CELEX: 31976R0954
Language: en
Date: 1976-04-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 954/76 of 27 April 1976 laying down detailed rules for the granting of private storage aid for long-keeping cheeses during the 1976/77 milk year

No L 110/8                               Official Journal of the European Communities                             28 . 4. 76
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 954/76
                                                        of 27 April 1976
              laying down detailed rules for the granting of private storage aid for long­
                                        keeping cheeses during the 1976/77 milk year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     (b) the cheeses shall be indelibly marked with an indi­
COMMUNITIES,                                                            cation (which may take the form of a number) of
                                                                        the undertaking in which they were manufactured
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   and of the day and month of manufacture ;
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       (c) the cheeses must have been manufactured at least
804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                       30 days before the date specified in the contract as
of the market in milk and milk products (J), as last                    being the date of commencement of storage, and
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in                       after 30 April 1976 ;
particular Articles 9 (3) and 28 thereof,
                                                                   (d) the cheeses must have undergone quality tests
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 508/71 of 8                         which established that their classification after
March 1971 laying down general rules on private
                                                                        maturing could be expected to be :
storage aid for long-keeping cheeses (3), provides that
private storage aid may be granted for certain long­
keeping cheeses where there is a serious imbalance of                   — class A in France,
the market which may be eliminated or reduced by                        — Markenkase or Klasse Fein in Germany,
seasonal storage ;
                                                                        — 1st quality in Denmark ;
Whereas, in view of price trends and of the consider­
able increase in stocks of Emmentaler and Gruyere                  (e) the storer shall undertake :
cheeses, provision should be made for recourse to
such storage during the coming months ;                                 — to keep the cheeses during the entire period of
Whereas detailed rules for the application of this                          storage in premises where the maximum
measure should in the main be those laid down for a                         temperature is as indicated under (f) ;
similar measure applied during the 1 975/76 milk year                   — not, during the term of the contract, to alter
in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1519/75 of 13                             the composition of the batch which is the
June 1975 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)                          subject of the contract without authorization
No 2319/75 (5);                                                             from the intervention agency ;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation                    — to keep stock records and to inform the inter­
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­                           vention agency each week of the cheeses put
ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,                                  into and withdrawn from storage during the
                                                                            previous week ;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                   (f) the maximum temperature in the storage premises
                                                                        shall be + 6°C for Emmentaler and 4- 10°C for
                           Article 1
                                                                        Gruyere. Where the Emmentaler to which the
Aid shall be granted in respect of the private storage                  contract relates has already been matured, Member
of Emmentaler and Gruyere cheeses manufactured in                       States may permit a maximum temperature of
the Community which satisfy the requirements of Arti­                   4- 10°C.
cles 2 and 3 hereof.
                                                                   2.     Contracts may not be concluded before the
                           Article 2
                                                                   cheese has been put into storage.
1 . Storage contracts may be concluded where the
following conditions are satisfied :
[a) the batch of cheeses to which the contract relates                                      Article 3
      must comprise at least 100 whole cheeses ;
'•) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 .                            1 . Aid shall be granted only for such cheeses as are
'2)- OJ No L 67, 15. 3. 1976, p. 9.                                 put into storage during the storing period. This period
,}) OJ No L 58 , 11 . 3 . 1971 , p. 1 .
:") OJ No L 154, 14. 6. 1975, p. 67.                               shall begin on 1 June 1976 and end on or before 15
;5) OJ No L 230, 11.9 . 1975, p. 16.                               October of the same year.
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2. Stored cheese may be withdrawn from storage               which are the subject of contracts. It shall in particular
only during the period for withdrawal. This period           see to it that the cheeses comprised in those batches
shall begin on 16 October 1976 and end on 31 March           are marked.
of the following year.
                                                                                         Article 6
                       Article 4
                                                             The      Member      States  shall   communicate  to   the
1.    The amount of the aid shall be 1-25 units of           Commission on or before the Tuesday of each week
account per metric ton per day.                              particulars as to the following :
2.    The period on which calculation of aid is to be        (a) the quantities of cheese for which storage contracts
based shall run from the date on which the batch of              have been concluded during the preceding week ;
cheese to which the contract relates was put into            (b) any quantities in respect of which the authoriza­
storage. No aid shall be granted in respect of storage           tion referred to in the second indent of Article 2
for less than 90 days. The maximum aid payable shall             ( 1 ) (e) has been given .
be an amount corresponding to 180 days' storage.
                                                                                         Article 7
                       Article 5
                                                             This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
The intervention agency shall take the measures neces­       following its publication in the Official Journal of
sary to ensure that checks are kept on the batches           the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 27 April 1976.
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                    Member of the Commission