CELEX: 31981R1508
Language: en
Date: 1981-06-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1508/81 of 4 June 1981 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1238/81 opening a standing invitation to tender for the sale of olive oil held by the Italian intervention agency

No L 148 / 10                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                  5. 6 . 81
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1508 /81
                                                        of 4 June 1981
                amending Regulation (EEC) No 1238/81 opening a standing invitation to tender
                          for the sale of olive oil held by the Italian intervention agency
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
COMMUNITIES,                                                      are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                  ment Committee for Oils and Fats,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/ EEC
of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a
common organization of the market in oils and                                               Article 1
fats ( x ), as last amended by Regulation / (EEC) No               Regulation (EEC) No 1238/81 is amended as follows :
3454/80 (2), and in particular Article 12 (4) thereof,
Whereas, pursuant to Article 12 ( 1 ) of Regulation No             1 . In the third indent of Article 1 , the figure '5 400' is
136/66/ EEC, the Italian intervention agency has                       replaced by '9 900'.
bought in, since the 1975/76 marketing year, large                 2. The first paragraph of Article 2 is completed by the
quantities of olive oil ; whereas about 26 000 tonnes of               following :
that oil have been offered for sale under a standing
invitation to tender by means of Commission Regula­                    'The     supplementary invitation          to     tender
tion (EEC) No 1238/ 81 (3);                                            concerning 4 500 tonnes of olive residue oil shall
                                                                       be published on 7 June 1981 .'
Whereas the market situation for olive oil in Italy is
favourable at present to the continuation of the sale of                                    Article 2
the oil held by the Italian intervention agency ;
whereas it should therefore be made possible to sell              This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
an additional quantity of about 4 500 tonnes of olive              publication in the Official Journal of the European
residue oil under that standing invitation to tender ;             Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 4 June 1981 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                  The President
                                                                                 Gaston THORN
(<) OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p . 3025/66 .
(2 ) OJ No L 360 , 31 . 12. 1980, p . 16 .
P ) OJ No L 125, 9 . 5 . 1981 , p . 9 .