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Language: en
Date: 1976-06-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 8 June 1976 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 29th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 232/75

22 . 6 . 76                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                                       No L 160/ 13
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                               of 8 June 1976
              fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 29th individual invitation to
              tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC)
                                                                      No 232/ 75
                                                                  (76/547/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                                    tion to tender ; whereas the amount of the processing
COMMUNITIES,                                                                      security must be fixed in the light of the difference
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                             between the minimum selling price and the market
Economic Community,                                                                price of the butter ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                      Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 777/76 of
804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                                  5 April 1976 (7), reduces the scope of Regulation
of the market in milk and milk products ( J ), as last                            (EEC) No 232/75 to the butter to be used when
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in                                  processed into pastry products (formula A) ;
particular Article 6 (7) thereof,                                                 Whereas, in the light of the tenders received in
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                       response to the 29th individual invitation to tender,
985/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for                               the minimum selling prices should be fixed at the
intervention on the market in butter and cream (3), as                             level specified below and the processing security deter­
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and                               mined accordingly ;
in particular Article 7a thereof,                                                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                                   are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
No 232/75 of 30 January 1975 on the sale of butter at                              ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
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 1067/76 (6), intervention agencies have
put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain                                                             Article 1
quantities of butter held by them ;                                                For the 29th individual invitation to tender under
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in                             Regulation (EEC) No 232/75, in respect of which the
the light of the tenders received, a minimum selling                               time limit for the submission of tenders expires on 25
price must be fixed which may vary according to the                                May 1976, the minimum selling price and, without
use to which the butter is to be put and according to                              prejudice to the provisions of the second subpara­
the fat content of the butter ; whereas alternatively a                            graph of Article 12 ( 1 ) of the said Regulation, the
decision may be taken not to proceed with the invita­                              processing security shall be as follows :
                                                      Use to which the butter i -, to be put      Minimum selling         Processing security
                       Fat content of the butter      (Article 6 ( 1 ) (c) of Regulation ( EEC)            price in         in u.a./ 100 kg
                                                                      No 232/75)                  u.a ./ 1 00 kg butter         butter
              82 % or more                                          Formula A                                 85                 150
                                                                        Article 2
              This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
               Done at Brussels, 8 June 1976.
                                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                                  P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                           Member of the Commission
(!) 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 .
(6) OJ   No L 121 , 8 . 5. 1976, p . 37.                                           (7) OJ No L 91 , 6 . 4 . 1976, p . 13 .