CELEX: 31973R0624
Language: en
Date: 1973-03-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 624/73 of the Commission of 1 March 1973 on the granting of private storage aid for long-keeping cheeses

3 . 3 . 73                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 58/ 15
                                     REGULATION (EEC) No 624/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                            of 1 March 1973
                                   on the granting of private storage aid for long-keeping cheeses
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          munity which satisfy the requirements of Articles 2
COMMUNITIES,                                                            and 3 .
Having regard to the Treaty                     establishing the                                 Article 2
European Economic Community ;
                                                                        1 . Storage contracts may be concluded where the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/                       following conditions are satisfied :
68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organization
of the market in milk and milk products, as last                        (a) The lot of cheeses to which the contract relates
amended by the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3)                             must comprise at least 100 whole cheeses ;
concerning the Accession of new Member States to
the European Economic Community and the                                 (b) The cheeses shall be indelibly marked with an
European Atomic Energy Community, signed at                                 indication (which may take the form of a num­
Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in particular Ar­                          ber) of the undertaking in which they were manu­
ticle 9 (3 ) thereof ;                                                      factured and of the day and month of manu­
                                                                             facture ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 508/71 (4) of
8 March 1971 laying down general rules on private                       (c) The cheeses must have been manufactured at
storage aid for long-keeping cheeses provides that                           least 30 days before the date specified in the
private storage aid may be granted for certain long­                         contract as being the date of commencement of
keeping cheeses where a serious imbalance of the                             storage, and after 1 April 1973 ;
market may be eliminated or reduced by seasonal
 storage ;
                                                                        (d) The cheeses must have undergone quality
                                                                              tests which established that their classification
Whereas, in view of price trends and of the con­                              after maturing could be expected to be :
siderable increase in stocks of Emmentaler and Gruy­                          — class A in France
ere cheeses, provision should be made for the possi­
                                                                             — Markenkase et Klasse Fein in Germany
 bility of having recourse to such storage ;
                                                                             — 1st quality in Denmark ;
Whereas rules for the implementation of measures
provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 508 /71 should                       (e) The storer shall undertake :
 be laid down ; whereas it should be stipulated that                         — to keep the cheeses during the entire period
 the time required for maturing the cheese should                                 of storage at a temperature not exceeding
 not count as storage ;
                                                                                   + 4° C ;
Whereas contracts should contain provisions where­                            — not, during the term of the contract, to alter
 by proper functioning of the system can be ensured                               the composition of the lot which is the sub­
 and effective inspection introduced ;                                             ject of the contract without authorization
                                                                                  from the intervention agency ;
 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­
 tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the Man­                         — to keep stock records and to inform the in­
 agement Committee for Milk and Milk Products ;                                   tervention agency, each week, of the cheeses
                                                                                  put into and withdrawn from storage during
                                                                                   the previous week.
  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                          2.     Contracts shall not be concluded before the
                                                                         cheese has been put into storage.
                                Article 1
                                                                                                  Article 3
 Private storage aid shall be granted for Emmentaler
 and Gruyere cheeses manufactured in the Com­                            1.     Aid shall be granted only for such cheeses as
                                                                         are put into storage during the storage period. This
                                                                         period shall begin on 1 May 1973 and end on 30
  t1)  OJ No   L 148, 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13.                              September 1973 .
  H    OJ No   L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 14 .
  (3 ) OJ No   L 73, 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 5 .                               2. Stored cheese shall be withdrawn from storage
  ( 4) OJ No   L 58 , 11 . 3 . 1971 , p. 1 .                             only during the period for withdrawal . This period
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shall begin on 1 November 1973 and end on 31                                        Article 5
March 1974.
                                                             The intervention agency shall take the measures
                      Article 4                              necessary to ensure inspection of the lots which are
                                                             the subject of contracts. It shall in particular make
1.    The amount of aid is fixed at 0*86 unit of ac­         provision for the marking of cheeses comprised in
count per metric ton per day.                                contracts .
2.    The period on which calculation of aid is to
be based shall run from the date on which the lot
of cheese which is the subject of the contract was                                  Article 6
put into storage. No aid shall be granted in respect
of storage for less than 90 days. The maximum                This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
amount of aid shall not exceed the amount corres­            following its publication in the Official Journal of
ponding to 180 days' storage.                                the European Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 1 March 1973 .
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                         The President
                                                                    Francois-Xavier ORTOLI