CELEX: 31998R1944
Language: en
Date: 1998-09-11
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1944/98 of 11 September 1998 fixing the minimum selling prices for butter and the maximum aid for cream, butter and concentrated butter for the 16th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2571/97

12. 9. 98              EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                L 252/19
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1944/98
                                                   of 11 September 1998
                   fixing the minimum selling prices for butter and the maximum aid for cream,
                   butter and concentrated butter for the 16th individual invitation to tender under
                   the standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2571/97
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        to the intended use of the butter, its fat content and the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              incorporation procedure, and that a decision may also be
Community,                                                         taken to make no award in response to the tenders
                                                                   submitted; whereas the amount(s) of the processing secur-
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of
                                                                   ities must be fixed accordingly;
27 June 1968 on the common organisation of the market
in milk and milk products (1), as last amended by Regula-          Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
tion (EC) No 1587/96 (2), and in particular Articles 6(3)          in accordance with the opinion of the Management
and 12(3) thereof,                                                 Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
Whereas the intervention agencies are, pursuant to
Commission Regulation (EC) No 2571/97 of 15
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
December 1997 on the sale of butter at reduced prices
and the granting of aid for cream, butter and concentrated
butter for use in the manufacture of pastry products,                                      Article 1
ice-cream and other foodstuffs (3), as last amended by             The maximum aid and processing securities and the
Regulation (EC) No 1550/98 (4), to sell by invitation to           minimum selling prices, applying for the 16th individual
tender certain quantities of butter that they hold and to          invitation to tender under the standing invitation to
grant aid for cream, butter and concentrated butter;               tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2571/97, shall
whereas Article 18 of that Regulation stipulates that in           be fixed as indicated in the Annex hereto.
the light of the tenders received in response to each
individual invitation to tender a minimum selling price                                    Article 2
shall be fixed for butter and maximum aid shall be fixed
for cream, butter and concentrated butter; whereas it is           This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 September
further stipulated that the price or aid may vary according        1998.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 11 September 1998.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                Franz FISCHLER
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L  148, 28.  6. 1968, p. 13.
(2) OJ L  206, 16.  8. 1996, p. 21.
(3) OJ L  350, 20.  12. 1997, p. 3.
(4) OJ L  202, 18.  7. 1998, p. 27.
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                                                           ANNEX
         to the Commission Regulation of 11 September 1998 fixing the minimum selling prices for butter
         and the maximum aid for cream, butter and concentrated butter for the 16th individual invitation
         to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2571/97
                                                                                              (ECU/100 kg)
                               Formula                                  A                   B
                                                                 With     Without    With       Without
                        Incorporation procedure
                                                                tracers    tracers  tracers     tracers
                                          Unaltered                        227                  
           Minimum           Butter
          selling price    A 82 %
                                          Concentrated                                         
                                          Unaltered                        120                  
               Processing security
                                          Concentrated                                         
                          Butter A 82 %                          109        105                 105
                          Butter : 82 %                          104        100                  
           Maximum
               aid
                          Concentrated butter                    134        130      134         130
                          Cream                                                      46          44
                          Butter                                 120                            
           Processing
                          Concentrated butter                    148                148          
             security
                          Cream                                                      51         