31977R1372

25 . 6 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 156/ 33

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1372/77 of 24 June 1977 amending Regulation (EEC) No 937 /77 as regards sugar exported pursuant to certain invitations to tender

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN issued after 26 April 1977 ; whereas for that reason it COMMUNITIES , is necessary to relate the final date for the issue of export licences to the partial invitation to tender Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European which closed on 20 April 1977 ; Economic Community, Whereas successful tenderers under the partial invita­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No tion to tender which closed on 20 April 1977 878 /77 of 26 April 1977 on the exchange rates to be pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC) No applied in agriculture ('), and in particular Article 5 thereof, 2732/76 of 10 November 1976 on a standing invita­ tion to tender for white sugar held by the German Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 878/77 intervention agency and intended for export (4), as last provides that, in the event of alterations to the repre­ amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 703 /77 (5), are in sentative rates and in so far as those alterations are the same situation as the tenderers mentioned above ; disadvantageous to the party concerned, Council Regu­ whereas they should therefore also be brought within lation (EEC) No 1 134/68 of 30 July 1968 laying down the scope of Regulation (EEC) No 937/77 ; rules for the implementation of Regulation (EEC) No 653 / 68 on conditions for alterations to the value of Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ the unit of account used for the common agricultural ment Committee for Sugar, policy (2), was to apply ; whereas, however, the said Article 4 makes provision for the disadvantage to be HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : offset by an appropriate measure ; Whereas as regards sugar the compensation was fixed Article 1 by Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 937/77 of 29 April 1977 laying down detailed rules The first subparagraph of Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No (EEC) No 937/ 77 is amended to read as follows : 878 /77 on the exchange rates to be applied in agricul­ ' 1 . The compensation referred to in the second ture (3 ) ; whereas that compensation relates to quanti­ subparagraph of Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EEC) ties of white sugar exported on or after 1 July 1977 in No 878 /77 shall be granted for white sugar in pursuance of partial invitations to tender under Regu­ respect of which the customs export formalities lation (EEC) No 2101 /75 and for which an export are completed on or after 1 July 1977 on the basis licence was issued before 26 April 1977 ; of export licences issued in connection with awards made before 26 April 1977 under partial Whereas the provisions laid down in respect of the invitations to tender pursuant to Regulations invitation to tender in question include the obligation (EEC) No 2101 /75 and (EEC) No 2732/76 .' for the successful tenderer to apply for an export licence within 10 days of the closure of the partial Article 2 invitation to tender ; whereas the last partial invitation to tender prior to 26 April 1977 closed on 20 April This Regulation shall enter into force on the day 1977 ; whereas it was not thus possible for licences following its publication in the Official Journal of qualifying for the compensation in question to be the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 24 June 1977 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

(') OJ No L 106 , 29 . 4 . 1977 , p . 27 . H Of No L 1X8 , I. 8 . 1968 , p . I. (<) OJ No L .310 , II . 11 . 1976, p . 17. ( j ) OJ No L 1 10 , 10 . 4 . 1977 , p . 1 . ( 5 ) OJ No L 86 , 2 . 4 . 1977 , p . 5 .