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29 . 10 . 77 No L 277/37 Official Journal of the European Communities
COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2379/77
of 28 October 1977
amending Regulation (EEC) No 232/75 as regards the sale of butter at reduced prices for use in the manufacture of ice-cream and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 777 / 76
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES ,
Article 1 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, 1 . Article 20 (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 232/75 is hereby amended to read as follows : Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No '(a) The compensatory amounts fixed pursuant to 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization Regulation (EEC) No 974/71 shall be multi of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last plied by : amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in particular Article 6 (7) thereof, — the coefficient 0-34 in the case of use for 'formula A' products,
— the coefficient 0-54 in the case for use for Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 985/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for 'formula B' products ; intervention on the market in butter and cream (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and however, in the case of the United Kingdom, in particular Article 7a thereof, until 31 December 1977, the coefficients shall respectively be 0-38 and 0-61 .'
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 777/76 of 2. In Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 232/75 , 5 April 1976 (5) limited the scope of Commission point I (bb), the second indent of II and the second Regulation (EEC) No 232/75 of 30 January 1975 on indent of III are in each case hereby replaced by the the sale of butter at reduced prices for use in the following : manufacture of pastry products and ice-cream (6), as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 1 890/77 (7), by '600 g of a compound containing at least 90 % of abolishing sales to the ice-cream sector ; whereas in sitosterol, in particular 80 % of beta-sitosterol the present market the ice-cream industry is capable (C29H50O = A 5-stigmastene-3beta-ol) and no of using larger quantities of intervention butter, a more than 9 % of campesterol substantial proportion of which constitutes an addi (C28H480 = A 5-ergostene-3beta-ol) and 1% of tional outlet ; whereas sales to this sector should there other sterols present in traces including stigmas fore be reintroduced by repealing Regulation ( EEC) terol (C29H48O — A 5-22-stigmastadiene-3beta-ol).' No 777/76 ;
Article 2 Whereas the opportunity should be taken to adjust the technical procedures for using butter for the purposes described in Regulation ( EEC) No 232/75 in 1 . Regulation (EEC) No 777/76 is hereby repealed . order to take into account technological changes in this field ; 2. Tenders submitted under the standing invitation to tender referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 232/75 may give 'formula B' products as the intended use of Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation the butter under the 63rd individual invitation to are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage tender for which the time limit for the submission of ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products, tenders expires on 8 November 1977, and thereafter.
C ) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 . (2) OJ No L 67, 15 . 3 . 1976, p. 9 . (3 ) OJ No L 169 , 18 . 7 . 1968 , p . 1 . Article 3 (■») OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p . 15 . (5 ) OJ No L 91 , 6 . 4 . 1976, p. 13 . (6) OJ No L 24, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 45 . This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 October (7) OJ No L 212, 20 . 8 . 1977 , p. 9 . 1977 .
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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels, 28 October 1977 .
For the Commission
Finn GUNDELACH
Vice-President