CELEX: 
Language: en
Date: 1976-11-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 9 November 1976 amending the Decision of 22 December 1972 authorizing the Federal Republic of Germany to sell butter at a reduced price in the form of concentrated butter

No L 316/24                            Official Journal of the European Communities                            16. 11 . 76
                                                 COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    of 9 November 1976
              amending the Decision of 22 December 1972 authorizing the Federal Republic
                of Germany to sell butter at a reduced price in the form of concentrated butter
                                              (Only the German text is authentic)
                                                         (76/868/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    butter must have been placed into public storage in
COMMUNITIES,                                                      order to be able to be supplied thereunder ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
Economic Community,                                               are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                  ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization
of the market in milk and milk products (*), as last              HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in
particular Article 6 (7) thereof,
                                                                                          Article 1
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
985/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for              The Decision of 22 December 1972 is hereby
intervention on the market in butter and cream (3), as            amended as follows :
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and
in particular Article 7 (a) thereof,                              1 . In Article 1 , the quantity ' 15 500 metric tons' is
                                                                      replaced by ' 17 500 metric tons' ;
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                  2. In Article 2, the date '1        December 1975' is
No 349/73 of 31 January 1973 on the sale at reduced                   replaced by '1 June 1976'.
prices of intervention butter for direct consumption as
concentrated butter (5), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 2575/76 (6), which replaced Regulation                                           Article 2
(EEC) No 2561 /72 (7), the Commission Decision of 22
December 1972 authorizing the Federal Republic of                 This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of
Germany to sell butter at a reduced price in the form             Germany.
of concentrated butter (8), as last amended by the Deci­
sion of 12 February 1976 (9), fixed the quantity of
butter to be processed by that Member State at 1 5 500            Done at Brussels, 9 November 1976.
metric tons ; whereas this quantity is now exhausted ;
whereas it should therefore be increased to 17 500
                                                                                            For the[ Commission
metric tons ;
                                                                                               P.J. LARDINOIS
Whereas, having regard to the storage position in the
Community, the date should be amended by which                                           Member of the Commission
(>) OJ No  L  148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13.
(2) OJ No  L  67, 15. 3. 1976, p. 9.
(3) OJ No  L  169, 18. 7. 1968, p. 1 .
(4) OJ No  L  291 , 28. 12. 1972, p. 15.
(5) OJ No  L 40, 13. 2. 1973, p. 1 .
(6) OJ No  L  293, 23. 10. 1976, p. 23.
(7) OJ No  L  274, 7. 12. 1972, p. 12.
(8) OJ No  L  303, 31 . 12. 1972, p. 41 .
H   OJ No  L  48, 24. 2. 1976, p. 20.