Commission Regulation (EC) No 1641/2001 of 10 August 2001 opening invitations to tender for the fixing of aid for private storage of carcasses and half-carcasses of lamb in Great Britain and derogating from Regulation (EEC) No 3446/90 laying down detailed rules for granting private storage aid for sheepmeat and goatmeat
Date: 2001-08-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: United Kingdom, aid to agriculture, award of contract, carcase, private stock, sheep

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1641/2001

of 10 August 2001

opening invitations to tender for the fixing of aid for private storage of carcasses and half-carcasses
of lamb in Great Britain and derogating from Regulation (EEC) No 3446/90 laying down detailed
rules for granting private storage aid for sheepmeat and goatmeat

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 of 3
November 1998 on the common organisation of the market in
sheepmeat and goatmeat (1), as amended by Regulation (EC) No
1669/2000 (2), and in particular Article 12(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3446/90 of 27
November 1990 laying down detailed rules for granting
private storage aid for sheepmeat and goatmeat (3), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 3533/93 (4), lays
down in particular detailed rules on invitations to
tender.

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3447/90 of 28
November 1990 on special conditions for the granting
of private storage aid for sheepmeat and goatmeat (5), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 40/96 (6),
lays
down in particular minimum quantities in respect of
which a tender may be submitted.

Council Regulation (EEC) No 2137/92 of 23 July 1992
concerning the Community scale for the classification of
carcasses of ovine
the
animals
Community standard quality of fresh or chilled sheep
carcasses and extending Regulation (EEC) No 338/91 (7),
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2536/97 (8), lays
down in particular
reference presentation for
carcasses and half-carcasses.

and determining

the

The application of Article 12(2) of Regulation (EC) No
2467/98 may result in the opening of invitations to
tender for private storage aid. That Article provides for
the application of this measure on the basis of the
situation of each quotation area.

In view of the particularly difficult market situation due
to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, and consid-
ering that the conditions laid down in Article 12(2) of
Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 have been met it has been
judged opportune to initiate such a procedure in Great
Britain. In order to ensure that the carcasses taken into

(1) OJ L 312, 20.11.1998, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 193, 29.7.2000, p. 8.
(3) OJ L 333, 30.11.1990, p. 39.
(4) OJ L 321, 23.12.1993, p. 9.
(5) OJ L 333, 30.11.1990, p. 46.
(6) OJ L 10, 13.1.1996, p. 6.
(7) OJ L 214, 30.7.1992, p. 1.
(8) OJ L 347, 18.12.1997, p. 6.

storage are of an appropriate quality it is necessary to fix
a minimum weight. It is also necessary to restrict the
regions from where lambs are procured to those that are
provisionally free of
foot-and-mouth disease and to
derogate from the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No
3446/90 as regards marking of carcasses.

Provision should be made to allow deboning during the
period of placing in storage. However, in the interest of
simplification the contracts should be based on the
weight of the carcasses taken into storage. It is therefore
necessary to derogate from the provisions of Regulation
(EEC) No 3446/90.

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

(6)

(7)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Invitations to tender are hereby opened in Great Britain
1.
for aid to private storage for carcasses and half-carcasses of
lamb with a minimum carcass weight of 15 kg. The carcasses
and half-carcasses shall be presented in accordance with the
provisions of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 2137/92 and
shall originate from lambs procured from farms situated in
regions where there has been no outbreak of foot-and-mouth
disease during the past 90 days and which have been slaugh-
tered in such regions.

Subject to the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 3446/
2.
90 and Regulation (EEC) No 3447/90,
tenders must be
submitted to the intervention agency of the Member State not
later than 2 p.m. on 27 August 2001 and 2 p.m. on 17
September 2001 to the relevant intervention agency.

Article 2

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 2(2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 3446/90, the carcasses and half-carcasses shall be
marked in accordance with the provisions laid down in
Commission Decision 2001/304/EC (9) on marking and use of
certain animal products in relation to Decision 2001/172/EC
concerning certain protection measures with regard to
foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom.

(9) OJ L 104, 13.4.2001, p. 6.

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Article 3

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 4(2) and (3) and
Article 6(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3446/90, the following
shall apply:

1. contractors may, during the storage entry period, cut or
bone all or part of the meat concerned, provided that only
the quantity for which the contract has been concluded is
employed and that all the cuts resulting from such opera-
tions are placed in storage. The intervention agency may
require that notification of intention to make use of this
two working days before the
facility be given at
placing in storage of each individual
lot. Large tendons,
cartilage, pieces of
fat and other scraps left over from
cutting or boning may not be stored;

least

day on which the net weight of the fresh or chilled product
is determined:

(a) at the place of the storage, where the meat is frozen on

the premises;

(b) at the place of freezing, where the meat is frozen in

suitable facilities outside the place of storage;

(c) at the place of deboning or cutting, where the meat is

placed in storage after deboning or cutting;

3. the amount of aid shall be fixed per tonne and shall relate
to the weight determined in accordance with paragraph 2.

Article 4

2. placing in storage shall begin, for each individual lot of the
contractual quantity, on the day on which it comes under
the control of the intervention agency. That day shall be the

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the third 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, 10 August 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission