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Language: en
Date: 1973-04-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 16 March 1973 fixing the minimum sale price for butter for the seventeenth individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72

No L 95 /20                               Official Journal of the European Communities                           11 . 4. 73
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 16 March 1973
               fixing the minimum sale price for butter for the seventeenth individual invitation to
               tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC)
                                                            No 1259/72
                                                            (73/74/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas in the light of the tenders received in
COMMUNITIES,                                                         response to the seventeenth individual invitation to
                                                                     tender the minimum price should be fixed at the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                   level specified below and the processing security
pean Economic Community ;                                            should be determined in consequence ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
68 ( x ) of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                   are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
of the market in milk and milk products, as last                      ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products ;
amended by the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (8)
concerning the Accession of new Member States to
the European Community and the European Atomic                        HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22
January 1972, and in particular Article 6 (7)
thereof ;                                                                                    Article 1
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 985/                     For the seventeenth individual invitation to tender
68 (4) of 15 July 1968 laying down rules for inter­                   under Regulation ( EEC) No 1259/72, in respect of
vention on the market in butter and cream, as last                    which the limit for submission of tenders expired
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (5), and                       on 13 March 1973 ,
in particular Article 7a thereof ;
                                                                      ( a) the minimum selling price to be considered
                                                                            when awarding contracts shall be 55.00 u.a./100
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation ( EEC)                           kg of butter ;
No 1259/72 (0) of 16 June 1972 on the disposal of
butter at a reduced price to certain Community                        (b ) the processing security shall be 142.00 u.a./ 100
processing undertakings, as last amended by Regula­                         kg of butter.
tion (EEC) No 677/73 ( 7), the intervention agencies
 have put up for sales by standing invitation to                                             Article 2
tender certain quantities of butter which they hold ;
                                                                      This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that
a minimum selling price must be fixed in the light
of tenders received, and the amount of the                             Done at Brussels, 16 March 1973 .
processing security must be fixed in the light of the
                                                                                               For the Commission
 difference between the minimum price and the
 market price of butter, and that a decision may                                                   The President
 alternatively be taken not to proceed with the invita­
 tion to tender ;                                                                            François-Xavier ORTOLI
 (*) OJ   No  L 148 , 28. 6. 1968, p. 13 .
(*)  OJ   No  L 73 , 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.
 (3) OJ   No  L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
 (4) OJ   No  L 169, 18 . 7. 1968, p. 1 .
 (5) OJ   No  L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p . 15
 (8) OJ   No  L 139, 17. 6 . 1972, p. 18.
 (7) OJ No L 65 , 10 . 3 . 1973 , p . 16 .