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Date: 1979-04-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 19 March 1979 fixing the minimum selling prices for butter for the first individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 262/79

4 . 4 . 79                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                                               No L 84/ 19
                                                       COMMISSION DECISION
                                                            of 19 March 1979
             fixing the minimum selling prices for butter for the first individual invitation to
             tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC)
                                                                 No 262/79
                                                               (79/353/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                                alternatively a decision may be taken not to proceed
COMMUNITIES,                                                                  with the invitation to tender ; whereas the amounts of
                                                                              the processing security must be fixed in the light of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                         the difference between the minimum selling prices
Economic Community,                                                           and the market prices of the butter ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                             Whereas, in the light of the tenders received in
of the market in milk and milk products (J), as last                          response to the first individual invitation to tender,
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1761 /78 (2), and in                           the minimum selling prices should be fixed at the
particular Article 6 (7) thereof,                                             level specified below and the processing securities
                                                                              determined accordingly ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
985/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for                          Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
intervention on the market in butter and cream (3), as                         are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and                           ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
in particular Article 7a thereof,
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 262/79 of 12 February 1979 on the sale of butter                            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
at reduced prices for use in the manufacture of pastry
products, ice-cream and other foodstuffs (5), interven­
tion agencies have put up for sale by standing invita­
tion to tender certain quantities of butter held by                                                           Article 1
them ;
Whereas Article 16 of that Regulation provides that,                           For the first individual invitation to tender under
in the light of the tenders received, a minimum                                Regulation (EEC) No 262/79, in respect of which the
selling price must be fixed which may vary according                           time limit for the submission of tenders was 13 March
to the use to which the butter is to be put and                                1979, the minimum selling prices and the processing
according to the fat content of the butter ; whereas                           securities shall be as follows :
                 Use to which the butter is to be put                                          Minimum selling      Processing security
                       (Article 4 ( 1 ), (2) and (3)            Fat content of the butter            price (in        ( in u.a./ 100 kg
                   of Regulation ( EEC) No 262/79)                                            u.a./ 100 kg butter)          butter)
              Formula A and/or C                           82 % or more                               88 00                167-00
                                                           Less than 82 %                             85-85                163-00
              Formula B                                    82 % or more                              13000                 125-00
             I                                             Less than 82 %                            126-83                122-00
(!) OJ No L 148, 28 . 6. 1968, p. 13 .
 2 OJ No L 204, 28 . 7. 1978 , p. 6.
(3) OJ No L 169, 18 . 7. 1968, p. 1 .
(«) OJ No L 291 , 28. 12. 1972, p. 15.
(5) OJ No L 41 , 16. 2. 1979, p. 1 .
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                                                  Article 2
           This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
           Done at Brussels, 19 March 1979.
                                                                For the Commission
                                                                 Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                    Vice-President