Commission Regulation (EEC) No 147/91 of 22 January 1991 defining and fixing the tolerances for quantity losses of agricultural products in public intervention storage

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 147/91  of 22 January 1991  defining and fixing the tolerances for quantity losses of agricultural products in public intervention storage
THE COMMISSION 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 3492/90 of 27 November 1990 laying down the factors to be taken into consideration in the annual accounts financing of intervention measures in the form of public storage by the European Agricultural Guidance  and Guarantee Fund, Guarantee Section (1) and particularly Article 4 thereof,
Whereas the definition of the tolerance provided for in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 3492/90 for the preservation of agricultural products in public intervention storage and the calculation method to be used for determining the financial  consequences of storage must be specified;
Whereas this tolerance refers to ordinary quantity losses resulting from the normal storage or processing of agricultural products in intervention with due respect to the requirements for proper preservation of the product;
Whereas this tolerance must be fixed for each product concerned, using a simple method and taking account of the unidentifiable quantity losses which have occurred during storage in recent years; whereas the limit should therefore be fixed as a  percentage of the total quantity in storage;
Whereas in the case of certain products subjected to processing between buying-in and storage, specific tolerances must be fixed for losses during processing;
Whereas there have been no storage operations of pigmeat for a long time, and this limit shall only be fixed afterwards should storage operations recommence;
Whereas the time when the financial effects of the application of tolerances are to be taken into account by the EAGGF Guarantee Section should be specified;
Whereas for certain agricultural products the method of calculating the percentage loss normally allowed during storage has been fundamentally modified; whereas it is necessary to review these percentages in the light of experience.
Whereas the tolerances have been fixed in Regulations by sector; whereas for the sake of legal simplicity they should be laid down in one Regulation;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the EAGGF Committee,