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Language: en
Date: 1977-09-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 26 August 1977 fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 58th individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 232/75

8 . 9 . 77                              Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 230/ 17
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                                            (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                    COMMISSION
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 26 August 1977
               fixing the minimum selling price for butter for the 58th individual invitation to
               tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC)
                                                            No 232/75
                                                          (77/578/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      decision may be taken not to proceed with the invita­
COMMUNITIES,                                                        tion to tender ; whereas the amount of the processing
                                                                    security must be fixed in the light of the difference
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               between the minimum selling price and the market
Economic Community,                                                 price of the butter ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 777/76 of
804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                   5 April 1 976 (7) reduces the scope of Regulation (EEC)
of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last                No 232/75 to the butter to be used when processed
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in                   into pastry products (formula A) ;
particular Article 6 (7) thereof,
                                                                   Whereas, in the light of the tenders received in
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        response to the 58th individual invitation to tender,
985/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for                the minimum selling price should be fixed at the
intervention on the market in butter and cream (3), as              level specified below and the processing security deter­
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and                mined accordingly ;
in particular Article 7a thereof,
Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
No 232/75 of 30 January 1975 on the sale of butter at              are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
reduced prices for use in the manufacture of pastry                 ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
products and ice-cream (5), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1 890/77 (6), intervention agencies have
put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
quantities of butter held by them ;
Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that, in                                          Article 1
the light of the tenders received, a minimum selling
price must be fixed which may vary according to the                 For the 58th individual invitation to tender under
use to which the butter is to be put and according to              Regulation (EEC) No 232/75, in respect of which the
the fat content of the butter ; whereas alternatively a            time limit for the submission of tenders expires on 23
                                                                   August 1977, the minimum selling price and without
(')  OJ  No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 .                         prejudice to the provisions of the second subpara­
(2 ) OJ  No L 67, 15 . 3 . 1976, p. 9 .                            graph of Article 12 ( 1.) of the said Regulation , the
(3)  OJ  No L 169, 18. 7. 1968, p. 1 .                             processing security shall be as follows :
(4)  OJ  No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p . 15 .
(5)  OJ  No L 24, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 45.
(')  OJ  No L 212, 20 . 8 . 1977, p. 9 .                           ( 7) OJ No I. vl , 6 . 4 . 1976, p . 13 .
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                                             Use to which the butter
                     Fat content                                         Minimum selling           Processing
                                                   is to be put             price in u.a.        security in u.a.
                    of the butter                (Article 6 ( 1 ) (c)
                                                                         per 100 kg butter     per 100 kg butter
                                         of Regulation ( EEC) No 232/75)
            82 % or more                Formula A                              88                      162
            Less than 82 %              Formula A                              85-85                   158
                                                               Article 2
           This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
            Done at Brussels, 26 August 1977.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                  Vice-President