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Language: en
Date: 1973-05-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17 April 1973 fixing the minimum sale price for butter for the fifteenth individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1519/72

No L 129/30                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                       16. 5. 73
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 17 April 1973
                fixing the minimum sale for butter for the fifteenth individual invitation to
               tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC)
                                                              No 1519/72
                                                             (73/ 108/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          butter destined for export to a specified third country,
COMMUNITIES,                                                            after processing into a product which contains at least
                                                                        99·8 % of butyric fat, and without the incorporation
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   of a tracer ; whereas a minimum selling price and a
Economic Community ;                                                    separate processing and exportation security may be
                                                                        fixed for this purpose ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
804/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­                      Whereas having regard to the situation of the market
tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last                    for butter, in the light of the tenders received in
amended by the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3)                        response to the fifteenth individual invitation to
concerning the Accession of new Member States to                        tender, it is necessary to fix the minimum prices at
the European Economic Community and the Euro­                           the levels specified below, and the amounts of the
pean Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels                         processing and export security which should be deter­
on 22 January 1972, and in particular Article 6(7)                       mined in consequence, so far as the allocation of
thereof ;                                                               butter is concerned, envisaged in Article 19 (2) (a) and
                                                                         in Article 30a of Regulation (EEC) 1519/72, and in
                                                                        order not proceed with the invitation to tender, so far
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                            as the allocation of butter is concerned, envisaged in
985/68 (4) of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules                    Article 1 9 (2) (b) of the aforesaid Regulation ;
for intervention on the market in butter and cream , as
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (5), and
                                                                        Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
in particular Article 7a thereof ;
                                                                         are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
                                                                         ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products :
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 1519/72 (6) of 14 July 1972 on the sale of butter at
a reduced price for the exportation of certain fat
compounds, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
808/73 (7), the intervention agencies have put up for
sale by standing invitation to tender certain quantities
of butter which they hold ;
                                                                                                      Article 1
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that for
each individual invitation to tender, in the light of the                1.      For the fifteenth individual invitation to tender
tenders received, a minimum selling price must be                        under Regulation (EEC) No 1519/72, in respect of
fixed for each of the uses referred to in Article                       which the time for submission of tender expired on
 19 (2) (a) and (b) of the Regulation or a decision must                 10 April 1973, the minimum prices to be considered
be taken not to proceed with the invitation to tender ;                 when awarding contracts and the amounts of the
whereas pursuant to Article 10 of that Regulation the                    processing and export security shall be as follows :
amount of the processing and export security is to be
fixed at the same time in the light of the minimum
price and the market price for butter ;
                                                                                                                 Minimum
                                                                                                                               Security in
Whereas Article 30a of Regulation (EEC) No 1519/72                                      Use of butter             price in    u.a. / 100 kg
                                                                                                                u.a. / 100 kg
provides for the possibility of introducing offers for
(<) OJ   No  L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .
(2) OJ   No  L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.                                 ( a) Article 19 (2) ( a) of Regu­
(3) OJ   No  L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 .                                       lation ( EEC) No 1519/72                30          156
(4) OJ   No  L 169, 18 . 7 . 1968 , p. 1 .                              ( b ) Article 30a of Regulation
(5  OJ   No  L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p . 15.                                   ( EEC ) No 1519 /72                     30           156
(o) OJ   No  L 1 62, 18.7.1972, p . 1 .
(7  OJ   No  L 78 , 27. 3 . 1973, p . 10 .
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           2. So far as the allocation of butter envisaged in Article 19 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC)
           No 1519/72 is concerned, this individual invitation to tender was not proceeded with .
                                                  Article 2
           This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
           Done at Brussels, 17 April 1973 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                       The President
                                                                  François-Xavier ORTOLI