CELEX: 31979R2061
Language: en
Date: 1979-09-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2061/79 of 20 September 1979 providing for the grant of private storage aid fixed in advance at a standard rate in respect of hindquarters of beef

22. 9 . 79                               Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 240/ 5
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2061 /79
                                                     of 20 September 1979
               providing for the grant of private storage aid fixed in advance at a standard rate
                                               in respect of hindquarters of beef
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      amended by Regulation (EEC) No 428/77 (9), provides
COMMUNITIES,                                                        that if the market situation so requires, the period of
                                                                    storage may be curtailed or extended ; whereas it is
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               therefore appropriate that, in addition to the amounts
Economic Community,                                                 of aid granted for a specific storage period, amounts to
                                                                    be added or reduced in the event of that period being
                                                                    extended or curtailed should also be fixed :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization
of the market in beef and veal ('), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 425/77 (2), and in particular Arti­             Whereas in order to prevent the financing of normal
cles 6 (5) (b) and 8 (2) thereof,                                   private storage, it appears desirable to fix high
                                                                    minimum quantities ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
878 /77 of 26 April 1977 on the exchange rates to be
applied in agriculture (3), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1 266/79 (4),                                         Whereas under Article 4 (2) of Council Regulation
                                                                    (EEC) No 11 34/68 ( 10) sums referred to in the said
                                                                    Article are to be paid on the basis of the conversion
Whereas, in view of the different price trends               at     rate applicable at the time when the transaction or
present obtaining in the various Member States and           in     part transaction is carried out ; whereas under Article
particular the seasonal difficulties on the market           in     6 of the same Regulation the time when a transaction
hindquarters, private storage aid should be granted          in     is carried out shall be considered as being the date on
respect of hindquarters of adult bovine animals ;                   which the event occurs, as defined by Community
                                                                    rules or, in the absence of and pending adoption of
Whereas provisions should be made to ensure that the                such rules, by the rules of the Member State
animals whose hindquarters are involved be slaught­                 concerned, which gives entitlement to the amount
ered exclusively in slaughterhouses which are                        involved in the transaction ; whereas however, by
approved and supervised in accordance with the provi­               virtue of Article 4 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 878/77,
sions of Council Directive 64/433/EEC of 26 June                     derogations may be made from the abovementioned
 1964 on health problems affecting intra-Community                   provisions ;
trade in fresh meat (5), as last amended by Directive
72/379/EEC (*) ;
Whereas, in order to facilitate storage operations, it               Whereas, in respect of private storage aid for beef, the
would be advisable to adapt some of the conditions set               rate of exchange to be used for calculating the amount
 out in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1071 /68 of                   of this aid in national currency should be that
 25 July 1968 laying down detailed rules for granting                obtaining at the time when the contract for private
 private storage aid for beef and veal (7), and in parti­            storage aid is concluded ;
 cular those relating to the security ; whereas, in addi­
 tion, the consequences of puttung too small a quantity
 into storage and of prematurely removing the meat
                                                                     Whereas provision should be made for the possibility
 from storage should be specified ;                                  of reducing the storage period where meat removed
                                                                     from storage is intended for export ; whereas proof
 Whereas Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                    that the meat has been exported must be supplied as
 989/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for                in the case of refunds, in accordance with Commis­
 granting private storage aid for beef and veal (8), as              sion Regulation (EEC) No 192/75 of 17 January 1975
                                                                     laying down detailed rules for the application of
 ( 1 ) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 24.                           export refunds in respect of agricultural products ( n ),
 (2) OJ No L 61 , 5 . 3 . 1977, p. 1 .
 (3) OJ No L 106, 29 . 4. 1977, p. 27 .                              as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1469/77 ( 12) ;
 h) OJ No L 161 , 29. 6. 1979, p. 4.
 (5)   OJ No 121 , 29 . 7 . 1964, p . 2012/64.                       (9) OJ No L 61 , 5 . 3 . 1977, p. 17.
 (6)   OJ No L 172, 3 . 7. 1975, p. 17.                              ( 10) OJ No L 188 , 1 . 8 . 1968 , p . 1 .
 (7)   OJ No L 180, 26. 7. 1968 , p. 19 . ,                          (■•) OJ No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975, p . 1 .
 (8    OJ No L 169, 18 . 7. 1968 , p. 10 .                             • 2 ) OJ No L 162, 1 . 7. 1977, p . 9 .
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 whereas the Management Committee for Beef and                 in the Annex, provided that all the meat resulting
Veal has not delivered an opinion within the time              from such cutting or boning operations is placed in
limit set by its chairman ,                                    store .
                                                               2.      For the purposes of this Regulation , 100 kilo­
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                               grams of unboned meat shall be equal to 77 kilograms
                                                               of boned meat .
                         Article 1
                                                               3.      In the case of meat stored without cutting or
 1 . Applications may be submitted between 1 and               boning, if the quantity stored is less than the quantity
31 October 1979, for aid for the private storage of            for which the contract was concluded and :
hindquarters of adult bovine animals.
                                                               (a) not less than 90 % of that quantity, the amount of
The amounts of this aid, by tonne, excluding pack­                  private storage aid shall be reduced proportion­
aging, are fixed in the Annex hereto.                               ally ;
If the quantities in respect of which contracts have           (b) less than 90 % of that quantity, private storage aid
been applied for or the market situation make it advis­            shall not be paid .
able, the deadline for the submission of applications
may be changed.                                                In the case of boned meat, the percentage indicated in
2. The amount of aid shall be adjusted if the period           (a) and (b) and the lower percentage indicated in
of storage is extended or reduced. The supplements             Article 4 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1071 /68 shall be
per month and deductions per diem are fixed in the             equal to 85 % .
fourth and fifth columns of the Annex hereto .
                                                               4.      No aid shall be granted in respect of any quanti­
3 . Subject to the provisions of this Regulation , the         ties placed in store in excess of the quantity for which
provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 1071 /68 shall               the contract was concluded .
apply.
                         Article 2                                                      Article 5
1 . Only meat produced in accordance with the                  1.     The storage period shall be, on application by
provisions of Article 3 ( 1A) (a) to (e) of Council Direc­     the storer, to be submitted at the time of his offer,
tive 64/433/EEC shall be eligible for private storage          either five or six months .
aid .
2. For the purposes of this Regulation , hindquarters          2. Entitlement to payment of the aid shall be esta­
shall mean the rear part of a half carcase comprising          blished only if all the meat has remained in storage
all the bones and the thigh and sirloin , with a               throughout the storage period .
minimum of three and a maximum of eight whole or
cut ribs, with the shin and with or without the thin           3.      On the expiry of a storage period of three
flank .                                                        months, the contracting party may withdraw from
                                                               store all or part of the quantity of meat under
                         Article 3
                                                               contract, subject to a minimum of 10 tonnes, provided
                                                               that it is exported within 10 working days of the date
1.    The minimum quantity per contract shall be 20            of its removal from storage .
tonnes .
                                                               In this case, the amount of aid shall be reduced , in
2.     Placing in storage must be carried out within 30        accordance with Article 1 (2), the day of removal from
days of the date of conclusion of the contract.                storage being the last day of storage .
The storage period shall commence on the day on
which placing is completed .                                   The contracting party shall inform the intervention
                                                               agency at least two working days before the
3.     By way of derogation from Article 2 (2) of Regu­        commencement of removal operations, stating the
lation (EEC) No 1071 /68 , only products derived from          quantities which he intends to export.
animals slaughtered in the Community not more than
10 days previously shall be eligible for private storage       4.      In cases of export in accordance with paragraph
aid .                                                          3, the contracting party shall provide proof that the
                                                               meat has left the Community's geographical territory
                         Article 4                             or has been the subject of a delivery within the
                                                               meaning of Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 192/75.
1 . The contractor may, before placing them in                 This proof shall be provided as under the refund
store, cut or bone all or part of the product referred to      procedure.
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                          Article 6
                                                                            on which it is ascertained that the terms of the
 1.   The amount of the security shall be fixed at 110                      contract have been satisfied .
ECU per tonne.
2.    In the event of force majeure, the intervention                                                    Article 8
agency shall decide on the measures which it deems
necessary in view of the circumstances invoked .                            The rate to be used in relation to private storage aid is
The intervention agency shall inform the Commission                         the representative rate on the day the contract is
                                                                            concluded .
of each case of force majeure and of the measures
taken in consequence.
                                                                                                         Article 9
                         Article 7
                                                                           This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
The aid shall be paid, at the request of the party                          publication in the Official Journal of the European
concerned, at the latest on the 1 5th day following that                    Communities.
            This   Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 20 September 1979 .
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                         Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                            Vice-President
                                                                ANNEX
                                                       Amount of aid in ECU per tonne               Amounts ( ECU/tonne) :
                                                              for a storage period
                Products in respect of which aid
                           is granted
                                                                                               to be added       to be deducted
                                                      of five months        of six months
                                                                                                per month            per day
            Hindquarters, fresh or chilled, of
            adult bovine animals                            545                  580                35                 1-2