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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3402/84 of 3 December 1984 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 > Regulation (EEC) No 11 24/77 (6), as last amended by COMMUNITIES , Regulation (EEC) No 3634/83 (7).

The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, 50 000 tonnes of wholly milled long grain rice.

2. The invitation to tender shall be open until 30 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No May 1985. 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 1 025/84 (2), and in particular Article 5 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 250 tonnes but not more than 5 000 substantial stocks of rice are currently held by produ­ tonnes . cers ; whereas this situation may affect the normal development of producer prices during the 1984/85 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 50 ECU per tonne. priate to make use of export refunds to zones which Article 4 may be supplied by the Community ; whereas the 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 (5), 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 1 . An invitation to tender is hereby opened, for the time limit as that given in the above subparagraph. export refund referred to in Article 4 of Regulation Article 6 (EEC) No 1431 /76, for zones I to VI of Annex I to The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian (■) OJ No L 166, 25. 6 . 1976, p. 1 . time . (2) OJ No L 107, 19 . 4. 1984, p. 13 . 0 OJ No L 166, 25. 6 . 1976, p. 36 . (4) OJ No L 61 , 7. 3 . 1575, p. 25. (6) OJ No L 134, 28 . 5. 1977, p. 53 . O OJ No L 365, 31 . 12. 1980 , p. 15 . O OJ No L 360, 23 . 12. 1983, p. 21 .

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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 20 laid down in Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No December 1984 at 10 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 30 May 1985. 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, 3 December 1984 .

For the Commission

Poul DALSAGER Member of the Commission

ANNEX

Weekly invitation to tender for the rfefund 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 5 etc .