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10 . 1 . 79 No L 6/21 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 37/79 of 9 January 1979 on an invitation to tender for the refund for the export of common wheat to Zone IV

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Article 1 Economic Community, 1 . Tenders shall be invited for the export refund Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­ 2746/75. tion of the market in cereals (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1254/78 (2), 2. The invitation to tender shall relate to common wheat for export to Zone IV as defined in Annex I to Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Regulation (EEC) No 1124/77. 2746/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down general rules for granting export refunds on cereals and 3 . The invitation shall remain open until 17 May criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3), and 1979 . During this period weekly awards shall be in particular Article 5 thereof, made, the time limits for the submission of tenders to be as prescribed in the notice of invitation to tender. Whereas there is an exportable surplus of common wheat on the Community market ; whereas, so that it can be exported under the most favourable conditions, Article 2 an invitation to tender for the export refund should be opened ; whereas, for the sake of better control over A tender shall be valid only if it relates to an amount the refund amount to be granted and the quantities to of not less than 1 000 tonnes. be exported, the invitation to tender should be restricted to exports to Zone IV as defined in Annex I Article 3 to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 24/77 (4);

Whereas detailed rules for the application of the The tendering security referred to in Article 3 of Regu­ system of tendering for fixing export refunds have lation (EEC) No 279/75 shall be 10 units of account been adopted in Commission Regulation (EEC) No per tonne . 279/75 (5), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2944/78 (6) ; whereas among the obligations of Article 4 tenderers is that of lodging an application for an export licence ; whereas compliance with this obliga­ 1 . By way of derogation from the provisions of tion may be ensured by requiring tenderers to lodge a Article 9 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 193/75 (7), export tendering security of 10 units of account per tonne licences issued under Article 8 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) when they submit their tenders ; No 279/75 shall, for the purpose of determining their Whereas, in order to ensure equal treatment to all period of validity, be deemed to have been issued on concerned, it is necessary to specify that all licences the day on which the tender was submitted. issued be valid for equal lengths of time ; 2. Export licences issued in connection with this Whereas for the proper running of an invitation to invitation to tender shall be valid from their date of tender for export refunds a minimum representative issue, as defined in the previous paragraph, until the quantity must be specified and the time limit and end of the fourth month following that of issue. form of communication of the tenders submitted to the competent authorities ; Article 5 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ The tenders submitted must reach the Commission ment Committee for Cereals, through the intermediary of Member States at the latest one and a half hours after expiry of the period (») OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 . for the weekly submission of tenders as specified in (2) OJ No L 156, 14. 6. 1978, p. 1 . the notice of invitation to tender. They must be (3) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 78 . communicated in the form indicated in the Annex. (<) OJ No L 134, 28 . 5. 1977, p. 53 . (s) OJ No L 31 , 5. 2. 1975, p. 8 . *) OJ No L 351 , 15 . 12. 1978 , p. 6. (7) OJ No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 10.

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If no tenders are received, Member States shall inform summer time does not apply in those Member the Commission of this within the time limit indi­ States, cated in the preceding paragraph. — extended by one hour in the other Member States when the latter are applying summer time. Article 6 Article 7 The time limits fixed for the submission of tenders shall be : This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day — brought forward by one hour in Ireland and the following its publication in the Official Journal of United Kingdom during the period in which the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 9 January 1979 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

ANNEX

Weekly tender for the refund for the export of common wheat to Zone IV

Time limit for the submission of tenders (date/time)

1 2 3 Number of Quantity Amount of export refund in national currency tender in tonnes per tonne

1 2 II

3 i 4 5 I

etc.