31992R0534

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 534/92 of 27 February 1992 opening individual sales by invitation to tender for the export of vinous alcohol held by intervention agencies

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, hectolitres of alcohol obtained from distillation as provided for in Articles 35, 36 and 39 of Regulation (EEC) Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European No 822/87 and held by the Spanish and Italian Economic Community, intervention agencies. Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 of Each of the individual invitations to tender Nos 75/92 16 March 1987 on the common organization of the and 76/92 shall cover 66 000 hi of alcohol at 100 % vol . market in wine ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) The individual to tender No 77/92 shall cover 68 000 hi No 1734/91 (2), of alcohol at 100 % vol. Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/88 of 12 December 1988 laying down general rules for the 2 . The alcohol offered for sale : disposal of alcohol obtained from the distillation — shall be for export to outside the European Economic operations referred to in Articles 35, 36 and 39 of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 and held by intervention Community, agencies (3), — must be imported into and dehydrated in one of the following third countries : Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1780/89 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3776/91 0, lays — Guatemala, down detailed rules for the disposal of alcohol obtained — Belize, from distillation as provided for in Articles 35, 36 and 39 of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 and held by intervention — Honduras, including the Swan Islands, agencies ; — El Salvador,

Whereas, in view of the cost of storing alcohol, individual — Costa Rica, sales by invitation to tender should be opened for vinous — St Christopher and Nevis, alcohol obtained from distillation as provided for in — Haiti, Articles 35, 36 and 39 of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 and held by the Spanish and Italian intervention — Bahamas, agencies ; — Dominican Republic, Whereas individual sales by invitation to tender should be — Antigua and Barbuda, organized for the export of alcohol to certain third — Dominica, countries for end use as motor fuel ; whereas these countries should be given an assurance of greater — British Virgin Islands and Montserrat, continuity of supply ; — Jamaica, — St Lucia, Whereas the invitations to tender opened by this Regulation relate to certain third countries where there is — St Vincent, including the Northern Grenadines, some guarantee that exports of vinous alcohol will not — Barbados, disturb their markets in alcohol and spirituous beverages ; whereas the amount of and detailed rules for the release — Trinidad and Tobago, of the performance security may be adapted accordingly ; — Grenada, including the Southern Grenadines, — Aruba, Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management — Netherlands Antilles : Curasao, Bonaire, St Committee for Wine, Eustace, Saba and the southern part of St Martin, — Guyana, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : — Virgin Islands of the United States,

— must be used only as motor fuel. Article 1

1 . Three individual sales by invitation to tender Nos Article 2 75/92 to 77/92 shall be held of a total quantity of 200 000 The location and reference numbers of the vats (') OJ No L 84, 27. 3 . 1987, p. 1 . concerned, the quantity of alcohol contained in each vat, 0 OJ No L 163, 26. 6. 1991 , p. 6. the alcoholic strength and the characteristics of the (3) OJ No L 346, 15. 12. 1988 , p. 7. (4) OJ No L 178, 24. 6. 1989, p. 1 . alcohol shall be specified in the notices of individual 0 OJ No L 356, 24. 12. 1991 , p. 43 . invitation to tender Nos 75/92 to 77/92.

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Article 3 one of these countries and to export it for use solely in the motor fuel sector. The sales shall take place in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 1780/89, and in particular Articles 10 to 17 and 29 to 38 thereof. Article 4

However : — one half of the performance security shall be released The specific conditions applying to the three individual sales by invitation to tender and the names and addresses by the intervention agency holding the alcohol on removal of the quantity concerned from the agency's of the intervention agencies concerned shall be given in the notices of individual invitation to tender Nos 75/92 to stores when the successful tenderer furnishes proof that that quantity has been placed under customs 77/92 and published in the Official Journal of the supervision in the territory of one of the third European Communities. countries listed in Article 1 (2), — the remainder of the performance security shall be Article 5 released in accordance with Article 33 (3) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1780/89. The deadline for the submission of tenders, which must be sent to the address given in the notices of invitation to In addition, to be admissible, tenders must indicate the tender, shall be 12 noon (Brussels time) on 20 March place where end use of the alcohol awarded is to take 1992. place and must include an undertaking by the tenderer to the effect that the alcohol will be sent to that destination and used for that purpose. Tenders must also include a Article 6 statement by the tenderer to the effect that he has binding commitments with an operator in the motor fuel This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its sector in one of the third countries listed in Article 1 (2) publication in the Official Journal of the European who has undertaken to dehydrate the alcohol awarded in Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 February 1992.

For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission