Commission Regulation (EC) No 323/2005 of 25 February 2005 fixing the maximum aid for cream, butter and concentrated butter for the 158th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2571/97
Date: 2005-02-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: award of contract, butter, concentrated product, cream, farm price support

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 323/2005

of 25 February 2005

fixing the maximum aid for cream, butter and concentrated butter for the 158th 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
Community,

establishing the European

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), 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 (2), to sell by invitation to tender certain quan-
tities of butter of intervention stocks that they hold and
to grant aid for cream, butter and concentrated butter.
Article 18 of that Regulation stipulates that in the light
of the tenders received in response to each individual
invitation to tender a minimum selling price shall be
fixed for butter and maximum aid shall be fixed for
further
cream, butter and concentrated butter.

is

It

stipulated that the price or aid may vary according to
its fat content and the
the intended use of the butter,
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 securities
must be fixed accordingly.

(2)

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

The maximum aid and processing securities applying for the
158th individual invitation to tender, under the standing invi-
tation 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 26 February 2005.

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

Done at Brussels, 25 February 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 186/2004 (OJ L 29, 3.2.2004,
p. 6).

(2) OJ L 350, 20.12.1997, p. 3. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 2250/2004 (OJ L 381, 28.12.2004, p. 25).

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 25 February 2005 fixing the maximum aid for cream, butter and concentrated
butter for the 158th 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)

Maximum aid

Butter ≥ 82 %

Butter < 82 %

Concentrated butter

Cream

Butter

Processing
security

Concentrated butter

Cream

56

54,5

67,5

62

74

—

52

50,8

63,5

—

—

—

55,5

—

67

26

61

74

29

52

49,75

63,5

22

—

—

—