Commission Regulation (EC) No 1159/2002 of 28 June 2002 fixing the minimum selling prices for butter and the maximum aid for cream, butter and concentrated butter for the 100th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2571/97
Date: 2002-06-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid system, award of contract, butter, cream, farm price support, minimum price, selling price

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Official Journal of the European Communities

29.6.2002

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1159/2002

of 28 June 2002

fixing the minimum selling prices for butter and the maximum aid for cream, butter and concen-
trated butter for the 100th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender
provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2571/97

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in milk
and milk products (1), as last amended by Commission Regula-
tion (EC) No 509/2002 (2), and in particular Article 10 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

The intervention agencies are, pursuant to Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2571/97 of 15 December 1997 on
the sale of butter at reduced prices and the granting of
aid for cream, butter and concentrated butter for use in
the manufacture of pastry products, ice-cream and other
foodstuffs (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
635/2000 (4), to sell by invitation to tender certain quan-
tities of butter that they hold and to grant aid for cream,
butter and concentrated butter. Article 18 of that Regula-
tion stipulates that in the light of the tenders received in
response to each individual invitation to tender a mini-
mum selling price shall be fixed for butter and maximum
aid shall be fixed for cream, butter and concentrated but-
ter. It is further stipulated that the price or aid may vary

according to the intended use of the butter, its fat con-
tent and the incorporation procedure, and that a decision
may also be taken to make no award in response to the
tenders submitted. The amount(s) of the processing secu-
rities must be fixed accordingly.

(2)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in ac-
cordance with the opinion of the Management Commit-
tee for Milk and Milk Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The minimum selling prices and the maximum aid and proces-
sing securities applying for the 100th individual invitation to
tender, under the standing invitation to tender provided for in
Regulation (EC) No 2571/97, shall be fixed as indicated in the
Annex hereto.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 June 2002.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 June 2002.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48.
(2) OJ L 79, 22.3.2002, p. 15.
(3) OJ L 350, 20.12.1997, p. 3.
(4) OJ L 76, 25.3.2000, p. 9.

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 28 June 2002 fixing the minimum selling prices for butter and the maximum
aid for cream, butter and concentrated butter for the 100th individual invitation to tender under the standing
invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2571/97

Formula

A

B

Incorporation procedure

With
tracers

Without
tracers

With
tracers

Without
tracers

(EUR/100 kg)

Minimum
selling price

Butter
≥ 82 %

Processing security

Unaltered

Concentrated

Unaltered

Concentrated

Butter ≥ 82 %

Butter < 82 %

Concentrated butter

Maximum
aid

Cream

Butter

Processing
security

Concentrated butter

Cream

—

—

—

—

85

83

105

—

94

116

—

—

—

—

—

81

79

101

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

105

36

—

116

40

—

—

—

—

81

79

101

34

—

—

—