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Language: en
Date: 1977-03-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 15 March 1977 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 47th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 232/75

No L 75/42                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                                       23 . 3 . 77
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                             of 15 March 1977
              fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 47th individual invitation to
              tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC)
                                                                    No 232/75
                                                                 (77/237/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                                    security must be fixed in the light of the difference
COMMUNITIES,                                                                      between the minimum selling price and the market
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                             price of the butter ;
Economic Community,                                                               Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 777/76 of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                      5 April 1976 (7) reduces the scope of Regulation (EEC)
804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                                 No 232/75 to the butter to be used when processed
of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last                              into pastry products (formula A) ;
amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in                                Whereas, in the light of the tenders received in
particular Article 6 (7) thereof,                                                 response to the 47th individual invitation to tender,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                      the minimum selling price should be fixed at the
985/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for                              level specified below and the processing security deter­
intervention on the market in butter and cream (3 ), as                           mined 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                             HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
tion (EEC) No 2805/76 (6), intervention agencies have
put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain
                                                                                                                     Article 1
quantities of butter held by them ;
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in                             For the 47th individual invitation to tender under
the light of the tenders received, a minimum selling                               Regulation (EEC) No 232/75, in respect of which the
price must be fixed which may vary according to the                                time limit for the submission of tenders expires on 8
use to which the butter is to be put and according to                              March 1977, the minimum selling price and, without
the fat content of the butter ; whereas alternatively a                            prejudice to the provisions of the second subpara­
decision may be taken not to proceed with the invita­                             graph of Article 12 ( 1 ) of the said Regulation, the
tion to tender ; whereas the amount of the processing                              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 ( 1 ) (c) of Regulation ( EEC)       price in u.a .      in u.a . per 100 kg
                                                                      No 232/ 75)                  per 100 kg butter              butter
               82 % or more                                         Formula A                              88                      155
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               This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
               Done at Brussels, 15 March 1977 .
                                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                                 Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                    Vice-President
 (')  OJ No L  148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .
 (2 ) OJ No L 67, 15 . 3 . 1976, p. 9 .
 Q)   OJ No L  169 , 18 . 7 . 1968 , p. 1 .
 (4)  OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p . 15 .
 (5)  OJ No L 24, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 45 .
 (<>) OJ No L 320, 20 . 11 . 1976, p. 25 .                                         ( 7) OJ No L 91 , 6. 4 . 1976, p. 13 .