CELEX: 32000R0535
Language: en
Date: 2000-03-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 535/2000 of 13 March 2000 amending Regulation (EC) No 1666/98 increasing to 501 362 tonnes the quantity of barley held by the Austrian intervention agency for which a standing invitation to tender for export has been opened

14.3.2000              EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                         L 65/3
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 535/2000
                                                            of 13 March 2000
               amending Regulation (EC) No 1666/98 increasing to 501 362 tonnes the quantity of barley held by
               the Austrian intervention agency for which a standing invitation to tender for export has been
                                                                    opened
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                       store. Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1666/98 must
                                                                                  therefore be amended.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                                (4)     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:
Whereas:
                                                                                                       Article 1
(1)     Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93 (3), as last
        amended by Regulation (EC) No 39/1999 (4), lays down              Regulation (EC) No 1666/98 is hereby amended as follows:
        the procedures and conditions for the disposal of cereals
        held by the intervention agencies.                                1. Article 2 is replaced by the following:
                                                                              ‘Article 2
(2)     Commission Regulation (EC) No 1666/98 (5), as last
        amended by Regulation (EC) No 2050/1999 (6), opened                   1. The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum of
        a standing invitation to tender for the export of 450 320             501 362 tonnes of barley to be exported to all third coun-
        tonnes of barley held by the Austrian intervention                    tries with the exception of the United States of America,
        agency. Austria informed the Commission of the inten-                 Canada and Mexico.
        tion of its intervention agency to increase by 51 042                 2. The regions in which the 501 362 tonnes of barley are
        tonnes the quantity for which a standing invitation to                stored are stated in Annex I to this Regulation.’
        tender for export has been opened. The total quantity of
        barley held by the Austrian intervention agency for               2. Annex I is replaced by the Annex hereto.
        which a standing invitation to tender for export has
        been opened should be increased to 501 362 tonnes.                                             Article 2
(3)     This increase in the quantity put out to tender makes it          This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
        necessary to alter the list of regions and quantities in          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, 13 March 2000.
                                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                                          Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                    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  211, 29.7.1998, p. 12.
(6) OJ L  255, 30.9.1999, p. 13.
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                                             ANNEX
                                           ‘ANNEX I
                                                                    (tonnes)
                            Place of storage               Quantity
          Niederösterreich/Wien/nördl. Burgenland         374 966
          Oberösterreich                                    95 503
          Steiermark/südl. Burgenland                       30 893’