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Language: en
Date: 1976-03-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 18 March 1976 fixing the minimum selling prices for butter for the 24th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EEC) No 232/75

No L 84/64                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                   I
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                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 18 March 1976
             fixing the minimum selling prices for butter for the 24th individual invitation to
             tender under the standing invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   232/75
                                                              (76/338/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                               the fat content of the butter ; whereas alternatively a
COMMUNITIES,                                                                 decision may be taken not to proceed with the invita­
                                                                             tion to tender ; whereas the amounts of the processing
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                        security must be fixed in the light of the difference
Economic Community,                                                          between the minimum selling prices and the market
                                                                             prices of the butter ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                            Whereas, in the light of the tenders received in
of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last                         response to the 24th individual invitation to tender,
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 740/75 (2), and in                            the minimum selling price should be fixed at the
particular Article 6 (7) thereof,                                            level specified below and the processing securities
                                                                             determined accordingly for the butter to be processed
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                 according to formula A and it should not be
985/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for                         proceeded with the invitation to tender as regards the
intervention on the market in butter and cream (3), as                       tenders received for butter to be processed according
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and                         to formula B ;
in particular Article 7a thereof,
                                                                             Whereas the Management Committee for Milk and
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                             Milk Products has not delivered an opinion within the
No 232/75 of 30 January 1975 on the sale of butter at                        time limit set by its Chairman,
reduced prices for use in the manufacture of pastry
products and ice cream (5), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                             HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
tion (EEC) No 379/76 (6), intervention agencies have
put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain
quantities of butter held by them ;                                                                            Article 1
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in                       For the 24th individual invitation to tender issued in
the light of the tenders received, a minimum selling                         Regulation (EEC) No 232/75, in respect of which the
price must be fixed which may vary according to the                          time limit for the submission of tenders expires on 9
use to which the butter is to be put and according to                        March 1976 :
             (a) the minimum selling price and without prejudice to the provisions of the second
                  subparagraph of Article 12(1 ) of the said Regulation, the processing security shall be
                  as follows :
                                                             Use to which the butter        Minimum selling         Processing security
                           Fat content of the butter      is to be put (Article 6 ( 1 ) (c)          price in         in u.a./ 100 kg
                                                        of Regulation (EEC) No 232/75)      u.a ./ 1 00 kg butter          butter
                   82 % or more                                   Formula A                            107                  127
             (b) it shall not be proceeded with the invitation to tender as regards tenders received for
                  butter to be processed according to formula B.
(!) OJ No  L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .
(2) OJ No  L 74, 22. 3. 1975, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No  L 169, 18 . 7. 1968, p. 1 .
(4) OJ No  L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 15.
(5) OJ No  L 24, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 45.
(6) OJ No  L 45, 21 . 2. 1976, p. 28 .
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                                                   Article 2
            This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
            Done at Brussels, 18 March 1976.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                              Member of the Commission