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Language: en
Date: 1976-05-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 28 April 1976 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the twenty-sixth individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 232/75

No L -124/28                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                                         12. 5 . 76
                                                       COMMISSION DECISION
                                                               of 28 April 1976
               fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the twenty-sixth individual invi­
               tation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regula­
                                                          tion ( EEC) No 232/75
                                                                   (76/454/ 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) N*o                                      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
                                                                                     into pastry products (formula A) ;
 amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in
 particular Article 6 (7) thereof,                                                  Whereas, in the light of the tenders received in
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                                       response to the twenty-sixth individual invitation to
 985/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for                               tender, the minimum selling prices should be fixed at
 intervention on the market in butter and cream (3), as                             the level specified below and the processing securities
 last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and                               determined accordingly ;
 in particular Article 7a thereof,                                                  Whereas the Management Committee for Milk and
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                                    Milk Products has not delivered an opinion within the
 No 232/75 of 30 January 1975 on the sale of butter at                              time limit set by its chairman ,
 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 21 24/75 (6), intervention agencies have
 put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain                                                              Article 1
 quantities of butter held by them ;                                                For the twenty-sixth individual invitation to tender
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in                              under Regulation (EEC) No 232/75, in respect of
 the light of the tenders received, a minimum selling                               which the time limit for the submission of tenders
 price must be fixed which may vary according to the                                expires on 13 April 1976, the miriimum selling price
use to which the butter is to be put and according to                               and, 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 ( I ) (c) of Regulation ( EEC )           price in         in u.a ./ 1 (K) kg
                                                                         No 232 / 75 )                u.a ./ 100 kg butter         butter
               82 % or more                                           Formula A                                  85                 150
                                                                        Article 2
               This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
               Done at Brussels, 28 April 1976.
                                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                                    P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                           Member of the Commission
(')  OJ No  L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . 13 .
(-') OJ No  L 67 , 15 . 3 . 1976 , p . 9 .
(3)  OJ No  L 169 , 18 . 7 . 1968 , p . 1 .
o4 ) OJ No  L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p . 15 .
(5 ) OJ No  L 24, 31 . 1 . 1975 , p . 45 .
(b)  OJ No  L 216 , 14 . 8 . 1975 , p . 10 .                                             DJ No L 91 , 6 . 4 . 1976 , p . 13 .