31979R1601

No L 189/54 27 . 7 . 79 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1601 /79 of 26 July 1979 amending Regulation (EEC) No 918/79 opening a standing invitation to tender for the putting up for sale of olive oil held by the Italian intervention agency

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN 'Article 3 a COMMUNITIES, With respect to lampante virgin olive oil and olive Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European residue oil, when the oil awarded has a different Economic Community, degree of acidity from that for which the tender was made, the price to be paid shall be equal to Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC the price tendered, increased or reduced in accor­ of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a dance with the following scale : common organization of the market in oils and fats (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 . lampante virgin olive oil 590/79 (2), and in particular Article 1 2 (4) thereof, — exceeding 1° but not exceeding 8° acidity : Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 918/79 (3) reduction or increase of Lit 1 154 for each provides that tenders shall be made for an oil of 5° degree of acidity below or above 5° , acidity with regard to lampante virgin olive oil and for an oil of 15° acidity with regard to olive residue oil ; — exceeding 8° and not exceeding 12° acidity : Whereas, in order to make a tender for a specific lot, it is desirable that operators have a knowledge of the reduction of Lit 1 615 for each degree of amount of the increases or reductions applied in acidity above 5° , respect of oils with a different degree of acidity than — exceeding 1 2° acidity : that for which tenders are made ; whereas the table of increases and reductions for the oils in question reduction of Lit 2 077 for each degree of should be set out ; acidity above 5° ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation 2. olive residue oil are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ ment Committee for Oils and Fats, Reduction or increase of Lit 2 077 for each degree of acidity below or above 15° .'

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 2 Article 1 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day The following Article 3a is hereby added to Regula­ following its publication in the Official Journal of tion (EEC) No 918/79 : the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 26 July 1979.

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

(•) OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p. 3025/66 . (2) OJ No L 78 , 30 . 3 . 1979, p. 1 . 3) OJ No L 116, 11 . 5. 1979, p. 13 .