CELEX: 31999R1769
Language: en
Date: 1999-08-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1769/1999 of 10 August 1999 on the supply of wholly milled rice to a Community port with a view to its subsequent delivery to Russia

L 211/30               EN                    Official Journal of the European Communities                                     11. 8. 1999
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1769/1999
                                                          of 10 August 1999
               on the supply of wholly milled rice to a Community port with a view to its subsequent delivery to
                                                                  Russia
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             delivered as a supply operation as referred to in Article 2(2) of
                                                                        Regulation (EC) No 111/1999 in accordance with both that
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   Regulation and this Regulation.
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2802/98 of 17                                             Article 2
December 1998 on a programme to supply agricultural prod-
ucts to the Russian Federation (1), and in particular Article 4(2)
thereof,                                                                1.     For a given lot, supply shall comprise:
(1)     Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 111/1999 (2),              (a) delivery of the product defined in Annex I, free on board,
        as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1125/1999 (3), lays                 stowed on ocean-going vessel, to a port in the Member
        down the general rules for the application of Regulation             State indicated; the rate of loading at the port proposed in
        (EC) No 2802/98; whereas Article 2(2) of that Regula-                the tender shall be a minimum 1 000 tonnes per day;
        tion provides that the tender may cover the quantity of
                                                                        (b) packaging and labelling of the product in accordance with
        products to be removed physically from intervention
                                                                             Annex I.
        stocks as payment for the supply of processed products
        belonging to the same group of products; whereas this
        provision should be applied to the supply of four sep-          2.     The product must be held available for the carrier before
        arate lots of wholly milled rice to be delivered to a           loading starts for a period of at least 10 days starting on the
        Community port with a view to their being forwarded to          dates set out in Annex I. After the end of that period the
        Russia;                                                         tenderer shall be entitled to the amount laid down in Article
                                                                        7a(1) of Regulation (EC) No 111/1999. However, the tenderer
(2)     Whereas under the conditions of such a tender the               shall not be entitled to that amount during loading.
        supply costs cover the processing of paddy rice into
        wholly milled rice and the packaging and labelling of the
        finished product to be delivered to a Community port;
                                                                                                      Article 3
(3)     Whereas the specific conditions applying to this supply
        should be laid down, in addition to the provisions              1.     Tenders shall be lodged with the intervention agency
        adopted in Regulation (EC) No 111/1999, and provision           holding the lot to be removed in payment for the supply as
        should be made for their immediate entry into force;            mentioned in Annex II. That intervention agency shall also be
                                                                        responsible for paying for the supply.
(4)     Whereas, for the purposes of packaging and labelling,
        the rules used for food aid supplies as published in the        The time limit for lodging tenders shall expire at 12 noon
        Official Journal of the European Communities C series, No       (Brussels time) on 19 August 1999 for lots Nos 1 and 2 and at
        114/91 (4) and No 267/96 (5) should be applied;                 12 noon (Brussels time) on 7 September 1999 for lots Nos 3
                                                                        and 4.
(5)     Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
        are in accordance with the opinion of the Management            If no tender is awarded for the supply of a lot by the end of
        Committee for Cereals,                                          that period a second time limit for lodging tenders shall run
                                                                        until 12 noon (Brussels time) on 7 September 1999 for lots
                                                                        Nos 1 and 2 and until 12 noon (Brussels time) on 21
                                                                        September 1999 for lots Nos 3 and 4.
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                                        In that event all dates fixed in Annex I shall be postponed by
                                                                        twenty days for lots Nos 1 and 2 and by fourteen days for lots
                               Article 1                                Nos 3 and 4.
An invitation to tender is hereby opened to establish the costs         2.     The tender shall indicate the quantity of paddy rice to be
of supplying four separate lots of wholly milled rice of the            taken over at the stores referred to in Annex II needed to cover
characteristics and quality set out in Annex I hereto, to be            all the supply costs up to the delivery stage set out in Article 2
                                                                        as payment for that supply.
(1) OJ L  349, 24.12.1998, p. 12.
(2) OJ L  14, 19.1.1999, p. 3.                                          The tender shall be in tonnes of paddy rice (net weight) to be
(3) OJ L  135, 29.5.1999, p. 41.
(4) OJ C  114, 29.4.1991, p. 1.                                         removed in return for the supply of a tonne of finished product
(5) OJ C  267, 13.9.1996, p. 1.                                         (net weight).
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3.    The quantities awarded must be removed from interven-                                          Article 4
tion stocks within 45 days of notification of the award of the
supply contract.                                                         1.    The tendering security is set at EUR 25 per tonne of
                                                                         wholly milled rice.
                                                                         2.    The supply security is set at EUR 632 per tonne of
The difference between the quantities tendered for and the               wholly milled rice. It must be lodged in accordance with Article
quantities listed in Annex II must remain in the last store(s)           7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 111/1999 in favour of the interven-
indicated in that Annex for each lot.                                    tion agency holding the paddy rice to be removed as payment
                                                                         for the supply.
4.    If tenderers declare in writing when submitting their                                          Article 5
tenders that they will sumbit new tenders if a second period for         The intervention agencies shall take all necessary steps to
the submission of tenders is opened, intervention agencies shall         enable samples to be taken by tenderers and to permit removal
keep the originals of the tendering security and the undertaking         of the goods by the successful tenderer within the prescribed
by the financial institution to lodge the supply security referred       time limits.
to in Article 5(1)(h) and (i) of Regulation (EC) No 111/1999
until receipt of the Commission's decision on the tenders intro-                                     Article 6
duced during the second period. In such a case, by derogation
from the above provision, the second tender shall not be                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
accompanied by the original of those two documents.                      publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                     Done at Brussels, 10 August 1999.
                                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                                   Monika WULF-MATHIES
                                                                                 Member of the Commission
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                                                                        ANNEX I
         1. Product to be supplied: wholly milled rice
         2. Characteristics and quality of the product (1): rice of fair, sound and marketable quality, free of odour and live pests,
             meeting the following conditions:
             — moisture content: 15 % maximum,
             — broken rice: 7 % maximum,
             — chalky grains: 5 % maximum,
             — grains striated with red: 3 % maximum,
             — spotted grains: 1,5 % maximum,
             — stained grains: 1 % maximum,
             — yellow grains: 0,050 % maximum,
             — amber grains: 0,20 % maximum,
             — tolerance of extraneous matter consisting of:
                  — inedible mineral and vegetable substances, provided they are not toxic: 0,01 % maximum,
                  — edible extraneous grains or parts thereof: 0,10 % maximum.
         3. Total quantity: 19 750 tonnes wholly milled rice (net weight) comprising four separate lots.
             Each supply shall relate to a single lot.
         4. Description:
             Lot No 1:
             5 000 tonnes of wholly milled long-grain A rice to be delivered to and kept available from 20 September 1999 in an
             Italian port.
             Lot No 2:
             5 000 tonnes of wholly milled medium-grain rice to be delivered to and kept available from 4 October 1999 in an
             Italian port.
             Lot No 3:
             5 000 tonnes of wholly milled medium-grain rice to be delivered to and kept available from 11 October 1999 in an
             Italian port.
             Lot No 4:
             4 750 tonnes of wholly milled long-grain A rice to be delivered to and kept available from 25 October 1999 in an
             Italian port.
         5. Packaging (2):
             The lot must be packed in new mixed jute/polypropylene sacks with a net content of 50 kilograms.
             OJ C 267, 13.9.1996, p. 1 [point 1-0, A., (1),(b)]
         6. Labelling: OJ C 114, 29.4.1991, p. 1.
             The labelling of the sacks (wording in Russian plus the European flag) must meet the requirements laid down in
             OJ C 114, 29.4.1991, p. 1 (point II B 3).
         7. Delivery stage: fob stowed.
         (1) The successful tenderer must issue the carrier with a certificate from an official body certifying that the standards in force on
             nuclear radiation have not been exceeded. The radioactivity certificate must indicate the levels of caesium 134 and 137 and of
             iodine 131.
         (2) With a view to possible repacking, the successful tenderer must supply 2 % empty sacks of the same quality as those containing the
             product, with the inscription followed by a capital R.
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                                                                  ANNEX II
                                                                  Lot No 1
                                                                                          Quantity of paddy rice
                                                Storage locations
                                                                                                 (tonnes)
            Immobiliare Agricola Alberetta Srl
            Via Mede 41
            Sardrana Lomellina PV                                                                  320
            Magazzini Generali Doganali Vercelli Srl
            Regione Bivio VC                                                                       749
            Monfer SpA
            Via Gramsci
            San Marino Siccomario PV                                                               871
            Cordero Sebastiano Srl
            Via Santuario 55
            Polonghera CN                                                                       3 060
            Magazzino Genal SpA
            Via Roma Sud 49
            Villa Poma MN                                                                       5 500
                                                               Lot No 2
                                                                                          Quantity of paddy rice
                                                Storage locations
                                                                                                 (tonnes)
            Magazzino Sannazzaro Silos Srl
            Via Umberto I n. 29
            Silvano Pietra PV                                                                   1 756
            Magazzino Ente Risi
            Via Roma 128
            Casalvolone NO                                                                         231
            Magazzino Ente Risi
            Via Roma
            Formigliana VC                                                                         126
            Magazzino Viglienzone Adriatica SpA
            Via Madonna di G 39
            Lugo di Ravenna RA                                                                  3 980
            Monfer SpA
            Via Gramsci
            San Marino Siccomario PV                                                            1 718
            Magazzino Immobiliare Agricola Alberetta Srl
            Via Mede 40
            Sartirana Lomellina PV                                                                 186
            Reda Maria
            Castello di Nebbione Carisio VC                                                        463
            Magazzino Sannazzaro Silos Srl
            Via Dell'Olmo 37
            Sannazzaro de Burgondi PV                                                              557
            Magazzino Grani e Risi Soc. Coop. arl
            Via Fronte I n. tronco 20
            Pontelangorino FE                                                                      870
            Magazzini Generali Raccordati Srl
            Via G. Visconti 18
            Novara                                                                                 195
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                                                            Lot No 3
                                                                                      Quantity of paddy rice
                                             Storage locations
                                                                                             (tonnes)
         Magazzino S.A.V. SpA
         Via S. Giuliano 43
         Sale (AL)                                                                          5 712
         Magazzino S.A.V. SpA
         Via della Rocca
         Villa del Foro (AL)                                                                5 257
                                                            Lot No 4
                                                                                      Quantity of paddy rice
                                             Storage locations
                                                                                             (tonnes)
         Magazzino Cordero Sebastiano Srl
         Via Santuario 55
         Polonghera CN                                                                      5 698
         Magazzino Monfer SpA
         Molo Garibaldi
         La Spezia                                                                          5 069
         Address of the intervention agency:
         Ente nazionale risi
         Piazza Pio XI, 1
         I-20123 Milan
         Tel.: (00-39) 2 87 41 54
         Fax: (00-39) 2 86 13 72