CELEX: 
Language: en
Date: 1973-03-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 15 January 1973 fixing the minimum sale price for butter for the thirteenth individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72

No L 77/38                               Official Journal of the European Communities                              26. 3 . 73
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 15 January 1973
              fixing the minimum sale price for butter for the thirteenth individual invitation to tender
              under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72
                                                            (73/28/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas in the light of the tenders received in
 COMMUNITIES ,                                                       response to the thirteenth individual invitation to
                                                                     tender the minimum price should be fixed at the
                                                                     level specified below and the processing security
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                  should be determined in consequence ;
 pean Economic Community ;
                                                                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
 804/68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common                            ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products ;
 organization of the market in milk and milk products,
 as last amended by the Act (2) annexed to the
 Treaty (3) concerning the Accession of new Member
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
States to the European Community and the Euro­
pean Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels
on 22 January 1972, and in particular Article 6 (7)                                          Article 1
 thereof;
                                                                     For the thirteenth individual invitation to tender
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) No                       under Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72, in respect of
985/68 (4) of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules                 which the time limit for submission of tenders
for intervention on the market in butter and cream ,                 expired on 9 January 1973 ,
 as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1075/71 (5 ),                a) the minimum selling price to be considered when
 and in particular Article 7a thereof;                                   awarding contracts shall be 55 00 u.a./lOO kg
                                                                         of butter;
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation ( EEC)
No 1259/72 (fi ) of 16 June 1972 on the disposal of                  b ) the processing security shall be 142 00 u.a./ lOO
butter at a reduced price to certain Community                           kg of butter.
processing undertakings, as last amended by Regu­
lation (EEC) No 2161 /72 (7), the intervention agencies                                      Article 2
have put up for sale by standing invitation to tender
certain quantities of butter which they hold ;                       This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that
a minimum selling price must be fixed in the light                   Done at Brussels , 15 January 1973 .
of tenders received, and the amount of the processing
security must be fixed in the light of the difference                                                For the Commission
between the minimum price and the market price of
                                                                                                        The President
butter, and that a decision may alternatively be taken
not to proceed with the invitation to tender ;                                                     Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
i1) OJ  No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 .
(2) OJ  No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
(3) OJ  No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
(4) OJ  No L 169 , 18 . 7. 1968 , p. 1 .
(5) OJ  No L 116, 28 . 5. 1971 , p. 1 .
(6) OJ  No L 139, 17. 6. 1972, p. 18 .
C)  OJ  No L 231 , 11 . 10. 1972, p. 12,