CELEX: 31998R1740
Language: en
Date: 1998-08-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1740/98 of 5 August 1998 amending Regulation (EC) No 1323/98 increasing to 349 875 tonnes the quantity of common wheat of breadmaking quality held by the German intervention agency for which a standing invitation to tender for export has been opened

L 218/8               EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                  6. 8. 98
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1740/98
                                                     of 5 August 1998
                  amending Regulation (EC) No 1323/98 increasing to 349 875 tonnes the quantity
                  of common wheat of breadmaking quality held by the German intervention
                  agency for which a standing invitation to tender for export has been opened
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       ities in store; whereas Annex I to Regulation (EC) No
                                                                  1323/98 must therefore be amended;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                        Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
                                                                  in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92              Committee for Cereals,
of 30 June 1992 on the common organisation of the
market in cereals (1), as last amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 923/96 (2), and in particular Article 5        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
thereof,
                                                                                          Article 1
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93 (3),
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2193/96 (4), lays           Regulation (EC) No 1323/98 is hereby amended as
down the procedures and conditions for the disposal of            follows:
cereals held by the intervention agencies;                        1. Article 2 is replaced by the following:
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1323/98 (5),                    ‘Article 2
opened a standing invitation to tender for the export of              1. The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum
249 996 tonnes of common wheat of breadmaking quality                 of 349 875 tonnes of common wheat of breadmaking
held by the German intervention agency; whereas,                      quality to be exported to all third countries.
Germany informed the Commission of the intention of
                                                                      2. The regions in which the 349 875 tonnes of
its intervention agency to increase by 99 879 tonnes the
                                                                      common wheat of breadmaking quality are stored are
quantity for which a standing invitation to tender for
                                                                      stated in Annex I to this Regulation.'
export has been opened; whereas the total quantity of
common wheat of breadmaking quality held by the                   2. Annex I is replaced by the Annex hereto.
German intervention agency for which a standing invita-
tion to tender for export has been opened should be                                       Article 2
increased to 349 875 tonnes;
                                                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
Whereas this increase in the quantity put out to tender           publication in the Official Journal of the European
makes it necessary to alter the list of regions and quant-        Communities.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 5 August 1998.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                            Monika WULF-MATHIES
                                                                          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  183, 26. 6. 1998, p. 33.
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                                          ANNEX
                                        ‘ANNEX I
                                                                (tonnes)
                          Place of storage             Quantity
            Schleswig-Holstein/Hamburg/
            Niedersachsen/Bremen/
            Nordrhein-Westfalen                       203 167
            Hessen/Rheinland-Pfalz/
            Baden-Württemberg/Saarland/Bayern           85 314
            Berlin/Brandenburg/
            Mecklenburg-Vorpommern                      20 463
            Sachsen/Sachsen-Anhalt/Thüringen            40 931'