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Language: en
Date: 1979-07-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 3 July 1979 fixing the minimum selling prices for butter for the eighth individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 262/79

17 . 7 . 79                                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                          No L 180/ 23
                                                          COMMISSION DECISION
                                                                 of 3 July 1979
              fixing the minimum selling prices for butter for the eighth individual invitation
              to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by
                                                         Regulation (EEC) No 262/79
                                                                  (79/629/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 (1), as last                             response to the eighth 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 Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29
intervention on the market in butter and cream (3), as                           March 1979 (7) laid down the coefficient for
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and                             expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in
in particular Article 7a thereof,                                                ECU ;
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
No 262/79 of 12 February 1979 on the sale of butter                              are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                                 ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
at reduced prices for use in the manufacture of pastry
products, ice-cream and other foodstuffs (5), as
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 545/79 (6), interven­                              HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
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 eighth 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 26 June
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 ( ECU           ( ECU
                      of Regulation ( EEC) No 262/79)                                            per 100 kg butter) per 100 kg butter)
               Formula A and/or C                             82 % or more                            10600              20200
                                                              Less than 82 %                          10340              197-07
               Formula B                                      82 % or more                            157-00             151-00
                                                              Less than 82 %                          15316              147-31
 (!) 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 .
 (4) OJ  No L  291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 15.
 (5) OJ No L 41 , 16. 2. 1979, p. 1 .
 (') OJ No L 72, 23. 3. 1979, p. 16.                                               (7) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .
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                                                 Article 2
          This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
          Done at Brussels, 3 July 1979.
                                                               For the Commission
                                                                Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                   Vice-President