31990R0014

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 14/90 of 4 January 1990 opening an invitation to tender for the sale of olive oil held by the Italian intervention agency

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, shall be put up for sale under a second invitation to tender. Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Article 2

Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC of The invitation to tender shall be published on 1 1 January 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common 1990. organization of the market in oils and fats ('), as last Particulars of the lots of oil offered for sale and of the amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2902/89 (2), and in places where they are stored shall be displayed at the particular Article 12 (4) thereof, central office of AIMA, via Palestro 81 , 1-00185 Rome. Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No A copy of the invitation to tender shall be sent without 2754/78 (3), provides that olive oil held by the delay to the Commission. intervention agencies shall be put up for sale by tender ;

Article 3 Whereas, pursuant to Article 12 (1 ) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC, the Italian intervention agency holds certain The first series of tenders must reach AIMA at the central quantities of olive oil ; office, via Palestro 81 , 1-00185 Rome not later than 2 p.m. (local time) on 2 February 1990 . Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2960/77 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3818/85 0, laid The next series of tenders must be lodged by 2 p.m. (local down the conditions for the sale by tender on the time) on 6 March 1990. Community market and for export of olive oil ; whereas the state of the market in olive oil is at present favourable Article 4 for the sale of part of the said oil ; 1 . With regard to lampante virgin olive oil, tenders Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are shall be submitted for an oil of 5° acidity. in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Oils and Fats, With regard to crude olive-pomace oil, tenders shall be submitted for an oil of 10° acidity.

2. Where the oil awarded has a different degree of HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : acidity from that for which the tender was submitted, the price to be paid shall be equal to the price tendered, increased or reduced in accordance with the scale below : Article 1 A. Lampante virgin olive oil : — up to 5° acidity : The Italian intervention agency, 'Azienda di Stato per gli increase of Lit 538,2 for each tenth of a degree of interventi nel mercato agricolo', hereinafter referred to as acidity below 5° , 'AIMA*, shall open an invitation to tender in accordance with the provisions of this Regulation and of Regulation — above 5° up to 8° acidity : (EEC) No 2960/77 for the sale on the Community market reduction of Lit 538,2 for each tenth of a degree of of the following quantities of olive oil : acidity above 5P , — approximately 3 800 tonnes of lampante virgin olive — above 8° : oil, additional reduction of Lit 588,7 for each tenth of — approximately 1 200 tonnes of crude olive-pomace oil . a degree above 8° ;

Half of the quantities set out above shall be put up for B. Olive-pomace oil : sale under a first invitation to tender. The other half and — below 10° down to 8° acidity : any quantities unsold under the first invitation to tender an increase of Lit 350 for each tenth of a degree of acidity below 10° , (') OJ No 172, 30. 9 . 1966, p. 3025/66. e) OJ No L 280, 29. 9. 198 9, p . 2. — below 8° : (3) OJ No L 331 , 28 . 11 . 1978, p. 13. an additional increase of Lit 300 for each tenth of 0 OJ No L 348, 30. 12. 1977, p. 46. 0 OJ No L 368, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 20. a degree below 8° ,

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— above 10 : Article 7 a reduction of Lit 350 for each tenth of a degree The olive oil shall be sold by AIMA not later than the above 10° . seventh day of each month following that during which the tenders were submitted. Article 5 Article 8 Not later than three days after the expiry of the time limit laid down for the submission of tenders, AIMA shall send The security referred to in Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) the Commission a list, without mentioning names, stating No 2960/77 shall be Lit 30 000 per 100 kilograms. the highest tenders received for each iot put up for sale. Article 9 Article 6 The storage charge referred to in Article 15 of Regulation The minimum selling price shall be fixed, in accordance (EEC) No 2960/77 shall be Lit 4 000 per 100 kilograms. with the procedure laid down in Article 38 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC, on the basis of the tenders received, not Article 10 later than the last working day of the month during which the tenders were submitted. The decision fixing the This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its minimum selling price shall be notified forthwith to the publication in the Official Journal of the European Member State concerned. Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 4 January 1990 .

For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission