CELEX: 31977R2471
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2471/77 of 8 November 1977 on the granting at a standard rate fixed in advance of private storage aid in respect of beef carcases, half-carcases and compensated quarters

No L 286/20                           Official Journal of the European Communities                             10 . 11 . 77
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2471 /77
                                                   of 8 November 1977
                on the granting at a standard rate fixed in advance of private storage aid in
                        respect of beef carcases , half-carcases and compensated quarters
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  meat (4), as last amended by Directive 77/99/EEC of
COMMUNITIES,                                                    21 December 1976 (5) ;                           (
                                                                Whereas, in order to facilitate storage operations,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           certain conditions of Commission Regulation (EEC)
Economic Community,                                              No 1071 /68 of 25 July 1968 laying down detailed
                                                                 rules for granting private storage aid for beef and
                                                                veal (6), and in particular those concerning the security
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     required, should be amended ; whereas the
805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                consequences of putting too small a quantity into
of the market in beef and veal ( !), as last amended by          storage and of withdrawing meat prematurely should
Regulation (EEC) No 425/77 (2), and in particular Arti­          also be specified ;
cles 6 (5) (b) and 8 (2) thereof,
                                                                Whereas Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
Whereas Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68              989/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for
lays down that intervention measures shall be taken             granting private storage aid for beef and veal (7), as
for the whole of the Community when the price for                amended by Regulation (EEC) No 428/77 (8), provides
adult bovine animals, as recorded on representative              that a decrease or an increase of the storage period
                                                                 can be decided on if the market situation calls for it ;
Community markets in accordance with Article 12 (6)
of that Regulation, is lower than the intervention               whereas it is therefore appropriate to fix, in addition,
price ; whereas that condition is at present fulfilled ;         to the amounts of aid for a specified storage period,
                                                                 amounts to be deducted or added when this period is
                                                                 shortened or lengthened ;
Whereas market trends for beef and especially for beef
from cows indicate that private storage aid should be            Whereas, in order to avoid financing normal private
granted for carcases, half-carcases and compensated              storage, it appears desirable to specify high minimum
quarters ;                                                       quantities ;
                                                                 Whereas it is desirable, having regard to the present
Whereas, from the result of the tender organized                 supply of beef on the Community market, to allow
under Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2217/77 of 5                the products stored to be exported before the end of
October 1977 providing for an invitation to tender to            the storage period provided they are stored for a
determine amounts of private storage aid in respect of           minimum period ;
beef carcases, half-carcases and compensated quar­
ters (3), it is clear that provision should be made for
the granting at a standard rate fixed in advance of              Whereas the amount of the security required should
private storage aid for carcases, half-carcases and              be such as to oblige the storer to fulfil the obligations
compensated quarters ; whereas the amount of such                undertaken by him ;
aid must be fixed having regard to the result of the
tender and to foreseeable developments on the
market ;                                                         Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (2) of Council Regula­
                                                                 tion (EEC) No 1134/68 of 30 July 1968 laying down
                                                                 general rules for the implementation of Regulation
Whereas      it should be ensured ..that the animals             (EEC) No 653/68 on conditions for alterations to the
concerned are slaughtered solely in slaughterhouses              value of the unit of account used for the common agri­
approved and supervised in accordance with Council               cultural policy (9), for transactions carried out under
 Directive 64/433/ EEC of 26 June 1964 on health
 problems affecting intra-Community trade in fresh               (4) OJ  No  121 , 29. 7. 1964, p. 2012/64.
                                                                 (5) OJ  No  L 26, 31 . 1 . 1977, p. 85.
                                                                 (6) OJ  No  L 180, 26. 7. 1968, p. 19.
(!) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 24.                         (7) OJ  No  L 169, 18 . 7 . 1968 , p. 10 .
(2) OJ No L 61 , 5. 3 . 1977, p. 1 .                             (8) OJ  No  L 61 , 5 . 3 . 1977, p. 17.
(3 ) OJ No L 256, 7. 10 . 1977, p. 14.                           H   OJ  No  L 188 , 1 . 8 . 1968 , p. 1 .
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the common agricultural policy the sums owed by a                                      Article 3
Member State or a duly authorized body, expressed in
national currency and representing amounts fixed in           1.     The minimum quantity per contract shall be 40
units of account, are paid on the basis of the relation­     tonnes .
ship between the unit of account and the national
currency obtaining at the time when the transaction          2.      Storing must be completed within 40 days
or part transaction was carried out ;                        following the conclusion of the contract.
Whereas, pursuant to Article 6 of the Regulation             The storage period shall begin on the day on which
referred to above, the time when a transaction is            storing is completed.
carried out is considered as being the date on which
occurs the event, as defined by Community rules or,          3 . By way of derogation from Article 2 (2) of Regu­
in the absence of and pending adoption of such rules,        lation (EEC) No 1071 / 68 , private storage aid may be
by the rules of the Member State concerned, in which         granted only for products obtained from animals
the amount involved in the transaction becomes due           slaughtered within the Community not more than 10
and payable ;                                                days previously.
Whereas, in respect of private storage aid for beef, the
                                                                                       Article 4
rate of exchange to be used for calculating the amount
of this aid in national currency should be that
obtaining at the time when the contract for private           1 . The contractor may, before placing them in
storage aid is concluded ;                                   store, cut and bone the products referred to in Article
                                                              1 . in whole or in part, provided that all the meat
Whereas the Management Committee for Beef and                resulting from such cutting or boning operations is
Veal has not delivered an opinion within the time            placed in store .
limit set by its Chairman ,
                                                             2. The authorization for cutting and boning in part
                                                             the quantity for which the contract is concluded may
                                                             only cover the cutting and the boning either of all the
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                 forequarters or of the same number of fore- and hind­
                                                             quarters .
                        A rticle 1
                                                              3.     For the purposes of this Regulation, 100 kilo­
 1.     From 28  November until 30 December 1977
                                                             grams of the unboned meat referred to in Article 1
                                                              shall be equivalent to :
applications may be submitted for aid for the private
storage of carcases, half-carcases and compensated           (a) 77 kilograms of boned meat in the case of cutting
quarters from adult bovine animals.                                and boning the total quantity for which the
                                                                   contract is concluded, or in the case of cutting and
The amounts of such aid per tonne, exclusive of pack­              boning the same number of fore- and hindquar­
aging, shall be as shown in the Annex hereto.                      ters ;
If the quantities for which contracts have been              (b) 70 kilograms of boned meat in the case of cutting
applied for or if the market situation makes it appro­             and boning all the forequarters.
priate the final date for the submission of applications
                                                              4.     In the case of meat stored in the unaltered state,
may be changed .
                                                              if the quantity stored is less than the quantity for
                                                              which the contract was concluded and
2. The amount of aid shall be adjusted if the dura­
tion of storage is lengthened or shortened. The               (a) not less than 90 % of that quantity, the amount of
amount to be added per month or to be deducted per                 private storage aid shall be reduced proportionally,
day shall be as shown in columns 4 and 5 of the                    or
Annex hereto .
                                                              (b) less than 90 % of that quantity, private storage aid
3. Subject as provided in this Regulation, the rules               shall not be paid.
laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 1071 /68 shall
apply.                                                        5 . In the case of boned meat, the percentage
                                                              referred in paragraph 4 (a) and (b) and the lower
                                                              percentage indicated in the second subparagraph of
                        Article 2                             Article 10 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 275/74 shall be
                                                              85 % .
Private storage aid may be granted only in respect of
meat produced in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) A (a)        No aid shall be granted for any quantity placed in
to (e) of Council Directive 64/433/EEC of 26 June             store in excess of the quantity for which the contract
 1964 .                                                       was concluded .
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                        Article 5                                                                 Article 6
1 . The period of storage shall, at the request of the               1.      The amount of the security shall be 100 units of
storer to be submitted when lodging his tender, be                   account per tonne .
either four or five months.
                                                                     2. In cases of force majeure, the intervention
2.    No aid shall be payable unless all the meat                    agency shall take such measures as it considers neces­
remains in store throughout the storage period.                      sary having regard to the circumstances invoked.
3 . At the end of a storage period of two months,                    The intervention agency shall inform the Commission
the contractor may withdraw from store all or part of                of each case of force majeure and of the action taken
the meat for which he has contracted, provided that                  in respect thereof.
not less than five tonnes is withdrawn and is within
                                                                                                  Article 7
10 working days of such withdrawal, exported from
the Community.                                                       Aid shall be paid at the request of the person entitled
                                                                     thereto and at the latest on the 15th day following
In that event, the amount of the aid shall be reduced
                                                                     that on which it is ascertained that the obligations
in accordance with Article 1 (2), the day of withdrawal              under the contract have been fulfilled .
from store being regarded as the last day of storage.
                                                                                                   Article 8
The contractor shall inform the intervention agency
not less than two working days before beginning with­                The event within the meaning of Article 6 of Regula­
drawal of the meat from store, indicating the products               tion (EEC) No 1134/68 in which private storage aid
and quantities which he intends to export.                           becomes due and payable shall be considered as occur­
4.    In the case of exportation in accordance with                  ring on the day of the conclusion of the contract.
paragraph 3, the contractor shall furnish proof that                                               Article 9
the meat has left the geographical territory of the
Community or has been supplied as described in                       This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 192/75. Such proof                  following its publication in the Official Journal of
shall be furnished as in the case of refunds .                        the European Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 8 November 1977.
                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                    Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                       Vice-President
                                                            ANNEX
                                                            Amount of aid, in u.a./tonne,         Amount in u.a./ tonne
                                                               for a storage period of
                      Products for which aid is granted
                                                                                             to be added     to be deducted
                                                             4 months          5 months
                                                                                              per month            per day
                                     1                           2                  3              4                  5
              Fresh or chilled carcases, half-carcases
              and compensated quarters, from adult
              bovine animals                                   360                390             30                  1