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Language: en
Date: 1977-03-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 28 February 1977 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 46th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 232/75

No L 62/ 26                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                                     8 . 3 . 77
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 28 February 1977
              fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 46th individual invitation to
              tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC)
                                                                   No 232/75
                                                                (77/ 199/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                                  security must be fixed in the light of the difference
COMMUNITIES,                                                                    between the minimum selling price and the market
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                          price of the butter ;
 Economic Community,                                                            Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 777/76 of
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                   5 April 1 976 (7) reduces the scope of Regulation (EEC)
 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                              No 232/75 to the butter to be used when processed
of the market in milk and milk products (J ), as last                           into pastry products (formula A) ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in                               Whereas, in the light of the tenders received in
particular Article 6 (7) thereof,                                               response to the 46th individual invitation to tender,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                   the minimum selling price should be fixed at the
985/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for                            level specified below and the processing security deter­
 intervention on the market in butter and cream (3), as                         mined accordingly ;
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and
in particular Article 7a thereof,                                               Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
                                                                                are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                                ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
 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                          HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
tion (EEC) No 2805/76 (6), intervention agencies have
put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain
quantities of butter held by them ;                                                                              Article 1
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in                          For the 46th individual invitation to tender under
the light of the tenders received, a minimum selling                            Regulation (EEC) No 232/75, in respect of which the
price must be fixed which may vary according to the                             time limit for the submission of tenders expires on 22
use to which the butter is to be put and according to                           February 1977, the minimum selling price and,
the fat content of the butter ; whereas alternatively a                         without prejudice to the provisions of the second
decision may be taken not to proceed with the invita­                           subparagraph of Article 12 ( 1 ) of the said Regulation,
tion to tender ; whereas the amount of the processing                           the processing security 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 u.a .      in u.a. per 100 kg
                                                                   No 232/75)                  per 100 kg butter             butter
              82 % or more                                       Formula A                             88                     155
                                                                     Article 2
              This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
              Done at Brussels, 28 February 1977.
                                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                                             Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                Vice-President
(') OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 .
(2) OJ No L 67, 15. 3 . 1976, p. 9 .
(3) OJ No L 169, 18 . 7. 1968, p. 1 .
(«) OJ No L 291 , 28. 12. 1972, p. 15.
(5) OJ No L 24, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 45.
[b) OJ No L 320, 20. 11 . 1976, p. 25.                                         ( 7) OJ No L 91 , 6. 4. 1976, p. 13 .