31975R1519

14 . 6 . 75 No L 154/ 67 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 1519/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 13 June 1975 laying down detailed rules for the granting of private storage aid for long­ keeping cheeses during the 1975/76 milk year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN (b) the cheeses shall be indelibly marked with an indi­ COMMUNITIES, cation (which may take the form of a number) of the undertaking in which they were manufactured Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European and of the day and month of manufacture ; Economic Community ; (c) the cheeses must have been manufactured at least Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 30 days before the date specified in the contract as 804/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­ being the date of commencement of storage, and tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last after 1 May 1975 ; amended by Regulation (EEC) No 740/75 (2), and in particular Articles 9 (3) and 28 thereof ; (d) the cheeses must have undergone quality tests Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 508 /71 (3) of 8 which established that their classification after March 1971 laying down general rules on private maturing could be expected to be : storage aid for long-keeping cheeses, provides that private storage aid may be granted for certain long­ — class A in France, keeping cheeses where there is a serious imbalance of — Markenkase or Klasse Fein in Germany, the market which may be eliminated or reduced by seasonal storage ; — 1st quality in Denmark ;

Whereas, in view of price trends and of the consider­ (e) the storer shall undertake : able increase in stocks of Emmentaler and Gruyere cheeses, provision should be made for recourse to — to keep the cheeses during the entire period of such storage during the coming months ; storage in premises where the maximum Whereas detailed rules for the application of this temperature is as indicated under (f) ; measure should in the main be those laid down for a — not, during the term of the contract, to alter similar measure applied during the 1974/75 milk year the composition of the batch which is the in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1 975/74 (4) of subject of the contract without authorization 26 July 1974, as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) from the intervention agency ; No 2391 /74(5); — to keep stock records and to inform the inter­ Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation vention agency each week of the cheeses put are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ into and withdrawn from storage during the ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products, previous week ;

(f) the maximum temperature in the storage premises HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : shall be + 6° C for Emmentaler and + 8° C for Gruyere . Where the cheeses to which the contract Article 1 relates are already matured, Member States may permit a maximum temperature of + 10° C. Aid shall be granted in respect of the private storage of Emmentaler and Gruyere cheeses manufactured in the Community which satisfy the requirements of Arti­ 2. Contracts may not be concluded before the cles 2 and 3 hereof . cheese has been put into storage .

Article 2 Article 3 1 . Storage contracts may be concluded where the following conditions are satisfied : (a) the batch of cheeses to which the contract relates 1 . Aid shall be granted only for such cheeses as are must comprise at least 100 whole cheeses ; put into storage during the storing period . This period shall begin on 15 June 1975 and end on or before 15 (») OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 . October of the same year. (2) OJ No L 74, 22. 3 . 1975, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 58 , 11 . 3 . 1971 , p. 1 . («) OJ No L 206, 27. 7 . 1974, p. 28 . 2. Stored cheese may be withdrawn from storage (s ) OJ No L 255, 20 . 9 . 1974, p. 31 . only during the period for withdrawal . This period

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shall begin on 16 October 1975 and end on 31 March see to it that the cheeses comprised in those batches of the following year. are marked .

Article4¶

1 . The amount of the aid shall be 1-24 units of The Member States shall communicate to the account per metric ton per day. Commission on or before the Tuesday of each week particulars as to the following : 2. The period on which calculation of aid is to be based shall run from the date on which the batch of (a) the quantities of cheese for which storage contracts have been concluded during the preceding week ; cheese to which the contract relates was put into storage. No aid shall be granted in respect of storage (b) any quantities in respect of which the authoriza­ for less than 90 days . The maximum aid payable shall tion referred to in the second indent of Article be an amount corresponding to 180 days' storage . 2(l)(e) has been given .

Article5¶

The intervention agency shall take the measures neces­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the day sary to ensure that checks are kept on the batches following its publication in the Official Journal of which are the subject of contracts . It shall in particular the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels , 13 June 1975 . For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission