31973R1242

15 . 5 . 73 No L 128/ 11 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 1242/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 14 May 1973 authorizing the French intervention agency to restrict to specific uses the invita­ tion to tender in respect of a further 50 700 tons of common wheat

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN quality available from the stocks of the intervention COMMUNITIES, agency ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas, to avoid speculative purchases by the trade, Economic Community ; the French Republic has consequently requested that the French intervention agency be authorized to Having regard to Council Regulation No restrict to specific uses the invitation to tender in 120/67/ EEC ( ! ) of 13 June 1967 on the common respect of a maximum quantity of 50 700 tons of organization of the market in cereals, as last amended common wheat of high breadmaking quality ; by the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) concerning the Accession of new Member States to the European Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Economic Community and the European Atomic are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ ment Committee for Cereals ; Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in particular Article 7(5) thereof ;

Whereas in accordance with Article 3 (4) of Commis­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : sion Regulation (EEC) No 376/70 (4) of 27 February 1970 laying down the procedures and conditions for Article 1 the disposal of cereals held by intervention agencies, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 129/73 (5), Upon offering common wheat for sale on the internal market the French intervention agency is authorized the invitation to tender may in exceptional cases, at for the 1972/73 marketing year to restrict the invita­ the request of a Member State, be restricted to specific tion to tender for a further 50 700 tons of common uses ; wheat to use for the sole purpose of producing flour Whereas due to bad weather during the 1972 harvest, suitable for breadmaking. the common wheat harvested in certain parts of France is of two low a quality for the production of Article 2 flour suitable for breadmaking ; whereas it is therefore necessary to turn this common wheat harvested in This Regulation shall enter into force on the day those parts into wheat suitable for flour milling by following its publication in the Official Journal of mixing it with common wheat of high breadmaking the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 14 May 1973 .

For the Commission The President

François-Xavier ORTOLI

(') OJ No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p . 2269/67. (2) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. (3) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 . (4) OJ No L 47, 28 . 2 . 1970, p . 49 . (5 ) OJ No L 17, 20 . 1 . 1973 , p . 17 .