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Language: en
Date: 1977-07-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 1 July 1977 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 54th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 232/75

No L 180/ 16                           Official Journal of the European Communities                             20 . 7. 77
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                                          (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                  COMMISSION
                                                 COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 1 July 1977
             fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 54th individual invitation to
             tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC)
                                                          No 232/75
                                                         (77/466/ 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 54th 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 920/77 (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 54th 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 expires on 28
                                                                   June 1977, the minimum selling price and, without
(') OJ No  L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 .                          prejudice to the provisions of the second subpara­
(2) OJ No  L 67, 15. 3 . 1976, p. 9 .                              graph of Article 12 ( 1 ) of the said Regulation, the
(3) OJ No  L 169, 18 . 7. 1968 , p. 1 .                            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 108 , 30 . 4. 1977, p. 75.                            (7) OJ No L 91 , 6. 4. 1976, p. 13 .
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                                               Use to which the butter 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
                                                                Article 2
           This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
           Done at Brussels, 1 July 1977.
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                        Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                           Vice-President