CELEX: 31976R1500
Language: en
Date: 1976-06-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1500/76 of 25 June 1976 on the granting of private storage aid for beef at a standard rate fixed in advance

26 . 6 . 76                              Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 167/31
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1500/76
                                                          of 25 June 1976
                 on the granting of private storage aid for beef at a standard rate fixed in advance
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      chilled carcases, half-carcases and 'compensated quar­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                        ters of adult bovine animals other than those listed in
                                                                     Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 1896/73 ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,                                                 Whereas it should be ensured that those animals are
                                                                     slaughtered solely in slaughterhouses approved and
                                                                     supervised in accordance with Council Directive
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        64/433/EEC of 26 June 1964 on health problems
 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                   affecting intra-Community trade in fresh meat (6), as
 of the market in beef and veal ('), as last amended by              last amended by Directive 75/379/EEC of 24 June
 Regulation (EEC) No 568 /76 (2), and in particular Arti­            1975 (7) ;
 cles 6 (5) (b) and 8 (2) thereof,
                                                                     Whereas, in order to facilitate storage operations,
 Whereas Article 6 (3) thereof provides that interven­               certain conditions of Commission Regulation (EEC)
 tion measures shall be taken for the whole of the                   No 1071 /68 of 25 July 1968 laying down detailed
 Community when the price for adult bovine animals                   rules for granting private storage aid for beef and
 as recorded on representative Community markets in                  veal (8), and in particular those concerning the security
 accordance with Article 10 thereof is lower than the                required should be amended ; whereas the
guide price ; whereas this condition is fulfilled at                 consequences of putting too small a quantity into
 present ;                                                           storage and of withdrawing meat prematurely should
                                                                     also be specified ;
Whereas, in the present market situation, where prices
 are unstable in the Community and where, in parti­                 Whereas Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 cular, the short-term supply difficulties in the Member             989/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for
 State with the largest deficit are affecting the availa­           granting private storage aid for beef and veal (9)
 bility of supplies in producer Member States, private               provides that a decrease or an increase of the storage
 storage aid should be granted for fresh or chilled                  period can be decided on if the market situation calls
 carcases, half-carcases and 'compensated' quarters of               for it ; whereas it is therefore appropriate to fix, in
 male adult bovine animals as defined in Annex I to                 addition to the amounts of aid for a specified storage
 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1896/73 of 13 July                   period, amounts to be deducted or added when this
 1973 on detailed rules for the application of interven­             period is shortened or lengthened ;
 tion measures on the market in beef and veal (3), as
 last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 333/76 (4), and
also for fresh or chilled forequarters of adult bovine              Whereas, in order to avoid financing normal private
animals :                                                           storage, it appears desirable to specify high minimum
                                                                    quantities ;
Whereas from the results of the tendering procedure
under Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1204/76 of                     Whereas it is desirable, having regard to the present
21 May 1976 providing for invitations to tender to                  abundance of beef on the Community market, to
determine amounts of private storage aid in respect of              allow the products stored to be exported before the
beef (5), it is clear that provision should also be made            end of the storage period provided they are stored for
for granting private storage aid at a standard rate fixed           a minimum period ;
in advance taking into account the abovementioned
tendering procedure ; whereas, furthermore, in the
light of the unfavourable weather and recent market                 Whereas the amount of the security required should
developments, the aid should be extended to fresh or                be such as to oblige the storer to fulfill the obligations
                                                                    undertaken by him ;
(•) OJ   No  L  148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 24.
(2) OJ   No  L 67, 15. 3. 1976, p. 28 .                             (0) OJ   No  121 , 29 . 7 . 1964, p. 2012/64.
(3) OJ   No  L  193, 14. 7. 1973, p. 18 .                           (7) OJ   No  L 172, 3 . 7. 1975, p. 17.
(«) OJ   No  L 151 , 10. 6. 1976, p. 7.                             (8) OJ   No  L 180, 26 . 7. 1968 , p. 19 .
(5) OJ   No  L 133, 22. 5. 1976, p. 28 .                            (9) OJ   No  L 169, 18 . 7. 1968 , p. 10 .
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Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (2) of Council Regula­             — 30 metric tons for the products listed in the
tion (EEC) No 1134/68 of 30 July 1968 laying down                      Annex under (c).
general rules for the implementation of Regulation
(EEC) No 653/68 on conditions for alterations to the
value of the unit of account used for the common agri­                                     Article 4
cultural policy ('), for transactions carried out under
the common agricultural policy the sums owed by a                  1 . The contractor may, before placing them in
Member State or a duly authorized body, expressed in              store, cut and bone the products referred to in the
national currency and representing amounts fixed in               Annex under (a), (b) and (c) in whole or in part,
units of account, are paid on the basis of the relation­          provided that all the meat resulting from such boning
ship between the unit of account and the national                 or cutting operations is placed in store .
currency obtaining at the time when the transaction
or part transaction was carried out ;                             2.     For the purposes of this Regulation :
Whereas, pursuant to Article 6 of the Regulation
referred to above , the time when a transaction is                (a) 100 kg of the unboned meat referred to in the
                                                                       Annex under (a) and (b) shall be equivalent to 77
carried out is considered as being the date on which
occurs the event, as defined by Community rules or,                    kg of boned meat ;
in the absence of and pending adoption of such rules,                  and
by the rules of the Member State concerned, in which              (b) 100 kg of the unboned meat referred to in the
the amount involved in the transaction becomes due
                                                                       Annex under (c) shall be equivalent to 70 kg of
and payable ;                                                          boned meat.
Whereas, in respect of private storage aid for beef, the
rate of exchange to be used for calculating the amount            3.     In the case of meat stored in the unaltered state ,
of this aid in national currency should be that                   if the quantity stored is less than the quantity for
obtaining at the time when the contract for private               which the contract was concluded and :
storage aid is concluded ;
                                                                  (a) not less than 90 % of that quantity, the amount of
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation                   private storage aid shall be reduced proportion­
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­                      ally ;
ment Committee for Beef and Veal ,
                                                                       or
                                                                  (b) less than 90 % of that quantity, private storage aid
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                          shall not be paid .
                           Article 1                               In the case of boned meat, the percentage indicated in
                                                                  (a) and (b) and the lower percentage indicated in
 1 . Aid shall be granted for the private storage of the          Article 4 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1071 /68 shall be
products specified in the Annex hereto. The amounts               equal to 85 % .
of such aid per metric ton , exclusive of packaging,
shall be shown in the said Annex .
                                                                  4 . If the quantity placed in store is greater than the
2.       The amount of aid shall be adjusted if the dura­         quantity in respect of which the contract was
tion of storage is extended or curtailed . The additional         concluded, the amount of aid shall be equal to that
amounts per month or amounts to be deducted per                   appropriate to the quantity contracted for.
day are given in columns 5 and 6 of the Annex .
                           Article 2                                                       Article 5
Private storage aid may be granted only for meat                   1 . At the request of the s*torer to be, submitted
produced in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) A (a) to (e )         when lodging his tender, the period of storage shall
of the Council Directive of 26 June 1964 on health                be :
problems affecting intra-Community trade in fresh
meat, as last amended by the Directive of 24 June                 (a) five or six months for the products referred to in
 1 975 .                                                               the Annex under (a) ;
                                                                       and
                           Article 3
                                                                  (b) four, five or six months for the products referred
The minimum quantity per contract is :                                 to in the Annex under (b) and (c).
— 50 metric tons for the products listed in the
     Annex under (a) and (b),                                      2.     Entitlement to the payment of aid shall be
                                                                   aquired only if all the meat remains in storage during
(') OJ No L 1X8 , 1 . 8 . 1968 , p. 1 .                            the entire storage period .
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3. At the end of a storage period of two months,                                    Article 7
the contractor may withdraw from store all or part of
the meat for which he has contracted, provided that          1.   The amount of the security required is fixed at
not less than five metric tons is withdrawn and is,          100 u.a./ metric ton .
within 10 working days of such withdrawal, exported         2.    In cases of force majeure, the intervention
from the Community.                                         agency shall take such measures as it considers neces­
In that event, the amount of the aid shall be reduced       sary having regard to the circumstances invoked .
in accordance with Article 1 (2), the day of withdrawal     The intervention agency shall inform the Commission
from store being regarded as the last day of storage.       of each case of force majeure and of the action taken
The contractor shall inform the intervention agency         in respect thereof.
not less than two working days before beginning with­
                                                                                    Article 8
drawal of the meat from store, indicating the products
and quantities which he intends to export.                  Aid shall be paid at the request of the person entitled
4. In the case of exportation in accordance with            and at the latest on the 15th day following that on
paragraph 3, the contractor shall furnish proof that        which it is ascertained that the obligations under the
                                                            contract have been fulfilled .
the meat has left the geographical territory of the
Community or has been delivered within the meaning
of Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 192/75 . The                                    Article 9
proof shall be furnished as in the case of refunds.
                                                            Within the meaning of Article 6 of Regulation (EEC)
                      Article 6
                                                            No 1134/68 , the event giving entitlement to private
                                                            storage aid shall be considered as occurring on the day
Storing must be completed within 60 days following          of the conclusion of the contract.
the conclusion of the contract.
                                                                                    Article 10
The storage period shall begin on the day on which
storing is completed.                                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1976 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 25 June 1976 .
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                         P.J. LARDINOIS
                                   9
                                                                 Member of the Commission
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                                                                ANNEX
                                                                      Amount of aid, in u.a./metric ton
                                                                                                                Amount in u.a./ metric ton
                                                                          for a storage period of
                 Products for which aid is granted
                                                                                                              to be added     to be deducted
                                                                 4 months        5 months            6 months
                                                                                                               per month          per day
(a) Carcases, half-carcases and 'compensated quarters',
    fresh or chilled, from the male adult bovine
    animals specified in Annex I to Regulation (EEC)
    No 1896/73                                                                      550                580         30               1
(b) Carcases, half-carcases and 'compensated quarters',
    fresh or chilled, from adult bovine animals other
    than those referred to under (a)                               420              450                480         30               1
(c) Forequarters, fresh or chilled, from adult bovine
    animals                                                        360              385                410         25              0.80