31985R1277
21 . 5. 85 No L 132/7 Official Journal of the European Communities
COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1277/85
of 20 May 1985
opening an invitation to tender for the sale for export of baled tobacco held by the Greek intervention agency
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Article 3 COMMUNITIES, The deadline for the submission of tenders at the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European headquarters of the Commission of the European Economic Community, Communities shall be at 12 noon, local time, on 18 July 1985 . Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 of 21 April 1970 on the common organization of the market in raw tobacco ('), as last amended by Regula Article 4 tion (EEC) No 1461 /82 (2), and in particular Article 7 (4) thereof, The closing date referred to in Article 9 ( 1 ) of Regula tion (EEC) No 3389/73 for removal of the tobacco by Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No the successful tenderer shall be : 3389/73 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 313/79 (4), lays down the procedure and conditions for (a) at the end of the fourth month following the date the sale of tobacco held by intervention agencies ; of publication of the result of the tendering proce dure in the Official Journal of the European Whereas, on account of the problems caused by the Communities, in respect of at least one-third of the storage of baled tobacco, and in particular the costs of lots ; storage, an invitation to tender should be opened for the sale of the tobacco in lots ; whereas this tobacco (b) at the end of the sixth month following the said date for the remaining tobacco. should be intended for export, without refund ;
Whereas payment for all these lots is made before the Article 5 tobacco is removed ; whereas it should be provided that, at the request of the successful tenderer, the secu 1 . The security specified in Article 5 of Regulation rity should be released progressively as the quantities (EEC) No 3389/73 must be lodged with and by the of tobacco are exported ; Ypiresia Diachirisis Agoron Georgikon Proionton Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation (YDAGEP) Acharnon 5, GR-Athens 108. are in accordance with the opinion of the Management 2. The Commission shall inform the relevant inter Committee for Tobacco, vention agency forthwith of the result of the sale by tender. The agency shall immediately release the secu rities of tenderers whose tenders were inadmissible or HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : who were unsuccessful .
Save as otherwise provided in the second subparagraph Article 1 of Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 3389/73, the secu rities of the successful tenderer or tenderers shall be Four lots of baled raw tobacco from the 1982 harvest, released once the conditions laid down in Article 7 (c) held by the Greek intervention agency, with a total of that Regulation have been fulfilled. weight of 4 246 018 kilograms divided by varieties as shown in the Annex hereto, shall be sold for export. 3. On application by the person concerned, the security shall be released by instalments in proportion Article 2 to the quantities of tobacco in respect of which the proof referred to in Article 7 (c) of the said Regulation has been furnished. The sale shall take place in accordance with the tendering procedure provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 3389/73 . Article 6
(') OJ No L 94, 28 . 4. 1970, p. 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day (2) OJ No L 164, 14. 6. 1982, p. 27. O OJ No L 345, 15. 12. 1973, p. 47. following its publication in the Official Journal of the (4) OJ No L 43, 20. 2. 1979, p. 5. European Communities.
No L 132/8 Official Journal of the European Communities 21 . 5. 85
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels, 20 May 1985.
For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President
ANNEX
Lot Weight Variety Harvest No (kilograms)
1 Kaba Koulak 1982 760 417 classic
2 Kaba Koulak 1982 814 141 non classic Basmas Virginia
3 Tsebelia 1982 1 597 077
4 Mavra 1982 1 074 383
Total 4 246 018