Article 26
United Kingdom
Skimmed-milk powder shall be sold by means of a standing invitation to tender organised by each intervention agency.
Sales shall concern skimmed-milk powder taken into storage before F11 July 2005.
A standing invitation to tender shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities at least eight days before the first closing date laid down for the submission of tenders.
The intervention agencies shall draw up a notice of invitation to tender indicating in particular the closing date and address for submission of tenders.
They shall also indicate, for the skimmed-milk powder they hold:
the locations of the warehouses where the powder to be sold is in store,
the quantity for sale in each warehouse.
Intervention agencies shall keep an up-to-date list of the information referred to in paragraph 4, which they shall make available to interested parties on request. They shall also publish regular updates of the list in an appropriate form, to be indicated in the notice of invitation to tender.
Intervention agencies shall make the necessary arrangements to enable interested parties:
to examine samples of the skimmed-milk powder put up for sale at their own expense before submitting a tender;
to verify the results of the analyses referred to in Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 322/96f1.