31982R1364

No L 153 / 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 3 . 6 . 82

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1364/82 of 28 May 1982 opening an invitation to tender for the sale for export of baled tobacco held by the Italian intervention agency

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN 9 463 568 kilograms divided by varieties as shown in COMMUNITIES, the Annex hereto, shall be sold for export.

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Article 2

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 The sale shall take place in accordance with the ten­ of 21 April 1970 on the common organization of the dering procedure provided for in Regulation (EEC) No market in raw tobacco ('), as last amended by the Act 3389/73 . of Accession of Greece, and in particular Article 7 (4) thereof, Article 3 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3389/73 The deadline for the submission of tenders at the of 13 December 1973 (2), as last amended by Regula­ headquarters of the Commission of the European tion (EEC) No 313/79 (3), lays down the procedure and Communities shall be at 1 p.m . local time on 21 conditions for the sale of tobacco held by intervention September 1982. agencies ;

Whereas, on account of the problems caused by the Article 4 storage of baled tobacco, and in particular the costs of storage, and in view of the quantities of tobacco The closing date referred to in Article 9 ( 1 ) of Regula­ available on the internal Community market, an invi­ tion (EEC) No 3389/73 for removal of the tobacco by tation to tender should be opened for the sale of the the successful tenderer shall be as follows : tobacco in lots ; whereas this tobacco should be — for lots 1 , 2 and 3 : intended for export, without refund ; Whereas, in view of the size of the lots and the diffi­ (a) at the end of the sixth month following the date of publication of the result of the ten­ culties already encountered in selling baled tobacco of dering procedure in the Official Journal of the the Beneventano variety at present in storage, it is European Communities, in respect of at least necessary to provide that each lot of tobacco offered one third of the lots ; for sale containing baled tobacco of the Beneventano variety should also contain baled tobacco of other (b) at the end of the ninth month following the varieties ; said date for the remaining tobacco ; Whereas, in view of the size of lots 1 , 2 and 3 and of — for lot 4 on the sixtieth day following the date of publication of the result of the tendering proce­ the fact that payment for all these lots is made before the tobacco is removed, it should be provided that, at dure in the Official Journal of the European Communities. the request of the successful tenderer, the security should be released progressively as the quantities of tobacco are exported ; Article 5

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation 1 . The security specified in Article 5 of Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management (EEC) No 3389/73 must be lodged with the Azienda Committee for Tobacco , di Stato per gli interventi nel mercato agricolo, sezione specializzata per il tabacco (AIMA), via Duccio Galim­ berti 47 , 00136 I-Roma. HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : By way of derogation from Article 5 ( 1 ) of Regulation Article 1 (EEC) No 3389/73 the amount of the security per lot of tobacco of the Scafati variety shall be fixed at 0-718 Four lots of baled raw tobacco from the 1974, 1975 , ECU per kilogram . 1976 , 1977, 1978 and 1979 harvests, held by the Italian intervention agency, with a total weight of 2 . The Commission shall inform the relevant inter­ vention agency forthwith of the result of the sale by tender. The agency shall immediately release the (>) OJ No L 94, 28 . 4. 1970, p . 1 . securities of tenderers whose tenders were inadmissible (2) OJ No L 345, 15 . 12. 1973 , p. 47. 3) OJ No L 43 , 20 . 2. 1979, p . 5. or who were unsuccessful .

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Save as otherwise provided in the second subparagraph ments in proportion to the quantities of tobacco in of Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 3389/73, the respect of which the proof referred to in Article 7 (c) securities of the successful tenderer or tenderers shall of the said Regulation has been furnished. be released once the conditions laid down in Article 7 (c) of that Regulation have been fulfilled. Article 6

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day 3 . For lots 1 , 2 and 3, on application by the person following its publication in the Official Journal of the concerned, the security shall be released by instal­ European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 May 1982. For the Commission Poul DALSAGER Member of the Commission

ANNEX

Lot Weight Variety Harvest No (kg)

1 Badischer Geudertheimer 1979 313 476 Forchheimer Havanna 1979 1 519 948 Beneventano 1974, 1976 and 1977 1 175 705

3 009 129

2 Burley 1979 1 837 666 Maryland 1979 13 718 Beneventano 1975, 1976, 1978 and 1979 1 059 478

2 910 862

3 Kentucky 1978 2 397 529 Beneventano 1974, 1975 and 1978 1 106 112

3 503 641

4 Scafati 1976 and 1979 39 936

TOTAL 9 463 568