CELEX: 
Language: en
Date: 1973-03-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 19 February 1973 fixing the minimum sale price for butter for the fifteenth individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72

26 . 3 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 77/53
                                                       COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 19 February 1973
                 fixing the minimum sale price for butter for the fifteenth individual invitation to tender
                 under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72
                                                             ' (73/42/EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         Whereas in the light of the tenders received in re­
  COMMUNITIES                                                           sponse to the fifteenth individual invitation to tender
                                                                        the minimum price should be fixed at the level
                                                                        specified below and the processing security should be
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                     determined in consequence ;
 pean Economic Community;
                                                                        Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                          are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
 804/68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common orga­                         ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products ;
 nization of the market in milk and milk products, as
 last amended by the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3)
 concerning the Accession of new Member States to                       HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 the European Community and the European Atomic
 Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January
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  1972, and in particular Article 6 ( 7) thereof;
                                                                       For the fifteenth individual invitation to tender under
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) No                         Regulation ( EEC) No 1259/72, in respect of which
 985/68 (4) of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules                   the time limit for submission of tenders expired on
 for intervention on the market in butter and cream,                    13 February 1973 ,
 as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (5),
 and in particular Article 7a thereof;                                  ( a ) the minimum selling price to be considered when
                                                                              awarding contracts shall be 55 00 u.a./ lOO kg of
                                                                              butter ;
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation ( EEC)
No 1259/72 (6) of 16 June 1972 on the disposal of                       ( b ) the processing security shall be 142 00 u.a. / lOO kg
butter at a reduced price to certain Community pro­                           of butter.
cessing undertakings, as last amended by Regulation
 (EEC ) No 2815/72 (7 ), the intervention agencies have
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put up for sales by standing invitation to 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                    Done at Brussels, 19 February 1973 .
tenders received, and the amount of the processing
 security must be fixed in the light of the difference                                                     For the Commission
between the minimum price and the market price of                                                             The President
butter, and that a decision may alternatively be taken
 not to proceed with the invitation to tender;                                                         Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
i1)  OJ    No L 148, 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 .
(2)  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,
(6)  OJ    No L 139, 17. 6. 1972, p. 18 .
( 7) OJ    No L 297, 30. 12 . 1972 , p. 3 .