CELEX: 31973R0071
Language: en
Date: 1973-01-04 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 71/73 of the Commission of 4 January 1973 on the sale of butter from public stocks

No L 12/ 14                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               13 . 1 . 73
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 71/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 4 January 1973
                                             on the sale of butter from public stocks
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                             Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                   Intervention agencies shall sell to any interested
pean Economic Community ;                                            party butter bought in under Article 6 ( 1 ) of Regu­
                                                                     lation ( EEC) No 804/68 which went into store before
                                                                      1 November 1972 .
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                                 Article 2
804/68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common
organization of the market in milk and milk products,                 1 . The butter shall be sold ex-cold-storage-depot
as last amended by the Act (2) annexed to the                        at a price equal to the buying-in price for the
Treaty (3) on the Accession of new Member States                     relevant intervention agency less 3 units of account
to the European Economic Community and the                            per 100 kilogrammes.
European Atomic Energy Community, signed at
Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in particular                       2.     The butter shall be sold only in lots of 100
                                                                      tons or more .
Article 6 (7) and Article 28 thereof ;
                                                                     3 . The buyer shall pay the intervention agency
Whereas one feature of the Community butter market                   for the butter before the taking over referred to
is the existence of large stocks following intervention               in paragraph 4.
under Article 6 ( 1 ) and (2) of Regulation (EEC) No                 4.     The buyer shall take over the butter within
804/68 ;                                                             30 days of the day following the conclusion of the
                                                                      contract of sale. The butter may be taken over
                                                                      piecemeal.
Whereas, insofar as it is possible to dispose of this
butter, provision must be made for measures which                    If the butter has not been taken over within the
would facilitate its removal from storage and its                     specified time, the sale shall be cancelled in respect
exportation ;                                                         of the quantities remaining, except in cases of force
                                                                      majeur.
                                                                      In such cases, storage costs incurred between the
Whereas Article 5 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                     date on which the contract is concluded and the
985/68 (4) of 15 July 1968 laying down general                        date on which the sale is cancelled shall be refunded
rules for intervention on the market in butter and
                                                                     to the intervention agency. These costs shall be
cream, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                         calculated at a flat rate of 0-6 unit of account per
2714/72 (5), and in particular Article 7a thereof,                    ton per day.
provides for the fixing of a minimum selling price ;
                                                                                             Article 3
                                                                      The Member States shall inform the Commission
Whereas the conditions of sale should be further
                                                                      on the Tuesday of each week of the quantities of
defined as regards the dates on which payment is                      butter sold under this Regulation.
due and on which the butter is taken over ;
                                                                                             Article 4
Whereas the measures provided in this Regulation                      This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­                    day following its publication in the Official Journal
ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products :                           of the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 4 January 1973 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                   The President
                                                                                 S. L. MANSHOLT
(*) OJ  No  L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13 .
(') OJ  No  L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.
(8) OJ  No  L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 5 .
(4) OJ  No  L 169, 18 . 7. 1968, p. 1 .
(«) OJ  No  L 291 , 28. 12. 1972, p. 15