31976R0357

No L 44/ 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 20 . 2. 76

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 357 /76 of 18 February 1976 opening a third invitation to tender and amending Regulation (EEC) No 3354/75 on the sale of skimmed-milk powder for processing into compound feeding­ stuffs for pigs or poultry

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES, Article 1 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, 1 . The new time limit for the submission of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No tenders stipulated in Article 3 (4) of Regulation (EEC) 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization No 3354/75 expires on 3 March 1976 at 12 noon . of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last 2. For this new invitation to tender, the tenderer amended by Regulation (EEC) No 740/75 (2), and in particular Articles 7 (5) and 28 thereof, undertakes to have the skimmed-milk powder processed before 1 May 1976 in accordance with Whereas the invitation to tender opened by Commis­ Article 5(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 3354/75 . sion Regulation (EEC) No 135/76 of 22 January 1976 opening a second invitation to tender and amending 3 . For the invitation to tender covered by this Regu­ Regulation (EEC) No 3354/75 on the sale of skim­ lation , the statements specified in Article 15 of Regula­ med-milk powder for processing into compound tion (EEC) No 3354/75 shall be followed by the number ' III '. feedingstuffs for pigs or poultry (3), has not allowed the sale of the envisaged quantities of skimmed-milk powder put into storage before 1 June 1 973 ; whereas Article 2 it is therefore appropriate to have recourse to a new invitation to tender provided for in Article 3 (4) of In Article 14(2) of Regulation ( EEC) No 3354/75, the Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3354/75 of 23 text of the first subparagraph is replaced by the December 1975 on the sale by invitation to tender of following text : skimmed-milk powder at a reduced price for 'The successful tenderer shall take over the skim­ processing into compound feedingstuffs for pigs or poultry (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No med-milk powder assigned to him on 31 March 135/76 ; whereas it is however appropriate to amend 1976 at the latest. This taking over may be divided the time limit for taking over the goods in order to into partial quantities of at least 10 metric tons each .' make sure the destocking does not coincide with the Article 3 measures proposed for the 1976/77 milk year ;

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

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

Done at Brussels , 18 February 1976 .

For the Com mission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 . (2 ) OJ No L 74, 22 . 3 . 1975, p. 1 . (*) OJ No L 14, 23 . 1 . 1976, p. 19 . « OJ No L 330, 24 . 12 . 197.5 , p. 31