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Language: en
Date: 1976-05-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 4 May 1976 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 27th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 232/75

No L 130/40                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                                         19 . 5 . 76
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                               of 4 May 1976
             fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 27th individual invitation to
             tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation ( EEC)
                                                                  No 232/75
                                                                (76/468 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                                   tion to tender ; whereas the amount of the processing
COMMUNITIES,                                                                     security must be fixed in the light of the difference
                                                                                 between the minimum selling price and the market
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                                 price of the butter ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                     Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 777/76 of
804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                                5 April 1 976 (7), reduces the scope of Regulation
of the market in milk and milk products ( } ), as last                           (EEC) No 232/75 to the butter to be used when
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in                                processed into pastry products (formula A) ;
particular Article 6 (7) thereof,                                                Whereas, in the light of the tenders received in
                                                                                 response to the 27th individual invitation to tender,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
985/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for                             the minimum selling prices should be fixed at the
intervention on the market in butter and cream (3), as                            level specified below and the processing securities
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and                             determined accordingly ;
in particular Article 7a thereof,                                                Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                                  are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                                  ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
No 232/75 of 30 January 1975 on the sale of butter at
reduced prices for use in the manufacture of pastry
products and ice cream (5), as last amended by Regula­                            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
tion (EEC) No 21 24/75 (6), intervention agencies have
put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain                                                             Article 1
quantities of butter held by them ;                                               For the 27th individual invitation to tender under
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in                            Regulation (EEC) No 232/75, in respect of which the
the light of the tenders received, a minimum selling                              time limit for the submission of tenders expires on 27
price must be fixed which may vary according to the                               April 1976, the minimum selling price and, without
use to which the butter is to be put and according to                             prejudice to the provisions of the second subpara­
the fat content of the butter ; whereas alternatively a                           graph of Article 12 ( 1 ) of the said Regulation, the
decision may be taken not to proceed with the invita­                             processing security shall be as follows :
                                                       Use to which the butter is to be put        Minimum selling          Processing security
                     Fat content of the butter         (Article 6 ( 1 ) (c) of Regulation ( EEC)            price in          in u.a ./ 1 00 kg
                                                                       No 232/ 75)                 u.a ./ 1 00 kg butter          butter
              82 % or more                                           Formula A                                 85                  150
                                                                      Article 2
             This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
              Done at Brussels, 4 May 1976 .
                                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                                 P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                          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 24, 31 . 1 . 1975 , p . 45 .
(b)  OJ No L 216, 14. 8 . 1975 , p . 10 .                                              DJ No L 91 , 6 . 4. 1976, p . 13 .