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Language: en
Date: 1973-10-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 28 September 1973 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 30th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72

No L 286/42                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                            13 . 10 . 73
                                                       COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 28 September 1973
                fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 30th individual invitation to
                tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC)
                                                               No 1259/ 72
                                                               (73/312/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 the Act (2) concerning the Conditions of                    HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 Accession and the Adjustments to the Treaties, and in
 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 30th 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 25
 in particular Article 7a thereof ;                                     September 1973 .
 Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                       (a) the minimum selling price to be when awarding
 No 1 259/72 (5) of 16 June 1972 on the disposal of                         contracts shall be 55 u.a./ lOO kg butter.
 butter at a reduced price to certain Community                         (b) the processing security shall be 132 u.a./ lOO kg of
 processing undertakings, as last amended by Regula­                        butter without prejudice to the provisions of the
 tion (EEC) No 2248 /73 (6), intervention agencies have                     second and third subparagraphs of Article 12 ( 1 )
 put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain                   (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72.
 quantities of butter held by them ;
 Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in                                        Article 2
 the light of the tenders received, a minimum selling
 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, 28 September 1973 .
 must be fixed jn 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 30th individual invitation to tender,                                          Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(>)  OJ No   L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . 13 .
(2 ) OJ No   L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 14.
(J ) OJ No   L 169 , 18 . 7 . 1968 , p . 1 .
(•») OJ No   L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 1.5.
(5 ) OJ No   L 139 , 17 . 6 . 1972, p . 18 .
(6)  OJ No   L 230 , 18 . 8 . 1973 , p . 14 .