CELEX: 31999R1768
Language: en
Date: 1999-08-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1768/1999 of 10 August 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 increasing to 1 404 507 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 211/28               EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                   11. 8. 1999
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1768/1999
                                                            of 10 August 1999
               amending Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 increasing to 1 404 507 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,                                       ities in store; whereas Annex I to Regulation (EC) No
                                                                                  1759/98 must therefore be amended;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                                (4)     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 of 30                        Committee for Cereals,
June 1992 on the common organisation of the market in
cereals (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1253/
1999 (2), and in particular Article 5 thereof,                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
(1)     Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93 ( ),       3
        as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 39/1999 (4), lays                                        Article 1
        down the procedures and conditions for the disposal of            Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 is hereby amended as follows:
        cereals held by the intervention agencies;
                                                                          1. Article 2 is replaced by the following:
(2)     Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1759/98 (5),
        as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1395/1999 (6),                  ‘Article 2
        opened a standing invitation to tender for the export of              1.     The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum of
        1 091 530 tonnes of barley held by the United Kingdom                 1 404 507 tonnes of barley for export to third countries,
        intervention agency; whereas the United Kingdom                       with the exception of the United States of America, Canada
        informed the Commission of the intention of its inter-                and Mexico.
        vention agency to increase by 312 977 tonnes the                      2.     The regions in which the 1 404 507 tonnes of barley
        quantity for which a standing invitation to tender for                are stored are stated in Annex I to this Regulation’
        export has been opened; whereas the total quantity of
        barley held by the United Kingdom intervention agency             2. Annex I is replaced by the Annex hereto.
        for which a standing invitation to tender for export has
        been opened should be increased to 1 404 507 tonnes;                                           Article 2
(3)     Whereas this increase in the quantity put out to tender           This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
        makes it necessary to alter the list of regions and quant-        tion 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
(1) OJ L  181, 1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L  160, 26.6.1999, p. 18.
(3) OJ L  191, 31.7.1993, p. 76.
(4) OJ L  5, 9.1.1999, p. 64.
(5) OJ L  221, 8.8.1998, p. 8.
(6) OJ L  163, 29.6.1999, p. 33.
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                                            ANNEX
                                           ‘ANNEX I
                                                                      (tonnes)
                              Place of storage               Quantity
               Aberdeenshire                                 18 433
               Angus                                          9 684
               Bedfordshire                                  13 381
               Berwickshire                                  69 810
               Cambridgeshire                                16 761
               Dorset                                        22 436
               Dumfries                                      34 709
               East Lothian                                  56 265
               Edinburgh                                     33 570
               Essex                                          8 760
               Fife                                          21 791
               Gloucester                                    25 314
               Gloucestershire                               64 546
               Keith                                          7 852
               Leicestershire                                11 753
               Lincolnshire                                 193 316
               Mid Lothian                                   12 074
               Norfolk                                       90 949
               North Humberside                              64 252
               North Lincolnshire                            49 246
               Northamptonshire                              26 888
               Northumberland                                10 040
               Norwich                                       44 789
               Nottinghamshire                               20 700
               Pocklington York                              12 876
               Salisbury                                     45 901
               Shropshire                                    40 515
               Somerset                                       8 240
               Strathclyde                                  110 735
               Suffolk                                       33 275
               Taunton                                       13 744
               Tayside                                       40 390
               West Sussex                                   29 365
               Wiltshire                                     10 911
               Worcestershire                                50 700
               York                                          75 135
               Yorkshire                                      5 401’