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Language: en
Date: 1974-05-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 19 April 1974 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 42nd individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72

No L 141 / 10                           Official Journal of the European Communities                             24. 5. 74
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                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 19 April 1974
              fixing the minimum selling price butter for the 42nd individual invitation to
              tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC)
                                                           No 1259/72
                                                          (74/260/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     level specified below and the processing security deter­
COMMUNITIES,                                                       mined . accordingly ;
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 organiza­
tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last              HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 662/74 (2), and in
particular Article 6 (7) thereof ;                                                        Article 1
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       For the 42nd individual invitation to tender under
985/68 (3) of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules               Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72, in respect of which the
for intervention on . the market in butter and cream, as           time limit for the submission of tenders expires on 9
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and               April 1974 :
in particular Article 7a thereof ;
                                                                   (a) the minimum selling price to be considered when
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                       awarding contracts shall be 75 units of account per
No 1 259/72 (5) of 16 June 1972 on the disposal of                      100 kg of butter with a fat content of 82% or
butter at a reduced price to certain Community                         more ;
processing undertakings, as last amended by Regula­                (b) the processing security shall be 114 units of
tion (EEC) No 324/74 (6), intervention agencies have                   account per 100 kg of butter without prejudice to
put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain               the provisions of the second and third subpara­
quantities of butter held by them ;                                    graphs of Article 12(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                        1259/72.
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in
the light of the tenders received, a minimum selling
                                                                                          Article 2
price must be fixed which may vary with the fat
content of the butter ; whereas alternatively a decision           This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
may be taken not to proceed with the invitation to
tender • whereas the amount of the processing security
must be fixed in the light of the difference between               Done at Brussels, 19 April 1974.
the minimum selling price and * the market price of
the butter ;                                                                                 For the Commission
Whereas, in the light of the tenders received in                                                 The President
response to the 42nd individual invitation to tender,
the minimum selling price should be fixed at the                                            Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
 <)  OJ No L  148, 28 . 6. 1968, p. 13.
 2)  OJ No L 85, 29. 3 . 1974, p. 51 .
 3)  OJ No L  169, 18 . 7. 1968, p. 1-.
 4)  OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, 'p. 15.
 5)  OJ No L  139, 17. 6. 1972, p. 18 .
 *>) OJ No L 35, 8 . 2. 1974, p. 28 . *