CELEX: 
Language: en
Date: 1973-04-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 6 March 1973 fixing the minimum sale price for butter for the sixteenth individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72

10. 4 . 73                                    Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 94/ 19
                                                        COMMISSION DECISION
                                                              of 6 March 1973
               fixing the minimum sale price for butter for the sixteenth individual invitation to tender
               under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72
                                                                 (73 /70/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                            Whereas in the light of the tenders received in
COMMUNITIES ,                                                             response to the sixteenth individual invitation to
                                                                           tender the minimum price should be fixed at the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                         level specified below and the processing security
pean Economic Community ;                                                  should be determined in consequence ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/                          Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
68 ( x ) of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                        are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
of the market in milk and milk products, as last                           ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products ;
amended by the Act (2 ) annexed to the Treaty ( 3)
concerning the Accession of new Member States to
the European Economic Community and the Euro­                              HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
pean Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels
on 22 January 1972, and in particular Article 6 (7)                                                Article 1
thereof ;
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No 985 /                        For the sixteenth individual invitation to tender
68 (4) of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for                       under Regulation ( EEC ) No 1259/72, in respect of
intervention on the market in butter and cream, as                          which the time limit for submission of tenders
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (6),                            expired on 27 February 1973 ,
and in particular Article 7a thereof ;                                      ( a ) the minimum selling price to be considered
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation                                        when awarding contracts shall be 55 u.a./ 100 kg
( EEC) No 1259/72 (6) of 16 June 1972 on the                                      of butter ;
disposal of butter at a reduced price to certain                            ( b) the processing security shall be 142 u.a./ 100 kg
Community processing undertakings, as last                                        of butter.
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 555 /73 (7), the
 intervention agencies have put up for sale by
standing invitation to tender certain quantities of                                                Article 2
 butter which they hold ;
                                                                            This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that
 a minimum selling price must be fixed in the light
of tenders       received,       and      the    amount     of the
                                                                             Done at Brussels, 6 March 1973 .
processing security must be fixed in the light of the
 difference between the minimum price and the                                                         For the Commission
 market price of butter, and that a decision may
                                                                                                         The President
 alternatively be taken not to proceed with the invita­
 tion to tender ;                                                                                  François-Xavier ORTOLI
 (»)  OJ  No  L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .
 (2)  OJ  No  L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14 .
 (•)  OJ  No  L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
 (4)  OJ  No  L 169, 18 . 7. 1968 , p. 1 .
 (5 ) OJ  No  L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p . 15,
 (6)  OJ  No  L 139, 17. 6. 1972, p. 18 .
 (7)  OJ  No  L 54, 27. 2 . 1973 , p . 25 .