CELEX: 31977R2217
Language: en
Date: 1977-10-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2217/77 of 5 October 1977 opening an invitation to tender to determine amounts of private storage aid in respect of beef carcases, half carcases and compensated quarters

No L 256/ 14                              Official Journal of the European Communities                              7 . 10 . 77
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2217/77
                                                          of 5 October 1977
                opening an invitation to tender to determine amounts of private storage aid in
                           respect of beef carcases, half carcases and compensated quarters
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas Article 4 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No
  COMMUNITIES,                                                         1134/68 of 30 July 1968 laying down rules for the
                                                                       implementation of Regulation (EEC) No 653/68 on
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                conditions for alterations to the value of the unit of
  Economic Community,                                                  account used for the common agricultural policy (8),
                                                                       provides that, for transactions carried out under the
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         common agricultural policy, the sums owed by a
  805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                    Member State or a duly authorized body, expressed in
 of the market in beef and veal (*), as last amended by                national currency and representing amounts fixed in
  Regulation (EEC) No 425/77 (2), and in particular Arti­              units of account, shall be paid on the basis of the rela­
 cles 6 (5) and 8 (2) thereof,                                         tionship between the unit of account and the national
                                                                       currency which obtained at the time when the transac­
 Whereas Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68                   tion or port transaction was carried out ;
 provides that intervention measures shall be taken for
 the whole of the Community when the price for adult
 bovine animals, recorded on representative Commu­                     Whereas Article 6 provides that the time when a tran­
 nity markets in accordance with Article 12 (6) of that                saction is carried out is to be considered as being the
 Regulation, is lower than the intervention price ;                    date on which occurs the event, as defined by Commu­
 whereas this condition is at present met ;                            nity rules or, in the absence of and pending adoption
                                                                       of such rules, by the rules of the Member States
 Whereas market trends for beef and especially for beef                concerned, on which the amount involved in the tran­
 from cows indicate that private storage aid should be                 saction becomes due and payable ;
 granted for carcases, half-carcases and compensated
 quarters ;
                                                                      Whereas, in the case of private storage aid for beef
 Whereas the amount of such aid should be established                  and veal, the rate of exchange for calculating the
 by means of a tendering procedure in accordance with                  amount of this aid in national currency should be that
 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 275/74 of 31                           obtaining at the time of the conclusion of the contract
 January 1974 laying down detailed rules for the                       for private storage aid ;
 granting by tender of private storage aid for beef and
 veal (3) ;
                                                                      Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 Whereas     it  should      be   ensured     that   the animals      are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                       ment Committee for Beef and Veal,
 concerned are slaughtered solely in slaughterhouses
 approved and supervised in accordance with Council
 Directive 64/433/EEC of 26 June 1964 on health
 problems affecting intra-Community trade in fresh
 meat (4), as last amended by Directive 77/99/EEC (5) ;
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas provision should be made for the possibility
 of reducing the storage period where the meat which
 has left the store is intended for export ; whereas proof
 that the meat has been exported must be given in the
same way as in the case of refunds, Commission Regu­                                             Article 1
 lation (EEC) No 192/75 of 17 January 1975 (6) laying
down detailed rules for the application of export
refunds in respect of agricultural products, as last                   1.    With effect from 10 October 1977 an invitation
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 633/77 (7) ;                         to tender shall be opened to determine amounts of
                                                                      private storage aid, in accordance with Regulation
(')  OJ  No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . 24.                           (EEC) No 275/74 ; this invitation to tender shall relate
(2)  OJ  No L 61 , 5 . 3 . 1977 , p . 1 .                             to a maximum quantity of about 20 000 tonnes of
(3 ) OJ  No L 28 , 1 . 2. 1974, p . 61 .                              fresh or chilled carcases, half carcases and compen­
(4)  OJ  No 121 , 29 . 7 . 1964, p . 2012/ 64.
(5)  OJ  No L 26, 31 . 1 . 1977, p. 85.                               sated quarters from adult bovine animals.
(6)  OJ  No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 1 .
(7)  OJ  No L 181 , 21 . 7. 1977, p . 33 .                            (8) OJ No L 188 , 1 . 8 . 1968 , p. 1 .
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The time limit for the submission of tenders shall be                                    Article 3
21 October 1977, at 1 p.m. This time limit shall be
one hour earlier in Ireland and the United Kingdom             1 . At the request of the storer submitted when
outside the period known as summer time in those              lodging his tender, the period of storage for the
Member States.                                                products referred to in Article 1 shall be 4, 5 or 6
                                                              months.
2. Private storage aid may be granted only in
respect of meat produced in accordance with Article 3         2. By way of derogation from Article 5 (3) (b) (cc) of
(1 ) A (a) to (e) of Council Directive 64/433/EEC.            Regulation (EEC) No 275/74, after a storage period of
                                                              two months, the contractor may withdraw from store
                                                              all or part of the meat for which he has contracted,
                                                              subject to a minimum withdrawal of five tonnes,
                         Article 2                            provided that it is exported from the Community
                                                              within 10 working days of such withdrawal.
1 . The contractor may, before placing them in
                                                               In this event, the aid shall be reduced by one unit of
store, cut and bone the products referred to in Article
1 , in whole or in part, provided that all the meat           account per day and per tonne of unboned meat, the
                                                              day of withdrawal from store being regarded as the
resulting from such cutting or boning operations is
placed in store.                                               last day of storage.
                                                              The contractor shall inform the intervention agency
2. The authorization for cutting and boning in part            not less than two working days before starting to with­
the quantity for which the contract is concluded may           draw the meat from store, indicating the products and
only cover the cutting and the boning either of all the        quantities which he intends to export.
forequarters or of the same number of fore- and hind­
quarters.                                                      3 . In the case of exportation in accordance with
                                                               paragraph 2, the contractor shall furnish proof that
3 . For the purposes of this Regulation, 100 kilo­             the meat has left the geographical territory of the
grams of the unboned meat referred to in Article 1             Community or has been delivered within the meaning
shall be equivalent to :                                       of Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 192/75. The
                                                               proof shall be furnished in the same way as in the
                                                               case of refunds.
(a) 77 kilograms of boned meat in the case of cutting
     and boning the total quantity for which the
     contract is concluded, or in the case of cutting and
     boning the same number of fore- and hindquar­                                       Article 4
     ters ;
(b) 70 kilograms of boned meat in the case of cutting          By way of derogation from Regulation (EEC) No
                                                               275/74,
     and boning all the forequarters.
                                                               (a) the period of storage after slaughter referred to in
4.     In the case of meat stored in the unaltered state,          Article 5 (3) (b) (aa) thereof shall be 1 0 days ;
if the quantity stored is less than the quantity for           (b) the minimum quantity referred to in Article 5 (3)
which the contract was concluded and
                                                                   (c) thereof shall be 40 tonnes ;
(a) not less than 90 % of that quantity, the amount of         (c) the amount of the security referred to in Article 6
     private storage aid shall be reduced proportionally,          ( 1 ) thereof shall be 100 units of account per tonne.
     or
(b) less than 90 % of that quantity, private storage aid                                 Article 5
     shall not be paid.
                                                               Within the meaning of Article 6 of Regulation (EEC)
5. In the case of boned meat, the percentage                   No 1134/68 , the event giving entitlement to private
referred in paragraph 4 (a) #hd (b) and the lower              storage aid shall be considered as occurring on the day
percentage indicated in the second subparagraph of             of the acceptance of the contract.
Article 10 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 275/74 shall be
85 % .
                                                                                         Article 6
No aid shall be granted for any quantity placed in
store in excess of the quantity for which the contract         This Regulation shall enter into force on 10 October
was concluded.                                                  1977 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 5 October 1977.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President