31994R0178

No L 24/34 Official Journal of the European Communities 29 . 1 . 94

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 178/94 of 28 January 1994 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3503/91 on the issuing of a standard invitation to tender for the resale on the Community internal market of approximately 11 300 tonnes of rice held by the Italian intervention agency

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Article 1 Community, Regulation (EEC) No 3503/91 is hereby amended as follows : Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the 1 . Article 3 (1 ) is replaced by the following : market in rice (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) * 1 . Tenderers shall undertake to use as animal feed No 1 544/93 (2), and in particular Article 5 (3) thereof, within 18 months at the latest of the date on which they were awarded the tender, any products that they Whereas Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No are awarded unless they are prevented from so doing 3503/91 of 2 December 1991 (3), as amended by Regula­ by force majeure.' tion (EEC) No 1 191 /92 (4) lays down that the rice sold by 2. In Article 4 : tendering procedure must be used as animal feed by 31 May 1992 at the latest ; whereas, given the dates on which — in paragraph 1 the last sentence is deleted, the specific invitations to tender took place, the times­ — paragraph 2 is amended as follows : cales objectively required to use the product in animal '2. The security shall be released only if the feed were not realistic and led therefore to the application intervention agency has carried out all the neces­ of disproportionate penalties ; whereas Article 3 of the sary checks to verify that the product has reached aforementioned Regulation should accordingly be its intended destination and has been used in amended ; whereas it should also be stipulated that the accordance with Article 1 .' intervention agency must carry out all the necessary checks to verify the end use of the product ; Article 2

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day in accordance with the Management Committee for following its publication in the Official Journal of the Cereals, European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 January 1994.

For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission

(■) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 154, 25. 6. 1993, p. 5. (3) OJ No L 331 , 3. 12. 1991 , p. 7. (4) OJ No L 124, 9. 5. 1992, p. 7.