31976R0247

5. 2 . 76 No L 30 / 7 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 247 /76

of 4 February 1976

altering the frequency of partial invitations to tender for the export of sugar under Regulation ( EEC) No 2101 /75

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES, Article 1 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Article 4 ( 1 ), (2) and (3) of Regulation (EEC) No Economic Community, 2101 / 75 shall be amended to read as follows :

' Article 4 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­ 1 . The period during which tenders may be zation of the market in sugar (>), as last amended by submitted in response to the first partial invitation Regulation (EEC) No 3058/75 (2), and in particular to tender after 4 February 1976 shall begin on 5 Article 19 (4) thereof, February 1976 and shall end on Wednesday, 11 February 1976 at 10.00 hours. Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2. The period during which tenders may be 608/72 of 23 March 1972 laying down rules to be submitted in response to the second and applied in the case of considerable price rises on the subsequent invitations : world sugar market (3), and in particular Article 1 ( 1 ) thereof, (a) shall begin on the first working day following the end of the previous period ; Whereas under Commission Regulation (EEC) No (b) shall end at 10.00 hours on the Wednesday 2101 /75 of 1 1 August 1975 on a standing invitation to following the end of the previous period . tender in order to determine a levy and/or refund on 3 . By way of derogation from paragraph 2 (b), exports of white sugar (4), as amended by Regulation the period for the submission of tenders which ( EEC) No 2665/75 (5), the , Member States are to issue would otherwise end : partial invitations to tender every two weeks for the (a) on Wednesday, 17 March 1976, shall end on export of sugar from the marketing year 1975/76 ; 16 March 1976 at 10.00 hours ; whereas having regard to the availability of sugar in (b) on Wednesday, 2 June 1976, shall end on 3 the Community and the trend of prices on the world June 1976 at 10.00 hours ; market, partial invitations to tender should again be (c) on Wednesday, 14 and 21 July 1976, shall end issued every week ; whereas for administrative reasons provision should be made for derogations from such respectively on Tuesday, 13 and 20 July at 10.00 hours .' weekly interval ;

Article 2 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 February ment Committee for Sugar, 1976 .

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

Done at Brussels, 4 February 1976 .

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS

Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 3.59, 31 . 12 . 1974, p . 1 . (-') OJ No L 306, 26 . 11 . 1975 , p . 3 . (3 ) OJ No L 75 , 28 . 3 . 1972, p . 5 . (•*) OJ No L 214, 12 . 8 . 1975, p . .5 . (5 ) OJ No L 270 , 21 . 10 . 1975, p . 26.