No L 187/104 - Official Journal of the European Communities 1. 7. 89 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1954/89 of 30 June 1989 on the sale, under the procedure laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 3143/85, of butter held by certain intervention agencies and inteded for direct consumption in the form of concentrated butter THE COMMISSION 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 milk. products ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 763/89 (3, and in particular Article 6 (7) thereof, Whereas-Article 2a of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3143/85 of 11 November 1985 on the sale at reduced prices’ of intervention butter intended for direct consumption in the form of concentrated butter (%), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1953/89 (%), introduces the option of selling intervention butter in two stages, firstly by tendering and secondly at prices fixed at a standard rate in advance; Whereas in view of the current situation on the butter market it is possible to sell a quantity of 593,2 tonnes of butter ; Whereas the Management Committee for Milk and Milk Products has not delivered an-opinion within the-time limite set by its chairman, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 1. The following quantities- of intervention butter intended for direct consumption in the form of concen- trated butter shall be put up for sale in two stages pursuant to Article 2a of Regulation {(EEC) No 3143/85: — 476,2 tonnes held by the German intervention agency and bought in before 1 June 1989, — 117 tonnes held by the Belgian intervention agency and bought in before 1 June 1989. 2.. The intervention agencies referred to in paragraph 1’ shall sell first the butter which has been stored the longest. () O] No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13. () OJ No L 84, 29. 3. 1989, p. 1. (®) OJ No L 299, 12. 11. 1985, p. 9. (*) See page 102 of this Official Journal. 3.  The sales shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 3143/85 and this Regulation. 4. ‘The minimum prices referred to in Article 2a (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3143/85 are given in Annex I hereto. 5. Only those. tenders which reach the intervention agencies concerned no later than 12 noon on 10 July 1989 and those applications for purchase submitted from the fifth working day following the above deadline shall be taken into consideration. 6.  Particulars relating to the quantities and the places where the products are stored may be obtained from the addresses given in Annex IL Article 2 1. Tenders, which shall be in writing, shall be submitted either by registered post or delivered by hand to the intervention agency against acknowledgement of receipt, or by any written means of telecommunication. 2. Tenders shall state: (a).the name and address of the tenderer; (b) the price offered per 100 kilograms of butter having the fat content required, exclusive of internal taxes; ex coldstore, .expressed in the currency of the Member State on- whose teritory the butter is’ stored ; (c) the quantity of butter applied for, stating the fat content of the:butter and of the concentrated butter ; (d) the establishment where the total quantity of butter is to be concentrated and packed in-accordance with Articles 4 and 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 3143/85 and, where appropriate, the establishment where the total quantity: of concentrated butter is to be packed for marketing. However, with- the . agreement of. the competent agency, the total quantity of concentrated . butter may be packed for marketing: in an establishment other than that indicated in the tender. 3. A tender shall not be valid unless: (a) it is accompanied by a written undertaking to use in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 3143/88 the quantity of butter stipulated in the tender for processing into concentrated butter ; (b) it relates only to butter having the same fat content ;