CELEX: 31975D0242
Language: en
Date: 1975-03-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 26 March 1975 on the sale of butter to certain classes of consumer receiving social assistance

19 . 4. 75                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 98 /41
                                                 COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 26 March 197S
                on the sale of butter to certain classes of consumer receiving social assistance
                                                         (75/242/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    2.    Consumers may obtain the butter only :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                  — upon presentation of documentary evidence of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 their entitlement to it, issued by the competent
Economic Community ;                                                  authority designated by the Member State
                                                                      concerned, and
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
804/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­                — in respect of a quantity not exceeding 500
tion of the market in milk and milk products, as las.t                grammes per person per month .
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 465/75 (2), and in
particular Articles 1 2 (3) and 28 thereof ;                                              Article 2
Whereas, under Council Regulation (EEC) No                        Member States which avail themselves of the authoriza­
471 /75 (3) of 27 February 1975 on the sale of butter at          tion provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 471 /75
reduced prices to persons receiving social assistance,            shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that the
aid may be granted for the purchase of butter at                  distribution is carried out as provided in Article 1 .
reduced prices by persons receiving social assistance ;
Whereas, in order to ensure that the butter in fact                                       Article 3
reaches those for whom it is intended, provision
should be made for it to be sold only upon presenta­              Member States shall notify to the Commission :
tion of documentary evidence of the purchaser's en­
titlement to the butter, and a maximum monthly                    (a) the criteria proposed for determining the classes of
                                                                      consumer referred to in Article 1 and the number
quantity per consumer should be fixed ;
                                                                      of beneficiaries envisaged,
Whereas     the   Member       States     should inform   the
                                                                  (b) the measures taken pursuant to Article 2,
Commission of the arrangements proposed by them
and of thp quantities of butter sold pursuant to this             (c) before the 10th day of each month, the quantities
Decision ;                                                            of butter sold with benefit of aid during the
                                                                      preceding month .
Whereas the Management Committee for Milk and
Milk Products has not delivered an opinion within the                                     Article 4
time limit set by its Chairman,
                                                                  This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                            Article 1                             Done at Brussels , 26 March 1975 .
 1 . The aid provided for in Regulation (EEC) No                                            For the Commission
471 /75 shall be granted to suppliers of butter upon
presentation of the documentary evidence referred to                                           P.J. LARDINOIS
 in paragraph 2, collected by them at the time of sale
to the consumers concerned .                                                             Member of the Commission
 (•) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .
 (2 ) OJ No L 52, 28 . 2. 1975, p. 8 .
 (3 ) OJ No L 52, 28 . 2. 1975, p. 20 .