31981R3184

No L 318 / 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 7 . 11 . 81

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 3184/81 of 6 November 1981 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1878/81 opening a standing invitation to tender for the sale for export of olive oil held by the Italian intervention agency

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN sions of this Regulation and of Regulation (EEC) COMMUNITIES, No 2960/77 (! ) for the sale for export of about 12 000 tonnes of extra quality virgin olive oil and Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European about 4 000 tonnes of olive residue oil out of inter­ Economic Community, vention purchases made during the 1980/81 olive Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC oil marketing year at a rate of 2 000 tonnes per of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a month for each quality, this latter quantity being common organization of the market in oils and increased the following month by any quantity of fats ( !), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No olive oil remaining unsold from the previous invita­ tions to tender. 3454/80 (2), and in particular Article 12 (4) thereof, Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1878/81 (3) provided for the sale of some 12 000 (!) OJ No L 348 , 30 . 12. 1977, p. 46. tonnes of extra virgin olive oil by six monthly invita­ tions to tender, the last of which took place at the end 2. The following Article 3a is added : of December 1981 ; 'Article 3 a Whereas there exists the possibility of exporting olive 1 . With regard to olive residue oil , tenders shall residue oil ; whereas further sales should be provided be made for an oil of 5° acidity. for ; 2. Where the oil awarded has a different degree Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation of acidity from that for which the tender was are in accordance with the ' opinion of the Manage­ submitted, the price to be paid shall be equal to ment Committee for Oils and Fats, the price tendered, reduced in accordance with the scale below : HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : — above 5° up to 8° acidity : reduction of Lit 1 472 for each degree or frac­ Article 1 tion of degree of acidity above 5° , — above 8 : Regulation (EEC) No 1878/81 is hereby amended as follows : additional reduction of Lit 1 840 for each degree or fraction of degree above 8° .' 1 . In Article 1 , the first paragraph is replaced by the following : Article 2 ' 1 . The Italian intervention agency 'Azienda di Stato per gli interventi sul mercato agricolo', here­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its inafter referred to as 'AIMA', shall open a standing publication in the Official Journal of the European invitation to tender in accordance with the provi­ Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 6 November 1981 .

For the Commission Poul DALSAGER Member of the Commission

(!) OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p. 3025/66. (2) OJ No L 360 , 31 . 12. 1980, p. 16 . (3 ) OJ No L 187, 9 . 7 . 1981 , p. 16.