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Language: en
Date: 1974-09-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 23 August 1974 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 50th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72

No L 247/30                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                  10 . 9 . 74
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 23 August 1974
              fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 50th individual invitation to
              tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation ( EEC)
                                                            No 1259/ 72
                                                           (74/460/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       the minimum selling price should be fixed at the
COMMUNITIES,                                                         level specified below and the processing security deter­
                                                                     mined accordingly ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                                 Whereas the Management Committee for Milk and
                                                                     Milk Products has not delivered an opinion within the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         time limit set by its Chairman ,
804/68 (•) of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 662/74 (2), and in                    HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
particular Article 6 (7) thereof ;
                                                                                               Article /
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
985/68 (3) of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules                 For the 50th individual invitation to tender under
for intervention on the market in butter and cream, as               Regulation ( EEC) No 1259/72, in respect of which the
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and                 time limit for the submission of tenders expires on 13
in particular Article 7a thereof ;                                   August 1 974 :
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                     (a) the minimum selling price to be considered when
No 1 259/72 (5) of 16 June 1972 on the disposal of                       awarding contracts shall be 90 units of account per
butter at a reduced price to certain Community                            100 kg butter with a fat content of 82 % or more,
processing undertakings, as last amended by Regula­                  (b) the processing security shall be 99 units, of
tion (EEC) No 1 570/74 (6), intervention agencies have                   account per 100 kg butter without prejudice to the
put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain                 provisions of the second and third subparagraphs
quantities of butter held by them ;                                      of Article 12 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72 .
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in
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the light of the tenders received, a minimum selling
price must be fixed which may vary with the fat                      This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
content of the butter ; whereas alternatively a decision
may be taken not to proceed with the invitation to
tender ; whereas the amount of the processing security               Done at Brussels, 23 August 1974.
must be fixed in the light of the difference between
the minimum selling price and the market price of                                                For the (jinnii issioii
the butter ;
                                                                                                      The President
Whereas, in the light of the tenders received in
response to the 50th individual invitation to tender,                                           Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(>) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .
(2 ) OJ No L 85, 29 . 3 . 1974 , p. 51 .