17. 4. 80 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 99/13 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 925/80 of 16 April 1980 amending Regulation (EEC) No 262/79 on the sale of butter at reduced prices for use in the manufacture of pastry products, ice-cream and other foodstuffs 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 1761/78 (?), and in particular Article 6 (7) thereof, 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 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1272/79 (*), and in particular Article 7a thereof, Whereas Commission  Regulation (EEC) No 262/79 (%), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2478/79 (¢), allows undertakings manufacturing pastry products, ice-cream and other foodstuffs access to butter from public storage sold at reduced prices; whereas, to ensure that this measure is as effective as possible, the parties concerned should be given certain assurances as to its continuing nature ; Whereas, at the same time, it should be made clear that, prior to their processing into products listed in Article 4 of the said Regulation (EEC) No 262/79, butter or concentrated butter cannot, during an inter- mediate stage of processing, be processed into products other than those specified in Article 4 unless this intermediate processing is carried out in the esta- blishment where final processing takes place ; whereas an exception from this rule may however be permitted where the establishments of intermediate and of final processing can supply the necessary guarantees to allow for efficient supervision of the end-use of the butter concerned and, by virtue of these guarantees, the competent authority has given prior authorization for the intermediate processing; whereas, the competent authority must therefore be in a position to evaluate the guarantees offered by the establishments, both of intermediate processing and of final processing; Whereas the Management Committee for Milk and Milk Products has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its chairman, ) OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13. ) OJ No L 204, 28. 7. 1978, p. 6. ) OJ No L 169, 18. 7. 1968, p. 1. 4 O] No L 161, 29. 6. 1979, p. 13. ) O No L 41, 16. 2. 1979, p. 1. ) HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 262/79 is amended as follows : 1. A further paragraph as follows is added to Article 1: ‘The sale arrangements provided for in the present Regulation shall remain applicable for as long as the quantities of butter available in public storage permit, and in any event for a period which may only end, at the earliest, one year after the date on which an appropriate notice, decided upon in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68, is published in the Official Journal of the European Communi- ties) 2. Article 7 is amended to read as follows : ‘Arti([e 7 1. Prior to their processing into products speci- fied in Article 4, concentrated butter as referred to in Article S (1) and (2), where Article 10 (2) is applied, butter cannot at any intermediate stage, be processed into products falling within a tanff heading other than those specified in Article 4, unless such intermediate processing is carried out in the establishment where the processing into products specified in Article 4 takes place. 2.  However, in the case of concentrated butter as referred to in Article 5 (1) and (2), Member States may permit intermediate processing as referred to in paragraph 1 in an establishment other than that in which is carried out final processing into products referred to in Article 4, subject to the following conditions : . (@) The establishment in which intermediate processing is carried out and the establishments in which final processing is carried out must be previously approved for this purpose, on their joint application by the competent authority of the Member State concerned. For purposes of this paragraph, the countries of the Belgo- Luxembourg Economic Union shall be consid- ered as a single Member State. Without prejudice to additional requirements laid down by the Member State for the purpose