31994R1171

No L 130/26 Official Journal of the European Communities 25. 5 . 94

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1171/94 of 24 May 1994 amending Regulation (EC) No 614/94 authorizing the French and German intervention agencies to put up for sale by tender 225 000 tonnes of maize for export in the form of maize groats and meal

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, for the sale on the Community market of 350 000 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European tonnes of maize.' ; Community, 2. The final sentence of Article 3 (2) is replaced by the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 of 30 June 1992 on the common organization of the following : market in cereals ('), as amended by Commission Regula­ The time limit for the last partial invitation to tender tion (EEC) No 2193/93 (2), and in particular Article 5 shall be 29 June 1994.' ; thereof, Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 614/94 (3) 3 . Article 1 1 (2) is replaced by the following : opens an invitation to tender for 225 000 tonnes of maize for export in the form of maize groats and meal ; whereas '2. The obligation to export from the Community in their communications of 5 May 1994, Germany and shall be covered by a security amounting to ECU 90 France informed the Commission of the intention of per tonne of maize, of which ECU 45 per tonne shall their intervention agencies to increase by 125 000 tonnes be lodged upon issue of the licence for the export of the quantity of maize for which an invitation to tender for maize groats and meal for the corresponding quantity export has been opened ; whereas the total quantity of of maize and the balance of ECU 45 per tonne before maize for which a standing invitation to tender for export removal of the cereals. in the form of maize groats and meal has been opened should therefore be increased to 350 000 tonnes ; Notwithstanding Article 15 (2) of Commission Regula­ Whereas the time limit for submitting tenders for the last tion (EEC) No 3002/92 (*), the amount of ECU 90 per partial invitation to tender laid down by Regulation (EC) tonne of maize processed into groats and meal must be No 614/94 must be extended so as to take account in released within 15 working days of the date on which particular of the additional quantity to be exported ; the successful tenderer submits proof that the maize Whereas, as a result of trends in the world market, the groats and meal have left the Community's customs security covering the obligation to export from the territory. Community should be increased ; Whereas the Management Committee for Cereals has not 0 OJ No L 301 , 17. 10. 1992, p. 17.' issued an opinion within the time limit laid down by its chairman,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 2

Article 1 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Regulation (EC) No 614/94 is hereby amended as following its publication in the Official Journal of the follows : European Communities. 1 . Article 1 ( 1 ) is replaced by the following : ' 1 . The French and German intervention agencies It shall apply to tenders submitted for the intervention to are authorized to issue a standing invitation to tender tender of 25 May 1994.

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

Done at Brussels, 24 May 1994. For the Commission Ren6 STEICHEN Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 181 , 1 . 7. 1992, p. 21 . 0 OJ No L 196, 5. 8. 1993, p. 22. (3) OJ No L 77, 19 . 3. 1994, p. 31 .