No L 196/6 Official Journal of the European Communities 26. 7. 84 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2128/84 of 17 July 1984 amending Regulation (EEC) No 986/68 laying down general rules for granting aid for skimmed milk and skimmed-milk powder for use as feed THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Counci] 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 856/84 (%), and in particular Article 10 (2) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas Article 10 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 provides that aid may be granted for skimmed-milk powder for use as feed ; whereas Regulation (EEC) No 986/68 (), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 867/84 (*), provides for the granting of aid for skimmed-milk powder of a fat content of up to 11 % ; whereas market prices for powder with a fat content of up to 7% and for powder with a fat content of between 9 and 11 % differ; whereas, moreover, the aims of granting aid for the two products, namely reduction of the quantity of skimmed-milk powder qualifying for intervention and reduction of the quan- tity of butterfat available on the market, difter; whereas Regulation (EEC) No 986/68 must as a result be adjusted ; Whereas, for reasons of monitoring, and bearing in mind the high level of aid, it is appropriate that skimmed-milk powder of a fat content between 9 and 11 % and milk containing between 0,8 and 1 % butterfat should not contain buttermilk and should be produced in dairies direct from liquid milk; Whereas Article 2a (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 986/68 specifies the band within which aid for skimmed-milk powder may be fixed ; whereas, in view of the criteria O] No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13. O] No L 90, 1. 4. 1984, p. 10. O] No L 169, 18. 7. 1968, p. 4. OJ No L 90, 1. 4. 1984, p. 29. set out in paragraph | of that Article, the limits of that band should be adjusted and an additional band speci- fied for skimmed-milk powder of a fat content of between 9 and 11 % ; Whereas the application of this new scheme calls for new provisions, in particular as regards monitoring ; whereas, as a result, the way in which the scheme operates should be re-examined before the end of the 1985/86 milk marketing year, in the light of experience, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Articles 2, 2a and 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 986/68 are hereby replaced by the following: ‘Article 2 1. Aid shall be granted for: (@) skimmed milk and buttermilk produced and processed in a dairy, differentiated from other skimmed milk in a manner to be specified or subject to administrative control offering safe- guards equivalent to denaturing and sold to farms where they are used as feed at a price not exceeding any maximum price which may be fixed ; (b) skimmed milk and buttermilk used as feed on the farm where they were produced; (c) skimmed-milk powder and buttermilk powder with a fat content not exceeding 7 %, dena- tured according to methods to be determined ; (d) skimmed-milk powder and buttermilk powder with a fat content not exceeding 7 %, on the one hand, and skimmed milk and buttermilk produced and processed in a dairy, on the other hand, used in the manufacture of compound feedingstuffs. The aid for a given quantity of skimmed milk used in the manufacture of compound feedingstuffs shall be equal to the