CELEX: 31977R1191
Language: en
Date: 1977-06-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1191/77 of 3 June 1977 providing for an invitation to tender to determine amounts of private storage aid in respect of beef forequarters

No L 138 / 26                              Official Journal of the European Communities                              4. 6. 77
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1197/77
                                                           of 3 June 1977
              providing for an invitation to tender to determine amounts of private storage
                                                aid in respect of beef forequarters
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       date on which occurs the event, as defined by Commu­
COMMUNITIES ,                                                        nity rules or, in the absence of and pending adoption
                                                                     of such rules, by the rules of the Member States
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                concerned , on which the amount involved in the tran­
Economic Community,                                                  saction becomes due and payable ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         Whereas, as regards private storage aid for beef and
805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                    veal , the rate of exchange to be used for calculating
of the market in beef and veal ('), as last amended by               the amount of this aid in national currency should be
Regulation ( EEC) No 425/77 (2), and in particular Arti­             that obtaining at the time when the contract for
cles 6 (5) (b) and 8 (2) thereof,                                    private storage aid is concluded ;
Whereas Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68                  Whereas the Management Committee for Beef and
lays down that intervention measures shall be taken                  Veal has not delivered an opinion within the time
for the whole of the Community when the price for                    limit set by its chairman ,
adult bovine animals, recorded on representatative
Community markets in accordance with Article 12(6)
of that Regulation , is lower than the intervention
price ; whereas that condition is at present fulfilled ;
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, in the present situation of diverging prices
in the different Member States and especially of the
seasonal difficulties in the market for forequarters,                                         Article 1
aids for the private storage of beef forequarters should
be granted ;                                                         With effect from 6 June 1977, an invitation to tender
                                                                     shall be issued to determine the amount of private
Whereas, in view of this situation , the amount of such              storage aid , in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No
aid should be established by means of a tendering                     275/ 74 ; this invitation to tender shall relate to a
procedure in accordance with Commission Regulation                    limited quantity of up to 15 000 tonnes of fresh or
(EEC) No 275/74 of 31 January 1974 laying down                        chilled forequarters from adult bovine animals.
detailed rules for the granting by tender of private
storage aid for beef and veal (3) ;                                  The time limit for the submission of tenders shall be
                                                                      13 June 1977, at 1 p.m . in Denmark, the Federal
Whereas Article 4 (2) of Council Regulation ( EEC) No                 Republic of Germany, Ireland and the United
 1134/68 of 30 July 1968 laying down rules for the                    Kingdom ar.d at 2 p.m . in the other Member States.
implementation of Regulation ( EEC) No 653/68 on
conditions for alterations to the value of the unit of
account used for the common agricultural policy (4),
                                                                                              Article 2
provides that, for transactions carried out under the
common agricultural policy, the sums owed by a
Member State or a duly authorized body, expressed in                  1 . The contractor may, before placing them in
national currency and representing amounts fixed in                   store, cut and bone the products referred to in Article
units of account, shall be paid on the basis of the rela­             1 . in whole or in part, provided |that all the meat
tionship between the unit of account and the national                 resulting from such boning or cutting operations is
currency which obtained at the time when the transac­                 placed in store .
tion or part transaction was carried out ;
                                                                      2.    For the purposes of this Regulation , 100 kilo­
Whereas Article 6 thereof provides that the time when                grams of unboned meat shall be equal to 70 kilograms
a transaction is carried out is considered as being the               of boned meat .
(!)  OJ No L  148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . 24 .                          3.    In the case of meat stored in the unaltered state,
(2 ) OJ No L 61 , 5. 3 . 1977, p . 1 .
(3 ) OJ No L 28 , 1 . 2 . 1974, p . 61 .                              if the quantity stored is less than the quantity for
(4)  OJ No L  188 , 1 . 8 . 1968 , p . 1 .                            which the contract was concluded and ,
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(a) not less than 90 % of that quantity, the amount of       3.     In the case of exportation in accordance with
    private storage aid shall be reduced proportionally,     paragraph 2, the contractor shall furnish proof that
    or                                                       the meat has left the geographical territory of the
(b) less than 90 % of that quantity, private storage aid     Community or has been delivered within the meaning
    shall not be paid.                                       of Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 192/75. The
                                                             proof shall be furnished as in the case of refunds.
In the case of boned meat, the percentage indicated in
(a) and (b) and the lower percentage indicated in the
                                                                                       Article 4
second subparagraph of Article 10(1 ) of Regulation
(EEC) No 275/74 shall be 85 % .                              By way of derogation from Regulation (EEC) No
No aid shall be granted for any quantity placed in           275/74 :
store in excess of the quantity for which the contract       (a) the period of storage after slaughter referred to in
was concluded .
                                                                 Article 5(3)(b)(aa) thereof shall be 10 days ;
                        Article 3
                                                             (b) the period allowed for placing in store referred to
                                                                 in Article 5 (3) (b) (bb) thereof shall be 40 days ;
1 . As the request of the storer submitted when              (c) the minimum quantity referred to in Article
lodging his tender, the period of storage shall be five          5 (3) (c) thereof shall be 30 tonnes ;
or six months .
                                                             (d) the amount of the security referred to in Article
2. At the end of a storage period of two months,                 6(1 ) thereof shall be 100 units of account per
                                                                 tonne .
the contractor may withdraw from store all or part of
the meat for which he has contracted, provided that
not less than five tonnes is withdrawn and is, within                                  Article 5
10 working days of such withdrawal , exported from
the Community.                                               Within the meaning of Article 6 of Regulation (EEC)
                                                             No 1134/68, the event giving entitlement to private
In that event, the amount of the aid shall be reduced
                                                             storage aid shall be considered as occurring on the day
by one unit of account per day and per tonne of              of the acceptance of the contract.
unboned meat, the day of withdrawal from store being
regarded as the last day of storage.
                                                                                       Article 6
The contractor shall inform the intervention agency
not less than two working days before beginning with­        This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
drawal of the meat from store, indicating the products       following its publication in the Official Journal of
and quantities which he intends to export.                   the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 3 June 1977.
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                          Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                             Vice-President