31976R0954

No L 110/8 Official Journal of the European Communities 28 . 4 . 76

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 954/76 of 27 April 1976 laying down detailed rules for the granting of private storage aid for long­ keeping cheeses during the 1976/77 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, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No (c) the cheeses must have been manufactured at least 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization 30 days before the date specified in the contract as of the market in milk and milk products (J ), as last being the date of commencement of storage, and amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in after 30 April 1976 ; particular Articles 9 (3) and 28 thereof, (d) the cheeses must have undergone quality tests Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 508/71 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 (3), provides that private storage aid may be granted for certain long­ — class A in France , keeping cheeses where there is a serious imbalance of the market which may be eliminated or reduced by — Markenkase or Klasse Fein in Germany, seasonal storage ; — 1st quality in Denmark ; Whereas, in view of price trends and of the consider­ able increase in stocks of Emmentaler and Gruyere (e) the storer shall undertake : cheeses, provision should be made for recourse to such storage during the coming months ; — to keep the cheeses during the entire period of storage in premises where the maximum Whereas detailed rules for the application of this measure should in the main be those laid down for a temperature is as indicated under (f) ; similar measure applied during the 1 975/76 milk year — not, during the term of the contract, to alter in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1519/75 of 13 the composition of the batch which is the June 1975 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) subject of the contract without authorization No 2319/75 (5); from the intervention agency ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation — to keep stock records and to inform the inter­ are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ vention agency each week of the cheeses put ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products, into and withdrawn from storage during the previous week ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : (f) the maximum temperature in the storage premises shall be + 6°C for Emmentaler and 4- 10°C for Article 1 Gruyere. Where the Emmentaler to which the Aid shall be granted in respect of the private storage contract relates has already been matured, Member of Emmentaler and Gruyere cheeses manufactured in States may permit a maximum temperature of 4- 10°C . the Community which satisfy the requirements of Arti­ cles 2 and 3 hereof.

2. Contracts may not be concluded before the Article 2 cheese has been put into storage. 1 . Storage contracts may be concluded where the following conditions are satisfied : [a) the batch of cheeses to which the contract relates Article 3 must comprise at least 100 whole cheeses ;

'•) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 . 1 . Aid shall be granted only for such cheeses as are '2)- OJ No L 67, 15. 3. 1976, p. 9. put into storage during the storing period. This period ,}) OJ No L 58 , 11 . 3 . 1971 , p. 1 . :") OJ No L 154, 14. 6. 1975, p. 67. shall begin on 1 June 1976 and end on or before 15 ;5) OJ No L 230, 11.9 . 1975, p. 16. October of the same year.

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2. Stored cheese may be withdrawn from storage which are the subject of contracts. It shall in particular only during the period for withdrawal. This period see to it that the cheeses comprised in those batches shall begin on 16 October 1976 and end on 31 March are marked . of the following year. Article 6 Article 4 The Member States shall communicate to the 1 . The amount of the aid shall be 1-25 units of Commission on or before the Tuesday of each week account per metric ton per day. particulars as to the following : 2. The period on which calculation of aid is to be (a) the quantities of cheese for which storage contracts based shall run from the date on which the batch of have been concluded during the preceding week ; cheese to which the contract relates was put into (b) any quantities in respect of which the authoriza­ tion referred to in the second indent of Article 2 storage. No aid shall be granted in respect of storage for less than 90 days. The maximum aid payable shall ( 1 ) (e) has been given . be an amount corresponding to 180 days' storage. Article 7 Article 5 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day The intervention agency shall take the measures neces­ following its publication in the Official Journal of sary to ensure that checks are kept on the batches the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 April 1976.

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission