31973R0071

No L 12/ 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 13 . 1 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 71/73 OF THE COMMISSION

of 4 January 1973

on the sale of butter from public stocks

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES, Article 1

Intervention agencies shall sell to any interested Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ pean Economic Community ; party butter bought in under Article 6 ( 1 ) of Regu­ lation ( EEC ) No 804/68 which went into store before 1 November 1972 . Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Article 2 804/68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in milk and milk products, 1 . The butter shall be sold ex-cold-storage-depot as last amended by the Act (2) annexed to the at a price equal to the buying-in price for the Treaty (3 ) on the Accession of new Member States relevant intervention agency less 3 units of account to the European Economic Community and the per 100 kilogrammes. European Atomic Energy Community, signed at 2. The butter shall be sold only in lots of 100 Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in particular tons or more . Article 6 (7) and Article 28 thereof ;

3 . The buyer shall pay the intervention agency for the butter before the taking over referred to Whereas one feature of the Community butter market in paragraph 4. is the existence of large stocks following intervention under Article 6 ( 1 ) and (2) of Regulation (EEC ) No 4 . The buyer shall take over the butter within 804/68 ; 30 days of the day following the conclusion of the contract of sale. The butter may be taken over piecemeal. Whereas, insofar as it is possible to dispose of this If the butter has not been taken over within the butter, provision must be made for measures which would facilitate its removal from storage and its specified time, the sale shall be cancelled in respect exportation ; of the quantities remaining, except in cases of force majeur.

In such cases, storage costs incurred between the Whereas Article 5 of Council Regulation (EEC ) No date on which the contract is concluded and the 985/68 (4) of 15 July 1968 laying down general date on which the sale is cancelled shall be refunded rules for intervention on the market in butter and to the intervention agency. These costs shall be cream, as last amended by Regulation (EEC ) No calculated at a flat rate of 0-6 unit of account per 2714/72 (5), and in particular Article 7a thereof, ton per day. provides for the fixing of a minimum selling price ; Article 3

The Member States shall inform the Commission Whereas the conditions of sale should be further on the Tuesday of each week of the quantities of defined as regards the dates on which payment is butter sold under this Regulation . due and on which the butter is taken over ;

Article4¶

Whereas the measures provided in this Regulation This Regulation shall enter into force on the third are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ day following its publication in the Official Journal ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products : of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels , 4 January 1973 . For the Commission

The President

S. L. MANSHOLT

(*) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p . 13 . (') OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p . 14. (8) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p . 5 . (4) OJ No L 169, 18 . 7. 1968 , p . 1 . («) OJ No L 291 , 28. 12 . 1972, p . 15