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Language: en
Date: 1974-11-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 25 October 1974 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 55th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72

9 . 11 . 74                                Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 301 /37
                                                      COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 25 October 1974
                fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 55th individual invitation to
                tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC)
                                                               No 1259/ 72
                                                              (74/543/ EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         level specified below and the processing security deter­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                           mined accordingly ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
 Economic Community ;                                                   are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
                                                                        ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 804/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­
 tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last                  HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 662/74 (2), and in
 particular Article 6 (7) thereof ;                                                            Article 1
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           For the 55th individual invitation to tender under
 985/68 (3) of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules                   Regulation ( EEC) No 1259/72, in respect of which the
 for intervention on the market in butter and cream , as                time limit for the submission of tenders expires on 22
 last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and                  October 1974 :
 in particular Article 7a thereof ;
                                                                        (a) the minimum selling price to be considered when
 Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                           awarding contracts shall be 90 units of account per
 No 1 259 /72 (5 ) of 16 June 1972 on the disposal of                        100 kg of butter with a fat content of 82 % or
 butter at a reduced price to certain Community                             more ;
 processing undertakings, as last amended by Regula­                    (b) the processing security shall be 107 units of
 tion (EEC) No 2273 /74 (6), intervention agencies have                     account per 100 kg of butter without prejudice to
 put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain                   the provisions of the second and third subpara­
 quantities of butter held by them ;                                        graphs of Article 12(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                             1 259 / 72 .
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in
 the light of the tenders received, a minimum selling
                                                                                               Article 2
 price must be fixed which may vary with the fat
 content of the butter ; whereas alternatively a decision               This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
 may be taken not to proceed with the invitation to
 tender ; whereas the amount of the processing security
 must be fixed in the light of the difference between                   Done at Brussels , 25 October 1974 .
 the minimum selling price and the market price of
 the butter ;                                                                                    For the Commission
Whereas, in the light of the tenders received in                                                     The President
 response to the 55th individual invitation to tender,
 the minimum selling price should be fixed at the                                               Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(')  OJ  No  L 14«, 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .
(-') OJ  No  L 85, 29 .       1974, p. 51 .
(3 ) OJ  No  L 169 , 18 . 7 . 1968 , p. 1 .
(4 ) OJ  No  L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972 , p . 15.
(5)  OJ  No  L 1 39 , 17 . 6 . 1972, p. 18 .
( b) OJ  No  L 240 , .?. 9 . 1974 , p. 5 .