Commission Regulation (EC) No 1484/2006 of 6 October 2006 opening a tendering procedure for the sale of wine alcohol for use as bioethanol in the Community

of 6 October 2006

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

Preamble

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

1. Tendering procedure No 7/2006 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 Articles 27, 28 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 693 380,74 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % vol., broken down as follows: (a) one lot with the number 68/2006 EC for a quantity of 50 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % vol.; (b) one lot with the number 69/2006 EC for a quantity of 50 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % vol.; (c) one lot with the number 70/2006 EC for a quantity of 50 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % vol.; (d) one lot with the number 71/2006 EC for a quantity of 50 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % vol.; (e) one lot with the number 72/2006 EC for a quantity of 50 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % vol.; (f) one lot with the number 73/2006 EC for a quantity of 50 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % vol.; (g) one lot with the number 74/2006 EC for a quantity of 50 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % vol.; (h) one lot with the number 75/2006 EC for a quantity of 50 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % vol.; (i) one lot with the number 76/2006 EC for a quantity of 50 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % vol.; (j) one lot with the number 77/2006 EC for a quantity of 50 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % vol.; (k) one lot with the number 78/2006 EC for a quantity of 50 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % vol.; (l) one lot with the number 79/2006 EC for a quantity of 50 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % vol.; (m) one lot with the number 80/2006 EC for a quantity of 53 380,74 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % vol.; (n) one lot with the number 81/2006 EC for a quantity of 40 000 hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % vol.

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

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

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 a sealed double envelope, the inside envelope marked ‘Tender under procedure No 7/2006 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 noon Brussels time on 23.10. 2006.

Article 4

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 % vol. has been lodged with the intervention agency holding the alcohol concerned; (b) 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 % vol.; (c) an undertaking by tenderers that they will comply with all the rules applicable to this tendering procedure; (d) 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

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

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

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

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

Final provisions

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 6 October 2006. For the Commission Mariann FISCHER BOEL Member of the Commission

¹ OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1 . Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2165/2005 ( OJ L 345, 28.12.2005, p. 1 ).

² OJ L 194, 31.7.2000, p. 45 . Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1221/2006 ( OJ L 221, 12.8.2006, p. 3 ).

³ OJ L 84, 27.3.1987, p. 1 . Regulation repealed by Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999.

⁴ OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 1 .

Member State and lot number	Location	Vat No	Quantity in hectolitres of alcohol at 100 % vol.	Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 (Article)	Type of alcohol
Spain Lot No 68/2006 EC	Tarancón	A-9	24 574	27	raw
A-10	24 508	27	raw
B-8	918	27	raw
	Total		50 000
Spain Lot No 69/2006 EC	Tarancón	B-8	974	27	raw
B-9	24 720	27	raw
B-10	24 306	27	raw
	Total		50 000
Spain Lot No 70/2006 EC	Tarancón	B-8	5 740	27	raw
C-1	20 923	27	raw
C-2	23 337	27	raw
	Total		50 000
France Lot No 71/2006 EC	Viniflhor — Longuefuye F-53200 Longuefuye	5	4 900	27	raw
14	22 500	27	raw
19	22 600	27	raw
	Total		50 000
France Lot No 72/2006 EC	Viniflhor — Port-la-Nouvelle Entrepôt d'alcool Av. Adolphe-Turrel, BP 62 F-11210 Port-la-Nouvelle	4	47 400	27	raw
12B	2 600	28	raw
	Total		50 000
France Lot No 73/2006 EC	Viniflhor — Port-la-Nouvelle Entrepôt d'alcool Av. Adolphe-Turrel, BP 62 F-11210 Port-la-Nouvelle	29	18 800	27	raw
12B	200	28	raw
12	9 200	27	raw
32	21 800	27	raw
	Total		50 000
France Lot No 74/2006 EC	Deulep Bld Chanzy F-30800 Saint-Gilles	603B	4 800	30	raw
603	4 250	27	raw
604	8 850	27	raw
606	6 230	27	raw
608	5 560	27	raw
608B	1 950	28	raw
607	7 020	27	raw
605	8 300	27	raw
605B	820	28	raw
607B	2 220	28	raw
	Total		50 000
Italy Lot No 75/2006 EC	Cipriani — Chizzola d'Ala (TN)	33A-28A-32A-17A-18A	9 000	27	raw
Dister — Faenza (RA)	123A-234A	8 600	27/30	raw
I.C.V. — Borgoricco (PD)	4A-5A	1 105,38	27/30	raw
Mazzari — S. Agata sul Santerno (RA)	2A-8A	16 494,62	27	raw
Tampieri — Faenza (RA)	2A-10A-11A-12A-13A	2 200	27	raw
Villapana — Faenza (RA)	7A-9A	12 600	27	raw
	Total		50 000
Italy Lot No 76/2006 EC	Caviro — Faenza (RA)	15A	21 000	27	raw
Deta — Barberino Val d'Elsa (FI)	7A	4 100	27	raw
Di Lorenzo — Ponte Valleceppi	21A-19A-18A	8 050	27	raw
Mazzari — S. Agata sul Santerno (RA)	2A-8A	16 850	27	raw
	Total		50 000
Italy Lot No 77/2006 EC	Bonollo — Anagni (FR)	15A-29A-40A-42A	38 500	27/30	raw
Di Lorenzo — Ponte Valleceppi	21A-19A-18A	7 900	27/30	raw
S.V.A. — Ortona (CH)	10A-11A-12A-13A-17A	3 600	27/30	raw
	Total		50 000
Italy Lot No 78/2006 EC	Balice Distil. — San Basilio Mottola (TA)	1A	3 750	27	raw
Balice S.n.c. — Valenzano (BA)	2A-3A-4A-5A-6A-7A-10A	15 500	27	raw
Caviro — Carapelle (FG)	1C-6C	9 000	30	raw
D'Auria — Ortona (CH)	7A-8A-12A-40A-61A	10 700	27	raw
De Luca — Novoli (LE)	5A-6A	5 600	27	raw
Bertolino — Partinico (PA)	5A-6A-12A	5 450	30	raw
	Total		50 000
Italy Lot No 79/2006 EC	Bertolino — Partinico (PA)	5A-6A-12A	11 553,94	30	raw
Trapas — Petrosino (TP)	6A-11A-12A-21A	29 146,06	27/30	raw
S.V.M. — Sciacca (AG)	1A-2A-31A-44A	2 300	30	raw
GE.DIS. — Marsala (TP)	13B	7 000	30	raw
	Total		50 000
Greece Lot No 80/2006 EC	ΟΙΝΟΠΟΙΗΤΙΚΟΣ ΣΥΝΕΤΑΙΡΙΣΜΟΣ ΜΕΣΣΗΝΙΑΣ ΠΥΡΓΟΣ ΤΡΙΦΥΛΙΑΣ (Oinopoiitikos Sinetairismos Messinias)	76	454,96	30	raw
77	432,94	30	raw
85	1 782,89	30	raw
86	1 684,51	30	raw
87	1 756,59	30	raw
88	1 753,86	30	raw
95	873,44	30	raw
75	444,79	30	raw
28	904,89	30	raw
80	463,46	30	raw
73	387,14	30	raw
78	27,72	30	raw
15	1 747,04	30	raw
16	1 713,67	30	raw
26	853,18	30	raw
74	427,35	30	raw
17	1 743,76	30	raw
94	887,65	30	raw
84	1 786,52	30	raw
79	439,47	30	raw
93	908,63	30	raw
83	1 795,78	30	raw
82	1 758,86	30	raw
12	1 800,87	30	raw
11	1 744,16	30	raw
18	1 707,83	30	raw
13	1 788,73	30	raw
96	827,49	30	raw
81	1 805,07	30	raw
14	1 800,04	30	raw
97	915,07	30	raw
92	908,96	30	raw
99	911,94	30	raw
25	905,06	30	raw
108	432,18	30	raw
107	432,77	30	raw
105	448,22	30	raw
106	441,22	30	raw
27	897,73	30	raw
29	579,19	30	raw
30	667,69	30	raw
19	901,65	27	raw
20	892,07	27	raw
21	900,28	27	raw
22	899,54	27	raw
23	882,32	27	raw
24	653,58	27	raw
89	847,09	27	raw
90	880,83	27	raw
91	856,22	27	raw
98	878,23	27	raw
100	745,61	27	raw
	Total		53 380,74
Portugal Lot No 81/2006	AVEIRO	S 201	31 999,080	27	raw
S. João da Pesqueira	Inox 12	8 000,920	27	raw
	Total		40 000

Intervention agencies holding the alcohol referred to in Article 3

Viniflhor — Libourne	Délégation nationale, 17 avenue de la Ballastière, BP 231, F-33505 Libourne Cedex [Tél. (33-5) 57 55 20 00; télex 57 20 25; fax (33) 557 55 20 59]
FEGA	Beneficencia, 8, E-28004 Madrid [Tél. (34-91) 347 64 66; fax (34-91) 347 64 65]
AGEA	Via Torino, 45, I-00184 Rome [Tél. (39) 06 49 49 97 14; fax (39) 06 49 49 97 61]
Ο.Π.Ε.Κ.Ε.Π.Ε.	Αχαρνών (Aharnon) 241, 10446 Athènes, Grèce (Tél. 210 212 4799; fax 210 212 4791)
IVV — Instituto da Vinha e do Vinho	R. Mouzinho da Silveira, 5, P-1250-165 Lisboa [Tél. (351) 21 350 67 00, fax (351) 21 356 12 25]

Address referred to in Article 5

European Commission

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

B-1049 Brussels

Fax (32-2) 292 17 75

E-mail: agri-market-tenders@cec.eu.int

. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2165/2005 (). ↩ ↩²
. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1221/2006 (). ↩ ↩²
. Regulation repealed by Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999. ↩ ↩²
. ↩ ↩²