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Language: en
Date: 1976-02-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 3 February 1976 fixing the minimum selling prices for butter for the twenty-first individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 232/75

11 . 2. 76                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                                     No L 36/ 21
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 3 February 1976
              fixing the minimum selling prices for butter for the twenty-first individual invi­
              tation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regula­
                                                      tion (EEC) No 232/75
                                                               (76/ 193/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                                  the fat content of the butter ; whereas alternatively a
COMMUNITIES,                                                                    decision may be taken not to proceed with the invita­
                                                                                tion to tender ; whereas the amounts of the processing
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                          security must be fixed in the light of the difference
 Economic Community,
                                                                                between the minimum selling prices and the market
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                   prices of the butter ;
 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization
of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last                            Whereas, in the light of the tenders received in
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 740/75 (2), and in                               response to the twenty-first individual invitation to
particular Article 6 (7) thereof,                                               tender, the minimum selling prices should be fixed at
                                                                                the level specified below and the processing securities
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                    determined accordingly ;
985/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for
intervention on the market in butter and cream (3), as                          Whereas the Management Committee for Milk and
 last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and                           Milk Products has not delivered an opinion within the
in particular Article 7a thereof,                                               time limit set by its chairman,
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)
                                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 No 232/75 of 30 January 1975 on the sale of butter at
reduced prices for use in the manufacture of pastry
products and ice-cream (5), as last amended by Regula­                                                          Article 1
tion (EEC) No 2124/75 (6), intervention agencies have                           For the twenty-first individual invitation to tender
put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain                        under Regulation (EEC) No 232/75, in respect of
quantities of butter held by them ;                                             which the time limit for the submission of tenders
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in                          expires on 27 January 1976, the minimum selling
the light of the tenders received, a minimum selling                            prices and, without prejudice to the provisions of the
price must be fixed which may vary according to the                             second subparagraph of Article 12 ( 1 ) of the said Regu­
use to which the butter is to be put and according to                           lation, the processing securities shall be as follows :
                                                     Use to which the butter is to be put       Minimum selling       Processing security
                     Fat content of the butter       (Article 6 ( 1 ) (c) of Regulation (EEC)          price in         in u.a./ 100 kg
                                                                     No 232/7 S)                u.a./ 100 kg butter         butter
              82 % or more                                         Formula A                             107                 120
                                                                   Formula B                             145                   82
                                                                   Article 2
             This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
              Done at Brussels, 3 February 1976.
                                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                                              P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                       Member of the Commission
o   OJ  No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968, p. 13 .
(2) OJ  No L 74, 22. 3 . 1975, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No L 169, 18 . 7. 1968, p. 1 .
(4) OJ  No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 15.
(5) OJ  No L 24, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 45.
(') OJ  No L 216, 14. 8 . 1975, p. 10 .