CELEX: 
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 2 May 1973 fixing the minimum sale price for butter for the twentieth individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72

No L 153 /40                              Official Journal of the European Communities                               9. 6. 73
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 2 May 1973
              fixing the minimum sale price for butter for the twentieth individual invitation to tender
                     under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC)
                                                             No 1259/72
                                                            (73/140/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        Whereas in the light of the tenders received in re­
COMMUNITIES ,                                                         sponse to the twentieth individual invitation to tender
                                                                      the minimum price should be fixed at the level
                                                                      specified below and the processing security should
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                    be determined in consequence ;
pean Economic Community ;
                                                                      Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/                     are in accordance wiith the Opinion of the Manage­
68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                     ment Committee far Milk and Milk Products ;
of the market in milk and milk products, as last
amended by the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3)
concerning the Accession of new Member States to                      HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
the European Community and the European Atomic
Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January                                            Article 1
1972, and in particular Article 6 (7) thereof;
                                                                      For the twentieth individual invitation to tender
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 985/                     under Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72, in respect of
68 (4) of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for                  which the time limit for submission of tenders
intervention on the market in butter and cream, as                     expired on 24 April 1973 ;
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (5),                      ( a) the minimum selling price to be considered
and in particular Article 7a thereof;                                      when awarding contracts shall be 55 u.a./ 100 kg
                                                                           of butter,
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 1259/72 (6) of 16 June 1972 on the disposal of                     (lb) the processing security shall be 142 u.a./ 100 kg
butter at a reduced price to certain Community                             of butter.
processing undertakings, as last amended by Regu­
lation (EEC) No 677/73 (7), the intervention agencies                                        Article 2
have put up for sale by standing invitation to tender
certain quantities of butter which they hold ;                        This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that
a minimum selling price must be fixed in the light                    Done at Brussels, 2 May 1973 .
of tenders received, and the amount of the process­
ing security must be fixed in the light of the dif­                                                  For the Commission
ference between the minimum price and the market                                                        The President
price of butter, and that a Decision may alternatively
be taken not to proceed with the invitation to tender;                                             François-Xavier ORTOLI
(!)  OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .
(2)  OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
(3)  OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5.
(4)  OJ No L 169 , 18 . 7 . 1968 , p. 1 .
(5)  OJ No L 291 , 28 , 12. 1972, p. 15 .
(6 ) OJ No L 139, 17. 6. 1972, p. 18 .
O    OJ No L 65 , 10. 3 . 1973 , p . 16.