Commission Regulation (EC) No 829/1999 of 21 April 1999 on the sale by tender of beef held by certain intervention agencies

• CELEX: Regulation (EC) No 829/1999
• Articles: 5

Article 1

1. The sale shall take place of:

- approximately 366 tonnes of bone-in forequarters held by the Irish intervention agency,

- approximately 34 tonnes of bone-in forequarters held by the Dutch intervention agency,

- approximately 462 tonnes of deboned beef held by the Irish intervention agency,

- approximately 207 tonnes of boneless beef held by the United Kingdom intervention agency,

- approximately 6 tonnes of boneless beef held by the Danish intervention agency.

Detailed information concerning quantities is given in Annex I.

2. Subject to the provisions of this Regulation the products referred to in paragraph 1 shall be sold in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 2173/79, in particular Titles II and III thereof.

Article 2

1. Notwithstanding Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 2173/79, the provisions of and Annexes to this Regulation shall serve as a general notice of invitation to tender.

The intervention agencies concerned shall draw up a notice of invitation to tender which shall include the following:

(a) the quantities of beef offered for sale; and

(b) the deadline and place for submitting tenders.

2. Interested parties may obtain the details of the quantities available and the places where the products are stored from the addresses listed in Annex II to this Regulation. The intervention agencies shall, in addition, display the notice referred to in paragraph 1 at their head offices and may publish it in other ways.

3. For each product mentioned in Annex I the intervention agencies concerned shall sell first the meat which has been stored the longest.

4. Only tenders which reach the intervention agencies concerned by 12 noon on 27 April 1999 shall be considered.

5. Notwithstanding Article 8(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 2173/79, a tender must be submitted to the intervention agency concerned in a closed envelope, bearing the reference to the Regulation concerned. The closed envelope must not be opened by the intervention agency before the expiry of the tender deadline referred to in paragraph 4.

6. Notwithstanding Article 8(2)(b) of Regulation (EEC) No 2173/79, tenders shall not indicate in which cold store or stores the products are held.

Article 3

1. Member States shall provide the Commission with information concerning the tenders received not later than the working day following the deadline set for the submission of tenders.

2. After the tenders received have been examined a minimum selling price shall be set for each product or the sale will not proceed.

Article 4

The security provided for in Article 15(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 2173/79 shall be EUR 120 per tonne.

Article 5

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 April 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 148, 28.6.1968, p. 24.

(2) OJ L 210, 28.7.1998, p. 17.

(3) OJ L 251, 5.10.1979, p. 12.

(4) OJ L 248, 14.10.1995, p. 39.

ANEXO I/BILAG I/ANHANG I/ΠΑΡΑΡΤΗΜΑ Ι/ANNEX I/ANNEXE I/ALLEGATO I/BIJLAGE I/ANEXO I/LIITE I/BILAGA I

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ANEXO II/BILAG II/ANHANG II/ΠΑΡΑΡΤΗΜΑ ΙΙ/ANNEX II/ANNEXE II/ALLEGATO II/BIJLAGE II/ANEXO II/LIITE II/BILAGA II

Direcciones de los organismos de intervención/Interventionsorganernes adresser/Anschriften der Interventionsstellen/Διευθύνσεις των οργανισμών παρεμβάσεως/Addresses of the intervention agencies/Adresses des organismes d'intervention/Indirizzi degli organismi d'intervento/Adressen van de interventiebureaus/Endereços dos organismos de intervenção/Interventioelinten osoitteet/Interventionsorganens adresser

DANMARK

Ministeriet for Fødevarer, Landbrug og Fiskeri

EU-direktoratet

Kampmannsgade 3 DK - 1780 København V Tlf. (45) 33 92 70 00 ; telex 151317, DK: fax [phone]

IRELAND

Department of Agriculture and Food Johnstown Castle Estate County Wexford Ireland Tel. [phone] Fax [phone]

NEDERLAND

Ministerie van Landbouw, Natuurbeheer en Visserij, Voedselvoorzieningsin- en verkoopbureau

p/a LASER, Zuidoost

Slachthuisstraat 71 Postbus 965 6040 AZ Roermond Tel. [phone] ; telex 56396 VIBNL ; telefax: (31-475) 31 89 39

UNITED KINGDOM

Intervention Board Executive Agency Kings House

33 Kings Road

Reading RG1 3BU Berkshire United Kingdom Tel. [phone] Fax [phone]