No L 99/30 Official Journal of the European Communities 10. 4. 81 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 983/81 of 8 April 1981 on the sale at prices fixed at a standard rate in advance of certain frozen beef from intervention stocks for processing in the Community and amending Regu- lation (EEC) No 2182/77 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in beef and veal (}), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Greece, and in particular Article 7 (3) thereof, Whereas the application of intervention measures in respect of beef has created large stocks in certain Member States ; Whereas, in the present market situation, there are outlets for such meat for processing in the Commu- nity ; Whereas such sales should be made subject to the tules laid down by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2173/79 (?), should also be governed by the rules laid down by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1687/76 (%), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 227/81 (*), and by those laid down by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2182/77 (%), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1026/78 (¢), subject to certain special exceptions on account of the particular use to which the products in question are to be put; Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2182/77 requires, in Article 4 (1), purchasers to provide, before conclusion of the contract of sale, a security to guarantee that the products will be processed ; whereas experience has shown the need to lay down a time limit for provision of that security to prevent operators delaying the conclusion of contracts of sale ; Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1055/77 () provides that, in the case of products stored by an intervention agency outside the territory of the Member State within whose jurisdiction it falls, a different selling price from that for products stored on that territory may be fixed; whereas Commission (1) OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24. () OJ No L 251, 5. 10. 1979, p. 12. (%) O] No L 190, 14. 7. 1976, p. 1. () OJ No L 26, 30. 1. 1981, p. 34. () O No L 251, 1. 10. 1977, p. 60. () O] No L 132, 20. 5. 1978, p. 52. () OJ No L 128, 24. 5. 1977, p. 1. Regulation (EEC) No 1805/77 (8) fixed the method for calculating the selling prices for such products; whereas, to avoid all confusion, it should be expressly stated that the prices fixed by this Regulation are subject to adjustment in the case of those products; Whereas it seems appropriate to waive the second subparagraph of Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2173/79 taking into account the administrative diffi- culties which the application of this rule raises in certain Member States ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage- ment Committee for Beef and Veal, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 1. During the period 13 April to 15 May 1981 the following approximate quantities of beef products shall be put up for sale for processing within the Community : — 3700 tonnes of bone-in beef held by the German intervention agency and bought in before 1 November 1980, : — 5400 tonnes of bone-in beef held by the Italian intervention agency and bought in before 1 October 1980, — 3000 tonnes of boned beef held by the Irish inter- vention agency and bought in before 1 October 1980, — 2000 tonnes of boned beef held by the United Kingdom intervention agency and bought in before 1 October 1980. 2. The intervention agencies referred to in para- graph 1 shall sell first the meat which has been stored the longest. 3. The prices, quality and quantities of this meat are set out in Annex I hereto. () OJ No L 198, 5. 8. 1977, p. 19.