CELEX: 31970R2640
Language: en
Date: 1970-12-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2640/70 of the Commission of 28 December 1970 amending Regulation (EEC) No 756/70 and (EEC) No 1680/70 on milk and milk products

Official Journal of the European Communities                                 955
No L 283/38                          Official Journal of the European Communities                             29.12.70
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 2640/70 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                   of 28 December 1970
              amending Regulation (EEC) No 756/70 and (EEC) No 1680/70 on milk and milk
                                                         products
THE    COMMISSION         OF     THE EUROPEAN       COM­        Whereas, moreover, Article 8 (2) of Commission
MUNITIES,                                                       Regulation (EEC) No 1680/706 of 18 August 1970 on
                                                                a standing invitation to tender for skimmed milk
                                                                powder held by intervention agencies, as amended by
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                    Regulation (EEC) No 2039/70,7 also adopted
European Economic Community;
                                                                measures to take account, when the minimum price
                                                                for each invitation to tender is determined, of the
                                                                difference between the price of skimmed milk in the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    two Member States concerned and that in other
804/68 1 of 27 June 1968 on the common organisation             Member States;
of the market in milk and milk products, as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1253/70,2 and in                 Whereas the above-mentioned provisions of
particular Article 7 (5 ) and Article 11 (3 ) thereof;          Regulations (EEC) No 756/70 and (EEC) No 1680/70
                                                                will serve no further purpose after the
                                                                discontinuation on 1 January 1971 of the corrective
Whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                amounts applied in Belgium and Luxembourg in
1222/703 of 29 June 1970 fixing, for the 1970/71 milk           accordance with Council Regulation (EEC) No
year, the target price for milk and the intervention            2552/708 of 15 December 1970 altering the' buying-in
prices for butter, skimmed milk powder and Grana                price of butter and skimmed milk powder applied by
padano and Parmigiano Reggiano cheeses provided                 the Belgian and Luxembourg intervention agencies ;
for the application of corrective amounts in Belgium
                                                                Whereas, moreover, Article 1 of Regulation (EEC)
and Luxembourg to inter alia the intervention price             No 1680/70 provides for the sale of skimmed milk
for skimmed milk powder; whereas this has resulted              powder taken into stock before 1 January 1970;
in an increase in the price of that product in the
Member States concerned;
                                                                whereas, in order to avoid depreciation in the quality
                                                                of skimmed milk powder due to prolonged storage,
                                                                arrangements should be made to ensure that the
Whereas in order to assess the effect of that price             oldest skimmed milk powder is sold first;
increase on the return on the use of skimmed milk
for the manufacture of casein and caseinates, Article
                                                                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                are   in  accordance    with     the Opinion   of  the
2 (3) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 756/704                 Management      Committee       for  Milk  and    Milk
of 24 April 1970 on granting aid for skimmed milk               Products;
processed into casein and caseinates, as amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1479/70,5 provided for an in­
crease in the aid for casein in Belgium and Luxem­              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
bourg until the end of the 1970/71 milk year;
                                                                                       Article 1
                                                                 (a) Paragraph 3 of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     756/70; and
1 OJ  No  L 148, 28.6.1968, p. 13 .
2 OJ  No  L 143, 1.7.1970, p. 1 .
s OJ  No  L 141, 29.6.1970, p. 27.                              6 OJ No L 185, 19.8.1970, p. 8.
4 OJ  No  L 91, 25.4.1970, p. 28.                               7 OJ No L 226, 13.10.1970, p. 8.
3 OJ  No  L 163 , 25.7.1970, p . 10.                            8 OJ No L 275, 19.12.1970, p. 3.
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(b) Paragraph 2 of Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No                                  Article 3
    1680/70 are hereby revoked.
                                                            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
                                                            day following its publication in the Official Journal
                     Article 2                              of the European Communities.
                                                            It shall take effect on 1 January 1971 .
The date '1 May 1969' shall be substituted for '1           However, Article 2 shall not apply before the ninth
January 1970' in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No           partial invitation to tender, for which the closing date
1680/70.                                                    for submitting tenders is 12 January 1971 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 28 December 1970.
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                    The President
                                                                                Franco M. MALFATTI