CELEX: 
Language: en
Date: 1979-08-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 31 July 1979 fixing the minimum sale prices for olive oil put up for sale under the third standing invitation to tender opened by Regulation (EEC) No 918/79

No L 215/22                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                23 . 8 . 79
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 31 July 1979
              fixing the minimum sale prices for olive oil put up for sale under the third
                      standing invitation to tender opened by Regulation ( EEC) No 918/79
                                                 (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                            (79/727/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                              Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                   For the third partial invitation to tender, the
                                                                      minimum selling price referred to in Article 5 of
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/ 66/ EEC                   Regulation ( EEC) No 918 /79 shall be fixed as follows
of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a                        for each quality of olive oil put up for sale :
common organization of the market in oils and
fats ('), as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No                     1 . Extra virgin olive oil : Lit 200 000 per 100 kg,
590/79 (2), and in particular Article 12 (4) thereof,                 2. Fine virgin olive oil : Lit 186 126 per 100 kg,
                                                                      3 . Ordinary virgin olive oil : Lit 173 600 per 100 kg,
Whereas, in accordance with Article 1 of Commission                   4. Lampante virgin olive oil, basis 5° : Lit 161 802 per
Regulation (EEC) No 918 /79 of 10 May 1979 opening                        100 kg,
a standing invitation to tender for the putting up for                5. Olive residue oil , 15° : Lit 80 160 per 100 kg.
sale of olive oil held by the Italian intervention
                                                                      For lampante virgin olive oil and olive residue oil
agency (3), that agency is putting up for sale, as from
                                                                      with a different degree of acidity, the price shall be
June 1979 , a total quantity of some 55 600 tonnes of
                                                                      increased or reduced by Lit 1 800 per 100 kg for each
olive oil of all qualities from intervention purchases
                                                                      degree of acidity or part degree less or iriore than 5°
during the 1975/76, 1976/77 and 1977/78 olive                         and 1 5° .
marketing years ;
Whereas Article 5 of the abovementioned Regulation                                            Article 2
lays down that a minimum selling price shall be fixed,                This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic .
on the basis of the tenders received, for each quality ;
Whereas, on the basis of the tenders submitted under                  Done at Brussels, 31 July 1979 .
the third partial invitation to tender, the minimum
prices should be fixed at the levels hereinafter given ;                                          For the Commission
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                                                 Finn GUNDELACH
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
ment Committee for Oils and Fats ,                                                                    Vice-President
(') OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p . 3025/66 .
(2 ) OJ No L 78 , 30 . 3 . 1979 , p. 1 .
(3 ) OJ No L 1 16, 11 . 5 . 1979 , p. 13 .