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►B COMMISSIONREGULATION(EEC)No147/91
of22January1991
defining and fixing the tolerances for quantity losses of agricultural products in public interven-
tionstorage
(OJ L 17, 23.1.1991, p. 9)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
►M1Commission Regulation (EEC) No 652/92 of 16 March 1992 L 70 5 17.3.1992
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COMMISSIONREGULATION(EEC)No147/91
of22January1991
definingandfixingthetolerancesforquantitylossesofagricultural
productsinpublicinterventionstorage
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European EconomicCommunity,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3492/90 of 27
November 1990 laying down the factors to be taken into considerationin the annual accounts financing of intervention measures in the formof public storage by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guar-antee Fund, Guarantee Section(
1) and particularly Article 4 thereof,
Whereas the definition of the tolerance provided for in Article 4 of
Regulation (EEC) No 3492/90 for the preservation of agricultural
products in public intervention storage and the calculation method to
be used for determining the financial consequences of storage must bespecified;
Whereas this tolerance refers to ordinary quantity losses resulting from
the normal storage or processing of agricultural products in interven-tion with due respect to the requirements for proper preservation ofthe product;
Whereas this tolerance must be fixed for each product concerned, using
a simple method and taking account of the unidentifiable quantitylosses which have occurred during storage in recent years; whereasthe limit should therefore be fixed as a percentage of the total quantity
in storage;
Whereas in the case of certain products subjected to processing
between buying-in and storage, specific tolerances must be fixed for
losses during processing;
Whereas there have been no storage operations of pigmeat for a long
time, and this limit shall only be fixed afterwards should storage opera-
tions recommence;
Whereas the time when the financial effects of the application of toler-
ances are to be taken into account by the EAGGF Guarantee Section
should be specified;
Whereas for certain agricultural products the method of calculating the
percentage loss normally allowed during storage has been fundamen-tally modified; whereas it is necessary to review these percentages inthe light of experience.
Whereas the tolerances have been fixed in Regulations by sector;
whereas for the sake of legal simplicity they should be laid down inone Regulation;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accor-
dance with the opinion of the EAGGF Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
1. A tolerance limit for quantity losses resulting from normal storage
operations carried out in accordance with the accepted rules is herebyfixed for each agricultural product which is the subject of a public
storage measure.
2. The tolerance shall be fixed as a percentage of the actual weight,
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during the financial year in question, plus the quantities in storage at
the beginning of that year. It shall be calculated, for each product, onthe basis of all the quantities stored by an intervention agency.
The actual weight at buying-in and removal are calculated by
subtracting the standard packing weight, as laid down in the conditionsof buying-in, from the recorded weight or, by absence, the averagepacking weight used by the agency.
3. The tolerance shall not cover losses in terms of number of
packages or number of registered pieces.
Article 2
1. The percentages for normal allowable losses during storage are
hereby fixed as follows:
— cereals 0,2 %
— paddy rice-maize-sorghum 0,4 %— sugar 0,1 %— olive oil 0,6 %— rapeseed 0,2 %— sunflower seed 0,8 %— alcohol 0,6 %— leaf tobacco 0,0 %— baled or transformed tobacco 1,0 %— skimmed milk powder 0,0 %— butter 0,0 %— cheese: Grana Padano 4,5 %
Parmigiano Reggiano 6,5 %
— beef 0,6 %— pigmeat to be defined later.
2. The percentages for allowable losses during processing are hereby
fixed as follows:
— de-boning of beef 32 %
— processing of leaf tobacco 19 %.
These percentages shall apply to all quantities processed during the
financial year. ►
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percentage shall apply to the total quantities brought into use and
processed in the course of the exercise in addition to the quantities
brought into use during the previous exercise and processed duringthe current exercise. ◄
Article 3
Losses exceeding the tolerance shall be booked at the end of the
EAGGF Guarantee Section financial year.
Article 4
The percentages laid down in Article 2 shall be reviewed, at the latest
after three years, on the basis of checks carried out following the appli-cation of the new methods of calculation.1991R0147 — EN — 01.01.1990 — 001.001 — 3
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Article 5
Commission Regulations (EEC) No 742/70, (EEC) No 743/70, (EEC)
No 771/71, (EEC) No 899/70, (EEC) No 2705/71, (EEC) No 236/72,
(EEC) No 2577/72, (EEC) No 638/74, (EEC) No 230/79 and (EEC)
No 394/89(1) are hereby repealed.
Article 6
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
It shall apply with effect from 1 October 1990.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States.1991R0147 — EN — 01.01.1990 — 001.001 — 4
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OJ No L 280, 21. 12. 1971, p. 8.OJ No L 29, 2. 2. 1972, p. 18.
OJ No L 275, 8. 12. 1972, p. 24.
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