4.7. 87 No L 185/31 Official Journal of the European Communities COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1940/87 of 3 July 1987 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2409/86 on the sale of intervention butter intended for incorporation in compound feedingstuffs THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 985/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for intervention on the market in butter and cream ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3790/85 (3, and in particular Article 7a thereof, Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2409/86 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1165/87 (*), fixes the date by which butter sold by the intervention agency must have been taken into storage ; whereas, in order to allow sales of butter to continue for the purposes of denaturing, the date of entry into storage of butter of a fat content less than 82 % should be brought forward ; Whereas, in accordance with that Regulation and where the butter awarded is not intended for denaturing, checks are conducted as far as the manufacture of compound feedingstuffs ; whereas processing securities are conse- quently released at the end of that final stage; whereas, where the butterfat content of the compound feeding- stuffs may be deduced from the composition of the premixture, under the rules the requirement to check the feedingstuffs by taking samples is waived ; whereas, where the composition of such a premixture is approved by the Member State of manufacture, the checking procedures may be further relaxed and processing securities released at the premixture stage; whereas, moreover, experience gained shows that the incorporation of tracers into concentrated butter or the premixture provides an adequate guarantee for the partial release of the proces- sing security at that stage ; Whereas experience shows that, as regards compound feedingstuffs, the undertaking should be allowed to define the batch under its own manufacturing programme, in view of the fact that the said feedingstuffs are not homo- geneous ; Whereas the rules provide for the possibility of incorpor- ating tracers during processing of the butter into premix- tures or into concentrated butter ; whereas the definition of permitted tracers may be adjusted depending on the market ; () OJ No L 169, 18. 7. 1968, p. 1. () OJ No L 367, 31. 12. 1985, p. 5. () OJ No L 208, 31. 7. 1986, p. 29. (9 OJ No L 112, 29. 4. 1987, p. 29. Whereas, under Article 15a of Regulation (EEC) No 2409/86, the time limit for denaturing the butter is 60 days ; whereas that period is too short having regard to the handling facilities on dispatch from certain interven- tion agencies ; whereas the said time limit should there- fore be extended; Whereas, for the sake of clarity, it should be specified in the framework of the denaturing process of the butter- awarded that inspections are to be carried out and securi- ties released at the stage of the product obtained subse- quent to denaturing; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Milk and Milk Products, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 2409/86 is hereby amended as follows : 1. The first subparagraph of Article 1 is replaced by the following : ‘Butter bought in under Article 6 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 and taken into storage before 1 July 1984 or butter of a fat content less than 82 % taken into storage before 1 January 1985 shall be sold under the conditions provided for in this Regulation.’ 2. In Articles 4 and 5, the words ‘as defined in Article 2 (b) of Directive 79/373/EEC’ are deleted. 3. In Article 6 (2) (b), the words ‘1,1 kg’ are replaced by ‘0,9 kg’ and the figure ‘325 is replaced by ‘320 4. The first subparagraph of Article 9 (1) is replaced by the following : ‘For the purposes of this Regulation, the following shall be considered as compound feedingstuffs : — complete feedingstuffs as defined in Article 2(d) of Directive 79/373/EEC; — complementary feedingstuffs as defined in Article 2 (e) of Directive 79/373/EEC and premixtures the composition of which is typical of feeding- stuffs and approved by the competent authority of the Member State of production’.