CELEX: 31969R1399
Language: en
Date: 1969-07-17 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1399/69 of the Council of 17 July 1969 laying down general rules for the supply of milk fats to the World Food Programme

Official Journal of the European Communities                                    9
No L 179/ 14                        Official Journal of the European Communities                              21.7.69
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 1399/69 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                    of 17 July 1969
              laying down general rules for the supply of milk fats to the World Food Programme
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      Whereas the amount of aid to be granted to the
                                                              firms processing the butter and transporting the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         butteroil thus produced should be determined by
Economic Community;                                           bringing into competition interested firms established
                                                               within the Community ; whereas this can be achieved
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/             by the tendering procedure;
68 1 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of
the market in milk and milk products, and in par­             Whereas, for the operation to function properly,
ticular Article 6 (6) thereof;                                provision should be made for the competent authority
                                                              of the Member State in whose territory processing
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;            takes place to be responsible for payment of the aid
                                                               and for such payment to be made only after the
Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 6 (3) of           quality and the packing of the product have been
Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 provides that special              checked,
measures may be taken in respect of butter held in
public storage which cannot be marketed on normal              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
terms during a given milk year;
Whereas there are large stocks of butter on the Com­
munity market as a result of interventions under Ar­                                    Article 1
ticle 21 (2) of Council Regulation No 13 /64 /EEC 2 of         1 . Butter which has been the subject of intervention
5 February 1964 on the progressive establishment of           measures under Article 21 (2) of Regulation No 13/
a common organization of the market in milk and               64/EEC or under Article 6 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)
milk products, as last amended by Regulation No               No 804/68 shall be made available to the World Food
1020/67 /EEC,3 or under Article 6(1 ) of Regulation           Programme in the form of butteroil.
(EEC) No 804/68;
                                                              2. For the purposes of this Regulation 'butteroil'
Whereas the additional quantities of butter which             shall be a product obtained exclusively from butter
those stocks represent cannot be marketed on normal           and meeting quality requirements to be determined.
terms during the current milk year; whereas, more­
Over, prolonged storage should be avoided because of          3. The quantity of butteroil to be disposed of under
the costs entailed;
                                                              the conditions laid down in this Regulation shall be
                                                              35 000 metric tons.
Whereas on 21-22 April 1969 the Council decided to
include milk products in a food aid programme;
Whereas the World Food Programme has made                                               Article 2
known its requirements of milk fat for its 1969/70             1 . For the purposes specified in Article 1 there shall
programme; whereas these fats can be supplied in              be granted :
the form of butteroil meeting certain quality criteria;
whereas the supply of this product free of charge               (a) an allowance covering the cost of processing but­
offers an outlet for surplus butter stocks and thus                 ter held by an intervention agency, including
does away with storage costs for several years;                     transport costs from the warehouse to the pro­
                                                                    cessing factory and the costs of delivering the
                                                                    butteroil fob , and
1 OJ No L 148 , 28.6.1968, p. 13.                              (b) a fixed contribution towards the cost of forward­
1 OJ No 34 , 27.2.1964 , p. 549/64.
1 OJ No 311 , 21.12.1967, p. 14.                                    ing and distributing the butteroil.
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2. The allowance shall be granted to the processor.             (b) if a check has shown that the quality and pack­
The contribution shall be granted to the agency re­                 ing of the butteroil delivered conform to Com­
sponsible for distributing the butteroil in the recipient           munity provisions.
countries.
                                                               2. Provision may be made for payments on account.
                        Article 3                                                     Article 5
1 . The amount of the allowance shall be determined            The quantities of butter to be mobilized shall be de­
by the tendering procedure.                                   cided in accordance with the procedure laid down in
                                                              Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68, taking
                                                              into account stocks held by the intervention agencies
2. The competent bodies of the Member States shall            and the situation on the butter market.
invite tenders according to provisions to be deter­
mined.
                                                                                      Article 6
                                                               1 . Each Member State shall designate a body respon­
                        Article 4                             sible for implementing the measures laid down in
                                                              this Regulation.
1 . The allowance shall be paid only:
(a) if the successful tenderer has fulfilled the obli­        2 . Payment of the allowance and the contribution
                                                              and the check referred to in Article 4 shall be ef­
    gations laid down in the invitation to tender.
                                                             fected by the competent body of the Member State
    and                                                       in whose territory processing took place.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 17 July 1969.
                                                                                 For the Council
                                                                                  The President
                                                                                  P. LARDINOIS