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Date: 1977-12-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 16 November 1977 fixing the minimum selling prices for butter for the 63rd individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 232/75

3 . 12. 77                                    Official Journal of the European Communities                                                  No L 310 /31
                                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                                of 16 November 1977
                fixing the minimum selling prices for butter for the 63rd individual invitation
                to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation
                                                                   (EEC) No 232/75
                                                                      (77/744/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                                       between the minimum selling prices and the market
 COMMUNITIES,                                                                        prices of the butter ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                               Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2379/77
 Economic Community,                                                                 of 28 October 1977 has reintroduced the application
                                                                                     of Regulation (EEC) No 232/75 on butter for use in
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                        the manufacture of ice-cream (formula B) by repealing
 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                                   Commission Regulation (EEC) No 777/76 of 5 April
 of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last                                 1976(0 ;
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in
 particular Article 6 (7) thereof,                                                   Whereas, in the light of the tenders received in
                                                                                     response to the 63rd individual invitation to tender,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                        the minimum selling prices should be fixed at the
 985/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for                                level specified below and the processing securities
 intervention on the market in butter and cream (3), as                              determined accordingly ;
 last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and
 in particular Article 7a thereof,                                                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
                                                                                     are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                                     ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
 No 232/75 of 30 January 1975 on the sale of butter at
 reduced prices for use in the manufacture of pastry
 products and ice-cream (5), as last amended by Regula­
 tion (EEC) No 2379/77 (6), intervention agencies have                               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain
 quantities of butter held by them ;
                                                                                                                   Article 1
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in
 the light of the tenders received, a minimum selling                                 For the 63rd individual invitation to tender under
 price must be fixed which may vary according to the                                 Regulation (EEC) No 232/75, in respect of which the
 use to which the butter is to be put and according to                               time      limit for     the     submission         of   tenders is  8
 the fat content of the butter ; whereas, alternatively, a                            November 1977, the minimum selling prices and,
 decision may be taken not to proceed with the invita­                               without prejudice to the provisions of the second
 tion to tender ; whereas the amount of the processing                               subparagraph of Article 12 ( 1 ) of the said Regulation,
 security must be fixed in the light of the difference                               the processing securities shall be as follows :
                    Use to which the butter is to be put                                              Minimum selling    Processing security
                    (Article 6 ( I ) (c) of Regulation ( EEC)         Fat content of the butter          price in u.a .  in u.a . per 100 kg
                                    No 252/75)                                                        per 100 kg butter          butter
                Formula A                                        82 % or more                                88 00             1 6200
                                                                 Less than 82 %                              85-85             158 00
                Formula B                                        82 % or more                              1 30 00             1 20 00
                                                                 Less than 82 %                               —                   —
(')  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 .
(*)  OJ  No  L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 15.
(*)  OJ  No  L 24, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 45.
(<•) OJ  No  L 277, 29. 10. 1977, p. 37.                                             ( 7) OJ No L 91 , 6. 4. 1976, p. 13.
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                                                  Article 2
          This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
           Done at Brussels, 16 November 1977.
                                                                For the Commission
                                                                 Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                    Vice-President