
Article 1 

1. Pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1501/95, an invitation to tender for the export refund is hereby opened.
2. This invitation to tender shall cover barley for export to Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen.
3. The invitation to tender shall be open until 22 June 2006. During that period, weekly awards shall be made. The quantities and dates for submitting tenders shall be set out in the notice of invitation to tender.Notwithstanding Article 4(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1501/95, the time limit for submitting tenders for the first partial invitation to tender shall be 14 July 2005.
Article 2 
Tenders shall be valid only if they cover a quantity of at least 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. Notwithstanding Article 23(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000, 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 deemed to have been issued on the day on which the tender was submitted.
2. Export licences issued under the invitation to tender provided for in this Regulation shall be valid from their date of issue within the meaning of paragraph 1 until the end of the fourth month thereafter.
Article 5 
Member States shall electronically send the Commission the tenders submitted within one-and-a-half hours of the expiry of the weekly time limit for lodging tenders, as laid down in the notice of invitation to tender, using the form set out in the Annex.
If no tenders are lodged, Member States shall inform the Commission within the time limit referred to in the first paragraph.
The times set for the submission of tenders shall correspond to Belgian time.
Article 6 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that 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, 6 July 2005.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission
ANNEX
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Numbering of tenderers Quantity(tonnes) Export refund rate(EUR/tonne)
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2  
3  
etc.  
