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Language: en
Date: 1976-11-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 3 November 1976 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 39th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 232/75

No L 310/36                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                                     11 . 11 . 76
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 3 November 1976
               fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 39th individual invitation to
               tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC)
                                                                     No 232/75
                                                                   (76/851 /EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                                   tion to tender ; whereas the amount of the processing
 COMMUNITIES,                                                                     security must be fixed in the light of the difference
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                            between the minimum selling price and the market
 Economic Community,                                                              price of the butter ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                     Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 777/76 of
 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                                5 April 1976 (7) reduces the scope of Regulation (EEC)
 of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last                             No 232/75 to the butter to be used when processed
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in                                into pastry products (formula A) ;
 particular Article 6 (7) thereof,                                                Whereas, in the light of the tenders received in
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                     response to the 39th individual invitation to tender,
 985/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for                             the minimum selling price should be fixed at the
 intervention on the market in butter and cream (3), as                           level specified below and the processing security deter­
 last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and                             mined accordingly ;
 in particular Article 7a thereof,                                                Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
 Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                                 are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 No 232/75 of 30 January 1975 on the sale of butter at                            ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
 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 1980/76 (6), intervention agencies have
 put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain                                                          Article 1
 quantities of butter held by them ;                                              For the 39th individual invitation to tender under
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in                            Regulation (EEC) No 232/75, in respect of which the
 the light of the tenders received, a minimum selling                             time limit for the submission of tenders expires on 26
 price must be fixed which may vary according to the                              October 1976, the minimum selling price and,
 use to which the butter is to be put and according to                            without prejudice to the provisions of the second
 the fat content of the butter ; whereas alternatively a                          subparagraph of Article 12 ( 1 ) of the said Regulation,
 decision may be taken not to proceed with the invita­                            the 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 232/7S)                  per 100 kg butter             butter
               82 % or more                                        Formula A                             88                     155
                                                                       Article 2
               This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
               Done at Brussels, 3 November 1976 .
                                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                                 P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                          Member of the Commission
(!) 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 .
(4) OJ  No  L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p . 15 .
(s) OJ  No  L 24, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 45 .
 6) OJ  No  L 217, 10 . 8 . 1976 , p. 14.                                        (0 OJ No L 91 , 6 . 4. 1976, p. 13 .