31975R1732

8 . 7. 75 No L 177/5 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 1732/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 7 July 1975 on the opening of an invitation to tender for the sale for export of baled tobacco held by the Italian intervention agency

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Article 2 ' COMMUNITIES, The sale shall be effected by tender in accordance Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 3389/73. Economic Community ; Article 3 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 (!) of 21 April 1970 on the common organiza­ The closing date for the submission of tenders shall tion of the market in raw tobacco, as last amended by be 2 p.m . on 5 September 1975. the Act (2) concerning the conditions of accession and the adjustments to the Treaties, and in particular Article 4­ Article 7 (4) thereof ; The final date as referred to in Article 9 ( 1 ) of Regula­ Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No tion (EEC) No 3389/73 for removal of the tobacco by 3389/73 (3) of 13 December 1973, as last amended by the successful tenderer shall be the sixtieth day Regulation (EEC) No 1344/75 (4), lays down the proce­ following the date of publication of the result of the dure and conditions for the sale of tobacco held by sale by tender in the Official Journal of the Euro­ intervention agencies ; pean Communities. Whereas, on account of the problems caused by the storage of large quantities of baled tobacco from the Article 5 1971 harvest and of two lots from the 1970 harvest in The security specified in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) respect of which contracts were not awarded at the No 3389/73 shall be furnished in favour of the previous sale and in view of the quantity of tobacco Azienda di Stato per gli interventi nel mercato agri­ available on the internal Community market, an invita­ colo, sezione specializzata per il tabacco (AIMA), via tion to tender should be opened for the sale in lots of Duccio Galimberti 47, 00136 Rome, Italy. this tobacco ; whereas the sale should be for export only ; The Commission shall inform the AIMA forthwith of the result of the sale by tender. The AIMA shall Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation release forthwith the securities of those tenderers are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ ment Committee for Raw Tobacco, whose tenders were not validly submissible or were unsuccessful . The AIMA shall release the security of the successful tenderer or tenderers when the condi­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : tions laid down in Article 7 (c) of that Regulation have been fulfilled . Article 1 There shall be put up for sale for export 13 lots of Article 6 baled tobacco from the 1970 and 1971 crops held by the Italian intervention agency, of a total weight of This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day 9 650 434 kilogrammes and divided by varieties as following its publication in the Official Journal of shown in the Annex hereto . the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 7 July 1975 . For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 94, 28 . 4. 1970, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. (3) OJ No L 345, 15 . 12. 1973, p . 47. (?) OJ No L 137, 28 . 5 . 1975, p. 20 .

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ANNEX

Variety Crop year Weight ( kg)

Maryland 1970 29 473 Beneventano 1970 606 414 Burley 1971 3 099 404 Maryland 1971 27 726 Kentucky 1971 11337 Beneventano 1971 553 422 Nostrano 1971 712 193 Xanti Yakà 1971 3 798 139 Perustitza 1971 631 959 Erzegovina 1971 180 367 • Total 9 650 434