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Language: en
Date: 1975-04-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17 March 1975 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the third individual invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 232/75

No L 90 /44                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                                       11 . 4 . 75
                                                      COMMISSION DECISION
                                                            of 17 March 1975
               fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the third individual invitation to
               tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation ( EEC)
                                                                   No 232/ 75
                                                                 (75/ 206/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                                     the fat content of the butter ; whereas alternatively a
COMMUNITIES,                                                                       decision may be taken not to proceed with the invita­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                              tion to tender ; whereas the amounts of the processing
Economic Community ;                                                               security must be fixed in the light of the difference
                                                                                   between the minimum selling prices and the market
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                       prices of the butter ;
804/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last                              Whereas, in the light of the tenders received in
amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 465/75 (2 ), and in                                response to the third individual invitation to tender,
particular Article 6 (7) thereof ;                                                 the minimum selling prices should be fixed at the
                                                                                   level specified below and the processing securities
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                                      determined accordingly ;
985/68 (3 ) of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules
for intervention on the market in butter and cream , as                            Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and                              are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
in particular Article 7a thereof ;                                                 ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 232/75 (5 ) of 30 January 1975 on the sale of butter                            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
at reduced prices for use in the manufacture of pastry
products and ice-cream , amended by Regulation                                                                       Article 1
( EEC) No 522/75 (6) intervention agencies have put up                             For the third individual invitation to tender under
for sale by standing invitation to tender certain quanti­                          Regulation ( EEC) No 232/75 , in respect of which the
ties of butter held by them ;                                                      time limit for the submission of tenders expires on 1 1
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in                             March 1975, the minimum selling prices and , without
the light of the tenders received , a minimum selling                              prejudice to the provisions of the second subpara­
price must be fixed which may vary according to the                                graph of Article 12 ( 1 ) of the said Regulation , the
use to which the butter is to be put and according to                              processing securities 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         in u.a./ 100 kg
                                                                        No 232/75)                   u.a./ 100 kg butter         butter
               82 % or more                                           Formula A                                 95                125
                                                                      Formula B                               120                 100
                                                                       Article 2
               This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
               Done at Brussels , 17 March 1975 .
                                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                                   P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                           Member of the Commission
(')  OJ No  L  148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .
(2 ) OJ No  L 52, 28 . 2. 1975 , p. 8 .
(3 ) OJ No  L  169 , 18 . 7 . 1968 , p. 1 .
(4 ) OJ No  L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p. 15 .
(5 ) OJ No  L 24, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 45 .
(6)  OJ No  L 55, 1 . 3 . 1975, p. 69 .