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No L 217/ 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 10 . 8 . 76

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1980 / 76

of 9 August 1976

amending Regulation ( EEC) No 232/75 on the sale of butter at reduced prices for use in the manufacture of pastry products

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

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Article 1 Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No Regulation ( EEC) No 232/75 is amended as follows :• 804/ 68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last 1 . In Article 1 the following is inserted : amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 559/76 (2 ), and in particular Article 6 ( 7) thereof, 'and taken into storage before 1 April 1976'.

Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No 985/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for 2. In Article 12 ( 1 ), the second and third subpara­ intervention on the market in butter and cream (3), as graphs are deleted . last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and in particular Article 7a thereof, 3 . In Article 19, a paragraph 4 as follows is added :

Whereas the situation which led to the temporary '4. As regards butter sold, removal of the minimum age limit for butter, as laid down in Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 232/75 of — by the intervention agency of a new Member 30 January 1975 on the sale of butter at reduced State for processing in accordance with Article prices for use in the manufacture of pastry products 6 ( 1 ) or (2) in the Member State where it is and ice cream (5 ), as last amended by Regulation removed from store, or ( EEC) No 1 724/76 (6), has now changed ; whereas it is therefore now appropriate to re-introduce a qualifying — by the intervention agency of an original date for the entry into storage of butter available for Member State for processing in accordance sale, such date to be determined having regard to the with Article 6 ( 1 ) or (2) on the territory of a new development of stocks in the Community ; Member State ,

Whereas under the second and third subparagraphs of the amount of the processing security to be forfeit Article 12 ( 1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No 232/75 the may be reduced , at the request of the person processing security may be reduced in the case of concerned, by an amount equal to the accession butter sold by the intervention agencies of the new compensatory amount applicable on the day of Member States, so as to take account of the lower such request to the butter concerned in trade market price there ; between the new Member State in question and the Community as originally constituted . Whereas it seems appropriate to make the like provi­ sion in the case of butter bought from intervention The intervention agency of the new Member State agencies of original Member States for processing on where the security was lodged may not accede to the territory of a new Member State ; such a request unless the applicant furnishes proof that the butter or butteroil in question has been Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation entered for home use in its territory and remained are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ there throughout the prescribed period of control.' ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products, - Article 2 (■) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 . (-') OJ No L 67, 15 . 3 . 1976 , p. 9 . (3 ) OJ No L 169 , 18 . 7 . 1968 , p. 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its (4 ) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 15 . (5 ) OJ No L 24, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 45 . publication in the Official Journal of the European ( 6) Of No L 193 , 17 . 7 . 1976, p. 17. Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 9 August 1976.

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS

Member of the Commission