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Language: en
Date: 1974-05-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 1 April 1974 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 41st individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72

No L 123/ 22                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               6 . 5 . 74
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 1 April 1974
              fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 41st individual invitation to
              tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation ( EEC)
                                                            No 1259/ 72
                                                           (74/224/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       the minimum selling price should be fixed at the
COMMUNITIES,                                                         level specified below and the processing security deter­
                                                                     mined accordingly ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
                                                                     are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
804/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 41 9/74 (2), and in                   HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
particular Article 6 (7) thereof ;
                                                                                             Article 1
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
985/68 (3 ) of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules                For the 41st individual invitation to tender under
for intervention on the market in butter and cream , as              Regulation (EEC) No 1259 /72, in respect of which the
last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and                time limit for the submission of tenders expires on 26
in particular Article 7a thereof ;                                   March 1974 :
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation ( EEC)                    (a) the minimum selling price to be considered when
No 1 259/72 (5) of 16 June 1972 on the disposal of                       awarding contracts shall be 75 units of account per
butter at a reduced price to certain Community                            100 kg butter with a fat content of 82 % or more,
processing undertakings, as last amended by Regula­                  (b) the processing security shall be 114 units of
tion ( EEC) No 324/74 (6), intervention agencies have                    account per 100 kg butter without prejudice to the
put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain                 provisions of the second and third subparagraphs
quantities of butter held by them ;                                      of Article 12(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72.
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in
                                                                                             Article 2
the light of the tenders received, a minimum selling
price must be fixed which may vary with the fat                      This Decision is addressed to all Member States .
content of the butter ; whereas alternatively a decision
may be taken not to proceed with the invitation to
tender ; whereas the amount of the processing security                Done at Brussels, 1 April 1974.
must be fixed in the light of the difference between
the minimum selling price and the market price of                                              For the Commission
the butter ;
                                                                                                   The President
Whereas, in the light of the tenders received in
response to the 41st individual invitation to tender,                                         François-Xavier ORTOLI
(') O j  No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13.
(-) 0 1  No L 49, 21 . 2. 1974, p. 2.
(s ) O ) No L 169, 18 . 7. 1968 , p. 1 .
(4) OJ   No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 15.
(s) OJ   No L 139, 17. 6. 1972, p. 18 .
(b) O J  No L 35, 8 . 2. 1974, p. 28 .