Council Regulation (EEC) No 2644/80 of 14 October 1980 laying down general rules for intervention with regard to the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2644/80 of 14 October 1980 laying down general rules for intervention with regard to the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 of 27 June 1980 on the common organization of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat (1), and in particular Article 7 (6) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 provides for the possibility of intervention in the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector by the granting of private storage aid;
Whereas the functioning of such a system of aid may be facilitated by the conclusion of contracts with intervention agencies;
Whereas, to attain the objects of the aid, as defined in Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80, the level of aid must be fixed with regard to the costs incurred in storage ; whereas, for this purpose, it is appropriate to provide for two methods for determining the said level ; whereas, in both cases, the aid must be granted without discrimination among interested parties established in the Community;
Whereas appropriate measures should be laid down for cases where the market situation for the products in question necessitates amendment of the terms of contracts about to be concluded or alteration of the period of storage provided for in contracts already concluded;
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 provides for the possibility of intervention in the sheepmeat sector by means of buying in by the intervention agencies;
Whereas general criteria governing such buying-in should be laid down, having regard both to the objectives of the intervention system, in particular the balance between the market in question and that of competing animal products, and to the Community's financial liabilities in this connection;
Whereas, to attain the objects pursued by the grant of the variable slaughter premium for sheep referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80, provision shall be made that, during a given marketing year, intervention purchases, as provided for in Article 6 (1) (b) of that Regulation, may not be decided on in the Member States which apply the said premium, during that marketing year, and vice versa;
Whereas appropriate measures should be taken in relation to the application of intervention buying-in to ensure that such buying-in relates only to qualities of sheepmeat carcases in respect of which there exist prices sufficiently representative of the true market situation, pending harmonization of the systems for classifying such qualities by means of a Community classification scale;
Whereas it is necessary to provide that the buying-in prices for the various qualities must be determined on the basis of the relative value normally existing in respect of each of those qualities in each Member State where such buying-in is carried out;
Whereas provision should be made, where the measures laid down in Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 are applied, the buying-in prices should be determined in the same way as those specified above,