No L 249/8 Official Journal- of the European Communities 12. 9. 90 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2619/90 of 11 September 1990 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1836/82 laying down the procedure and conditions for the disposal of cereals held by intervention agencies THE -COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN -COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the. market in cereals (), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1340/90 (%),-and in particular Article 7 (6) thereof, Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1836/82(Y), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2418/87 (%), lays down the procedure and conditions. for the disposal- of cereals held by intervention agencies ; whereas experience gained has shown that a. time limit for informing successful tenderers must be specified and provision made regarding the consequences resulting from a failure to remove thf cereals within the period for payment; Whereas the Management Committee for Cereals has not delivered an opinion within the time limit laid down by its chairman, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 1836/82 is hereby amended as follows : ' 1. Point (c) in Article 8 (2) is deleted ; 2. Article 15 is replaced by the following : Article. 15 Intervention agencies -shall immediately notify- all tenderers of the outcome of their tenders. They shall forward a statement of award of contract to successful tenderers by registered letter, or written telecommuni- cation within three working days from the notification referred - to above.’; 3. the following paragraphs are inserted after the first paragraph of Article 16: ‘Cereals awarded and not removed within the period for payment shall be deemed, for all purposes, to have left storage on expiry of that period. In that case, as - regards sales on the internal market, the offer price shall be adjusted in the light of the quality characteris- tics. described in the notice of invitation to tender. The successful tenderer shall bear the costs of removal from storage of cereals removed after the period for payment, ; 4. the second indent in Article 17 (2) is replaced by the following : ‘— the selling price has been paid within the period specified and, in the case of sale for export where the price paid is lower than the. minimum price for a sale on the Community market, in accor- dance with Article § (1), (2) and (3), a security has been lodged covering the difference between the two prices ; 5. in Article 17 (3) and (5), ‘the security referred to in Article 8 (2) (c) is replaced by ‘the security referred to in the second indent of -paragraph 2’. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. It shall apply from 1 October 1990. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in-all Member States. Done at Brussels, 11 September -1990. ()-0J No L 281, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1. () OJ No L 134, 28. 5. 1990, p. 1. () OJ No L 202, 9. 7. 1982, p. 23. () OJ No L 223, 11. 8. 1987, p. 5. For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission