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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1531 /77 of 7 July 1977 on the granting at a standard rate fixed in advance of private storage aid for beef forequarters
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in order to facilitate storage operations, COMMUNITIES, certain conditions of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1071 /68 of 25 July 1968 laying down detailed rules for granting private storage aid for beef and Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European veal (6), and in particular those concerning the security Economic Community, required, should be amended ; whereas the consequences of putting too small a quantity into storage and of withdrawing meat prematurely should Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No also be specified ; 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in beef and veal (J), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 425/77 (2), and in particular Arti whereas Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No cles 6 (5) (b) and 8 (2) thereof, 989/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for granting private storage aid for beef and veal (7), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 428/77 (8), provides Whereas Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 that a decrease or an increase of the storage period lays down that intervention measures shall be taken can be decided on if the market situation calls for it ; for the whole of the Community when the price for whereas it is therefore appropriate to fix, in addition, adult bovine animals, as recorded on representative to the amounts of aid for a specified storage period, Community markets in accordance with Article 12 (6) amounts to be deducted or added when this period is of that Regulation, is lower than the intervention shortened or lengthened ; price ; whereas that condition is at present fulfilled ;
Whereas, in order to avoid financing normal private Whereas, in the present situation, which is character storage, it appears desirable to specify high minimum ized by diverging prices in the different Member quantities ; States and in particular by seasonal difficulties in the market for forequarters, aids for the private storage of beef forequarters should be granted ; Whereas it is desirable, having regard to the present supply of beef on the Community market, to allow Whereas, from the result of the tender organized the products stored to be exported before the end of under Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1191 /77 of 3 the storage period provided they are stored for a June 1977 providing for an invitation to tender to minimum period ; determine amounts of private storage aid in respect of beef forequarters (3), it is clear that provision should be made for the granting at a standard rate fixed in Whereas the amount of the security required should advance of private storage aid for forequarters ; be such as to oblige the storer to fulfil the obligations whereas the amount of such aid must be fixed having undertaken by him ; regard to the result of the tender and to foreseeable developments on the market ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (2) of Council Regula Whereas it should be ensured that the animals tion (EEC) No 1134/68 of 30 July 1968 laying down concerned are slaughtered solely in slaughterhouses general rules for the implementation of Regulation (EEC) No 653/68 on conditions for alterations to the approved and supervised in accordance with Council Directive 64/433/EEC of 26 June 1964 on health value of the unit of account used for the common agri problems affecting intra-Community trade in fresh cultural policy (9), for transactions carried out under meat (4), as last amended by Directive 77/99/EEC (5) ; the common agricultural policy the sums owed by a Member State or a duly authorized body, expressed in (•) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 24. 0 OJ No L 61 , 5. 3 . 1977, p. 1 . (6) OJ No L 180, 26. 7. 1968, p. 19. P) OJ No L 138 , 4. 6. 1977, p. 26. (7) OJ No L 169, 18 . 7. 1968, p. 10. (4) OJ No 121 , 29. 7. 1964, p. 2012/64. (») OJ No L 61 , 5. 3 . 1977, p. 17. (5) OJ No L 26, 31 . 1 . 1977, p. 85. C) OJ No L 188 , 1 . 8 . 1968 , p. 8 .
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national currency and representing amounts fixed in 2. Storing must be completed within 40 days units of account, are paid on the basis of the relation following the conclusion of the contract. ship between the unit of account and the national currency obtaining at the time when the transaction The storage period shall begin on the day on which or part transaction was carried out ; storing is completed.
Whereas, opursuant to Article 6 of the Regulation 3 . By way of derogation from Article 2 (2) of Regu referred to above, the time when a transaction is lation (EEC) No 1071 /68, private storage aid may be carried out is considered as being the date on which granted only for products obtained from animals occurs the event, as defined by Community rules or, slaughtered within the Community not more than 10 in the absence of and pending adoption of such rules, days previously. by the rules of the Member State concerned, in which the amount involved in the transaction becomes due and payable ; Article 4 Whereas, in respect of private storage aid for beef, the rate of exchange to be used for calculating the amount 1 . The contractor may, before placing them in of this aid in national currency should be that store, cut and bone all or part of the products referred obtaining at the time when the contract for private to in the Annex, provided that all the meat resulting storage aid is concluded ; from such boning or cutting operations is placed in store . Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage 2. For the purposes of this Regulation, 100 kilo ment Committee for Beef and Veal, grams of unboned meat shall be equal to 70 kilograms of boned meat.
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 3. In the case of meat stored without cutting or boning, if the quantity stored is less than the quantity for which the contract was concluded and : Article 1 (a) not less than 90 % of that quantity, the amount of private storage aid shall be reduced proportion 1 . From 18 July until 2 September 1977 applica ally ; tions may be submitted for aid for the private storage of forequarters from adult bovine animals. The (b) less than 90 % of that quantity, private storage aid amounts of such aid per tonne, exclusive of pack shall not be paid. aging, shall be as shown in the Annex hereto. If the quantities for which contracts have been applied for In the case of boned meat, the percentage indicated in or if the market situation makes it appropriate the (a) and (b) and the lower percentage indicated in final date for the submission of applications may be Article 4 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1071 /68 shall be changed. equal to 85 % . 2. The amount of aid shall be adjusted if the dura 4. No aid shall be granted in respect of any quan tion of storage is lengthened or shortened. The tity placed in store in excess of the quantity for which amount to be added per month or to be deducted per the contract was concluded. day shall be as shown in columns 4 and 5 of the Annex hereto .
Article 5 3 . Subject as provided in this Regulation, the rules laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 1071 /68 shall apply. 1 . The period of storage shall, at the request of the storer to be submitted when lodging his tender, be either five or six months. Article 2 2. No aid shall be payable unless all the meat Private storage aid may be granted only in respect of remains in store throughout the storage period. meat produced in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) A (a) to (e) of Council Directive 64/433/EEC. 3 . At the end of a storage period of two months, the contractor may withdraw from store all or part of Article 3 the meat for which he has contracted, provided that not less than five tonnes is withdrawn and is, within 1 . The minimum quantity per contract shall be 30 10 working days of such withdrawal, exported from tonnes . the Community.
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In that event, the amount of the aid shall be reduced The intervention agency shall inform the Commission in accordance with Article 1 (2), the day of withdrawal of each case of force majeure and of the action taken from store being regarded as the last day of storage. in respect thereof.
The contractor shall inform the intervention agency Article 7 not less than two working days before beginning with drawal of the meat from store, indicating the products Aid shall be paid at the request of the person entitled and quantities which he intends to export. thereto and at the latest on the 15th day following that on which it is ascertained that the obligations 4. In the case of exportation in accordance with under the contract have been fulfilled. paragraph 3, the contractor shall furnish proof that the meat has left the geographical territory of the Article 8 Community or has been supplied as described in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 192/75. Such proof The event within the meaning of Article 6 of Regula shall be furnished as in the case of refunds . tion (EEC) No 1134/68 in which private storage aid becomes due and payable shall be considered as occur Article 6 ring on the day of the conclusion of the contract. 1 . The amount of the security shall be 100 units of Article 9 account per tonne. 2. In cases of force majeure, the intervention This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day agency shall take such measures as it considers neces following its publciation in the Official Journal of sary having regard to the circumstances invoked. the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels, 7 July 1977.
For the Commission
Finn GUNDELACH
Vice-President
ANNEX
Amount of aid, in u.a ./tonne, Amount in u .a ./tonne for a storage period of Products for which aid is granted to be added to be deducted 5 months 6 months per month per day
Forequarters, fresh or chilled, from adult bovine animals 345 370 25 0-80