CELEX: 31998R2364
Language: en
Date: 1998-10-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2364/98 of 30 October 1998 fixing the minimum selling prices for butter and the maximum aid for cream, butter and concentrated butter for the 19th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2571/97

31. 10. 98            EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                 L 293/47
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2364/98
                                                    of 30 October 1998
                  fixing the minimum selling prices for butter and the maximum aid for cream,
                  butter and concentrated butter for the 19th individual invitation to tender under
                  the standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2571/97
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        incorporation procedure, and that a decision may also be
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              taken to make no award in response to the tenders
Community,                                                         submitted; whereas the amount(s) of the processing secur-
                                                                   ities must be fixed accordingly;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of
27 June 1968 on the common organisation of the market              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in milk and milk products (1), as last amended by Regula-          in accordance with the opinion of the Management
tion (EC) No 1587/96 (2), and in particular Article 6(3) and       Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
(6) and Article 12(3) thereof,
Whereas the intervention agencies are, pursuant to                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Commission Regulation (EC) No 2571/97 of 15
December 1997 on the sale of butter at reduced prices                                      Article 1
and the granting of aid for cream, butter and concentrated
butter for use in the manufacture of pastry products,              The maximum aid and processing securities applying for
ice-cream and other foodstuffs (3), as last amended by             the 19th individual invitation to tender under the
Regulation (EC) No 1982/98 (4), to sell by invitation to           standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation
tender certain quantities of butter that they hold and to          (EC) No 2571/97, shall be fixed as indicated in the Annex
grant aid for cream, butter and concentrated butter;               hereto.
whereas Article 18 of that Regulation stipulates that in           No award shall be made as regards the sale of butter from
the light of the tenders received in response to each              intervention stocks.
individual invitation to tender a minimum selling price
shall be fixed for butter and maximum aid shall be fixed                                   Article 2
for cream, butter and concentrated butter; whereas it is
further stipulated that the price or aid may vary according        This Regulation shall enter into force on 31 October
to the intended use of the butter, its fat content and the         1998.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 30 October 1998.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               Franz FISCHLER
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 148, 28.  6. 1968, p. 13.
(2) OJ L 206, 16.  8. 1996, p. 21.
(3) OJ L 350, 20.  12. 1997, p. 3.
(4) OJ L 256, 18.  9. 1998, p. 9.
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                                                           ANNEX
         to the Commission Regulation of 30 October 1998 fixing the minimum selling prices for butter
         and the maximum aid for cream, butter and concentrated butter for the 18th individual invitation
         to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2571/97
                                                                                              (ECU/100 kg)
                                Formula                                 A                   B
                                                                 With     Without    With       Without
                        Incorporation procedure
                                                                tracers    tracers  tracers     tracers
                                          Unaltered               —          —        —           —
           Minimum           Butter
          selling price     ≥ 82 %
                                          Concentrated            —          —        —           —
                                          Unaltered               —          —        —           —
               Processing security
                                          Concentrated            —          —        —           —
                          Butter ≥ 82 %                          109        105       —          105
                          Butter : 82 %                          104        100       —           —
           Maximum
               aid
                          Concentrated butter                    134        130      134          —
                          Cream                                   —          —         46          44
                          Butter                                 120         —        —           —
           Processing
                          Concentrated butter                    148         —       148          —
            security
                          Cream                                   —          —         51         —