31989R2000

No L 191 / 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 6 . 7 . 89

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2000/89 of 5 July 1989 on the sale of olive oil residues held by the Italian intervention agency

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, (EEC) No 325/89 (4), because of the level of the offers received ; whereas they should therefore, the same terms Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European applying, be again put up for sale ; Economic Community, Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC of in accordance with the opinion of the Management 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common Committee for Oils and Fats, organization of the market in oils and fats ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1225/89 (2), and in particular Article 12 thereof, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No Article 1 2754/78 (') provides that olive oil held by the intervention agencies shall be put up for sale by tender except when 1 . The Italian intervention agency, 'Azienda di Stato particular conditions necessitate recourse to other per gli interventi nel mercato agricolo', hereinafter procedures ; referred to as 'AIMA', shall sell for the best price it can obtain, all vat bottom residues which it is holding as a Whereas, during the marketing years from 1985/86 to result of its purchases on the olive oil market until the 1987/88 , approximately 70 000 tonnes of olive oil of all 1987/88 marketing year. qualities held by the Italian intervention agency were sold by tender ; whereas following these sales the intervention 2. The notice of sale shall be displayed by AIMA at its agency still holds in stock a quantity of vat bottom head office at Via Palestro, 81 , 1-00185 Rome, Italy for at residues ; whereas these residues contain a considerable least 10 days before the date set for the sale. percentage of oil ; whereas correct management of the intervention agency's purchases of olive oil requires that 3 . Sale of the product referred to in paragraph 1 shall these residues should therefore be sold ; be effected before 15 September 1989 . Delivery of the product sold must take place before 30 November 1989. Whereas, for commercial reasons based chiefly on the fact that there is no well-defined market or price system for AIMA shall inform the Commission as soon as possible of the outcome of the sale . the product in question, it is not advisable to use the sale by tender procedure previously adopted for the olive oil ; whereas the intervention agency should therefore sell the Article 2 product for the best price it can obtain ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its Whereas it has not been possible to sell the residues in publication in the Official Journal of the European question, as provided for in Commission Regulation Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 5 July 1989 .

For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission \

(') OJ No 172, 30. 9- 1966, p. 3025/66 . (J) OJ No L 128, 11 . 5. 1989, p. 15. O OJ No L 331 , 28 . 11 . 1978, p. 13 . (4) OJ No L 38 , 10 . 2. 1989, p. 16.