Commission Regulation (EC) No 748/2005Show full title

Commission Regulation (EC) No 748/2005

of 18 May 2005

opening a tendering procedure for the sale of wine alcohol for use as bioethanol in the Community

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine(1), and in particular Article 33 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 of 25 July 2000 laying down detailed rules for implementing Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine with regard to market mechanisms(2), lays down, among other things, detailed rules for disposing of stocks of alcohol obtained from distillation under Articles 35, 36 and 39 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organisation of the market in wine(3) and referred to in Articles 27, 28 and 30 of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 and held by the intervention agencies.

(2) A tendering procedure for the sale of wine alcohol for exclusive use as bioethanol in the fuel sector in the Community should be organised in accordance with Article 92 of Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 with a view to reducing Community stocks of wine alcohol and ensuring the continuity of supplies to firms approved under that Article.

(3) Since 1 January 1999, in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 of 15 December 1998 establishing agrimonetary arrangements for the euro(4), the selling price and securities must be expressed, and payments made, in euro.

(4) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Wine,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1 U.K.

1. Tendering procedure No 1/2005 EC is hereby opened for the sale of wine alcohol for use as bioethanol in the Community.

The alcohol concerned has been produced from distillation under Article 35 of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 and Articles 27 and 30 of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 and is held by the intervention agencies of the Member States.

2. The total volume put up for sale is 691 331,79 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % volume, broken down as follows:

(a) one lot with the number 1/2005 EC for a quantity of 100 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % volume,

(b) one lot with the number 2/2005 EC for a quantity of 100 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % volume,

(c) one lot with the number 3/2005 EC for a quantity of 100 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % volume,

(d) one lot with the number 4/2005 EC for a quantity of 100 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % volume,

(e) one lot with the number 5/2005 EC for a quantity of 50 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % volume,

(f) one lot with the number 6/2005 EC for a quantity of 100 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % volume,

(g) one lot with the number 7/2005 EC for a quantity of 50 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % volume,

(h) one lot with the number 8/2005 EC for a quantity of 50 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % volume,

(i) one lot with the number 9/2005 EC for a quantity of 41 331,79 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % volume.

3. The location and references of the vats making up the lots, the quantity of alcohol in each vat, the alcoholic strength and the characteristics of the alcohol are as set out in Annex I to this Regulation.

4. Only firms approved under Article 92 of Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 may take part in the tendering procedure.

Article 2 U.K.

The sale shall be conducted in accordance with Articles 93, 94, 94b, 94c, 94d, 95, 96, 97, 98, 100 and 101 of Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 and Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 2799/98.

Article 3 U.K.

1. Tenders shall be delivered to the intervention agencies holding the alcohol listed in Annex II or sent by registered mail to the address of the intervention agency.

2. Tenders shall be placed in two sealed envelopes, the inside envelope marked ‘Tender under procedure No 1/2005 EC for use as bioethanol in the Community’, the outer envelope bearing the address of the intervention agency concerned.

3. Tenders must reach the intervention agency concerned not later than 12.00 Brussels time on 30 May 2005.

Article 4 U.K.

1. To be eligible for consideration, tenders must comply with Articles 94 and 97 of Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000.

2. To be eligible for consideration, when they are presented, tenders must be accompanied by:

(a) proof that a tendering security of EUR 4 per hectolitre of alcohol at 100 % volume has been lodged with the intervention agency holding the alcohol concerned,

(b) an indication of the place of final use of the alcohol and an undertaking by the tenderer to comply with that destination,

(c) the name and address of the tenderer, the reference number of the notice of invitation to tender and the price proposed, expressed in euro per hectolitre of alcohol at 100 % volume,

(d) an undertaking by tenderers that they will comply with all the rules applicable to this tendering procedure,

(e) a statement by tenderers to the effect that:

(i)

they waive all claims in respect of the quality and characteristics of any alcohol awarded to them,

(ii)

they agree to submit to any checks made on the destination and use made of the alcohol,

(iii)

they accept that it is their responsibility to provide evidence that the alcohol is used as specified in the notice of invitation to tender in question.

Article 5 U.K.

The notifications provided for in Article 94a of Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 relating to the tendering procedure opened by this Regulation shall be sent to the Commission at the address given in Annex III to this Regulation.

Article 6 U.K.

The formalities for sampling shall be as set out in Article 98 of Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000.

The intervention agency shall provide all the necessary information on the characteristics of the alcohol put up for sale.

On application to the intervention agency concerned, interested parties may obtain samples of the alcohol put up for sale, taken by a representative of the intervention agency concerned.

Article 7 U.K.

1. The intervention agencies in the Member States in which the alcohol put up for sale is stored shall carry out appropriate checks to verify the nature of the alcohol at the time of end-use. To that end, they may:

(a) apply Article 102 of Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 mutatis mutandis,

(b) carry out checks on samples using nuclear magnetic resonance analysis to verify the nature of the alcohol at the time of end-use.

2. The costs of the checks referred to in paragraph 1 shall be borne by the firms to which the alcohol is sold.

Article 8 U.K.

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

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

Done at Brussels, 18 May 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann Fischer Boel

Member of the Commission

ANNEX I U.K.

TENDERING PROCEDURE FOR THE SALE OF ALCOHOL FOR USE AS BIOETHANOL IN THE COMMUNITY

No 1/2005 EC

Place of storage, quantity and characteristics of the alcohol put up for sale

Member State and lot number	Location	Vat No	Quantity in hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % volume	Reference Regulations (EEC) No 822/87 and (EC) No 1493/1999 (articles)	Type of alcohol
Spain Lot No 1/2005 EC	Tomelloso	1	46 584	27	Raw
	Tomelloso	2	118	27	Raw
	Tomelloso	3	2 250	27	Raw
	Tomelloso	5	48 048	27	Raw
	Tarancon	B-4	3 000	27	Raw
	Total		100 000
Spain Lot No 2/2005 EC	Tarancon	A-2	24 353	27	Raw
	Tarancon	A-6	24 490	27	Raw
	Tarancon	B-1	24 574	27	Raw
	Tarancon	B-2	24 406	27	Raw
	Tarancon	B-4	2 177	27	Raw
	Total		100 000
France Lot No 3/2005 EC	Deulep — PSL 13230 Port Saint Louis Du Rhone	B2	26 055	27	Raw
		B4	10 955	27	Raw
		B2B	300	27	Raw
		B1	44 820	27	Raw
		B2B	17 870	30	Raw
	Total		100 000
France Lot No 4/2005 EC	Onivins — Port la Nouvelle Entreport d’Alcool Av. Adolphe Turrel BP 62 11210 Port la Nouvelle	2	48 020	27	Raw
		1	47 435	27	Raw
		15	4 545	27	Raw
	Total		100 000
France Lot No 5/2005 EC	Deulep Bld Chanzy 30800 Saint Gilles du Gard	73	13 940	30	Raw
		73	30 445	30	Raw
		603	5 615	27	Raw
	Total		50 000
Italy Lot No 6/2005 EC	Caviro-Faenza (RA)	16A	22 662,8	27	Raw
	Villapana-Faenza (RA)	5A-9A	7 600	27	Raw
	Tampieri-Faenza (RA)	6A-16A	1 600	27	Raw
	Cipriani-Chizzola di Ala (TN)	27A	5 200	27	Raw
	I.C.V.-Borgoricco (PD)	5A	1 600	27	Raw
	S.V.A.-Ortona (CH)	2A-3A-4A-16A	4 800	27	Raw
	D’Auria-Ortona (CH)	1A-2A-5A-7A-8A-43A-76A	12 007,35	27+30+35	Raw
	Bonollo-Anagni (FR)	17A	10 429,85	27	Raw
	Di Lorenzo-Ponte Valleceppi (PG)	20A-23A-22A	18 000	27	Raw
	Deta-Barberino Val d’Elsa (FI)	4A-8A	1 900	27+30	Raw
	Balice-Valenzano (BA)	3A-4A-5A-6A-7A-8A	14 200	27	Raw
	Total		100 000
Italy Lot No 7/2005 EC	Dister-Faenza (RA)	119A-167A-169A-179A-170A	13 500	30	Raw
	Mazzari-S. Agata sul Santerno (RA)	5A-11A	36 500	27	Raw
	Total		50 000
Italy Lot No 8/2005 EC	Bertolino-Partinico (PA)	6A-13A	19 500	27	Raw
	Gedis-Marsala (TP)	12B-9B	8 000	27	Raw
	Trapas-Marsala (TP)	14A-15A	6 500	30	Raw
	S.V.M.-Sciacca (AG)	8A-18A-1A	1 500	27	Raw
	De Luca-Novoli (LE)	9A-17A-19A	10 000	27	Raw
	BaliceDistilli.-Mottola (TA)	3A	1 200	27	Raw
	Balice-Valenzano (BA)	2A-3A	3 300	27	Raw
	Total		50 000
Greece Lot No 9/2005 EC	ΑΜΠΕΛΟΥΡΓΙΚΟΣ ΣΥΝΕΤΑΙΡΙΣΜΟΣ ΜΕΓΑΡΩΝ — (ΒΑΡΕΑ ΜΕΓΑΡΩΝ) (Ambelourgikos Syneterismos Megaron — (Varea Megaron))	B1	543,42	35	Raw
		B2	550,83	35	Raw
		B3	556,14	35	Raw
		B4	556,16	35	Raw
		B5	555,9	35	Raw
		B6	550,6	35	Raw
		10	914,43	35	Raw
		B9	550,04	35	Raw
		B10	553,72	35	Raw
		B11	554,6	35	Raw
		B12	554,5	35	Raw
		B13	556,91	35	Raw
		B14	551,86	35	Raw
		B15	547,57	35	Raw
		B16	910,55	35+27	Raw
		3	851,86	27	Raw
		4	894,58	27	Raw
		5	894,83	27	Raw
		6	871,5	27	Raw
		7	898,94	27	Raw
		14	864,99	27	Raw
		15	893,13	27	Raw
		1	873,77	27	Raw
		2	885,55	27	Raw
		8	904,07	27	Raw
		9	863,37	27	Raw
		B7	544,88	27	Raw
		11	901,79	27	Raw
		12	869,67	27	Raw
		13	907,15	27	Raw
		17	799,07	27	Raw
	Π.Α. ΤΖΑΡΑ — (Δοκός Χαλκίδος) (P.A. Tzara — (Dokos Halkidos))	4016	179,58	35	Raw
	Ε.Α.Σ. ΠΑΤΡΩΝ — Ανθεια Πατρών (E.A.S. Patron — Anthia Patron)	A1	856,07	35	Raw
		A2	917,34	35	Raw
		A3	747,2	35	Raw
		A4	803,85	35	Raw
		A5	577,07	35	Raw
	Ε.Α.Σ. ΑΤΤΙΚΗΣ — (ΠΙΚΕΡΜΙ) (E.A.S. Attikis — (Pikermi))	1	917,8	27	Raw
		2	917,58	27	Raw
		3	919,35	27	Raw
		4	903,82	27	Raw
		5	751,82	27	Raw
	ΟΙΝΟΠΟΙΗΤΙΚΟΣ ΣΥΝ/ΣΜΟΣ (ΣΥΝΕΤΑΙΡΙΣΜΟΣ) ΜΕΣΣΗΝΙΑΣ (ΓΙΑΛΟΒΑ ΠΥΛΙΑΣ) (Inopiitikos Syneterismos Messinias (Gialova Pilias))	B74	836,47	27	Raw
		B75	583,84	27	Raw
		B76	724,92	27	Raw
		B80	890,23	27	Raw
		68	2 113,82	27	Raw
		66	2 122,29	27	Raw
		82	731,69	27	Raw
		69	2 110,67	27	Raw
	Total		41 331,79

ANNEX II U.K. Intervention agencies holding the alcohol referred to in Article 3

ONIVINS-LIBOURNE

—

Délégation nationale 17, avenue de la Ballastière, boîte postale 231, F-33505 Libourne Cedex (telephone [phone], telex 57 20 25, fax [phone])

FEGA

—

Beneficencia 8, E-28004 Madrid (telephone [phone], fax [phone])

AGEA

—

Via Torino 45, I-00184 Roma (telephone [phone], fax [phone])

Ο.Π.Ε.Κ.Ε.Π.Ε.

—

Αχαρνών (Aharnon) 241, 10446 Athens, Greece (telephone [phone], fax [phone])

ANNEX III U.K. Address referred to in Article 5

Commission of the European Communities

Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, Unit D-2

Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 200

B-1049 Brussels

Fax [phone]

E-mail address: [e-mail]

(1)

OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1795/2003 (OJ L 262, 14.10.2003, p. 13).

(2)

OJ L 194, 31.7.2000, p. 45. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 616/2005 (OJ L 103, 22.4.2005, p. 15).

(3)

OJ L 84, 27.3.1987, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1677/1999 (OJ L 199, 30.7.1999, p. 8).

(4)

OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 1.