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COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2217/77 of 5 October 1977 opening an invitation to tender to determine amounts of private storage aid in respect of beef carcases, half carcases and compensated quarters
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas Article 4 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No COMMUNITIES, 1134/68 of 30 July 1968 laying down rules for the implementation of Regulation (EEC) No 653/68 on Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European conditions for alterations to the value of the unit of Economic Community, account used for the common agricultural policy (8), provides that, for transactions carried out under the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No common agricultural policy, the sums owed by a 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization Member State or a duly authorized body, expressed in of the market in beef and veal (*), as last amended by national currency and representing amounts fixed in Regulation (EEC) No 425/77 (2), and in particular Arti units of account, shall be paid on the basis of the rela cles 6 (5) and 8 (2) thereof, tionship between the unit of account and the national currency which obtained at the time when the transac Whereas Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 tion or port transaction was carried out ; provides that intervention measures shall be taken for the whole of the Community when the price for adult bovine animals, recorded on representative Commu Whereas Article 6 provides that the time when a tran nity markets in accordance with Article 12 (6) of that saction is carried out is to be considered as being the Regulation, is lower than the intervention price ; date on which occurs the event, as defined by Commu whereas this condition is at present met ; nity rules or, in the absence of and pending adoption of such rules, by the rules of the Member States Whereas market trends for beef and especially for beef concerned, on which the amount involved in the tran from cows indicate that private storage aid should be saction becomes due and payable ; granted for carcases, half-carcases and compensated quarters ; Whereas, in the case of private storage aid for beef Whereas the amount of such aid should be established and veal, the rate of exchange for calculating the amount of this aid in national currency should be that by means of a tendering procedure in accordance with obtaining at the time of the conclusion of the contract Commission Regulation (EEC) No 275/74 of 31 for private storage aid ; January 1974 laying down detailed rules for the granting by tender of private storage aid for beef and veal (3) ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Whereas it should be ensured that the animals are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage ment Committee for Beef and Veal, concerned are slaughtered solely in slaughterhouses approved and supervised in accordance with Council Directive 64/433/ EEC of 26 June 1964 on health problems affecting intra-Community trade in fresh meat (4), as last amended by Directive 77/99/ EEC (5) ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas provision should be made for the possibility of reducing the storage period where the meat which has left the store is intended for export ; whereas proof that the meat has been exported must be given in the same way as in the case of refunds, Commission Regu Article 1 lation (EEC) No 192/75 of 17 January 1975 (6) laying down detailed rules for the application of export 1 . With effect from 10 October 1977 an invitation refunds in respect of agricultural products, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 633 /77 (7) ; to tender shall be opened to determine amounts of private storage aid, in accordance with Regulation (') OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . 24. (EEC) No 275/74 ; this invitation to tender shall relate ( 2 ) OJ No L 61 , 5 . 3 . 1977 , p . 1 . to a maximum quantity of about 20 000 tonnes of (3 ) OJ No L 28 , 1 . 2. 1974, p . 61 . fresh or chilled carcases, half carcases and compen (4) OJ No 121 , 29 . 7 . 1964, p . 2012/ 64. sated quarters from adult bovine animals. (5) OJ No L 26, 31 . 1 . 1977, p. 85. (6) OJ No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 1 . (7) OJ No L 181 , 21 . 7. 1977, p . 33 . (8) OJ No L 188 , 1 . 8 . 1968 , p. 1 .
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The time limit for the submission of tenders shall be Article 3 21 October 1977, at 1 p.m. This time limit shall be one hour earlier in Ireland and the United Kingdom 1 . At the request of the storer submitted when outside the period known as summer time in those lodging his tender, the period of storage for the Member States . products referred to in Article 1 shall be 4, 5 or 6 months . 2. Private storage aid may be granted only in respect of meat produced in accordance with Article 3 2. By way of derogation from Article 5 (3) (b) (cc) of (1 ) A (a) to (e) of Council Directive 64/433/EEC. Regulation (EEC) No 275/74, after a storage period of two months, the contractor may withdraw from store all or part of the meat for which he has contracted, subject to a minimum withdrawal of five tonnes, Article 2 provided that it is exported from the Community within 10 working days of such withdrawal.
1 . The contractor may, before placing them in In this event, the aid shall be reduced by one unit of store, cut and bone the products referred to in Article account per day and per tonne of unboned meat, the 1 , in whole or in part, provided that all the meat day of withdrawal from store being regarded as the resulting from such cutting or boning operations is last day of storage. placed in store.
The contractor shall inform the intervention agency 2. The authorization for cutting and boning in part not less than two working days before starting to with the quantity for which the contract is concluded may draw the meat from store, indicating the products and only cover the cutting and the boning either of all the quantities which he intends to export. forequarters or of the same number of fore- and hind quarters. 3 . In the case of exportation in accordance with paragraph 2, the contractor shall furnish proof that 3 . For the purposes of this Regulation, 100 kilo the meat has left the geographical territory of the grams of the unboned meat referred to in Article 1 Community or has been delivered within the meaning shall be equivalent to : of Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 192/75. The proof shall be furnished in the same way as in the case of refunds. (a) 77 kilograms of boned meat in the case of cutting and boning the total quantity for which the contract is concluded, or in the case of cutting and boning the same number of fore- and hindquar Article 4 ters ; By way of derogation from Regulation (EEC) No (b) 70 kilograms of boned meat in the case of cutting 275/74, and boning all the forequarters. (a) the period of storage after slaughter referred to in 4. In the case of meat stored in the unaltered state, Article 5 (3) (b) (aa) thereof shall be 1 0 days ; if the quantity stored is less than the quantity for (b) the minimum quantity referred to in Article 5 (3) which the contract was concluded and (c) thereof shall be 40 tonnes ; (c) the amount of the security referred to in Article 6 (a) not less than 90 % of that quantity, the amount of private storage aid shall be reduced proportionally, ( 1 ) thereof shall be 100 units of account per tonne. or (b) less than 90 % of that quantity, private storage aid Article 5 shall not be paid. Within the meaning of Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) 5. In the case of boned meat, the percentage No 1134/68 , the event giving entitlement to private referred in paragraph 4 (a) #hd (b) and the lower storage aid shall be considered as occurring on the day percentage indicated in the second subparagraph of of the acceptance of the contract. Article 10 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 275/74 shall be 85 % . Article 6 No aid shall be granted for any quantity placed in store in excess of the quantity for which the contract This Regulation shall enter into force on 10 October was concluded . 1977 .
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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels, 5 October 1977. For the Commission
Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President