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Language: en
Date: 1974-07-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 12 June 1974 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 45th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72

12 . 7 . 74                                Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 189 / 11
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                           of 12 June 1974
               fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 45th individual invitation to tender
               under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72
                                                            (74/332/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        competing fats, they could be accepted ; whereas, it is
COMMUNITIES ,                                                         still appropriate to indicate a minimum selling price
                                                                      and processing security ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community;
                                                                      Whereas the Management Committee for Milk and
                                                                      Milk Products has not delivered an opinion within
                                                                      the time limit set by its Chairman,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/
68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organization
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 985/
68 (3) of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for                  For the 45th individual invitation to tender under
intervention on the market in butter and cream, as                    Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72, in respect of which the
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4),                      time limit for the submission of tenders expires on
and in particular Article 7a thereof;                                 28 May 1974 ;
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                       ( a) the minimum selling price to be considered when
No 1259/72 (5) of 16 June 1972 on the disposal of                           awarding contracts shall be 90 units of account
butter at a reduced price to certain Community                              per 100 kg butter with a fat content of 82°/o or
processing undertakings, as last amended by Regu­                           more ;
lation (EEC) No 324/74 (6), intervention agencies have
                                                                      ( b) the processing security shall be 99 units of account
put up for sale by standing invitation to tender                            per 100 kg butter without prejudice to the pro­
certain quantities of butter held by them ;
                                                                            visions of the second and third subparagraphs 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
price must be fixed which may vary with the fat                                                  Article 2
content of the butter; whereas alternatively a decision
may be taken not to proceed with the invitation to                    This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
tender; whereas the amount of the processing security
must be fixed in the light of the difference between
the minimum selling price and the market price of
the butter;                                                            Done at Brussels, 12 June 1974.
                                                                                                            For the Commission
Whereas, the tenders received for the 45th individual
                                                                                                                The President
invitation to tender did not reach the level at which,
in the light of the current market situation for                                                         Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
i1)  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 .
(8)  OJ   No L 35 , 8 . 2. 1974, p. 28 .