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Language: en
Date: 1977-06-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 13 May 1977 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 51st individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 232/75

No L 140/26                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                                     8 . 6. 77
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                             of 13 May 1977
               fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 51st individual invitation to
               tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC)
                                                                    No 232/75
                                                                 (77/372/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 ('), 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 51st 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
 quantities of butter held by them ;                                                                              Article 1
 Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in                          For the 51st 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 10
 use to which the butter is to be put and according to                           May 1977, the minimum selling price and, without
 the fat content of the butter ; whereas alternatively a                         prejudice to the provisions of the second subpara­
 decision may be taken not to proceed with the invita­                          graph of Article 12 ( 1 ) of the said Regulation, the
 tion to tender ; whereas the amount of the processing                           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, 13 May 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.
(*>) OJ No  L 108, 30 . 4. 1977, p. 75.                                         (7) OJ No L 91 , 6. 4. 1976, p. 13.