31975R2086

9 . 8 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 211 /7

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2086/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 8 August 1975 on the determination by invitation to tender of the amounts of private storage aid for beef

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN amounts fixed in units of account, are to be paid on COMMUNITIES, the basis of the relationship between the unit of account and the national currency which obtained at the time when the transaction or part transaction was Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European carried out ; Economic Community ;

Whereas, pursuant to Article 6 of the Regulation Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No referred to above , the time when a transaction is 805/ 68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­ carried out is considered as being the date on which tion of the market in beef and veal , as last amended the event occurs, as defined by Community rules or, by Regulation (EEC) No 1 855/74 (2), and in particular in the absence of and pending adoption of such rules, Articles 6 (5) (b) and 8 (2) thereof ; of the Member States concerned, in which the amount involved in the transaction becomes due and payable ; Whereas Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 provides that intervention measures shall be taken for Whereas, in respect of private storage aid for beef, the the whole of the Community when the price for adult rate of exchange to be used for calculating the amount bovine animals, as recorded on representative Commu­ of this aid in national currency should be that nity markets in accordance with Article 10 of the said obtaining at the time when the contract for private Regulation , is lower than the intervention price ; storage aid is concluded ; whereas this condition is fulfilled at present ;

Whereas the Management Committee for Beef and Whereas, in the present and foreseeable state of the Veal has not delivered an opinion within the time market, which is marked by unstable prices in the limit set by its Chairman, Community, aid should be granted for private storage ;

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1 860/75 (3) of 18 July 1975 on the granting of private storage aid for beef and veal provides for the granting HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : of private storage aid for forequarters ; whereas, for carcases, half carcases and compensated quarters, the amounts of aid should be determined by an invitation Article 1 to tender opened in accordance with the provisions of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 275/74 (4) of 31 January 1974 laying down detailed rules for the grant With effect from 11 August 1975 there shall be by tender of private storage aid for beef and veal ; opened in accordance with the provisions of Regula­ whereas, however, derogations should be made from tion ( EEC)' No 275/74 an invitation to tender to certain of these provisions in order to make carcases determine the amounts of private storage aid for subject to the same storage conditions as forequarters ; storage periods of 5 arid 6 months ; this invitation, to tender shall relate to approximately 25 000 metric tons of products falling within CCT subheading 02.01 Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (2) of Council Regula­ A II a) .1 bb) 11 . tion (EEC) No 1134/68 of 30 July 1968 laying down rules for the implementation of Regulation (EEC) No 653/68 (5) on conditions for alterations to the value of The final date for the submission of tenders shall be the unit of account used for the common agricultural 29 August 1975 at 12 noon . policy, for transactions carried out pursuant to provi­ sions of the common agricultural policy sums owed by a Member State or a duly authorized body, Article 2 expressed in national currency and representing

(■) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968, p. 24. 1 . The contractor may, before placing them in (2) OJ No L 195, 18 . 7. 1974, p. 14. store, cut and bone the products contracted for, (3) OJ No L 188 , 19. 7. 1975, p. 30 . (4) OJ No L 28 , 1 . 2. 1974, p. 61 . provided that all the meat resulting from such boning (5) OJ No L 188 , 18 . 1 . 1968 , p. 1 . or cutting operations is placed in store .

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2. The Member States are authorized to require 2 . The contractor shall inform the intervention contractors to comply with the conditions set out in agency at least two working days before beginning Article 3(1 ) of the Council Directive of 26 June withdrawal of the meat from the cold-store, indicating 1964 (') on health problems affecting intra-Commu­ the products and the quantities which he intends to nity trade in fresh meat, as last amended by the Direc­ export. tive of 24 June 1975 (2). A rticle 4 For the purposes of this Regulation, 100 kg of bone-in meat shall be equivalent to 77 kg of boned meat. By way of derogation from Article 5 (3) (b) (aa) of Regu­ lation (EEC) No 275/74, private storage aid may be 3 . In the case of meat stored without cutting and granted only for products obtained from animals boning, if the quantity placed in store is less than the slaughtered in the Community not more than ten quantity contracted for but equal to : days previously. (a) 90 % or more of that quantity, the amount of private storage aid shall be reduced proportio­ Article 5 nately ; (b) less than 90 % of that quantity, private storage aid By way of derogation from Article 5 (3) (b) (bb) of shall not be paid. Regulation (EEC) No 275/74, the period within which storage must be completed shall be 60 days. In the case of cut and boned meat the percentage as specified in (a) and (b) shall be 85 % . Article 6 4. If the quantity placed in store is greater than the quantity contracted for, the amount of the aid shall be By way of derogation from Article 5 (3) (c) of Regula­ equal to that which was indicated for the quantity tion (EEC) No 275/74, the minimum quantity shall contracted for. » be 50 metric tons .

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1 . At the end of a storage period of 3 months, the By way of derogation from Article 6(1 ) of Regulation contractor may withdraw from store all or part of the (EEC) No 275/74, the amount of the security required meat for which he has contracted, provided that the shall be 100 u.a./ metric ton . quantity so withdrawn is equal to not less than 5 metric tons and is, within ten working days of such Article 8 withdrawal, exported from the Community. The date on which occurs the event within the In this case, the contractor must furnish proof that the meaning of Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1134/68 meat has left the geographical territory of the Commu­ in which private storage aid becomes due and payable nity or has been supplied in accordance with Article 3 shall be regarded as being the date on which the of Regulation (EEC) No 192/75. Such proof shall be contract was concluded . furnished in the same way as for the purpose of export refunds. Article 9 The amount of the aid shall be reduced by 1 unit of account per day per metric ton of bone-in meat, the This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its day of withdrawal from the cold-store being regarded publication in the Official Journal of the European as the last day of storage . Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 8 August 1975.

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(') OJ No 121 , 29 . 7. 1964, p . 2012/ 64. (2 ) OJ No L 172, 3 . 7 . 1975, p . 17.