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Date: 1980-06-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 4 June 1980 fixing the minimum selling prices for butter for the 29th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 262/79

18 . 6. 80                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                    No L 150/ 13
                                                       COMMISSION DECISION
                                                              of 4 June 1980
               fixing the minimum selling prices for butter for the 29th individual invitation to
               tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC)
                                                                  No 262/79
                                                                (80/580/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                              selling price must be fixed which may vary according
COMMUNITIES,                                                                to the use to which the butter is to be put and
                                                                            according to the fat content of the butter ; whereas,
                                                                            alternatively, a decision may be taken not to proceed
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                       with the invitation to tender ; whereas the amounts of
 Economic Community,                                                        the processing security must be fixed in the light of
                                                                            the difference between the minimum selling prices
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                and the market prices of the butter ;
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 1761 /78 (2), and in                         response to the 29th individual invitation to tender,
particular Article 6 (7) thereof,                                           the minimum selling prices should be fixed at the
                                                                            level specified below and the processing securities
                                                                            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), as                      Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 272/79 (4), and                       are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
in particular Article 7a thereof,                                           ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)
 No 262/79 of 12 February 1979 on the sale of butter                        HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
at reduced prices for use in the manufacture of pastry
products, ice-cream and other foodstuffs (5), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 925/80 (6), interven­                                                    Article 1
tion agencies have put up for sale by standing invita­
tion to tender certain quantities of butter held by
                                                                            For the 29th individual invitation to tender under
them ;
                                                                            Regulation (EEC) No 262/79, in respect of which the
                                                                            time limit for the submission of tenders expired on 27
Whereas Article 16 of that Regulation provides that,                        May 1980, the minimum selling prices and processing
in the light of the tenders received, a minimum                             securities shall be fixed as follows :
               Use to which the butter is to be put                                        Minimum selling       Processing
                      (Article 4 ( 1 ), (2) and (3)           Fat content of the butter    price in ECU per       security
                  of Regulation (EEC) No 262/79)                                            1 00 kg of butter   in ECU per
                                                                                                               100 kg butter
               Formula A and/or C                         82 % or more                           115              200
                                                          less than 82 %                         11219             19512
               Formula B                                  82 % or more                           170               145
                                                          less than 82 %                         165-85            141-46
(')  OJ  No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13.
(*)  OJ  No L 204, 28 . 7. 1978, p. 6.
(3)  OJ  No L 169, 18. 7. 1968, p. 1 .
(4)  OJ  No L 161 , 29. 6. 1979, p. 13.
(s)  OJ  No L 41 , 16. 2. 1979, p. 1 .
(')  OJ  No L 99, 17. 4. 1980, p. 13.
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                                                   Article 2
           This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
            Done at Brussels, 4 June 1980.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                     Vice-President