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Language: en
Date: 1976-12-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 2 December 1976 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 232/75

31 . 12 . 76                                Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 364/31
                                                       COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 2 December 1976
                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 232/75
                                                              ( 76/944/EEC
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         the difference between the minimum selling price
  COMMUNITIES ,                                                          and the market price of the butter ;
 Having regard to the Treaty                   establishing the         Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 777/76
 European Economic Community,                                            of 5 April 1976 (7 ) reduces the scope of Regulation
                                                                         ( EEC) No 232/75 to the butter to be used when
                                                                         processed into pastry products ( formula A);
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 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 559/76 (2 ), and                        response to the 41st individual invitation to tender,
 in particular Article 6 ( 7) thereof,                                  the minimum selling price should be fixed at the
                                                                        level specified below and the processing security
                                                                         determined accordingly ;
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No
985/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for
intervention on the market in butter and cream (3 ),                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
 as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                                  are in accordance with the opinion of the
2714/72 ( 4), and in particular Article 7a thereof,                      Management        Committee         for Milk  and   Milk
                                                                         Products,
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation ( EEC )
No 232/75 of 30 January 1975 on the sale of butter
at reduced prices for use in the manufacture of                         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
pastry products and ice-cream (5), as last amended
by Regulation ( EEC) No 2805/76 (6), intervention
agencies have put up for sale by standing invitation
to tender certain quantities of butter held by them ;
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that,                                                 Article 1
in the light of the tenders received, a minimum
selling price must be fixed which may vary according
to the use to which the butter is to be put and
according to the fat content of the butter; whereas                     For the 41st individual invitation to tender under
alternatively a decision may be taken not to proceed
with the invitation to tender ; whereas the amount of
                                                                        Regulation ( EEC) No 232/75 , in respect of which the
                                                                        time limit for the submission of tenders expires on
the processing security must be fixed in the light of
                                                                        23 November 1976, the minimum selling price and
(!)  OJ   No  L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p . 13 .
                                                                        without prejudice to the provisions of the second
(2)  OJ   No  L 67, 15 . 3 . 1976, p . 9 .                              subparagraph of Article 12 ( 1 ) of the said
( 3) OJ   No  L 169 , 18 . 7. 1968 , p . 1 .                            Regulation , the processing security shall be as
(4)  OJ   No  L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972 , p . 15                           follows :
( 5) OJ   No  L 24, 31 . 1 . 1975 , p . 45 .
(«)  OJ   No  L 320, 20. 11 . 1976, p . 25 ,                            ( 7 ) OJ No L 91 , 6. 4 . 1976, p . 13 .
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                                              Use to which the butter is to
             Fat content of the butter         be put ( Article 6 ( 1) ( c) of Minimum selling price in Processing security in u.a .
                                              Regulation (EEC ) No 232/75 )     u.a . per 100 kg butter     per 100 kg butter
                 82 %> or more                       Formula A                             88                      155
                                                                  Article 2
            This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
            Done at Brussels , 2 December 1976.
                                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                                                P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                       Member of the Commission