CELEX: 31999R0937
Language: en
Date: 1999-05-04 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 937/1999 of 4 May 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 561/1999 on the opening of a standing invitation to tender for the sale of olive oil held by the Spanish intervention agency

5. 5. 1999           EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                  L 117/17
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 937/1999
                                                        of 4 May 1999
                 amending Regulation (EC) No 561/1999 on the opening of a standing invitation
                   to tender for the sale of olive oil held by the Spanish intervention agency
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            ‘Five invitations shall be opened for these quantities.
                                                                       Any quantities left unsold at the end of one invitation
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  shall be added to the quantities laid down for the next
Community,                                                             invitation. The quantities shall be approximately:
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1638/98 of                  one-fifth for each of the first two invitations,
20 July 1998 amending Regulation No 136/66/EEC on
the establishment of a common organisation of the                       three-fifths for the third invitation,
market in oils and fats (1), and in particular Article 3(1)             if necessary, any quantities still left unsold for the
thereof,                                                                   fourth and fifth invitations.'
(1)    Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 561/
       1999 of 15 March 1999 on the opening of a                                             Article 2
       standing invitation to tender for the sale of olive oil
       held by the Spanish intervention agency (2)                 The amendments to the invitations to tender referred to
       provides for the sale of some 75 000 tonnes of olive        in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 561/1999 shall be
       oil between April and July 1999; whereas, because           published on 20 May 1999.
       of the current movements in the prices of virgin
       olive oils not directly edible, the selling pace laid       The lots of oil put up for sale and their present storage
       down in the Regulation should be speeded up;                location shall be displayed by FEGA, calle Beneficencia,
                                                                   8, E-28004 Madrid.
(2)    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula-
       tion are in accordance with the opinion of the              A copy of the amendment to the invitation to tender
       Management Committee for Oils and Fats,                     referred to above shall be sent forthwith to the Commis-
                                                                   sion.
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                                                             Article 3
                           Article 1
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
The second subparagraph of Article 1(1) of Regulation              following its publication in the Official Journal of the
(EC) No 561/1999 is hereby replaced by the following:              European Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 4 May 1999.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                 Franz FISCHLER
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 210, 28.7.1998, p. 32.
(2) OJ L 69, 16.3.1999, p. 13.