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COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1197 / 77 of 3 June 1977 providing for an invitation to tender to determine amounts of private storage aid in respect of beef forequarters

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN date on which occurs the event, as defined by Commu­ COMMUNITIES , nity rules or, in the absence of and pending adoption of such rules, by the rules of the Member States Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European concerned , on which the amount involved in the tran­ Economic Community, saction becomes due and payable ;

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Whereas, as regards private storage aid for beef and 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization veal , the rate of exchange to be used for calculating of the market in beef and veal ('), as last amended by the amount of this aid in national currency should be Regulation ( EEC) No 425/77 (2), and in particular Arti­ that obtaining at the time when the contract for cles 6 (5) (b) and 8 (2) thereof, private storage aid is concluded ;

Whereas Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 Whereas the Management Committee for Beef and lays down that intervention measures shall be taken Veal has not delivered an opinion within the time for the whole of the Community when the price for limit set by its chairman , adult bovine animals, recorded on representatative Community markets in accordance with Article 12(6) of that Regulation , is lower than the intervention price ; whereas that condition is at present fulfilled ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas, in the present situation of diverging prices in the different Member States and especially of the seasonal difficulties in the market for forequarters, Article 1 aids for the private storage of beef forequarters should be granted ; With effect from 6 June 1977, an invitation to tender shall be issued to determine the amount of private Whereas, in view of this situation , the amount of such storage aid , in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No aid should be established by means of a tendering 275/ 74 ; this invitation to tender shall relate to a procedure in accordance with Commission Regulation limited quantity of up to 15 000 tonnes of fresh or ( EEC) No 275/74 of 31 January 1974 laying down chilled forequarters from adult bovine animals. detailed rules for the granting by tender of private storage aid for beef and veal (3) ; The time limit for the submission of tenders shall be 13 June 1977 , at 1 p.m . in Denmark , the Federal Whereas Article 4 ( 2) of Council Regulation ( EEC) No Republic of Germany, Ireland and the United 1134/68 of 30 July 1968 laying down rules for the Kingdom ar.d at 2 p.m . in the other Member States. implementation of Regulation ( EEC) No 653/68 on conditions for alterations to the value of the unit of account used for the common agricultural policy (4), Article 2 provides that, for transactions carried out under the common agricultural policy, the sums owed by a Member State or a duly authorized body, expressed in 1 . The contractor may, before placing them in national currency and representing amounts fixed in store , cut and bone the products referred to in Article units of account, shall be paid on the basis of the rela­ 1 . in whole or in part, provided |that all the meat tionship between the unit of account and the national resulting from such boning or cutting operations is currency which obtained at the time when the transac­ placed in store . tion or part transaction was carried out ; 2 . For the purposes of this Regulation , 100 kilo­ Whereas Article 6 thereof provides that the time when grams of unboned meat shall be equal to 70 kilograms a transaction is carried out is considered as being the of boned meat .

(!) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . 24 . 3 . In the case of meat stored in the unaltered state, (2 ) OJ No L 61 , 5. 3 . 1977, p . 1 . (3 ) OJ No L 28 , 1 . 2 . 1974, p . 61 . if the quantity stored is less than the quantity for (4) OJ No L 188 , 1 . 8 . 1968 , p . 1 . which the contract was concluded and ,

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(a) not less than 90 % of that quantity, the amount of 3. In the case of exportation in accordance with private storage aid shall be reduced proportionally, paragraph 2, the contractor shall furnish proof that or the meat has left the geographical territory of the (b) less than 90 % of that quantity, private storage aid Community or has been delivered within the meaning shall not be paid. of Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 192/75. The proof shall be furnished as in the case of refunds. In the case of boned meat, the percentage indicated in (a) and (b) and the lower percentage indicated in the Article 4 second subparagraph of Article 10(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 275/74 shall be 85 % . By way of derogation from Regulation (EEC) No 275/74 : No aid shall be granted for any quantity placed in store in excess of the quantity for which the contract (a) the period of storage after slaughter referred to in was concluded . Article 5(3)(b)(aa) thereof shall be 10 days ; (b) the period allowed for placing in store referred to Article 3 in Article 5 (3) (b) (bb) thereof shall be 40 days ; 1 . As the request of the storer submitted when (c) the minimum quantity referred to in Article lodging his tender, the period of storage shall be five 5 (3) (c) thereof shall be 30 tonnes ; or six months . (d) the amount of the security referred to in Article 6(1 ) thereof shall be 100 units of account per 2. At the end of a storage period of two months, tonne . the contractor may withdraw from store all or part of the meat for which he has contracted, provided that not less than five tonnes is withdrawn and is, within Article 5 10 working days of such withdrawal , exported from the Community. Within the meaning of Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1134/68, the event giving entitlement to private In that event, the amount of the aid shall be reduced storage aid shall be considered as occurring on the day by one unit of account per day and per tonne of of the acceptance of the contract. unboned meat, the day of withdrawal from store being regarded as the last day of storage. Article 6 The contractor shall inform the intervention agency not less than two working days before beginning with­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the day drawal of the meat from store, indicating the products following its publication in the Official Journal of and quantities which he intends to export. the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 3 June 1977 .

For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President