31993R3157

No L 283/6 Official Journal of the European Communities 18 . 11 . 93

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3157/93 of 17 November 1993 on the opening of a standing invitation to tender for the resale on the internal market of 146 804 tonnes of sorghum held by the French intervention agency

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, a standing invitation to tender for the resale on the internal market of 146 804 tonnes of sorghum held by it. Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Article 2

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 1 . The deadline for the submission of tenders for the of 30 June 1992 on the common organization of the first partial invitation to tender shall be 30 November market in cereals ('), as amended by Commission Regula­ 1993 . tion (EEC) No 2193/93 (2), and in particular Article 5 2. The deadline for the submission of tenders for the thereof, final partial invitation to tender shall be 25 January 1994. Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2131 /93 (3) 3 . The tenders shall be deposited with the French lays down the procedures and conditions governing the intervention agency : offer for sale of cereals held by intervention agencies ; Office national interprofessionnel des céréales (ONIC), Whereas, in the present market situation, a standing invi­ 21 , avenue Bosquet, tation to tender should be opened for the resale on the F -75326 Paris Cedex 07, internal market of 146 804 tonnes of sorghum held by the (telex OFIBLE A 27807 F). French intervention agency ; Article 3 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management The French intervention agency shall notify the Commis­ Committee for Cereals, sion, by no later than the Tuesday of the week following the expiry of the deadline for the submission of tenders, of the quantity and the average prices of the different lots sold. HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Article 4 Article 1 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its The French intervention agency shall, pursuant to the publication in the Official Journal of the European terms specified in Regulation (EEC) No 2131 /93, initiate Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 17 November 1993 .

For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 181 , 1 . 7. 1992, p. 21 . (2) OJ No L 196, 5. 8. 1993, p. 22. (3) OJ No L 191 , 31 . 7. 1993, p. 76.