L 205/74 Official Journal of the European Communities 2.8.2002 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1415/2002 of 1 August 2002 fixing the maximum export refund for white sugar for the first partial invitation to tender issued within the framework of the standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1331/2002 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, (3)  Following an examination of the tenders submitted in Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 of 19 June 2001 on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector (*), as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 680/2002 (%), and in particular Article 27(5) thereof, Whereas: (1)  Commission Regulation (EC) No 1331/2002 of 23 July 2002 on a standing invitation to tender to determine levies and/or refunds on exports of white sugar (), for the 2002/2003 marketing year, requires partial invita- tions to tender to be issued for the export of this sugar. (2)  Pursuant to Article 9(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1331/ 2002 a maximum export refund shall be fixed, as the case may be, account being taken in particular of the state and foreseeable development of the Community and world markets in sugar, for the partial invitation to tender in question. response to the first partial invitation to tender, the provisions set out in Article 1 should be adopted. (4)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Sugar, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 For the first partial invitation to tender for white sugar issued pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1331/2002 the maximum amount of the export refund is fixed at 49,940 EUR/100 kg. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on 2 August 2002. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 1 August 2002. OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1. () OJ L 104, 20.4.2002, p. 26. 0] L 195, 24.7.2002, . 6. For the Commission Franz FISCHLER Member of the Commission