31992R2749

No L 279/ 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 23 . 9 . 92

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2749/92 of 21 September 1992 opening an invitation tender for the refund on export of wholly milled medium grain and long grain A rice to certain third countries

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, shall be issued and the date for submission of tenders shall be determined in the notice of invitation to tender. Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, 3. The invitation to tender shall take place in accord­ ance with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 584/75 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 and with the following provisions. of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 674/92 (2), and in particular Article 17 thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1431 /76 of 21 June 1976 laying dwn general rules for granting Article 2 export refunds on rice and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3), and in particular Article 4 thereof, A tender shall be valid only if it covers a quantity for export of at least 50 tonnes but not more than 5 000 Whereas examination of the balance sheet shows that tonnes. exportable amounts of rice are currently held by pro­ ducers ; whereas this situation could affect the normal development of producer prices during the 1992/93 Article 3 marketing year ; The security referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) Whereas, in order to remedy this situation, it is appro­ No 584/75 shall be ECU 20 per tonne. priate to make use of export refunds to zones which may be supplied by the Comrtiunity ; whereas the special situ­ ation of the rice market makes it necessary to limit the Article 4 refunds, and therefore to apply Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1431 /76 enabling the refund amount to be 1 . Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21 (1 ) of fixed by tendering procedure ; Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 Q, export Whereas it should be stated that the provisions of licences issued within this invitation to tender shall, for Commission Regulation (EEC) No 584/75 of 6 March the purposes of determining their period of validity, be 1975 laying down detailed rules for the application of the considered as having been issued on the day the tender was submitted . system of tendering for export refunds on rice (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 409/90 (*), apply to this invitation to tender ; 2. The licences shall be valid from their date of issue, within the meaning of paragraph 1 , until the end of the Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are third month following. in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Cereals, Article 5

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Tenders submitted must reach the Commission through the Member States not later than one and a half hours Article 1 after expiry of the time limit for weekly submission of tenders as laid down in the notice of invitation to tender. They must be transmitted in accordance with the table 1 . An invitation to tender is hereby opened, for the given in the Annex. export refund referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1431 /76, for Zones II (a), (b), (d) and III as specified in If no tenders are submitted, the Member States shall Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2145/92 (6). inform the Commission accordingly within the same time 2. The invitation to tender shall be open until 1 July limit as that given in the above subparagraph. 1993. During that period weekly invitations to tender

Article 6 (') OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 . (j OJ No L 73, 19. 3. 1992, p. 7. (3) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 36. The time set for submitting tenders shall be Belgian time. (4) OJ No L 61 , 7. 3. 1975, p. 25. 0 OJ No L 43, 17. 2. 1990, p. 21 . fa OJ No L 214, 30. 7. 1992, p. 20. f) OJ No L 331 , 2. 12. 1988, p. 1 .

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1 . On the basis of tenders submitted, the Commission The time limit for submission of tenders for the first shall decide in accordance with the procedure laid down partial invitation to tender shall be 10 a.m. on 8 October 1992. in Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 : — either to fix a maximum export refund, taking account The final date for submission of tenders is hereby fixed at of the criteria laid down in Articles 2 and 3 of Regula­ 1 July 1993. tion (EEC) No 1431 /76, — or not to take any action on the tenders. Article 9

2. Where a maximum export refund is fixed, an award This Regulation shall enter into force on the day shall be made to the tenderer or tenderers whose tenders following its publication in the Official Journal of the are at or below the maximum export refund level. European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 September 1992.

For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission

ANNEX

Weekly invitation to tender for the refund on export of wholly milled medium grain and long grain A rice to certain third countries

(Closing date for the submission of tenders (date/time))

1 2 3

Serial number Quantities Amount of export refund of tenders in tonnes in ecu per tonne

1

2

3

4

5

etc.