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COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1204/76 of 21 May 1976 providing for invitations to tender to determine amounts of private storage aid in respect of beef and veal

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN implementation of Regulation (EEC) No 653/68 on COMMUNITIES, conditions for alterations to the value of the unit of account used for the common agricultural policy (6), provides that, for transactions carried out under the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European common agricultural policy, the sums owed by a Economic Community, Member State or a duly authorized body, expressed in national currency and representing amounts fixed in Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No units of account, shall be paid on the basis of the rela­ 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization tionship between the unit of account and the national of the market in beef and veal ( ! ), as last amended by currency which obtained at the time when the transac­ Regulation (EEC) No 568/76 (2), and in particular Arti­ tion or part transaction was carried out ; cles 6 (5) (b) and 8 (2) thereof,

Whereas, Article 6 thereof provides that the time Whereas Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 when a transaction is carried out is considered as lays down that intervention measures shall be taken being the date on which occurs the event, as defined for the whole of the Community when the price for by Community rules or, in the absence of and adult bovine animals, recorded on representative pending adoption of such rules, by the rules of the Community markets in accordance with Article 10 of Member States concerned, in which the amount that Regulation, is lower than the intervention price ; involved in the transaction becomes due and payable ; whereas that condition is at present fulfilled ;

Whereas, as regards private storage aid for beef and Whereas, in the present market situation, of unstable veal, the rate of exchange to be used for calculating prices within the Community and especially of short­ the amount of this aid in national currency should be term difficulties in supplying the Member State with that obtaining at the time when the contract for the largest shortfall, which in turn affects availabilities private storage aid is concluded ; in the producer Member States, private storage aid should be granted ; Whereas the Management Committee for Beef and Veal has not delivered an opinion within the time Whereas, in view of the uncertainty of the situation , limit set by its Chairman , the amount of such aid should be established by means of a tendering procedure in accordance with Commission Regulation (EEC) No 275/74 of 31 January 1974 laying down detailed rules for the granting by tender of private storage aid for beef and veal (3) ; whereas, however, in orde'r to make the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : measures as effective as possible, the storage of carcases, half-carcases and 'compensated' quarters should be restricted solely to meat coming from male animals and to those qualities which may be bought Article 1 in , in accordance with Annex I to Commission Regu­ lation (EEC) No 1896/73 of 13 July 1973 on detailed rules for the application of intervention measures on With effect from 24 May 1976, three invitations to the market in beef and veal (4), as last amended by tender shall be issued to determine amounts of private Regulation (EEC) No 1018/76 (5) ; storage aid, in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 275/74 ; the invitations to tender shall relate to : Whereas, Article 4 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 134/68 of 30 July 1968 laying down rules for the (a) up to 40 000 metric tons of fresh or chilled carcases, semi-carcases and 'compensated' quarters 0 ) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 24. from male adult bovine animals as specified in (2) OJ No L 67, 15. 3 . 1976, p. 28 . Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 1896/73 ; (3) OJ No L 28 , 1 . 2. 1974, p. 61 . (4 ) OJ No L 193, 14. 7. 1973 , p. 18 . 5 OJ No L 115, 1 . 5 . 1976, p. 60 . (6) OJ No L 188 , 1 . 8 . 1968 , p. 1 .

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(b) up to 20 000 metric tons of fresh or chilled fore­ 2. At the end of a storage period of two months, quarters from adult bovine animals ; and the contractor may withdraw from store all or part of the meat for which he has contracted, provided that (c) up to 20 000 metric tons of fresh or chilled fore­ not less than five metric tons is withdrawn and is, quarters from adult bovine animals, cut along a within 10 working days of such withdrawal, exported straight line with ten ribs . from the Community.

The time limit for the submission of tenders shall In that event, the amount of the aid shall be reduced expire on 8 June 1976, at 13.00 hours in France and by one unit of account per day and per metric ton of Italy, and at 12.00 hours in the other Member States. unboned meat, the day of withdrawal from store being regarded as the last day of storage.

Article 2 The contractor shall inform the intervention agency not less than two working days before beginning with­ 1 . The contractor may, before placing them in drawal of the meat from store, indicating the products store, cut and bone the products referred to in Article and quantities which he intends to export. 1 (a) and (b), in whole or in part, provided that all the meat resulting from such boning or cutting operations is placed in store . 3 . In the case of exportation in accordance with paragraph 2, the contractor shall furnish proof that the meat has left the geographical territory of the 2. For the purposes of this Regulation : Community or has been delivered within the meaning of Article 3 of Regulation ( EEC) No 192/75 . The (a) 100 kg of the unboned meat referred to in Article proof shall be furnished as in the case of refunds. 1 (a) shall be equivalent to 77 kg of boned meat ; and (b) 100 kg of the unboned meat referred to in Article 1 (b) shall be equivalent to 70 kg of boned meat. Article 4

3 . In the case of meat stored in tfce unaltered state, By way of derogation from Regulation (EEC) No if the quantity stored is less than the quantity for 275/74 which the contract was concluded and : (a) the period of storage after slaughter referred to in (a) not less than 90 % of that quantity, the amount of Article 5 (3) (b) (aa) thereof shall be 10 days ; private storage aid shall be reduced proportion­ ally ; or (b) the period allowed for placing in store , referred to in Article 5 (3) (b) (bb) thereof, shall be 60 days ; (b) less than 90 % of that quantity, private storage aid shall not be paid . (c) the minimum quantity referred to in Article 5 (3) (c) thereof shall be 50 metric tons ; In the case of boned meat, the percentage indicated in (d) the amount of the security referred to in Article 6 (a) and (b) and the lower percentage indicated in the ( 1 ) thereof shall be 100 units of account per metric second subparagraph of Article 10 ( 1 ) of Regulation ton . ( EEC) No 275/74 shall be 85 % .

No aid shall be granted for any quantity placed in store in excess of the quantity for which the contract Article 5 was concluded .

Within the meaning of Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1134/68 , the event giving entitlement to private Article 3 storage aid shall be considered as occurring on the day of the conclusion of the contract . 1 . At the request of the storer submitted when lodging his tender, the period of storage shall be :

Article 6 (a) five or six months for the products referred to in Article 1 (a) ; and (b) four or five months for the products referred to in This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 May Article 1 (b) and (c). 1976 .

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

Done at Brussels, 21 May 1976 . For the Commission P. J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission