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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 nineteenth individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72

16 . 5 . 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 129/29
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 17 April 1973
               fixing the minimum sale price for butter for the nineteenth individual invita­
               tion to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regula­
                                                      tion (EEC) No 1259/72
                                                            (73/ 107/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        Whereas in the light of the tenders received in
COMMUNITIES,                                                          response to the nineteenth individual invitation to
                                                                      tender the minimum price should be fixed at the level
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 specified below and the processing security should be
Economic Community ;                                                  determined in consequence ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
804/68 ( ! ) of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­                  are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last                 ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products ;
amended by the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3)
concerning the Accession of new Member States to
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
the European Community and the European Atomic
Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January
1972, and in particular Article 6(7) thereof ; ,                                               Article 1
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          For the nineteenth individual invitation to tender
985/68 (4) of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules                  under Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72, in respect of
for intervention on the market in butter and cream , as               which     the time   limit for submission    of tenders
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (5), and                  expired on 10 April 1973,
in particular Article 7 a thereof ;                                   (a) the minimum selling price to be considered when
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                          awarding contracts shall be 55 units of account per
No 1 259/72 (6) of 16 June 1972 on the disposal of                         1 00 kg of butter ;
butter at a reduced price to certain Community                        (b) the processing security shall be 142 units of
processing undertakings, as last amended by Regula­                       account per 100 kg of butter.
tion (EEC) No 677/73 (7), the intervention agencies
have put up for sales by standing invitation to tender                                         Article 2
certain quantities of butter which they hold ;                        This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that a
minimum selling price must be fixed in the light of
tenders received, and the amount of the processing                    Done at Brussels, 17 April 1973.
security must be fixed in the light of the difference                                            For the Commission
between the minimum price and the market price of                                                    The President
butter, and that a decision may alternatively be taken
not to proceed with the invitation to tender ;                                                  François-Xavier ORTOLI
P)  OJ   No  L  148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13.
(2) OJ   No  L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
(3) Of   No  L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5.
(4) OJ   No  L  169, 18 . 7. 1968, p. 1 .
(5) OJ   No  L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 15.
(6) OJ   No  L  139, 17. 6. 1972, p. 18 .
(7) OJ   No  L 65, 10 . 3 . 1973, p. 16.