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Language: en
Date: 1975-07-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 18 June 1975 on the opening of a standing invitation to tender for the export of 150 000 metric tons of common wheat held by the Belgian intervention agency

No L 182/32                              Official Journal of the European Communities                             12. 7. 75
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                                            (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                    COMMISSION
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 18 June 1975
               on the opening of a standing invitation to tender for the export of 150 000
                    metric tons of common wheat held by the Belgian intervention agency
                                      (Only the French and the Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                           (75/419/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      uniform price ; whereas it must accordingly bear the
COMMUNITIES,                                                        cost of transport from the place of storage to the
                                                                    points of exit stipulated ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;
                                                                    Whereas under Article 5 (5) of Regulation (EEC) No
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                         376/70 it may be provided that a tender shall be valid
67/ EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                 only if it is accompanied by an application for an
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­             export licence and by an application for advance
lation (EEC) No 665/75 (2), and in particular Article 7             fixing of the refund for the destination in question ;
(5) thereof ;                                                       whereas the intention of this provision is to facilitate
                                                                    assessment of the tender ;
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
376/70 (3 ) of 27 February 1970 laying down the proce­              Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1968/73 (5) of
dure and conditions for the disposal of cereals held by
                                                                    19 July 1973 laying down general rules to be applied
the intervention agencies, as last amended by Regula­
                                                                    in the event of the cereals market being disturbed, as
tion (EEC) No 1 29/73 (4), and in particular Article 5              last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 86/75 (6),
( 1 ) and (7) thereof ;
                                                                    makes provision for the fixing of an export levy ;
Whereas the Kingdom of Belgium in its communica­                    whereas pursuant to Article 3 (4) of that Regulation
tion of 4 June 1975 informed the Commission of the                  such levy may be subject to advance fixing ;
intention of the Belgian intervention agency to issue
an invitation to tender for the export of 1 50 000                  Whereas it is only possible to make a proper assess­
metric tons of common wheat ;                                       ment of a tender if the tender is linked with the
                                                                    export levy applicable on the day on which it is
Whereas the 1 50 000 metric tons of common wheat
                                                                    lodged ; whereas to this end it is appropriate to apply
to be tendered for will be exported from those of the                mutatis mutandis to the export levy the rules of
prescribed points of exit specified by the tenderers ;              Article 5 (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 376/70 together
whereas the common wheat is stored elsewhere ;
                                                                    with all the other provisions applicable in such cases ;
whereas the Belgian intervention agency, in order to
place all those participating in the invitation to tender
on the same competitive footing, must sell at a                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
                                                                    are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
(')  OJ  No  117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/67 .                        ment Committee for Cereals,
(')  OJ  No  L 72, 20 . 3 . 1975, p. 14.
(3)  OJ  No  L 47, 28 . 2. 1970, p. 49.                             (5) OJ No L 201 , 21 . 7. 1973, p. 10.
(4)  OJ  No  L 17, 20 . 1 . 1973, p. 17.                            (*) OJ No L 11 , 16. 1 . 1975, p. 2.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                       tions (EEC) No 2637/70 and (EEC) No 376/70
                                                                  applicable in the event of Article 5 (5) of the last­
                         Article 1                                named Regulation being applied.
The Belgian intervention may, in accordance with the         4. As regards those quantities of common wheat
provisions hereinafter set out, open a standing invita­       not stored or supplied as provided in the first and
tion to tender for the export of common wheat held            second indents of paragraph 2, successful tenderers
by it.                                                       shall be entitled to reimbursement by the Belgian
                                                              intervention agency in respect of the cost of transport
                         Article 2                           on the most favourable terms from the place of
                                                              storage to that place of embarkation at the ports speci­
1.     The invitation to tender shall relate to a quantity    fied in paragraph 1 which may be reached at the
of 1 50 000 metric tons of common wheat.                      lowest cost.
2.     The places in which the said common wheat is                                    Article 4
stored are listed in the Annex hereto .
                                                             The Belgian intervention agency shall specify in the
                         Article 3                            notice of invitation to tender the dates for the submis­
                                                              sion of tenders .
1 . The places for which a minimum selling price is
to be fixed in accordance with Article 5 (7) of Regula­      There must be at least 10 days between publication of
tion (EEC) No 376/70 are as follows : Antwerp, Ghent,         the notice of invitation to tender and the first date
Rotterdam and Amsterdam .                                     laid down for submission of tenders . The last date on
2.     Tenders must be made for one or more of these
                                                             which tenders may be submitted shall be                10
                                                              December 1975.
ports The tenderer shall specify the port or ports for
which this tender is made .
                                                                                       Article 5
Tenders shall be understood to relate to common
wheat which is either :                                      The Commission Decision of 4 February 1975 (') on
                                                              the opening of a standing invitation to tender for the
— stored in harbour silos from which it can be
                                                              export of 75 000 metric tons of common wheat held
     loaded directly into a seagoing vessel or into a         by the Belgian intervention agency is repealed.
     barge, or
— supplied undischarged at the place of embarkation                                    Article 6
     at the port.
                                                             This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
3.     Where an export refund or levy is applicable on        Belgium .
the day on which tenders are submitted, tenders shall
be valid only if accompanied by an application for an
export licence lodged by the tenderer and a corres­           Done at Brussels, 18 June 1975.
ponding application either :
— for advance fixing of the refund for the destination                                   For the Commission
     in question, or
                                                                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
— for advance fixing of the export levy. In this case
     there shall be applied those provisions of Regula­                              Member of the Commission
                                                             (') OJ No L 44, 18 . 2 . 1975, p. 24 .
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                                       ANNEX
                                                           (in metric tons)
                      Place of storage         Quantities stored
            Seilles                               13 000
            Floreffe                              15 500
            Brugge                                  4  500
            Meeffe                                12   000
            Marbais                                 3  000
            Poperinge                               2  000
            Verrebroek                              6 500
            Racourt                               25 000
            Liege                                  15 000
            Antwerpen                              10  000
            Gent                                  28    500
            Ath                                    10  000
            Bruxelles                                5 000