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Language: en
Date: 1973-09-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 20 August 1973 fixing the minimum sale price for butter for the twenty-seventh individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72

11 . 9 . 73                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 254/25
                                                       COMMISSION DECISION
                                                            of 20 August 1973
               fixing the minimum sale price for butter for the twenty-seventh individual invi­
               tation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regula­
                                                         tion (EEC) No 1259/72
                                                               (73/280/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                           tender the minimum price should be fixed at the level
COMMUNITIES,'                                                            specified below and the processing security should be
                                                                         determined in consequence ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
                                                                         are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage- '
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                             ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products ;
804/68 ( J) of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last
amended by the Act (2) concerning the conditions for                     HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
the Accession and Adjustments to the Treaties, and in
particular Article 6 (7) thereof ;                                                             Article 1
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
985/68 (3) of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules                     For the twenty-seventh individual invitation to tender
for intervention on the market in butter and cream , as                  under Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72, in respect of
                                                                         which    the  time limit   for submission   of tenders
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and
in particular Article 7a thereof ;                                       expired on 14 August 1973 :
                                                                         a) the minimum selling price to be considered when
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 1 259/72 (5) of 16 June 1972 on the disposal of
                                                                            awarding contracts shall be 55 u.a./ 100 kg of
                                                                            butter ;
butter at a reduced price to certain Community
processing undertakings, as last amended by Regula­                      b) the processing security shall be 132 u.a./ 100 kg of
                                                                            butter.
tion (EEC) No 1910/73 (6), the intervention agencies
have put up for sales by standing invitation to tender                                   «
certain quantities of butter which they hold ;                                                 Article 2
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that a                     This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
minimum selling price must be fixed in the light of
tenders received, and the amount of the processing
security must be fixed in the light of the difference                    Done at Brussels, 20 August 1973.
between the minimum price and the market price of
butter, and that a decision may alternatively be taken                                             For the Commission
not to proceed with the invitation to tender ;
                                                                                                       The President
Whereas in the light of the tenders received in
 response to the twenty-seventh individual invitation to                                          François-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ   No L  148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . I.V
(-) OJ   No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972 , p . 14 .
( 3 ) OJ No L  169 , 18 . 7 . 1968 , p . 1 .
(4 ) OJ  No L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972 , p . 1 .v
(5 ), OJ No L  139 , 17 . 6 . 1972 , p . 18 .
(b) OJ   No L  196 , 17 .     1 973 , p . 10 .