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Language: en
Date: 1977-02-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 18 January 1977 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 43rd individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 232/75

4 . 2 . 77                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                                           No L 33 / 27
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                              of 18 January 1977
               fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 43rd individual invitation to
              tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation ( EEC)
                                                                       No 232 / 75
                                                                   (77/ 106/ 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 1 976 ( 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 43rd 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 271 4/ 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 2805/76 (6), intervention agencies have
put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain
                                                                                                                         Article 1
quantities of butter held by them ;
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in                                For the 43rd 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 1 1
use to which the butter is to be put and according to                                 January 1977 , the minimum selling price and,
the fat content of the butter ; whereas alternatively a                               without prejudice to the provisions of the second
decision may be taken not to proceed with the invita­                                 subparagraph of Article 12 ( 1 ) of the said Regulation ,
tion to tender ; whereas the amount of the processing                                 the 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 ( 1 ) ( e ) of Regulation ( EEC )       price in u.a.       in u.a per 100 kg
                                                                       No 2t2 / 7s )                   per !()() kg butter          butter
               82 % or more                                          Formula A                                  88                    155
                                                                          Article 2
              This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
               Done at Brussels, 18 January 1977 .
                                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                                     Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                        Vice-President
(>)  OJ  No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .
(2)  OJ  No L 67, 15 . 3 . 1976 , p. 9 .
(3 ) OJ  No L 169 , 18 . 7 . 1968 , p. 1 .
(4)  OJ  No L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972 , p . 15 .
(5)  OJ  No L 24, 31 . 1 . 1975 , p . 45 .
(b   OJ  No L 320 , 20 . 11 . 1976 , p . 25 .                                         o OJ No L 91 , 6 . 4 . 1976 , p. 1 ?.