Commission Regulation (EC) No 181/2009 of 6 March 2009 closing intervention buying-in of butter at fixed price until 31 August 2009
Date: 2009-03-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, butter, import restriction, intervention agency, marketing, milk product, price fixed in advance, stock

7.3.2009

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 63/5

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 181/2009

of 6 March 2009

closing intervention buying-in of butter at fixed price until 31 August 2009

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

packaged and delivered in blocks of at least 25 kg net.
Therefore,
quantities of butter which have been
multiplied by a single percentage should be rounded
down to the closest multiple of 25 kg.

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of
22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agri­
cultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agri­
cultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (1),

(3)

to notify sellers

Intervention agencies have
swiftly
following publication of the single percentage and the
fixed price. This Regulation
closing of buying-in at
should therefore enter into force on the day of its publi­
cation in the Official Journal of the European Union,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 105/2008 of
5 February 2008 laying down detailed rules for the application
of Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards inter­
in butter (2), and in particular the
vention on the market
Article 12(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

the communications

On the basis of
submitted by
Member States on 5 March 2009 in accordance with
Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 105/2008,
the
total quantity of butter offered for intervention at fixed
price since 1 March 2009 has exceeded the limit of
30 000 tonnes fixed in Article 13 of Regulation (EC)
the intervention buying-in
No 1234/2007. Therefore,
of butter
closed until
at
31 August 2009, a single percentage has to be fixed
for the quantities received by the competent authorities
of the Member States on 4 March 2009 and the offers
received by the competent authorities of the Member
States on and after 5 March 2009 have to be rejected.

fixed price has

to be

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The intervention buying-in of butter at fixed price is closed until
31 August 2009.

The total quantity of the offers of butter for intervention which
were received from each seller by the competent authorities of
the Member States in accordance with Article 12(1) of Regu­
lation (EC) No 105/2008 on 4 March 2009 shall be accepted,
multiplied by a single percentage of 65,0821 % and then
rounded down to the closest multiple of 25 kg.

Offers received by the competent authorities of the Member
States on and after 5 March 2009 until 31 August 2009
shall be rejected.

Article 2

(2)

In accordance with Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No
105/2008 the butter offered for intervention has to be

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi­
cation in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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

Done at Brussels, 6 March 2009.

For the Commission

Jean-Luc DEMARTY
Director-General for Agriculture and
Rural Development

(1) OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 32, 6.2.2008, p. 3.