
Article 1 

1. Under Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1501/95 an invitation to tender for the export refund is hereby opened.
2. The invitation covers barley exports to Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
3. The invitation shall be open until 23 June 2005. During that period weekly awards shall be made. Quantities and tender submission dates for these shall be set out in the notice of invitation.The second subparagraph of Article 4(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1501/95 notwithstanding, the time limit for submission of tenders for the first part-award shall be 14 October 2004.
Article 2 
Tenders shall not be valid if made for less than 1 000 tonnes.
Article 3 
The security referred to in Article 5(3)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1501/95 shall be EUR 12 per tonne.
Article 4 

1. Article 23(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 notwithstanding, export licences issued in accordance with Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1501/95 shall, for the purpose of determining their period of validity, be considered to have been issued on the day on which the tender is lodged.
2. Export licences issued under the invitation opened by this Regulation shall be valid from their date of issue as defined in paragraph 1 until the end of the fourth month following.
Article 5 
Member States shall forward tenders lodged to the Commission within one-and-a-half hours of expiry of the weekly time limit for lodging them stated in the notice of invitation, using the form set out in the Annex.
If no tenders are lodged Member States shall inform the Commission accordingly by the same time as indicated in the first paragraph.
The times set for lodging tenders shall be in Belgian time.
Article 6 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 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, 11 October 2004.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission
ANNEX
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Tenderer Quantity (tonnes) Export refund rate (EUR/tonne)
123etc.  