31983R3294

No L 326 / 10 23 . 11 . 83 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3294/83 of 21 November 1983 on an invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled long grain rice to certain third countries

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN (EEC) No 1431 /76, for zones I to VI of Annex I to COMMUNITIES, Regulation (EEC) No 11 24/77 (6). Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum of Economic Community, 50 000 tonnes of wholly milled long grain rice. Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2. The invitation to tender shall be open until 31 May 1984. During that period weekly invitations to 1418 /76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organization tender shall be issued and the date for submission of of the market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation tenders shall be determined in the notice of invitation (EEC) No 1566/83 (2), and in particular Article 17 to tender . thereof, 3 . The invitation to tender shall take place in accor­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No dance with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 1431 /76 of 21 June 1976 laying down general rules for 584/75 and with the following provisions. granting export refunds on rice and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3), and in particular Article 2 Article 4 thereof, A tender shall be valid only if it covers a quantity for Whereas examination of the balance sheet shows that export of at least 350 tonnes but not more than 10 000 substantial stocks of rice are currently held by produ­ tonnes . cers ; whereas this situation may affect the normal development of producer prices during the 1983/84 Article 3 marketing year ; The security referred to in Article 3 of Regulation Whereas, in order to remedy this situation, it is appro­ (EEC) No 584/75 shall be 30 ECU per tonne. priate to make use of export refunds to zones which may be supplied by the Community ; whereas the Article 4 special situation of the rice market makes it necessary 1 . Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21 ( 1 ) to limit the quantities of rice benefiting from the of Regulation (EEC) No 3183/80, export licences refunds, and therefore to apply Article 4 of Regulation issued within this invitation to tender shall , for the (EEC) No 1431 /76 enabling the amount of refund to purposes of determining their period of validity, be be fixed by tendering procedure ; considered as having been issued on the day the tender was submitted . Whereas it should be stated that the provisions of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 584/75 of 6 March 2 . The licences shall be valid from their date of 1975 laying down detailed rules for the application of issue, within the meaning of paragraph 1 , until the the system of tendering for export refunds on rice (4), end of the third month following. as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3491 /80 Is), apply to this invitation to tender ; Article 5 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Tenders submitted must reach the Commission are in accordance with the opinion of the Management through the Member States not later than one and a Committee for Cereals, half hours after expiry of the time limit for weekly submission of tenders as laid down in the notice of invitation to tender. They must be transmitted in HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : accordance with the table given in the Annex.

If no tenders are submitted, the Member States shall Article 1 inform the Commission accordingly within the same time limit as that given in the above subparagraph . 1 . An invitation to tender is hereby opened, for the export refund referred to in Article 4 of Regulation Article 6

(') OJ No L 166, 25 . 6 . 1976, p. 1 . The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian time . 0 OJ No L 163, 22. 6 . 1983, p. 5. (3) OJ No L 166, 25 . 6 . 1976, p. 36 . (4) OJ No L 61 , 7. 3 . 1975, p. 25. n OJ No L 365, 31 . 12. 1980 , p. 15. (6) OJ No L 134, 28 . 5 . 1977, p. 53 .

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1 . ' On the basis of tenders submitted, the Commis­ The time limit for submission of tenders for the first sion shall decide in accordance with the procedure partial invitation to tender shall expire on 15 laid down in Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No December 1983 at 11 a.m. (Belgian time). 1418 /76 : — either to fix a maximum export refund, taking The final date for submission of tenders is hereby account of the criteria laid down in Articles 2 and fixed at 31 May 1984. 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 1431 /76, — or not to take any action on the tenders. Article 9 2. Where a maximum export refund is fixed, an award shall be made to the tenderer or tenderers This Regulation shall enter into force on the day whose tenders are at or below the maximum export following its publication in the Official Journal of the refund level . European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 November 1983 .

For the Commission Poul DALSAGER Member of the Commission

ANNEX

Weekly invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled long grain rice to certain third countries

(Closing date for the submission of tenders (date/time))

1 2 3

Serial number Quantities Amount of export refund of tenders \ in tonnes in national currency per tonne

1 2 3 \

4 Il\

5 ||\

etc. I