CELEX: 31993R2763
Language: en
Date: 1993-10-08
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2763/93 of 7 October 1993 opening an invitation to tender for the sale of olive oil held by the Italian intervention agency

No L 251 /8                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                 8 . 10 . 93
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2763/93
                                                        of 7 October 1993
                    opening an invitation to tender for the sale of olive oil held by the Italian
                                                       intervention agency
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        marketing year ; whereas it is accordingly necessary to
                                                                     specify the operative event for the agricultural conversion
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              rate in the case of this invitation to tender ;
  Economic Community,
                                                                     Whereas the Management Committee for Oils and Fats
  Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC of               has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by
                                                                     its Chairman,
  22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common
  organization of the market in oils and fats ('), as last
  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2046/92 (2), and in
  particular Article 12 (4) thereof,                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of Council        Regulation (EEC)
  No 2754/78 (3), as amended by             Regulation (EEC)                                 Article 1
  No 2203/90 (4), provides that olive oil   held by the inter­
  vention agencies shall be put up for      sale by tender ;        The Italian intervention agency 'Azienda di Stato per gli
                                                                    interventi nel mercato agricolo', hereinafter referred to as
  Whereas, pursuant to Article 12 (1 ) of Regulation                'AIMA', shall open an invitation to tender in accordance
  No 136/66/EEC, the Italian intervention agency holds              with the provisions of this Regulation and of Regulation
  certain quantities for olive oil ;                                (EEC) No 2960/77 for the sale on the Community market
                                                                    of approximately 7 000 tonnes of extra virgin olive oil.
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2960/77 (5),
 as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3818/85 (6), laid
 down the conditions for the sale by tender on the down                                      Article 2
 the conditions for the sale by tender on the Community
 market and for export of olive oil ; whereas the state of          The notice of invitation to tender shall be published on
 the market in olive oil is at present favourable for the sale      12 October 1993 .
 of part of the said oil ;
                                                                    Particulars of the lots of oil offered for sale and of the
 Whereas in the present situation for the market in virgin          places where they are stored shall be displayed at the
 olive oil where supply is low compared with demand and             central office of AIMA, via Palestro 81 , 1-00185 Rome.
 in order to provide the greatest possible number of opera­
 tors with a minimum supply for their immediate needs, it           A copy of the notice of invitation to tender shall be sent
 should be stipulated that each operator may only submit            without delay to the Commission.
 tenders for a maximum quantity ;
                                                                                             Article 3
 Whereas special time limits should be laid down for with­
 drawal of the olive oil to expedite its placing on the             The tenders must reach AIMA at the control office, via
 market ;
                                                                    Palestro 81 , 1-00185 Rome not later than 2 p.m. (local
                                                                    time) on 21 October 1993.
Whereas Article 20 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
 No 1068/93 of 30 April 1993 on detailed rules for deter­          Tenders shall be admissible only if submitted by a natural
 mining and applying the agricultural conversion rates Q            or legal person who exercises an activity in the olive oil
 lays down that tenders submitted in response to invitation        sector and is entered in that status as at 31 December
to tender be expressed in ecus and Articles 13 to 17                1992 in a public register of a Member State.
 thereof provide for advance fixing of the agricultural
conversion rates for the amounts concerned ; whereas               Furthermore, no tender may submit for a quantity in
Article 10 of the said Regulation applies to the olive oil         excess of 500 tonnes.
sector only as from the beginning of the 1993/94
(') OJ   No 172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.                                                    Article 4
(2) OJ  No  L 215, 30. 7. 1992, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No  L 331 , 28. 11 . 1978, p. 13.                          Not later than three days after the expiry of the time limit
(4) OJ  No  L 201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 5.                            laid down for the submission of tenders, AIMA shall send
0   OJ  No  L 348, 30. 12. 1977, p. 46.
(6) OJ  No  L 368, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 20.                           the Commission a list without mentioning names, stating
0   OJ  No  L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.                            the highest tender received for each lot put up for sale.
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                          Article 5                             The security referred to in Article 7 of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                No 2960/77 shall be ECU 18 per 100 kilograms.
The minimum selling price per 100 kilograms of oil shall
be fixed, in accordance with the procedure laid down in
Article 38 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC, on the basis of                                  Article 8
the tenders received, not later than the 10th working day
after the expiry of each final date laid down for the           The storage charge referred to in Article 15 of Regulation
submission of tenders. The decision fixing the minimum          (EEC) No 2960/77 shall be ECU 3 per 100 kilgorams.
selling price shall be notified forthwith to the Member
State concerned.
                                                                                         Article 9
                          Article 6
                                                                The operative event for the agricultural conversion rate
The olive oil shall be sold by AIMA not later than the          applicable in the context of this invitation to tender shall
fifth working day after the date of notification of the deci­   be determined in accordance with the provisions of
sion referred to in Article 5.
                                                                Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93.
AIMA shall supply the agencies responsible for storage
with a list of the lots remaining unsold.
                                                                                        Article 10
                          Article 7
                                                                This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
The    product shall be withdrawn          not later than       following its publication in the Official Journal of the
30 November 1993 .                                              European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 7 October 1993.
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                           Rene STEICHEN
                                                                     Member of the Commission