CELEX: 
Language: en
Date: 1973-05-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 30 March 1973 fixing the minimum sale price for butter for the eighteenth individual invitation to tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72

7 . 5 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 120 / 27
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 30 March 1973
               fixing the minimum sale price for butter for the eighteenth individual invitation to
               tender under the standing invitation to tender provided for by Regulation (EEC)
                                                             No 1259/72
                                                             ( 73 / 99 / EEC )
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                            of butter, and that a decision may alternatively be
 COMMUNITIES ,                                                             taken not to proceed with the invitation to tender ;
 Having regard to            the Treaty        establishing the            Whereas in the light of the tenders received in
 European Economic Community ;                                             response to the eighteenth individual invitation to
                                                                           tender the minimum price should be fixed at the
                                                                           level specified below and the processing security
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 804/                       should be determined in consequence ;
 68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organization
 of the market in milk and milk products, as last                          Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
 amended by the Act (2 ) annexed to the Treaty (3 )                         ai£ in accordance with the Opinion of the
 concerning the Accession of new Member States                             Management Committee for Milk and Milk Products ;
 to the European Community and the European
 Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels on
 22 January 1972, and in particular Article 6 (7 )
 thereof;
                                                                            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 985 /
 68 (4) of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for                                               Article 1
 intervention on the market in butter and cream , as
 last amended by Regulation ( EEC ) No 2714/ 72 (5 ),                       For the eighteenth individual invitation to tender
 and in particular Article 7a thereof;                                      under Regulation ( EEC) No 1259/72, in respect of
                                                                            which the time limit for submission of tenders
 Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)                           expired on 27 March 1973 ,
 No 1259/72 (6) of 16 June 1972 on the disposal of
 butter at a reduced price to certain Community                             a) the minimum selling price to be considered when
 processing undertakings, as last amended by                                    awarding contracts shall be 55 u.a./ lOO kg of
 Regulation ( EEC) No 555/73 (7 ), the intervention                             butter ;
 agencies have put up for sales by standing invitation
 to tender certain quantities of butter which they hold ;                   b ) the processing security shall be 142 u.a. / lOO kg
                                                                                of butter.
 Whereas Article 9 of that Regulation provides that
 a minimum selling price must be fixed in the light
 of tenders received , and the amount of the processing                                             Article 2
 security must be fixed in the light of the difference
  between the minimum price and the market price                            This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
                Done at Brussels, 30 March 1973 .
                                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                                                The President
                                                                                           François-Xavier ORTOLI
  (»)   OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . 13 .
   (2 ) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 14 .
   (3)  OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 5 .
   (4)  OJ No L 169, 18 . 7. 1968 , p . 1 .
  (5)   OJ No L 291 , 28. 12. 1972, p. 15 .
  («)   OJ No L 139 , 17. 6 . 1972, p . 18,
  (7)   OJ No L 54, 27. 2 . 1973 , p . 27 .