CELEX: 31977R1531
Language: en
Date: 1977-07-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1531/77 of 7 July 1977 on the granting at a standard rate fixed in advance of private storage aid for beef forequarters

8 . 7. 77                              Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 170/ 13
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1531 /77
                                                         of 7 July 1977
               on the granting at a standard rate fixed in advance of private storage aid for beef
                                                          forequarters
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas, in order to facilitate storage operations,
 COMMUNITIES,                                                       certain conditions of Commission Regulation (EEC)
                                                                    No 1071 /68 of 25 July 1968 laying down detailed
                                                                    rules for granting private storage aid for beef and
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             veal (6), and in particular those concerning the security
 Economic Community,                                                required, should be amended ; whereas the
                                                                    consequences of putting too small a quantity into
                                                                    storage and of withdrawing meat prematurely should
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       also be specified ;
 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization
 of the market in beef and veal (J), as last amended by
 Regulation (EEC) No 425/77 (2), and in particular Arti­            whereas Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 cles 6 (5) (b) and 8 (2) thereof,                                  989/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for
                                                                   granting private storage aid for beef and veal (7), as
                                                                    amended by Regulation (EEC) No 428/77 (8), provides
Whereas Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68                 that a decrease or an increase of the storage period
 lays down that intervention measures shall be taken                can be decided on if the market situation calls for it ;
 for the whole of the Community when the price for                  whereas it is therefore appropriate to fix, in addition,
 adult bovine animals, as recorded on representative                to the amounts of aid for a specified storage period,
 Community markets in accordance with Article 12 (6)                amounts to be deducted or added when this period is
 of that Regulation, is lower than the intervention                 shortened or lengthened ;
 price ; whereas that condition is at present fulfilled ;
Whereas, in the present situation, which is character­             Whereas, in order to avoid financing normal private
 ized by diverging prices in the different Member                   storage, it appears desirable to specify high minimum
States and in particular by seasonal difficulties in the            quantities ;
 market for forequarters, aids for the private storage of
beef forequarters should be granted ;
                                                                   Whereas it is desirable, having regard to the present
                                                                    supply of beef on the Community market, to allow
Whereas, from the result of the tender organized                    the products stored to be exported before the end of
under Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1191 /77 of 3                  the storage period provided they are stored for a
June 1977 providing for an invitation to tender to                  minimum period ;
determine amounts of private storage aid in respect of
beef forequarters (3), it is clear that provision should be
made for the granting at a standard rate fixed in                  Whereas the amount of the security required should
advance of private storage aid for forequarters ;                  be such as to oblige the storer to fulfil the obligations
whereas the amount of such aid must be fixed having                undertaken by him ;
regard to the result of the tender and to foreseeable
developments on the market ;
                                                                   Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (2) of Council Regula­
Whereas     it   should    be   ensured    that  the  animals      tion (EEC) No 1134/68 of 30 July 1968 laying down
concerned are slaughtered solely in slaughterhouses                general rules for the implementation of Regulation
approved and supervised in accordance with Council                 (EEC) No 653/68 on conditions for alterations to the
Directive 64/433/EEC of 26 June 1964 on health                     value of the unit of account used for the common agri­
problems affecting intra-Community trade in fresh                  cultural policy (9), for transactions carried out under
meat (4), as last amended by Directive 77/99/EEC (5) ;             the common agricultural policy the sums owed by a
                                                                   Member State or a duly authorized body, expressed in
(•)  OJ No  L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 24.
0    OJ No  L 61 , 5. 3 . 1977, p. 1 .                             (6) OJ  No  L  180, 26. 7. 1968, p. 19.
P)   OJ No  L 138 , 4. 6. 1977, p. 26.                             (7) OJ  No  L  169, 18 . 7. 1968, p. 10.
(4)  OJ No  121 , 29. 7. 1964, p. 2012/64.                         (») OJ  No  L 61 , 5. 3 . 1977, p. 17.
(5)  OJ No  L 26, 31 . 1 . 1977, p. 85.                            C)  OJ  No  L  188 , 1 . 8 . 1968 , p. 8 .
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national currency and representing amounts fixed in         2. Storing must be completed within 40 days
units of account, are paid on the basis of the relation­    following the conclusion of the contract.
ship between the unit of account and the national
currency obtaining at the time when the transaction         The storage period shall begin on the day on which
or part transaction was carried out ;                       storing is completed.
Whereas, opursuant to Article 6 of the Regulation           3 . By way of derogation from Article 2 (2) of Regu­
referred to above, the time when a transaction is           lation (EEC) No 1071 /68, private storage aid may be
carried out is considered as being the date on which        granted only for products obtained from animals
occurs the event, as defined by Community rules or,         slaughtered within the Community not more than 10
in the absence of and pending adoption of such rules,       days previously.
by the rules of the Member State concerned, in which
the amount involved in the transaction becomes due
and payable ;                                                                       Article 4
Whereas, in respect of private storage aid for beef, the
rate of exchange to be used for calculating the amount       1 . The contractor may, before placing them in
of this aid in national currency should be that             store, cut and bone all or part of the products referred
obtaining at the time when the contract for private         to in the Annex, provided that all the meat resulting
storage aid is concluded ;                                  from such boning or cutting operations is placed in
                                                            store .
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­           2. For the purposes of this Regulation, 100 kilo­
ment Committee for Beef and Veal,                           grams of unboned meat shall be equal to 70 kilograms
                                                            of boned meat.
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                               3. In the case of meat stored without cutting or
                                                            boning, if the quantity stored is less than the quantity
                                                            for which the contract was concluded and :
                       Article 1
                                                            (a) not less than 90 % of that quantity, the amount of
1 . From 18 July until 2 September 1977 applica­                 private storage aid shall be reduced proportion­
tions may be submitted for aid for the private storage           ally ;
of forequarters from adult bovine animals. The              (b) less than 90 % of that quantity, private storage aid
amounts of such aid per tonne, exclusive of pack­                shall not be paid.
aging, shall be as shown in the Annex hereto. If the
quantities for which contracts have been applied for        In the case of boned meat, the percentage indicated in
or if the market situation makes it appropriate the         (a) and (b) and the lower percentage indicated in
final date for the submission of applications may be        Article 4 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1071 /68 shall be
changed.                                                    equal to 85 % .
2. The amount of aid shall be adjusted if the dura­
tion of storage is lengthened or shortened. The             4. No aid shall be granted in respect of any quan­
amount to be added per month or to be deducted per          tity placed in store in excess of the quantity for which
                                                            the contract was concluded.
day shall be as shown in columns 4 and 5 of the
Annex hereto .
3 . Subject as provided in this Regulation, the rules                               Article 5
laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 1071 /68 shall
apply.                                                      1 . The period of storage shall, at the request of the
                                                            storer to be submitted when lodging his tender, be
                                                            either five or six months.
                       Article 2
Private storage aid may be granted only in respect of       2. No aid shall be payable unless all the meat
meat produced in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) A (a)      remains in store throughout the storage period.
to (e) of Council Directive 64/433/EEC.
                                                            3 . At the end of a storage period of two months,
                                                            the contractor may withdraw from store all or part of
                       Article 3                            the meat for which he has contracted, provided that
                                                            not less than five tonnes is withdrawn and is, within
1.    The minimum quantity per contract shall be 30         10 working days of such withdrawal, exported from
tonnes .                                                    the Community.
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In that event, the amount of the aid shall be reduced                 The intervention agency shall inform the Commission
in accordance with Article 1 (2), the day of withdrawal               of each case of force majeure and of the action taken
from store being regarded as the last day of storage.                  in respect thereof.
The contractor shall inform the intervention agency
                                                                                                    Article 7
not less than two working days before beginning with­
drawal of the meat from store, indicating the products                Aid shall be paid at the request of the person entitled
and quantities which he intends to export.                             thereto and at the latest on the 15th day following
4. In the case of exportation in accordance with                      that on which it is ascertained that the obligations
                                                                      under the contract have been fulfilled.
paragraph 3, the contractor shall furnish proof that
the meat has left the geographical territory of the
Community or has been supplied as described in                                                     Article 8
Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 192/75. Such proof
shall be furnished as in the case of refunds.                         The event within the meaning of Article 6 of Regula­
                                                                       tion (EEC) No 1134/68 in which private storage aid
                                                                      becomes due and payable shall be considered as occur­
                         Article 6
                                                                       ring on the day of the conclusion of the contract.
1.     The amount of the security shall be 100 units of
account per tonne.                                                                                 Article 9
2. In cases of force majeure, the intervention                        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
agency shall take such measures as it considers neces­                 following its publciation in the Official Journal of
sary having regard to the circumstances invoked.                       the European Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 7 July 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
                                                             5 months          6 months
                                                                                              per month          per day
             Forequarters, fresh or chilled, from
             adult bovine animals                              345                370             25              0-80