With regard to the cereals market, Community intervention should take into account the rising demand for cereals as well as the increasingly significant role of bio-energy.

With regard to the cereals market, Community intervention should take into account the rising demand for cereals as well as the increasingly significant role of bio-energy.

The maximum level applies to cereals harvested and taken over, as from the 2005/06 marketing year, in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 824/2000 of 19 April 2000 establishing procedures for the taking-over of cereals by intervention agencies and laying down methods of analysis for determining the quality of cereals (OJ L 100, 20.4.2000, p. 31), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1068/2005 (OJ L 174, 7.7.2005, p. 65).

The maximum level applies to cereals harvested and taken over, as from the 2005/06 marketing year, in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 824/2000 of 19 April 2000 establishing procedures for the taking-over of cereals by intervention agencies and laying down methods of analysis for determining the quality of cereals (OJ L 100, 20.4.2000, p. 31), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1068/2005 (OJ L 174, 7.7.2005, p. 65).

Given the current situation of the market in cereals, in view of the quantities of cereals available in intervention stocks and the prospects for export of those cereals to third countries, standing invitations to tender should be opened for the export of cereals held by the intervention agencies of the Member States.

Whereas Article 2 (2) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3680/91 of 17 December 1991 on the sale for delivery in the Azores and Madeira of cereals held by the intervention agencies (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 308/92 (4), explicitly states that each of the islands in the archipelago in which there are either milling facilities or feedingstuffs factories should be supplied; whereas the experience acquired shows that supply of maize to these islands should equally be foreseen to the detriment of the foreseen supply in other cereals; whereas the Portuguese intervention Agency no longer withholds stocks for this supply; whereas, ...[+++]as a consequence of the procedural delay, a longer than foreseen delay should be introduced for May 1992; whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3680/91 should therefore be amended;