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Language: en
Date: 1977-10-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 3 October 1977 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 60th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 232/75

No L 259/ 10                          Official Journal of the European Communities                           12. 10 . 77
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                                           (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                   COMMISSION
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 3 October 1977
               fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 60th individual invitation to
               tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC)
                                                          No 232/75
                                                         (77/639/EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    security must be fixed in the light of the difference
 COMMUNITIES,                                                      between the minimum selling price and the market
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             price of the butter ;
 Economic Community,
                                                                  Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 777/76 of
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      5 April 1976 (7) reduces the scope of Regulation (EEC)
 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                 No 232/75 to the butter to be used when processed
 of the market in milk and milk products (*), as last              into pastry products (formula A) ;
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in
 particular Article 6 (7) thereof,                                Whereas, in the light of the tenders received in
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      response to the 60th individual invitation to tender,
 985/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for              the minimum selling price should be fixed at the
 intervention on the market in butter and cream (3), as            level specified below and the processing security deter­
 last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and              mined accordingly ;
 in particular Article 7a thereof,
                                                                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)
 No 232/75 of 30 January 1975 on the sale of butter at            are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                  ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
 reduced prices for use in the manufacture of pastry
 products and ice-cream (5), as last amended by Regula­
 tion (EEC) No 1 890/77 (6), intervention agencies have
 put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain
quantities of butter held by them ;                               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in
the light of the tenders received, a minimum selling
price must be fixed which may vary according to the                                        Article 1
use to which the butter is to be put and according to
the fat content of the butter ; whereas, alternatively, a         For the 60th individual invitation to tender under
decision may be taken not to proceed with the invita­             Regulation (EEC) No 232/75, in respect of which the
tion to tender ; whereas the amount of the processing             time    limit  for  the  submission  of  tenders   is 27
                                                                  September 1977, the minimum selling price and,
(!) OJ  No  L 148, 28 . 6. 1968, p. 13.                           without prejudice to the provisions of the second
(2) OJ  No  L 67, 15. 3. 1976, p. 9.                              subparagraph of Article 12 (1 ) of the said Regulation,
(') OJ  No  L 169, 18 . 7. 1968, p. 1 .                           the processing security, shall be as follows :
(4) OJ  No  L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 15.
(5) OJ  No  L 24, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 45.
(6) OJ  No  L 212, 20. 8 . 1977, p. 9.                            (7) OJ No L 91 , 6. 4. 1976, p. 13 .
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                                                   Use to which the buttei is to be put        Minimum selling   Processing security
                    Fat content of the butter      (Article 6 ( 1 ) (c) of Regulation (EEC)       price in u.a.  in u.a. per 100 kg
                                                                   No 232/75)                  per 100 kg butter        butter
             82 % or more                                        Formula A                             88                162
             Less than 82 %                                      Formula A                             85-85             158
                                                                     Article 2
             This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
             Done at Brussels, 3 October 1977.
                                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                                             Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                Vice-President