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Language: en
Date: 1973-01-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 8 January 1973 fixing the minimum sale price for butter for the twelfth individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72

No L 23 /22                              Official Journal of the European Communities                               29 . 1 . 73
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 8 January 1973
              fixing the minimum sale price for butter for the twelfth individual invitation to tender
              under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72
                                                            (73 /9/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       butter, and that a decision may alternatively be taken
COMMUNITIES,                                                         not to proceed with the invitation to tender ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                   Whereas in the light of the tenders received in res­
pean Economic Community ;                                            ponse to the twelfth individual invitation to tender
                                                                     the minimum price should be fixed at the level
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         specified below and the processing security should
804/68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organi­                     be determined in consequence;
zation of the market in milk and milk products,
as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1411 /71 (2),                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regu­
and in particular Article 6 (7) thereof;                             lation are in accordance with the Opinion of the
                                                                     Management Committee for Milk and Milk Pro­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         ducts ;
985/68 ( 3) of 15 July 1968 laying down general
rules for intervention on the market in butter and                   HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
cream, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
1075 /71 (4), and in particular Article 7 ( a) thereof ;                                        Article 1
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                     For the twelfth individual invitation to tender under
No 1259/72 (5) of 16 June 1972 on the disposal of                    Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72, in respect of which
butter at a reduced price to certain Community pro­                  the time-limit for submission of tenders expired on
cessing undertakings, as last amended by Regulation                  26 December 1972,
( EEC) No 2161 /72 (6), the intervention agencies
have put up for sale by standing invitation to tender                 ( a) the minimum selling price to be considered when
certain quantities of butter which they hold ;                             awarding contracts shall be 55.00 u.a./ 100 kg
                                                                           of butter ;
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that
a minimum selling price must be fixed in the light                   (b) the processing security shall be 142.00 u.a. / 100 kg
of tenders received, and the amount of the processing                      of butter.
security must be fixed in the light of the difference
between the minimum price and the market price of                    This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
               Done at Brussels, 8 January 1973 .
                                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                                            The President
                                                                                       François-Xavier ORTOLI
 H    OJ No L 148, 28 . 6 . 1968, p. 13 .
 (2 ) OJ No L 148 , 3 . 7. 1971 , p . 4.
 (3)  OJ No L 169 , 18 . 7 . 1968 , p . 1 .
 ( 4) OJ No L 116, 28 . 5 . 1971 , p . 1 .
 (5)  OJ No L 139, 17. 6. 1972, p . 18 .
 (6)  OJ No L 231 , 11 . 10. 1972, p . 12 .