Commission Regulation (EC) No 515/2006 of  30 March 2006  establishing a transitional measure for the 2005/06 marketing year on funding the storage of cereals offered for intervention in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia
Date: 2006-03-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Cyprus, Czechia, EAGGF Guarantee Section, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, cereals, financing level, intervention stock, storage cost

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 515/2006

of 30 March 2006

establishing a transitional measure for the 2005/06 marketing year on funding the storage of cereals
offered for intervention in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta,
Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia, and in particular the first subparagraph
of Article 41 thereof,

for

the

financing of

interventions by

In accordance with Article 6 of Council Regulation (EEC)
No 1883/78 of 2 August 1978 laying down general
rules
the
European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund,
Guarantee Section (4),
the EAGGF Guarantee Section
covers expenditure on the physical operations involved
in storage. Member State expenditure on the reimburse-
ment of any additional storage costs, as referred to
above, should be treated as expenditure arising from
storage
intervention
agencies, and provision should be made for that expen-
diture to be funded by the EAGGF Guarantee Section on
the basis of the same standard amount, account also
being taken of the monthly increase added to the inter-
vention price, as provided for in Article 4(3) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1784/2003.

costs normally borne by the

(4)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the EAGGF Committee,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 of
29 September 2003 on the common organisation of the market
in cereals (1),

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

At the request of certain Member States, Commission
Regulation (EC) No 514/2006 (2) extends by three
months, for the 2005/06 marketing year, the deadline
for delivering cereals offered for
intervention in the
Member States which joined the European Community
on 1 May 2004, although it does not authorise delivery
beyond 31 July 2006.

This measure may give rise to additional storage costs
for cereals delivered by this new deadline but after the
time-limit initially laid down in the third subparagraph
of Article 4(3) of Commission Regulation (EC) No
824/2000 of 19 April 2000 establishing procedures for
the taking-over of cereals by intervention agencies and
laying down methods of analysis for determining the
quality of cereals (3).

(1) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 78. Regulation as

(EC) No 1154/2005 (OJ

amended by
L 187,

Commission Regulation
19.7.2005, p. 11).

Where the cereals offered for
intervention in the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta,
Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia have been effectively taken over
by the intervention agency after the deadline laid down in the
third subparagraph of Article 4(3) of Commission Regulation
(EC) No 824/2000, Member State expenditure in respect of
storage costs incurred between that deadline and the date of
actual delivery to the warehouse designated in the delivery
schedule, which must be before the deadline laid down in
Regulation (EC) No 514/2006, shall be treated as expenditure
of the type referred to in Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No
1883/78.

Article 2

The standard amount referred to in the first paragraph of Arti-
cle 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1883/78 shall be calculated on the
basis of the standard amount reimbursed by the Community to
the Member States for the storage of cereals purchased for
intervention during the 2005/06 marketing year, as laid down
in the Commission Decision of 12 October 2005 (5),
i.e.
EUR 1,31 per
from which shall be
deducted the monthly increase provided for in Article 4(3) of
Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003,
i.e. EUR 0,46 per tonne per
month, which has been added to the intervention price for each
month after the deadline laid down in the third subparagraph of
Article 4(3) of Regulation (EC) No 824/2000.

tonne per month,

(2) See page 31 of this Official Journal.
(3) OJ L 100, 20.4.2000, p. 31. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1068/2005 (OJ L 174, 7.7.2005, p. 65).

(4) OJ L 216, 5.8.1978, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 695/2005 (OJ L 114, 4.5.2005, p. 1).

(5) C(2005) 3752. Decision not published.

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Such expenditure shall be taken into account in the context of the annual expenditure referred to in Arti-
cle 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3492/90 (1) as expenditure on the physical operations involved in the
buying-in of products by intervention agencies.

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

Article 3

It shall apply to the 2005/06 marketing year.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 March 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 337, 4.12.1990, p. 3.