31973R0901

No L 88/ 16 Official Journal of the European Communities 4. 4. 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 901/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 2 April 1973 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2474/72 on the sale at reduced prices of intervention butter for direct consumption in the Community

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN fied that butter offered for sale must have gone into COMMUNITIES, store during the period from 16 May to 31 August 1972 ; whereas, in view of butter stocks in the Com­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ munity, this measure should be extended to butter pean Economic Community ; which went into store during the month of September Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/ 1972 ; 68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organization Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation of the market in milk and milk products, as last are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ amended by the Act ( 2) annexed to the Treaty (3) ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products ; concerning the Accession of new Member States to the European Economic Community and the Euro­ pean Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : on 22 January 1972, and in particular Article 6 (7) thereof ; Article 1

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 985/ In Article 1 ( a) of Regulation (EEC) No 2474/72, the 68 (4) of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for date 31 August 1972 is replaced by the date 30 intervention on the market in butter and cream, as September 1972. last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (5), and in particular Article 7a thereof ; Article 2

Whereas Article 1 ( a) of Commission Regulation This Regulation shall enter into force on the third (EEC) No 2474/72 (6), of 27 November 1972, as last day following its publication in the Official Journal amended by Regulation (EEC) No 206/73 (7), speci­ of the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 2 April 1973 . For the Commission The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(*) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968, p. 13. (') OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. {») OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 . (<) OJ No L 169, 18 . 7. 1968, p. 1 . (5) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 15. (•) OJ No L 267, 28 . 11 . 1972, p. 13 , (7) OJ No L 23, 29. 1 . 1973, p. 19 .