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COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3466/87

of 17 November 1987

amending Regulation (EEC) No 985/68 laying down general rules for intervention on the market in butter and cream

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in milk and mlk products (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 773/87 (2), and in particular Article 6 (6) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas Article 8 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 985/68 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1897/87 (4), provides for private storage aid to be granted for butter produced in the Community meeting the standards laid down for butter offered for intervention; whereas, as a result of the latest amendment of that Regulation, salted butter was excluded from the scope of the private storage aid arrangements from 1 July 1987, although this type of butter may, for a transitional period, still be offered for intervention; whereas the grounds for withdrawing the possibility of selling salted butter to intervention are not valid in the case of private storage; whereas Regulation (EEC) No 985/68 should therefore be amended to reintroduce the possibility of providing for private storage aid measures for salted butter with effect from the same date as Regulation (EEC) No 1897/87,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following subparagraph shall be added to Article 8 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 985/68:

'However, the intervention agencies of the Member States may also conclude contracts for butter produced in the Community from sweet cream with a minimum butterfat content of 80 %, a maximum water content by weight of 16 % and a maximum salt content by weight of 2 %.'

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply with effect from 1 July 1987.

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

Done at Brussels, 17 November 1987.

For the Council

The President

L. TOERNAES

(1) OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13.

(2) OJ No L 78, 20. 3. 1987, p. 1.

(3) OJ No L 169, 18. 7. 1968, p. 1.

(4) OJ No L 182, 3. 7. 1987, p. 35.