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Language: en
Date: 1974-10-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 27 September 1974 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 53rd individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72

23 . 10 . 74                             Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 286/ 13
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                     of 27 September 1974
              fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 53rd individual invitation to
              tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC)
                                                            No 1259/72
                                                           (74/507/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      the minimum selling price should be fixed at the
COMMUNITIES,                                                        level specified below and the processing security deter­
                                                                    mined accordingly ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                                Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
                                                                    are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
804/68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 662/74 (2), and in                   HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
particular Article 6 (7) thereof ;
                                                                                            Article 1
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
985/68 (3) of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules                For the 53rd individual invitation to tender under
for intervention on the market in butter and cream , as             Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72, in respect of which the
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4 ), and               time limit for the submission of tenders expires on 24
in particular Article 7a thereof ;                                  September 1974,
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                    (a) the minimum selling price to be considered when
No 1 259/72 (5) of 16 June 1972 on the disposal of                      awarding contracts shall be 90 u.a./ lOO kg butter
butter at a reduced price to certain Community                          with a fat content of 82 % or more,
processing undertakings, as last amended by Regula­                 (b) the processing security shall be 99 u.a./ lOO kg
tion (EEC) No 2273/74 (6), intervention agencies have                   butter without prejudice to the provisions of the
put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain                second and third subparagraphs of Article 12 ( 1 ) of
quantities of butter held by them ;                                     Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72.
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in
the light of the tenders received, a minimum selling                                        Article 2
price must be fixed which may vary with the fat                     This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
content of the butter ; whereas alternatively a decision
may be taken not to proceed with the invitation to
tender ; whereas the amount of the processing security               Done at Brussels, 27 September 1974 .
 must be fixed in the light of the difference between
the minimum selling price and the market price of                                             For the Commission
the butter ;
                                                                                                  The President
Whereas, in the light of the tenders received in
 response to the 53rd individual invitation to tender,                                       Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
  ') OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968, p. 13 .
  ') OJ No L 85, 29 . 3 . 1974, p. 51 .
  3 ) OJ No L 169 , 18 . 7 . 1968 , p. 1 .
  4 ) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 15.
  5 ) OJ No L 1 39, 17 . 6 . 1972, p. 18 .
  *>) OJ No L 240 , 3 . 9 . 1974, p. 5 .