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Language: en
Date: 1977-04-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 25 March 1977 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 48th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 232/75

5 . 4. 77                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                                        No L 87/31
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                             of 25 March 1977
              fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 48th individual invitation to
             tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation ( EEC)
                                                                     No 232/ 75
                                                                 (77/265/ 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                                Whereas, in the light of the tenders received in
particular Article 6 (7) thereof,                                                  response to the 48th individual invitation to tender,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                       the minimum selling price should be fixed at the
985/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for                               level specified below and the processing security deter­
intervention on the market in butter and cream (3 ), as                            mined accordingly ;
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and
in particular Article 7a thereof,                                                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
                                                                                   are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                                   ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products ,
No 232/75 of 30 January 1975 on the sale of butter at
 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 569 /77 (6), intervention agencies have
put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain
quantities of butter held by them ;                                                                                  Art idc 1
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in                              For the 48th individual invitation to tender under
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 22
 use to which the butter is to be put and according to                             March 1977, the minimum selling price and, without
the fat content of the butter ; whereas alternatively a                            prejudice to the provisions of the second subpara­
decision may be taken not to proceed with the invita­                              graph of Article 12 ( 1 ) of the said Regulation , the
tion to tender ; whereas the amount of the processing                               processing security shall be as follows :
                                                     Use to which the butter is to be put          Minimum selling        Processing security
                      Fat content of the butter      (Article 6 ( I ) (c ) of Regulation ( EEC)       price in u.a .      in u.a. per 1(10 kg
                                                                     No 2Î2/ 7Ç)                   per 100 kg butter             butter
              82 % or more                                         Formula A                               88                     1 S5
                                                                       Article 2
             This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
              Done at Brussels , 25 March 1 977 .
                                                                                                For the (jmi ni ission
                                                                                                 Finn GUNDHLACH
                                                                                                    Vice - President
(')  OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .
(-') OJ No L 67 , 15 . 3 . 1976 , p. 9 .
(3)  OJ No L 169 , 18 . 7 . 1968 , p. 1 .
H    OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p. 15
(s)  OJ No L 24, 3 1 . 1 . 1 975, p. 45 .
(h)  OJ No L 72, 19 . 3 . 1977 , p. 1 1 .                                          ( 7 ) OJ No 1 . 91 , 6 . 4 . 1976 , p . 13 .