CELEX: 31975R1860
Language: en
Date: 1975-07-18 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1860/75 of the Commission of 18 July 1975 on the granting of private storage aid for beef

No L 188 /30                               Official Journal of the European Communities                              19 . 7 . 75
                                   REGULATION ( EEC) No 1860/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                               of 18 July 1975
                                            on the granting of private storage aid for beef
    THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas, in order to avoid financing normal storage,
    COMMUNITIES,                                                         it appears desirable to specify a high minimum quan­
                                                                          tity ;
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
    Economic Community ;
                                                                         Whereas it is desirable, having regard to the present
                                                                         abundance of beef on the Community market, to
    Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         allow the products stored to be exported before the
    805/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­                   expiry of the storage period, subject to a provision for
    tion of the market in beef and veal, as last amended                 a minimum period of storage ;
    by Regulation (EEC) No 1 855/74 (2), and in particular
    Articles 6 (5) (b) and 8 (2) thereof ;
                                                                         Whereas the amount of the security required should
    Whereas Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68                  be such as to oblige the storer to fulfill the obligations
    provides that intervention measures, shall be taken for              undertaken by him ;
    the whole of the Community when the price for adult
    bovine animals as recorded on representative Commu­
    nity markets in accordance with Article 10 of the
■«. same Regulation is lower than 93 % of the guide
    price ; whereas this conditions is fulfilled at present ;            Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (2) of Council Regula­
                                                                         tion (EEC) No 1134/68 of 30 July 1968 laying down
                                                                         general rules for the implementation of Regulation
    Whereas, in the present and foreseeable state of the                 (EEC) No 653/68 (5) on conditions for alterations to
                                                                         the value of the unit of account used for the common
    market, aid should be granted to private storage ;
                                                                         agricultural policy, the sums owed by a Member State
                                                                         or a duly authorized body, expressed in national
                                                                         currency and representing amounts fixed in units of
    Whereas, in order to facilitate storage operations, it               account, are paid on the basis of the relationship
    appears appropriate to amend certain conditions laid                 between the unit of account and the national currency
    down in Commission Regulation (EEC) No                               obtained at the time when the transaction or part tran­
     1071 /68 (3 ) of 25 July 1968 laying down detailed rules            saction was carried out :
    granting private storage for beef and veal, and in parti­
    cular those concerning the security required and the
    time elapsing between slaughter and placing in
    private storage ; whereas the consequences of putting
    too small a quantity into storage and of withdrawing                 Whereas, pursuant to Article 6 of the Regulation
    meat prematurely should also be specified ;                          referred to above, the time when a transaction is
                                                                         carried out is considered as being the date on which
                                                                         occurs the event, as defined by Community rules or,
    Whereas Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                     in the absence of and pending adoption of such rules
    989/68 (4) of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules                 of the Member States concerned, in which the amount
    for granting private storage aid for beef and veal                   involved in the transaction becomes due and payable ;
    provides that a decrease or an increase of the storage
    period can be decided on if the market situation calls
    for it ; whereas it is therefore appropriate to fix, in
    addition to the amounts of aid for a specified storage               Whereas, in respect of private storage aid for beef, the
    period, amounts to be deducted when this period is                   rate of exchange to be used for calculating the amount
    shortened ;
                                                                         of this aid in national currency should be that
                                                                         obtaining at the time when the contract for private
    (')  OJ No   L  148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 24.
    (2 ) OJ No   L  195,  18 . 7. 1974,  p. 14.                          storage aid is concluded ;
    (3 ) OJ No   L  180 , 26.  7. 1968 , p. 19 .
    H    OJ No   L  169 , 18 . 7. 1968 , p. 10 .                         (*) OJ No L 188 , 1 . 8 . 1968 , p. 1 .
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Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation                                   Article 5
are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
ment Committee for Beef and Veal ,                             By way of derogation from Article 2 (2) of Regulation
                                                              (EEC) No 1071 /68 , private storage aid may be granted
                                                              only for products obtained from animals slaughtered
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                              not more than 10 days previously.
                                                                                       Article 6
                        Article 1
                                                              Storing must be completed within 60 days following
1.     Private storage aid shall be granted for the           the conclusion of the contract.
products specified in the Annex hereto. The amounts
of such aid per metric ton , exclusive of packaging,          The storage period shall begin on the day on which
shall be shown in the said Annex .                            storing is completed.
2. The amount of aid shall be adjusted if the dura­
                                                                                       Article 7
tion of storage is extended or curtailed. The additional
amounts per month or amounts to be deducted per                1.    The amount of the security required is fixed at
day are given in columns 5 and 6 of the Annex .                100 u.a./ metric ton .
                        Article 2                              2.     In cases of force majeure, the intervention
                                                               agency shall take such measures as it considers neces­
The minimum quantity per contract shall be 50                  sary having regard to the circumstances invoked .
metric tons .
                                                              The intervention agency shall inform the Commission
                                                              of each case of force majeure and of the action taken
                        A rticle 3                             in respect thereof.
The contractor may, before placing it in store , cut and                               Article 8
bone all or part of the meat, provided that all the
meat resulting from such boning or cutting operations         Aid shall be paid at the request of the person entitled
is placed in store .                                           and at the latest on the fifteenth day following that on
                                                              which it is ascertained that the obligations under the
                         Article 4                             contract have been fulfilled .
1.     No aid shall be payable unless the meat remains                                 Article 9
in store for the whole of the storage period.
                                                               1 . For the purposes of this Regulation, 100 kg of
2.      However, the contractor may, prior to the termi­       unboned forequarters shall be equivalent to 70 kg of
nation of the storage period, withdraw from the cold­          boned meat.
store all or part of the meat for which he has
contracted, provided that the quantity so withdrawn is         2.     If the quantity placed in store is less than the
equal to not less than five metric tons and that it has        quantity contracted for but equal to :
remained in store for at least three months and is,
within 10 working days of such withdrawal , exported           (a) 90 % or more of that quantity, the amount of
from the Community.                                                private storage aid shall be reduced proportio­
                                                                   nately ;
In this case, the contractor must furnish proof that the       (b) less than 90 % of that quantity, private storage aid
meat has left the geographical territory of the Commu­             shall not be paid .
nity or has been supplied in accordance with Article 3
of Regulation (EEC) No 192/75. Such proof shall be                                     Article 10
furnished in the same way as for the purpose of
export refunds .                                               The date on which occurs the event within             the
                                                               meaning of Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1 134/68
The amount of the aid shall be reduced as provided in
                                                               in which private storage aid becomes due and payable
Article 1 (2), the day of withdrawal from the cold-store
being regarded as the last day of storage.
                                                               shall be regarded as being the date on which the
                                                               contract was concluded .
3.     The   contractor  shall  inform   the  intervention
agency at least two days before beginning withdrawal                                   Article 11
of the meat from the cold-store, indicating the
products and the quantities which he intends to                This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 July
export .                                                       1975 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 18 July 1975.
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                    P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                           Member of the Commission
                                                         ANNEX
                                                               Amount of aid,
                                                              in u. a. /metric ton                      Amount
                                                                                                  in u. a. /metric ton
                      CCT                  Products       for a storage period of :
                     heading            for which aid
                       No                 is granted                                        to be added       to be deducted
                                                        5 months             6 months
                                                                                             per month            per day
                        1                      2             3                   4               5                   6
             02.01 A II a) 1 bb) 22 Forequarters           430                  455             25                 0-80