CELEX: 31993R3067
Language: en
Date: 1993-11-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 3067/93 of 5 November 1993 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2444/93 opening a standing invitation to tender for the sale of Grana padano cheese held by the Italian intervention agency

No L 274/ 14                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                6. 11 . 93
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3067/93
                                                     of 5 November 1993
                  amending Regulation (EEC) No 2444/93 opening a standing invitation to tender
                  for the sale of Grana padano cheese held by the Italian intervention agency
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      whereas, given the urgency of the said sales in view of the
                                                                  age of the cheese in question, this amendment should
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                  apply immediately ;
  Community,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of           Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market            in accordance with the opinion of the Management
 in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by Regula­        Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
 tion (EEC) No 2071 /92 (2), and in particular Article 8 (5)
 thereof,
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Whereas Article 2 (2) of Commission Regulation (EEC)
 No 2444/93 (3) lays down that a tender is not valid unless                                Article 1
 it involves an amount of at least ECU 548/ 100 kg ;
 whereas experience with the first few invitations to tender      Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2444/93 is hereby
 has shown that this provision is a considerable disincen­        deleted.
 tive to operators to tender for this sale ; whereas the aim
 of that provision can equally be achieved by means of the                                 Article 2
 minimum selling price fixed for each partial invitation to
 tender, taking account, in particular, of the requirement        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 foreseen in Article 8 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 ;        following its publication in the Official Journal of the
 whereas, therefore, the said paragraph should be deleted ;       European Communities.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 5 November 1993 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                             Rene STEICHEN
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13.
0 OJ No L 215, 30. 7. 1992, p. 64.
0 OJ No L 224, 3. 9. 1993, p. 9 .