Commission Regulation (EC) No 1560/2000 of 17 July 2000 amending Regulation (EC) No 2771/1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards intervention on the market in butter and cream
Date: 2000-07-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: butter, cream, market intervention, private stock

L 179/10

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

18.7.2000

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1560/2000

of 17 July 2000

amending Regulation (EC) No 2771/1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council
Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards intervention on the market in butter and cream

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in milk
and milk products (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1040/2000 (2), and in particular Article 10 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

intervention on the market

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2771/1999 of 16
December 1999 laying down detailed rules for the
application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as
regards
in butter and
cream (3), lays down provisions on the delivery, placing
in storage, storage and removal from storage of butter.
For the sake of clarity for operators, the existing provi-
sions should be redrafted and in particular the require-
ments relating to storage costs and controls on butter
under private storage contracts should be specified.

(2)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Milk and Milk Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

‘The storage costs to be paid shall be determined on the
basis of
the standard amounts for entry, removal and
storage costs laid down pursuant to Article 6 of Council
Regulation (EEC) No 1883/78 (*).

(*) OJ L 216, 5.8.1978, p. 1.’

2. Article 33(3) is replaced by the following:

‘3.
At the end of the contractual storage period, the
competent agency shall, by sampling, verify weight and
identification. However, where the butter is still in storage
after expiry of the maximum contractual storage period,
that check may be made when the butter is removed
from storage.

For the purposes of
subparagraph, the contractor shall
agency,
working days before:

the check referred to in the first
inform the competent
indicating the storage lots involved, at least five

(i) the end of the maximum contractual storage period

of 210 days, or
(ii) before the start of

the removal operations where
products are removed during or after the 210-day
period.

The Member State may accept a shorter time limit than
five working days.’

Article 2

Regulation (EC) No 2771/1999 is amended as follows:

1. The second and third subparagraphs of Article 17(2) are

replaced by the following:

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.

Done at Brussels, 17 July 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48.
(2) OJ L 118, 19.5.2000, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 333, 24.12.1999, p. 11.