CELEX: 31973R0806
Language: en
Date: 1973-03-27 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 806/73 of the Commission of 23 March 1973 authorizing the French intervention agency to restrict to specific uses the invitation to tender in respect of a further 40 000 tons of common wheat

No L 78/8                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                            27. 3 . 73
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 806/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 23 March 1973
               authorizing the French intervention agency to restrict to specific uses the invitation to
                                  tender in respect of a further 40 000 tons of common wheat
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         Whereas, to avoid speculative purchases by the trade,
COMMUNITIES,                                                           the French intervention agency whas authorized, by
                                                                       Commission Regulation (EEC) No 201 /73 (6) of 23
                                                                       January 1973 , to restrict to specific uses the invita­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                     tion to tender in respect of a maximum quantity of
pean Economic Community ;                                              40 000 metric tons of common wheat of high bread­
                                                                       making quality ;
                                                                        Whrereas this quantity of 40 000 tons, which was
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67/                          the subject of the invitation to tender for specific
EEC ( J ) of 13 June 1967 on the common organization                    uses, under the Regulation referred to in the pre­
of the market in cereals, as last amended by the
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) concerning the                        ceding paragraph, will not cover the demand of the
Accession of new Member States to the European                          milling industry ; whereas the French Republic has
 Economic Community and the European Atomic                             consequently requested that the French intervention
                                                                        agency be authorized to restrict to specific uses the
 Energy Community, signed in Brussels on 22 January                    invitation to tender in respect of an additional
 1972, and in particular Article 7 (5 ) thereof ;                      maximum quantity of 40 000 tons of common wheat
                                                                        of high breadmaking quality ;
 Whereas in accordance with Article 3 (4) of Com­                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­
mission Regulation (EEC) No 376/70 (4) of 27                            tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the
February 1970 laying down the procedures and con­                       Management Committee for Cereals ;
 ditions for the disposal of cereals held by inter­
 vention agencies, as last amended by Regulation                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 (EEC) No 129/73 (5 ), the invitation to tender may in
 exceptional cases, at the request of a Member State,                                                Article 1
  be restricted to specific uses ;
                                                                         Upon offering common wheat for sale on the internal
                                                                         market the French intervention agency is authorized
 Whereas due to bad weather during the 1972 harvest,                    for the 1972/ 1973 marketing year to restrict the invit­
 the common wheat 'harvested in certain parts of                         ation to tender for a further 40 000 tons of common
  France is of too low a quality for the production                      wheat to use for the sole purpose of producing
 of flour suitable for breadmaking ; whereas it is                       flour suitable for breadmaking.
 therefore necessary to turn this common wheat                                                       Article 2
  harvested in those parts into wheat suitable for
  flour milling by mixing it with common wheat of                        This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
  high breadmaking quality available from the stocks                     following its publication in the Official Journal of
  of the intervention agency ;                                           the European Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                Done at Brussels, 23 March 1973 .
                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                       The President
                                                                                  Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
  (*)   OJ No  117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
   (•)  OJ No  L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14 .
   (3)  OJ No  L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
   («)  OJ No  L 47, 28 . 2 . 1970, p. 49 .
   ( 5) OJ No  L 17, 20 . 1 . 1973 , p. 17.                               ( 6) OJ No L 23 , 29 . 1 . 1973 , p . 7.