CELEX: 31998R2205
Language: en
Date: 1998-10-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2205/98 of 14 October 1998 amending Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 increasing to 597 652 tonnes the quantity of barley held by the United Kingdom intervention agency for which a standing invitation to tender for export has been opened

L 278/14             EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                15. 10. 98
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2205/98
                                                   of 14 October 1998
                 amending Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 increasing to 597 652 tonnes the quantity
                 of barley held by the United Kingdom intervention agency for which a standing
                                  invitation to tender for export has been opened
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
                                                                  in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Committee for Cereals,
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92
of 30 June 1992 on the common organisation of the                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
market in cereals (1), as last amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 923/96 (2), and in particular Article 5
thereof,                                                                                   Article 1
                                                                  Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 is hereby amended as
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93 (3),               follows:
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2193/96 (4), lays
down the procedures and conditions for the disposal of            1. Article 2 is replaced by the following:
cereals held by the intervention agencies;
                                                                     ‘Article 2
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 (5), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2043/98 (6), opened               1. The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum
a standing invitation to tender for the export of 298 400            of 597 652 tonnes of barley to be exported to all third
tonnes of barley held by the United Kingdom interven-                countries with the exception of the United States,
tion agency; whereas, the United Kingdom informed the                Canada and Mexico.
Commission of the intention of its intervention agency to            2. The regions in which the 597 652 tonnes of
increase by 299 252 tonnes the quantity for which a                  barley are stored are stated in Annex I to this Regula-
standing invitation to tender for export has been opened;            tion.'
whereas the total quantity of barley held by the United
Kingdom intervention agency for which a standing in-              2. Annex I is replaced by the Annex hereto.
vitation to tender for export has been opened should be
increased to 597 652 tonnes;
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas this increase in the quantity put out to tender
makes it necessary to alter the list of regions and quant-        This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
ities in store; whereas Annex I to Regulation (EC) No             publication in the Official Journal of the European
1759/98 must therefore be amended;                                Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 14 October 1998.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                Franz FISCHLER
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 181, 1. 7. 1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 126, 24. 5. 1996, p. 37.
(3) OJ L 191, 31. 7. 1993, p. 76.
(4) OJ L 293, 16. 11. 1996, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 221, 8. 8. 1998, p. 8.
(6) OJ L 263, 26. 9. 1998, p. 15.
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                                             ANNEX
                                           ‘ANNEX I
                                                                  (tonnes)
                             Place of storage            Quantity
              North Humberside                            64 252
              Worcestershire                              50 700
              Lincolnshire                              142 492
              Shropshire                                  40 515
              West Sussex                                 23 661
              York                                        75 135
              Dumfries                                    19 050
              Essex                                        8 760
              Dorset                                      22 436
              Leicestershire                              11 753
              Suffolk                                     20 987
              Northumberland                              10 040
              Strathclyde                                 33 744
              East Lothian                                45 247
              Norfolk                                     19 633
              Northamptonshire                             9 247'