Commission Regulation (EC) No 826/2001 of 27 April 2001 amending Regulation (EC) No 590/2001 derogating from and amending Regulation (EC) No 562/2000 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 as regards the buying-in of beef
Date: 2001-04-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, award of contract, beef, intervention buying

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 826/2001

of 27 April 2001

amending Regulation (EC) No 590/2001 derogating from and amending Regulation (EC) No 562/
2000 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 as
regards the buying-in of beef

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Article 1

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef
and veal (1), and in particular Article 47(8) thereof,

Regulation (EC) No 590/2001 is amended as follows:

1. Article 1(3) is replaced by the following text:

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 590/2001 (2),
as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 719/2001 (3),
intro-
duces a number of amendments and derogations to
Commission Regulation (EC) No 562/2000 (4) in order
to deal with the exceptional market situation resulting
from the recent events linked to bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE). The subsequent epidemic of
foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has made certain further
amendments necessary.

By derogating from Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No
562/2000, Article 1(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 590/
2001 provides for the buying-in of five-rib forequarters.
In the light of experience, certain rules on the takeover
of the quarters should be established.

Article 1(3) of Regulation (EC) No 590/2001 provides,
for the first two tendering procedures of the second
quarter of 2001, the possibility of buying in carcasses
weighing more
than the maximum weight while
restricting in that case the buying-in price to that of the
maximum authorised weight.
In order to clarify the
situation with regard to the purchase of forequarters, a
restriction should be applied relating to the second
tendering procedure by limiting their buying-in price to
40 % of the maximum payable weight for carcasses.

Regulation (EC) No 590/2001 should therefore be
amended.

In view of the development of events this Regulation
must enter into force immediately.

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

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 86, 27.3.2001, p. 30.
(3) OJ L 100, 11.4.2001, p. 13.
(4) OJ L 68, 16.3.2000, p. 22.

‘3.
Notwithstanding Article 4(2)(g) of Regulation (EC) No
562/2000, for the second quarter of 2001 the maximum
weight of the carcasses referred to therein shall be:

— 430 kg for the first

tendering procedure; however,
carcasses weighing more than 430 kg may be bought
into intervention but in that case the buying-in price
paid shall not exceed the price for that maximum
weight,

— 430 kg for the second tendering procedure; however,
carcasses weighing more than 430 kg may be bought
into intervention but in that case the buying-in price
paid shall not exceed the price for that maximum weight
or, in the case of forequarters, the buying-in price paid
shall not exceed the price for 40 % of the maximum
payable weight,

— 410 kg for the third and fourth tendering procedures,

— 390 kg for the last two tendering procedures.’

2. In Article 1 the following paragraph 5a is inserted after

paragraph 5:

‘5a.
Notwithstanding Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No
562/2000, where takeover is limited to forequarters, the
latter must be presented together with the corresponding
hindquarters in order to be accepted by the intervention
agency, so that
the maximum weight, presentation and
classification of the carcasses from which they originate
may be verified.

However, where preliminary inspection of the forequarters
and hindquarters has been conducted under the conditions
referred to in paragraph 3 of that Article, the forequarters
accepted during that inspection may be presented without
the hindquarters for definitive takeover at the intervention
centre after being transported there in a sealed means of
transport.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 April 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission