31973R0806

No L 78/8 27. 3 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 806/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 23 March 1973 authorizing the French intervention agency to restrict to specific uses the invitation to tender in respect of a further 40 000 tons of common wheat

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, to avoid speculative purchases by the trade, COMMUNITIES, the French intervention agency whas authorized, by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 201 /73 (6) of 23 January 1973 , to restrict to specific uses the invita­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ tion to tender in respect of a maximum quantity of pean Economic Community ; 40 000 metric tons of common wheat of high bread­ making quality ; Whrereas this quantity of 40 000 tons, which was Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67/ the subject of the invitation to tender for specific EEC ( J ) of 13 June 1967 on the common organization uses, under the Regulation referred to in the pre­ of the market in cereals, as last amended by the ceding paragraph, will not cover the demand of the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) concerning the milling industry ; whereas the French Republic has Accession of new Member States to the European consequently requested that the French intervention Economic Community and the European Atomic agency be authorized to restrict to specific uses the Energy Community, signed in Brussels on 22 January invitation to tender in respect of an additional 1972, and in particular Article 7 (5 ) thereof ; maximum quantity of 40 000 tons of common wheat of high breadmaking quality ; Whereas in accordance with Article 3 (4) of Com­ Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­ mission Regulation (EEC) No 376/70 (4 ) of 27 tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the February 1970 laying down the procedures and con­ Management Committee for Cereals ; ditions for the disposal of cereals held by inter­ vention agencies, as last amended by Regulation HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : (EEC) No 129/73 (5 ), the invitation to tender may in exceptional cases, at the request of a Member State, Article 1 be restricted to specific uses ; Upon offering common wheat for sale on the internal market the French intervention agency is authorized Whereas due to bad weather during the 1972 harvest, for the 1972/ 1973 marketing year to restrict the invit­ ation to tender for a further 40 000 tons of common the common wheat 'harvested in certain parts of France is of too low a quality for the production wheat to use for the sole purpose of producing of flour suitable for breadmaking ; whereas it is flour suitable for breadmaking. therefore necessary to turn this common wheat Article 2 harvested in those parts into wheat suitable for flour milling by mixing it with common wheat of This Regulation shall enter into force on the day high breadmaking quality available from the stocks following its publication in the Official Journal of of the intervention agency ; the European Communities .

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

Done at Brussels, 23 March 1973 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(*) OJ No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/67. (•) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14 . (3) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 . («) OJ No L 47, 28 . 2 . 1970, p. 49 . ( 5) OJ No L 17, 20 . 1 . 1973 , p. 17. ( 6) OJ No L 23 , 29 . 1 . 1973 , p . 7.