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Language: en
Date: 1976-10-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 18 October 1976 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 38th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 232/75

23 . 10 . 76                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 293 /41
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                                                 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                         COMMISSION
                                                        COMMISSION DECISION
                                                            of 18 October 1976
                fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 38th individual invitation to
                tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation ( EEC)
                                                                 No 232/ 75
                                                                (76/ 827/ EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                             tion to tender ; whereas the amount of the processing
 COMMUNITIES,                                                               security must be fixed in the light of the difference
                                                                            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 1 976 ( 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
 particular Article 6 (7) thereof,                                         Whereas, in the light of the tenders received in
                                                                            response to the 38th 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 1 980/ 76 (6), intervention agencies have
 put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain                                               Article 1
 quantities of butter held by them ;                                        For the 38th individual invitation to tender under
 Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in                     Regulation ( EEC) No 232/75, in respect of which the
 the light of the tenders received, a minimum selling                      time limit for the submission of tenders expires on 12
 price must be fixed which may vary according to the                       October 1976, the minimum selling price and ,
 use to which the butter is to be put and according to                     without prejudice to the provisions of the second
 the fat content of the butter ; whereas alternatively a                   subparagraph of Article 12 ( 1 ) of the said Regulation
 decision may be taken not to proceed with the invita­                     the processing security, shall be as follows :
(')  OJ No   L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . I V
(2 ) OJ No   L 67, 15 . 3 . 1976, p . 9 .
  3  OJ No   L 169 , 18 . 7 . 1968 , p . I.
(4 ) OJ No   L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p . 15
(5 ) OJ No   L 24 , 31 . 1 . 1 975 , p . 45 .
(b)  OJ No   L 217 , 10 . 8 . 1976, p . 14 .                               ( 7 ) OJ No L 91 , 6 . 4 . 1976 , p . 13 .
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                                                 Use to which the butter is to be put        Minimum selling  Processing security
                 Fat contení of the butter      (Article 6 ( I ) (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
                                                                  Article 2
           This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
            Done at Brussels, 18 October 1976 .
                                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                     Member of the Commission