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COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2471 /77 of 8 November 1977 on the granting at a standard rate fixed in advance of private storage aid in respect of beef carcases , half-carcases and compensated quarters
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN meat (4), as last amended by Directive 77/99/ EEC of COMMUNITIES, 21 December 1976 (5 ) ; (
Whereas, in order to facilitate storage operations, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European certain conditions of Commission Regulation (EEC) Economic Community, No 1071 / 68 of 25 July 1968 laying down detailed rules for granting private storage aid for beef and veal (6), and in particular those concerning the security Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No required, should be amended ; whereas the 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization consequences of putting too small a quantity into of the market in beef and veal ( ! ), as last amended by storage and of withdrawing meat prematurely should Regulation (EEC) No 425/77 (2), and in particular Arti also be specified ; cles 6 (5) (b) and 8 (2) thereof,
Whereas Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 989 / 68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for Whereas Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 granting private storage aid for beef and veal (7), as lays down that intervention measures shall be taken amended by Regulation (EEC) No 428/77 (8), provides for the whole of the Community when the price for that a decrease or an increase of the storage period adult bovine animals, as recorded on representative can be decided on if the market situation calls for it ; Community markets in accordance with Article 12 (6) whereas it is therefore appropriate to fix, in addition , of that Regulation, is lower than the intervention to the amounts of aid for a specified storage period, price ; whereas that condition is at present fulfilled ; amounts to be deducted or added when this period is shortened or lengthened ;
Whereas market trends for beef and especially for beef from cows indicate that private storage aid should be Whereas, in order to avoid financing normal private granted for carcases, half-carcases and compensated storage, it appears desirable to specify high minimum quarters ; quantities ;
Whereas it is desirable, having regard to the present Whereas, from the result of the tender organized supply of beef on the Community market, to allow under Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2217/77 of 5 the products stored to be exported before the end of October 1977 providing for an invitation to tender to the storage period provided they are stored for a determine amounts of private storage aid in respect of minimum period ; beef carcases, half-carcases and compensated quar ters (3), it is clear that provision should be made for the granting at a standard rate fixed in advance of Whereas the amount of the security required should private storage aid for carcases, half-carcases and be such as to oblige the storer to fulfil the obligations compensated quarters ; whereas the amount of such undertaken by him ; aid must be fixed having regard to the result of the tender and to foreseeable developments on the market ; Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (2) of Council Regula tion (EEC) No 1134/68 of 30 July 1968 laying down general rules for the implementation of Regulation Whereas it should be ensured ..that the animals ( EEC) No 653 / 68 on conditions for alterations to the value of the unit of account used for the common agri concerned are slaughtered solely in slaughterhouses cultural policy (9), for transactions carried out under approved and supervised in accordance with Council Directive 64/433 / EEC of 26 June 1964 on health (4) OJ No 121 , 29. 7. 1964, p. 2012/64. problems affecting intra-Community trade in fresh (5 ) OJ No L 26, 31 . 1 . 1977, p. 85 . (6) OJ No L 180 , 26. 7. 1968 , p. 19 . (!) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 24. (7) OJ No L 169, 18 . 7 . 1968 , p. 10 . (2) OJ No L 61 , 5. 3 . 1977, p. 1 . (8) OJ No L 61 , 5 . 3 . 1977, p. 17. (3 ) OJ No L 256, 7. 10 . 1977, p. 14. H OJ No L 188 , 1 . 8 . 1968 , p. 1 .
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the common agricultural policy the sums owed by a Article 3 Member State or a duly authorized body, expressed in national currency and representing amounts fixed in 1 . The minimum quantity per contract shall be 40 units of account, are paid on the basis of the relation tonnes . ship between the unit of account and the national currency obtaining at the time when the transaction 2. Storing must be completed within 40 days or part transaction was carried out ; following the conclusion of the contract.
Whereas, pursuant to Article 6 of the Regulation The storage period shall begin on the day on which referred to above, the time when a transaction is storing is completed. carried out is considered as being the date on which occurs the event, as defined by Community rules or, 3 . By way of derogation from Article 2 (2) of Regu in the absence of and pending adoption of such rules, lation (EEC) No 1071 / 68 , private storage aid may be by the rules of the Member State concerned, in which granted only for products obtained from animals the amount involved in the transaction becomes due slaughtered within the Community not more than 10 and payable ; days previously.
Whereas, in respect of private storage aid for beef, the Article 4 rate of exchange to be used for calculating the amount of this aid in national currency should be that 1 . The contractor may, before placing them in obtaining at the time when the contract for private store, cut and bone the products referred to in Article storage aid is concluded ; 1 . in whole or in part, provided that all the meat Whereas the Management Committee for Beef and resulting from such cutting or boning operations is Veal has not delivered an opinion within the time placed in store . limit set by its Chairman , 2. The authorization for cutting and boning in part the quantity for which the contract is concluded may only cover the cutting and the boning either of all the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : forequarters or of the same number of fore- and hind quarters . A rticle 1 3 . For the purposes of this Regulation, 100 kilo 1 . From 28 November until 30 December 1977 grams of the unboned meat referred to in Article 1 shall be equivalent to : applications may be submitted for aid for the private storage of carcases, half-carcases and compensated (a) 77 kilograms of boned meat in the case of cutting quarters from adult bovine animals. and boning the total quantity for which the contract is concluded, or in the case of cutting and The amounts of such aid per tonne, exclusive of pack boning the same number of fore- and hindquar aging, shall be as shown in the Annex hereto. ters ;
(b) 70 kilograms of boned meat in the case of cutting If the quantities for which contracts have been and boning all the forequarters. applied for or if the market situation makes it appro priate the final date for the submission of applications 4 . In the case of meat stored in the unaltered state , may be changed . if the quantity stored is less than the quantity for which the contract was concluded and 2. The amount of aid shall be adjusted if the dura tion of storage is lengthened or shortened. The (a) not less than 90 % of that quantity, the amount of amount to be added per month or to be deducted per private storage aid shall be reduced proportionally, day shall be as shown in columns 4 and 5 of the or Annex hereto . (b) less than 90 % of that quantity, private storage aid 3. Subject as provided in this Regulation, the rules shall not be paid . laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 1071 /68 shall apply. 5 . In the case of boned meat, the percentage referred in paragraph 4 (a) and (b) and the lower percentage indicated in the second subparagraph of Article 2 Article 10 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 275/74 shall be 85 % . Private storage aid may be granted only in respect of meat produced in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) A (a) No aid shall be granted for any quantity placed in to (e) of Council Directive 64/433 / EEC of 26 June store in excess of the quantity for which the contract 1964 . was concluded .
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Article 5 Article 6 1 . The period of storage shall, at the request of the 1 . The amount of the security shall be 100 units of storer to be submitted when lodging his tender, be account per tonne . either four or five months . 2. In cases of force majeure, the intervention 2. No aid shall be payable unless all the meat agency shall take such measures as it considers neces sary having regard to the circumstances invoked . remains in store throughout the storage period. The intervention agency shall inform the Commission 3 . At the end of a storage period of two months, of each case of force majeure and of the action taken the contractor may withdraw from store all or part of in respect thereof. the meat for which he has contracted, provided that not less than five tonnes is withdrawn and is within Article 7 10 working days of such withdrawal, exported from the Community. Aid shall be paid at the request of the person entitled thereto and at the latest on the 15th day following In that event, the amount of the aid shall be reduced that on which it is ascertained that the obligations in accordance with Article 1 (2), the day of withdrawal under the contract have been fulfilled . from store being regarded as the last day of storage. Article 8 The contractor shall inform the intervention agency not less than two working days before beginning with The event within the meaning of Article 6 of Regula drawal of the meat from store, indicating the products tion (EEC) No 1134/68 in which private storage aid and quantities which he intends to export. becomes due and payable shall be considered as occur ring on the day of the conclusion of the contract. 4. In the case of exportation in accordance with paragraph 3, the contractor shall furnish proof that Article 9 the meat has left the geographical territory of the Community or has been supplied as described in This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 192/75. Such proof following its publication in the Official Journal of shall be furnished as in the case of refunds . the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels, 8 November 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 4 months 5 months per month per day 1 2 3 4 5
Fresh or chilled carcases, half-carcases and compensated quarters, from adult bovine animals 360 390 30 1