31988R2061
No L 181 /32 Official Journal of the European Communities 12. 7 . 88
COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2061/88
of 11 July 1988
opening an invitation to tender for the sale for export of baled tobacco held by the Greek intervention agency
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Article 3
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European The deadline for the submission of tenders at the head Economic Community, quarters of the Commission of the European Communi ties shall be at 3' p.m. local time, on 9 September 1988 . 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 Regulation (EEC) Article 4 No 1114/88 (2), and in particular Article 7(4) thereof,
The closing date referred to in Article 9 (1 ) of Regulation Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3389/73 (3), (EEC) No 3389/73 for removal of the tobacco by the as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3263/85 (4), lays successful tenderer shall be : down the procedure and conditions for the sale of tobacco held by intervention agencies ; (a) at the end of the fourth month following the date of publication of the result of the tendering procedure in Whereas, on account of the problems caused by the the Official Journal of the European Communities, storage of baled tobacco, and in particular the costs of in respect of at least one-third of the lots ; storage, an invitation to tender should be opened for the sale of the tobacco in lots ; whereas this tobacco should be (b) at the end of the sixth month following the said date intended for export, without refund ; for the remaining tobacco.
Whereas payment for all these lots is made before the tobacco is removed ; whereas it should be provided that, Article 5 at the request of the successful tenderer, the security should be released progressively as the quantities of 1 . The security specified in Article 5 of Regulation tobacco are exported ; (EEC) No 3389/73 must be lodged with and by the Ypiresia Diachirisis Agoron Georgikon Proionton Whereas the Management Committee for Tobacco has (YDAGEP), Acharnon 5, GR-Athens 108 . not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its chairman, 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 secur ities of tenderers whose tenders were inadmissible or who HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : were unsuccessful .
Save as otherwise provided in the second subparagraph of Article 1 Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 3389/73, the securities of the successful tenderer or tenderers shall be released once the conditions laid down in Article 7 (c) of that Two lots of baled raw tobacco from the 1985 and 1986 Regulation have been fulfilled. harvests, held by the Greek intervention agency, with a total weight of 5 821 891 kilograms divided by varieties as 3. On application by the person concerned, the secur shown in the Annex hereto, shall be sold for export. ity shall be released by instalments in proportion to the quantities of tobacco in respect of whiqh the proof referred to in Article 7 (c) of the said Regulation has been Article 2 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 (*) OJ No L 110, 29. 4. 1988, p. 35. (3) OJ No L 345, 15. 12. 1973, p. 47. following its publication in the Official Journal of the 0 OJ No L 311 , 22. 11 . 1985, p. 22. European Communities.
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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 11 July 1988 .
For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President
ANNEX
Lot Weight Variety Harvest No (kilograms)
1 Burley 1985 1 200 643 Basmas 1986 1 734 385
2 935 028 \
2 Burley 1985 , 1 152 363 Basmas 1986 1 734 500
2 886 863 \
Total 5 821 891