CELEX: 
Language: en
Date: 1973-03-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 29 January 1973 fixing the minimum sale price for butter for the fourteenth individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72

No L 77/44                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                              26. 3 . 73
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 29 January 1973
              fixing the minimum sale price for butter for the fourteenth individual invitation to tender
              under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72
                                                             (73/33/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        Whereas in the light of the tenders received in
COMMUNITIES ,                                                         response to the fourteenth individual invitation to
                                                                      tender the minimum price should be fixed at the
                                                                      level specified below and the processing security
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                    should be determined in consequence ;
pean Economic Community ;
                                                                      Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
804/68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organi­                      ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products ;
zation of the market in milk and milk products, as
last amended by the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3)
concerning the Accession of new Member States to
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
the European Community and the European Atomic
Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January
1972, and in particular Article 6 (7) thereof;                                               Article 1
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          For the fourteenth individual invitation to tender
985 /68 (4) of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules                 under Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72, in respect of
for intervention on the market in butter and cream,                   which the time limit for submission of tenders expired
as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (5),                   on 23 January 1973 ,
and in particular Article 7a thereof;
                                                                      a) the minimum selling price to be considered when
                                                                          awarding contracts shall be 55-00 u.a./lOO kg of
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                          butter;
No 1259/72 (6) of 16 June 1972 on the disposal of
butter at a reduced price to certain Community                         b) the processing security shal be 142-00 u.a. 100 kg
processing undertakings, as last amended by Regu­                         of butter.
lation (EEC) No 2815/72 (7), the intervention agen­
cies have put up for sales by standing invitation to                                          Article 2
tender certain quantities of 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                  Brussels, 29 January 1973 .
tenders received, and the amount of the processing
security must be fixed in the light of the difference                                                   For the Commission
between the minimum price and the market price of                                                          The President
butter, and that a decision may alternatively be taken
not to proceed with the invitation to tender ;                                                       Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
 i1) OJ No  L 148 / 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 .
 (2) OJ No  L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
(3)  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 297, 30. 12 . 1972, p. 3 .