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Language: en
Date: 1985-09-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 29 August 1985 on the sale of olive oil residues held by the Greek intervention agency

10 . 9 . 85                           Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 241 /23
                                                 COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 29 August 1985
                  on the sale of olive oil residues held by the Greek intervention agency
                                               (Only the Greek text is authentic)
                                                         (85/426/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 COMMUNITIES,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                    Article 1
 Economic Community,
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/ EEC               1.     The Greek intervention agency, Ypiresia Diachi­
of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a                    riseos Agoron Georgikon Proionton, hereinafter called
common organization of the market in oils and fats ('),           YDAGEP, shall sell for the best price it can obtain, all
as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 231 /85 (2),               vat bottom residues which it is holding as a result of
and in particular Article 12 thereof,                             its purchases on the olive oil market until the 1984/85
                                                                  marketing year.
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                  2.     The notice of sale shall be displayed by
2754/78 (3) provides that olive oil held by the interven­         YDAGEP at its head office at Acharnon 2, Athens,
tion agencies shall be put up for sale by tender except           Greece, for at least 10 days before the date set for the
when particular conditions necessitate recourse to                sale .
other procedures ;
Whereas, during the marketing years from 1980/81 to               3 . Sale of the product referred to in paragraph 1
 1984/85, approximately 200 000 tonnes of olive oil of            shall be effected before 31 October 1985. Delivery of
all qualities held by the Greek intervention agency               the product sold must take place before 31 December
                                                                  1985 .
were sold by tender ; whereas following these sales the
intervention agency still holds in stock a quantity of
vat bottom residues ; whereas these residues contain a            YDAGEP shall inform the Commission as soon as
considerable percentage of oil ; whereas correct                  possible of the outcome of the sale.
management of the intervention agency's purchases of
olive oil requires that these residues should therefore
                                                                                          Article 2
be sold ;
Whereas, for commercial reasons based chiefly on the              This Decision is addressed to the Hellenic Republic.
fact that there is no well-defined market or price
system for the product in question, it is not advisable
to use the sale by tender procedure previously adopted
for the olive oil ; whereas the intervention agency               Done at Brussels, 29 August 1985.
should therefore sell the product for the best price it
can obtain ;
                                                                                            For the Commission
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                                           Frans ANDRIESSEN
are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Committee for Oils and Fats,                                                                    Vice-President
(*) OJ No 172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.
(2) OJ No L 26, 31 . 1 . 1985, p. 12.
(3) OJ No L 331 , 28 . 11 . 1978 , p . 13 .