Commission Regulation (EC) No 1173/2009

of 30 November 2009

designating intervention centres for durum wheat and rice

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) [1], and in particular Article 41 in conjunction with Article 4 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) The Commission must designate the Member State intervention centres which meet the minimum standards set in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 670/2009 of 24 July 2009 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards public intervention by invitation to tender for the purchase of durum wheat or paddy rice [2].

(2) In accordance with Article 23(1) of Regulation (EC) No 670/2009, the Member States have sent the Commission a list of intervention centres for actual designation and a list of the storage premises attached to those centres which they have approved as fulfilling the minimum standards required by Community legislation.

(3) In order to ensure that the public intervention scheme works efficiently, the Commission should designate intervention centres on the basis of their geographical situation and publish a list of the storage premises attached thereto, together with all the information required by the operators involved in public intervention.

(4) Given the frequent changes which may occur in this connection, and in the interests of sound intervention management, the Commission should make a constant update of this information available to users and provide for the details of the list of storage premises, first, to be published in the Official Journal of the European Union (C Series) and, subsequently, to be updated in accordance with Article 23(3) of Regulation (EC) No 670/2009 by all appropriate technical means via the information systems put in place by the Commission, including publication on the Internet.

(5) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The intervention centres referred to in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 670/2009 are designated in the Annex hereto.

The addresses of the storage premises attached to each intervention centre and the detailed information on those premises and on the intervention centres shall be notified to users by means of a Commission Communication in the Official Journal of the European Union (C Series).

This information shall be amended and updated in accordance with Article 23(3) of Regulation (EC) No 670/2009.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following 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, 30 November 2009.

For the Commission

Mariann Fischer Boel

Member of the Commission

[1] OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.

[2] OJ L 194, 25.7.2009, p. 22.

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ANNEX

A: Intervention centres for durum wheat

GREECE

Θρ?κη

Ανατολικ? Μακεδον?α

Κεντρικ? Μακεδον?α

Κεντρικ? Ελλ?δα

Στερε? Ελλ?δα

SPAIN

Cadiz

Cordoba

Sevilla

Huesca

Teruel

Zaragoza

Burgos

Palencia

Salamanca

Soria

Valladolid

Zamora

Albacete

Ciudad real

Cuenca

Guadalajara

Badajoz

Caceres

Navarra

FRANCE

Le Pouzin

Castelnaudary

Angouleme

Moulins-sur-Yevre

Orgeres en Beauce

Saint Sauveur

Toury

Voves

Fourques

Aigues-Mortes

Baziege

Lespinasse

Sainte Christie

L’Isle Jourdain

Sete

Issoudun

La Ville aux Dames

Mer

Artenay

La Creche

Lavaur

Beaumont de Lomagne

Fontenay le Comte

PORTUGAL

Beja

B: Intervention centres for rice

BULGARIA

Plovdiv

GREECE

Κεντρικ? Ελλ?δα

Μακεδον?α

SPAIN

Cadiz

Cordoba

Sevilla

Zaragoza

Albacete

Ciudad Real

Cuenca

Lerida

Badajoz

Caceres

Navarra

FRANCE

Arles

Fourques

Aigues-Mortes

ITALY

Piemonte

PORTUGAL

Beja

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