                                         Article 2
processing of agricultural products originating in the ACP
States or in the overseas countries and territories (OCT) (4),
                                                                    Import licences issued under these invitations to tender
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2484/94 (%                   shall be valid 45 days from the date they are issued,
provides in particular for a reduction of 60 % in the duty         within the meaning of Article 10 (4) of Regulation (EC)
applicable to grain sorghum up to a quota of 1 00 000               No 1839/95.
tonnes per calendar year and of 50 % in excess of that
quota ; whereas, if that benefit is combined with the
reduction provided for under this Regulation, this is likely
                                                                                            Article 3
(') OJ No L 181 , 1 . 7. 1992, p. 21 .
(2) OJ No L 158, 8. 7. 1995, p. 13.                                This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
(3) See page 4 of this Official Journal.
\4) OJ No L 84, 30. 3. 1990, p. 85.                                 following its publication in the Official Journal of the
H OJ No L 265, 15. 10 . 1994, p. 3.                                 European Communities.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 26 July 1995.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                              Member of the Commission