CELEX: 31979R2855
Language: en
Date: 1979-12-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2855/79 of 14 December 1979 opening an invitation to tender for the sale for export of baled tobacco held by the Italian intervention agency

19 . 12. 79                               Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 323 /7
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2855/79
                                                       of 14 December 1979
               opening an invitation to tender for the sale for export of baled tobacco held by
                                                  the Italian intervention agency
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       2. The export refunds set out in Article 9 of Regula­
COMMUNITIES,                                                         tion (EEC) No 727/70 shall not apply to exports
                                                                     resulting from this sale.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                                  Article 3
727/70 of 21 April 1970 on the common organization
of the market in raw tobacco ( ! ), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1 579/79 (2), and in particular                  The deadline for the submission of tenders at the
Articles 7 (4) and 9 (5) thereof,                                    headquarters of the Commission of the European
                                                                     Communities shall be at 1 p.m . local time on 7 March
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3389/73                       1980 .
of 13 December 1 973 (3) as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 31 3/79 (4), lays down the procedure
and conditions for the sale of tobacco held by inter­
vention agencies ;                                                                            Article 4
Whereas, on account of the problems caused by the
storage of baled tobacco, and in particular the costs of             The closing date referred to in Article 9 ( 1 ) of Regula­
storage, and in view of the quantities of tobacco avail­             tion (EEC) No 3389/73 for removal of the tobacco by
able on the internal Community market, an invitation                 the successful tenderer shall be as follows :
to tender should be opened for the sale of the tobacco
in lots ; whereas this tobacco should be intended for                — in the case of lot No 1 , on the 60th day following
export without refund ;                                                   that of the publication of the result of the
Whereas, in view of the size of lot No 2 and of the
                                                                          tendering procedure in the Official Journal of the
                                                                          European Communities,
fact that payment of the total amount of the lot is
made before the tobacco is removed, it should be
                                                                     — in the case of lot No 2 :
specified that, at the request of the successful tenderer,
the security should be released at the same rate as the                   (a) at the end of the sixth month following the
quantities of tobacco removed are being exported ;                            date of the publication of the result of the
                                                                              tendering procedure in the Official Journal of
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation                          the European Communities, in respect of at
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­                             least one-third of the lot ;
ment Committee for Tobacco,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                          (b) at the end of the 12th month following the
                                                                              said date in respect of a quantity which, in
                                                                              addition to the quantity previously withdrawn,
                             Article 1                                        represents at least two-thirds of the lot ;
Two lots of baled raw tobacco from the 1975 and                           (c) at the end of the 18th month following the
 1976 crops held by the Italian intervention agency of                        said date for the remaining tobacco.
a total weight of 13 464 507 kilograms divided by
varieties as shown in the Annex hereto, shall be sold                                         Article 5
for export.
                             Article 2                                1 . The security specified in Article 5 of Regulation
                                                                     (EEC) No 3389/73 must be lodged with the Azienda
 1.     The sale shall take place in accordance with the              di Stato per gli interventi nel mercato agricolo,
tendering procedure provided for in Regulation (EEC)                  sezione specializzata per il tabacco (AIMA), via Duccio
No 3389/73 .                                                          Galimberti 47, 00136 Rome, Italy.
(!)  OJ  No L 94, 28 . 4. 1970 , p. 1 .                               2.    The Commission shall inform the relevant inter­
(2)  OJ  No L  189 , 27. 7 . 1979, p. 1 .
(3 ) OJ  No L 345, 15. 12. 1973, p. 47.                               vention agency forthwith of the result of the sale by
H    OJ  No L 43, 20 . 2 . 1979 , p. 5 .                              tender. The agency shall immediately release the secu­
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rities of tenderers whose tenders were inadmissible or        ments in proportion to the quantities of tobacco in
who were unsuccessful .                                       respect of which the proofs referred to in Article 7 (c)
The securities of the successful tenderer or tenderers        of this Regulation have been provided.
shall be released once the conditions laid down in
                                                                                        Article 6
Article 7 (c) of that Regulation have been fulfilled.
                                                              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
3 . In the case of lot No 2 and on application by             following its publication in the Official Journal of
the person concerned, the security is released by instal­     the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 14 December 1979 .
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                        Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                           Vice-President
                                                          ANNEX
                                                                                          (in kv)
                                Varieties          Harvest               Weight
                            Erzegovina             1975                            818 472
                            Xanti-Yakà             1976                          2 461 963
                            Perustitza             1976                          3 610 767
                            Erzegovina             1976                          6 573 305
                                                                      Total     13 464 507