CELEX: 31976R1204
Language: en
Date: 1976-05-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1204/76 of 21 May 1976 providing for invitations to tender to determine amounts of private storage aid in respect of beef and veal

No L 133/28                              Official Journal of the European Communities                             22. 5. 76
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1204/76
                                                         of 21 May 1976
              providing for invitations to tender to determine amounts of private storage aid
                                                   in respect of beef and veal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     implementation of Regulation (EEC) No 653/68 on
COMMUNITIES,                                                       conditions for alterations to the value of the unit of
                                                                   account used for the common agricultural policy (6),
                                                                   provides that, for transactions carried out under the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              common agricultural policy, the sums owed by a
Economic Community,
                                                                   Member State or a duly authorized body, expressed in
                                                                   national currency and representing amounts fixed in
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       units of account, shall be paid on the basis of the rela­
805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                  tionship between the unit of account and the national
of the market in beef and veal ( ! ), as last amended by           currency which obtained at the time when the transac­
Regulation (EEC) No 568/76 (2), and in particular Arti­            tion or part transaction was carried out ;
cles 6 (5) (b) and 8 (2) thereof,
                                                                   Whereas, Article 6 thereof provides that the time
Whereas Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68                when a transaction is carried out is considered as
lays down that intervention measures shall be taken                being the date on which occurs the event, as defined
for the whole of the Community when the price for                  by Community rules or, in the absence of and
adult bovine animals, recorded on representative                   pending adoption of such rules, by the rules of the
Community markets in accordance with Article 10 of                 Member States concerned, in which the amount
that Regulation, is lower than the intervention price ;            involved in the transaction becomes due and payable ;
whereas that condition is at present fulfilled ;
                                                                   Whereas, as regards private storage aid for beef and
Whereas, in the present market situation, of unstable              veal, the rate of exchange to be used for calculating
prices within the Community and especially of short­               the amount of this aid in national currency should be
term difficulties in supplying the Member State with               that obtaining at the time when the contract for
the largest shortfall, which in turn affects availabilities        private storage aid is concluded ;
in the producer Member States, private storage aid
should be granted ;
                                                                   Whereas the Management Committee for Beef and
                                                                   Veal has not delivered an opinion within the time
Whereas, in view of the uncertainty of the situation,
                                                                   limit set by its Chairman ,
the amount of such aid should be established by
means of a tendering procedure in accordance with
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 275/74 of 31
January 1974 laying down detailed rules for the
granting by tender of private storage aid for beef and
veal (3) ; whereas, however, in orde'r to make the                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
measures as effective as possible, the storage of
carcases, half-carcases and 'compensated' quarters
should be restricted solely to meat coming from male
animals and to those qualities which may be bought
                                                                                             Article 1
in , in accordance with Annex I to Commission Regu­
lation (EEC) No 1896/73 of 13 July 1973 on detailed
rules for the application of intervention measures on              With effect from 24 May 1976, three invitations to
the market in beef and veal (4), as last amended by                tender shall be issued to determine amounts of private
Regulation (EEC) No 1018/76 (5) ;                                  storage aid, in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   275/74 ; the invitations to tender shall relate to :
Whereas, Article 4 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC)
No 1 134/68 of 30 July 1968 laying down rules for the              (a) up to 40 000 metric tons of fresh or chilled
                                                                       carcases, semi-carcases and 'compensated' quarters
0)   OJ No  L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 24.                              from male adult bovine animals as specified in
(2)  OJ No  L 67, 15. 3 . 1976, p. 28 .                                Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 1896/73 ;
(3)  OJ No  L 28 , 1 . 2. 1974, p. 61 .
(4 ) OJ No  L 193, 14. 7. 1973 , p. 18 .
 5   OJ No  L 115, 1 . 5 . 1976, p. 60 .                           (6) OJ No L 188 , 1 . 8 . 1968 , p. 1 .
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(b) up to 20 000 metric tons of fresh or chilled fore­         2. At the end of a storage period of two months,
     quarters from adult bovine animals ; and                  the contractor may withdraw from store all or part of
                                                               the meat for which he has contracted, provided that
(c) up to 20 000 metric tons of fresh or chilled fore­         not less than five metric tons is withdrawn and is,
     quarters from adult bovine animals, cut along a
                                                              within 10 working days of such withdrawal, exported
     straight line with ten ribs.
                                                               from the Community.
The time limit for the submission of tenders shall
expire on 8 June 1976, at 13.00 hours in France and            In that event, the amount of the aid shall be reduced
Italy, and at 12.00 hours in the other Member States.          by one unit of account per day and per metric ton of
                                                               unboned meat, the day of withdrawal from store being
                                                               regarded as the last day of storage.
                          Article 2
                                                               The contractor shall inform the intervention agency
                                                               not less than two working days before beginning with­
 1 . The contractor may, before placing them in                drawal of the meat from store, indicating the products
store, cut and bone the products referred to in Article        and quantities which he intends to export.
 1 (a) and (b), in whole or in part, provided that all the
meat resulting from such boning or cutting operations
is placed in store.                                            3 . In the case of exportation in accordance with
                                                               paragraph 2, the contractor shall furnish proof that
                                                               the meat has left the geographical territory of the
2.      For the purposes of this Regulation :
                                                               Community or has been delivered within the meaning
(a) 100 kg of the unboned meat referred to in Article          of Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 192/75. The
     1 (a) shall be equivalent to 77 kg of boned meat ;        proof shall be furnished as in the case of refunds.
     and
(b) 100 kg of the unboned meat referred to in Article
     1 (b) shall be equivalent to 70 kg of boned meat.                                    Article 4
 3.     In the case of meat stored in tfce unaltered state,     By way of derogation from Regulation (EEC) No
 if the quantity stored is less than the quantity for          275/74
which the contract was concluded and :
                                                               (a) the period of storage after slaughter referred to in
(a) not less than 90 % of that quantity, the amount of
                                                                    Article 5 (3) (b) (aa) thereof shall be 10 days ;
     private storage aid shall be reduced proportion­
     ally ; or                                                 (b) the period allowed for placing in store, referred to
 (b) less than 90 % of that quantity, private storage aid           in Article 5 (3) (b) (bb) thereof, shall be 60 days ;
     shall not be paid .                                       (c) the minimum quantity referred to in Article 5 (3)
                                                                    (c) thereof shall be 50 metric tons ;
 In the case of boned meat, the percentage indicated in
                                                               (d) the amount of the security referred to in Article 6
 (a) and (b) and the lower percentage indicated in the
                                                                    ( 1 ) thereof shall be 100 units of account per metric
 second subparagraph of Article 10 ( 1 ) of Regulation              ton .
 (EEC) No 275/74 shall be 85 % .
 No aid shall be granted for any quantity placed in
 store in excess of the quantity for which the contract                                    Article 5
 was concluded .
                                                                Within the meaning of Article 6 of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                No 1134/68 , the event giving entitlement to private
                          Article 3                             storage aid shall be considered as occurring on the day
                                                                of the conclusion of the contract .
  1.    At the request of the storer submitted when
  lodging his tender, the period of storage shall be :
 (a) five or six months for the products referred to in                                    Article 6
      Article 1 (a) ; and
 (b) four or five months for the products referred to in        This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 May
      Article 1 (b) and (c).                                    1976 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 21 May 1976.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                              Member of the Commission