1.Products taken over into public intervention and available for sale shall be sold through a tendering procedure.
2.The tendering procedure shall be opened by way of an Implementing Regulation opening the sale.
The first closing date for submission of tenders shall be fixed not earlier than six days after the publication of that Implementing Regulation in the Official Journal of the European Union.
3.Tendering procedures may be open for the sale of products stored in one or several regions of the Union or a Member State.
4.The Implementing Regulation opening the sale shall contain, in particular, the following information:
(a)the products covered, and in particular:
for rice, an indication of the type and variety,
for beef, the relevant cuts;
(b)the period covered (‘tendering period’) and the different sub-periods during which the tenders can be submitted;
(c)for beef, butter and skimmed milk powder, the minimum quantity for which a tender may be submitted;
(d)the amount of the security that shall be lodged when submitting a tender.
In addition, that Implementing Regulation may contain:
the global quantities covered by the tendering procedure;
if applicable, provisions concerning transport costs for cereals and rice.
5.Tendering procedures may be restricted to specified uses or destinations and include provisions for verifying the use or destination.