COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1666/93 of 29 June 1993 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2191/81 on the granting of aid for the purchase of butter by non-profit-making institutions and orgnizations

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in milk and milk products (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2071/92 (2), and in particular Article 12 (3) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 of 28 December 1992 on the unit of account and the conversion rates to be applied for the purposes of the common agricultural policy (3), and in particular Article 9 (1) thereof,

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2191/81 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1497/91 (5), provides for the granting of aid for the purchase of butter by non-profit-making institutions and organizations;

Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2072/92 of 30 June 1992 fixes the target price for milk and the intervention prices for butter, skimmed-milk powder and Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano cheeses for two annual periods from 1 July 1993 to 30 June 1995 (6); whereas that Regulation provides for a reduction in the intervention price for butter with effect from 1 July 1993;

Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3820/92 of 28 December 1992 on transitional measures for the application of the agrimonetary arrangements laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (7) establishes a correspondence between the provisions of the agrimonetary arrangements applicable from 1 January 1993 and those applicable prior to that date;

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3824/92 (8), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1330/93 (9), establishes the list of prices and amounts in the milk and milk products sector which are affected by the reducing coefficient of 1,013088 fixed by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1331/93 (10) from the beginning of the 1993/94 marketing year, under the arrangements for automatically dismantling negative monetary graps; whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 3824/92 provides for the reduction in the resulting prices and amounts in each sector to be specified and the value of the reduced prices and amounts to be fixed;

Whereas, therefore, the aid for the purchase of butter as provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 2191/81 should be adapted;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Milk and Milk Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 2191/81, 'ECU 149,74' hereby replaced by 'ECU 138'.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply from 1 July 1993.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 29 June 1993.

For the Commission

René STEICHEN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13.

(2) OJ No L 215, 30. 7. 1992, p. 64.

(3) OJ No L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1.

(4) OJ No L 213, 1. 8. 1981, p. 20.

(5) OJ No L 140, 4. 6. 1991, p. 19.

(6) OJ No L 215, 30. 7. 1992, p. 65.

(7) OJ No L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 22.

(8) OJ No L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 29.

(9) OJ No L 132, 29. 5. 1993, p. 113.

(10) OJ No L 132, 29. 5. 1993, p. 114.