CELEX: 32000R0780
Language: en
Date: 2000-04-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 780/2000 of 14 April 2000 fixing the minimum selling prices for butter and the maximum aid for cream, butter and concentrated butter for the 51st individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2571/97

15.4.2000               EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                      L 95/13
                                           COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 780/2000
                                                              of 14 April 2000
               fixing the minimum selling prices for butter and the maximum aid for cream, butter and concen-
               trated butter for the 51st individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender
                                             provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2571/97
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                       or aid may vary according to the intended use of the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                             butter, its fat content and the incorporation procedure,
Community,                                                                        and that a decision may also be taken to make no award
                                                                                  in response to the tenders submitted. The amount(s) of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17                       the processing securities must be fixed accordingly.
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in milk
and milk products (1), and in particular Article 10 thereof,               (2)    The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
Whereas:                                                                          accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                                  Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
(1)     The intervention agencies are, pursuant to Commission
        Regulation (EC) No 2571/97 of 15 December 1997 on
        the sale of butter at reduced prices and the granting of           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
        aid for cream, butter and concentrated butter for use in
        the manufacture of pastry products, ice-cream and other
                                                                                                        Article 1
        foodstuffs (2), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
        635/2000 (3), to sell by invitation to tender certain              The maximum aid and processing securities applying for the
        quantities of butter that they hold and to grant aid for           51st individual invitation to tender, under the standing invita-
        cream, butter and concentrated butter. Article 18 of that          tion to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2571/97,
        Regulation stipulates that in the light of the tenders             shall be fixed as indicated in the Annex hereto.
        received in response to each individual invitation to
        tender a minimum selling price shall be fixed for butter                                        Article 2
        and maximum aid shall be fixed for cream, butter and
        concentrated butter. It is further stipulated that the price       This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 April 2000.
                       This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                       Done at Brussels, 14 April 2000.
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                          Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                    Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48.
(2) OJ L 350, 20.12.1997, p. 3.
(3) OJ L 76, 25.3.2000, p. 9.
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                                                                  ANNEX
        to the Commission Regulation of 14 April 2000 fixing the minimum selling prices for butter and the maximum
        aid for cream, butter and concentrated butter for the 51th individual invitation to tender under the standing
                                 invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2571/97
                                                                                                          (EUR/100 kg)
                                  Formula                                     A                       B
                                                                       With      Without      With         Without
                          Incorporation procedure
                                                                      tracers    tracers     tracers       tracers
                                             Unaltered                  —          —           —             —
           Minimum             Butter
          selling price       ≥ 82 %
                                             Concentrated               —          —           —             —
                                             Unaltered                  —          —           —             —
                Processing security
                                             Concentrated               —          —           —             —
                           Butter ≥ 82 %                                 95         91         95             91
                           Butter < 82 %                                 92         88         —              88
           Maximum
                aid
                           Concentrated butter                         117        113         117           113
                           Cream                                        —          —            40            38
                           Butter                                      105         —          105            —
           Processing
                           Concentrated butter                         129         —          129            —
            security
                           Cream                                        —          —            44           —