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Language: en
Date: 1977-07-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 22 June 1977 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 53rd individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 232/75

- 13 . 7 . 77                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                                        No L 173 / 25
                                                        COMMISSION DECISION
                                                                  of 22 June 1977
                fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 53rd individual invitation to
                tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation ( EEC)
                                                                         No 232/ 75
                                                                     (77/441 / 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 1976 (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 ('), 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 53rd 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 920/77 (6), intervention agencies have
  put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain
                                                                                                                         Article 1
  quantities of butter held by them ;
  Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in                               For the 53rd 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 is 14 June
  use to which the butter is to be put and according to                                 1977, the minimum selling price and, without preju­
  the fat content of the butter ; whereas alternatively a                              dice to the provisions of the second subparagraph of
  decision may be taken not to proceed with the invita­                                Article 12 ( 1 ) of the said Regulation , the processing
  tion to tender ; whereas the amount of 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                      162
                                                                           Article 2
                This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
                Done at Brussels, 22 June 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 .
  (4 ) OJ  No L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p . 15
  (5 ) OJ  No L 24, 31 . 1 . 1975 , p . 45 .
  (b)  OJ  No L 108 , 30 . 4 . 1977, p . 75 .                                          ( 7 ) OJ No L 91 , 6 . 4 . 1976, p . 13 .