31978R0895

No L 117/56 29 . 4 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 895/78 of 28 April 1978 laying down detailed rules for the granting of private storage aid for long­ keeping cheeses during the 1978/79 milk year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Article 2 COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 1 . Storage contracts may be concluded where the Economic Community, following conditions are satisfied :

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No (a) the batch of cheeses to which the contract relates 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization must comprise at least 1 00 whole cheeses ; of the market in milk and milk products (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (2), and in (b) the cheeses shall be indelibly marked with an indi­ particular Articles 9 (3) and 28 thereof, cation (which may take the form of a number) of the undertaking in which they were manufactured Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 508/71 of 8 and of the day and month of manufacture ; March 1971 laying down general rules on private storage aid for long-keeping cheeses (3) provides that (c) the cheeses must have been manufactured at least private storage aid may be granted for certain long­ 30 days before the date specified in the contract as keeping cheeses where there is a serious imbalance of being the date of commencement of storage ; the market which may be eliminated or reduced by seasonal storage ; (d) the cheeses must have undergone quality tests which established that their classification after Whereas, in view of price trends and of the increase maturing could be expected to be : in stocks of Emmentaler and Gruyere cheeses, provi­ sion should be made for recourse to such storage — class A in France, during the coming months ; — Markenkase or Klasse Fein in Germany, Whereas the detailed rules for the application of this measure should essentially be the same as those laid -— 1st quality in Denmark ; down for a similar measure during previous milk years, in particular 1977/78, by Commission Regula­ (e) the storer shall undertake : tion (EEC) No 968/77 of 5 May 1 977 on detailed rules for the granting of private storage aid for long-keeping — to keep the cheeses during the entire period of cheeses during the 1977/78 milk year (4); storage in premises where the maximum temperature is as indicated under (f), Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ — not, during the term of the contract, to alter ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products, the composition of the batch which is the subject of the contract without authorization from the intervention agency,

— to keep stock records and to inform the inter­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : vention agency each week of the cheeses put into and withdrawn from storage during the previous week ; Article 1 (f) the maximum temperature in the storage premises shall be -4- 6 °C for Emmentaier and -I- 10 °C for Aid shall be granted in respect of the private storage of Emmentaler and Gruyere cheeses manufactured in Gruyere. In the case of Emmentaler which has the Community which satisfy the requirements of Arti­ already been matured, Member States may permit cles 2 and 3 hereof. a maximum temperature of + 10 °C.

(») OJ No L 148, 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 . (2) OJ No L 303, 28 . 11 . 1977, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 58 , 11 . 3 . 1971 , p. 1 . 2. Contracts may not be concluded before the (4) OJ No L 115, 6. 5 . 1977, p. 10 . cheese has been put into storage.

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1 . Aid shall be granted only for such cheeses as are The intervention agency shall take the measures neces­ put into storage during the storing period. This period sary to ensure that checks are kept on the batches shall begin on 1 May 1978 %nd end on or before 30 which are the subject of contracts. It shall in particular September of the same year. see that the cheeses comprised in those batches are marked . 2. Stored cheese may be withdrawn from storage only during the period for withdrawal. This period shall begin on 1 October 1978 and end on 31 March Article 6 of the following year. The Member States shall communicate to the Article 4 Commission on or before the Tuesday of each week particulars as to the following : 1 . The amount of the aid shall be 1 -37 units of (a) the quantities of cheese for which storage contracts account per tonne per day. have been concluded during the preceding week ; Conversion into national currency shall be carried out (b) any quantities in respect of which the authoriza: using the rate applicable on the day of withdrawal tion referred to in the second indent of Article 2 from storage. ( 1 ) (e) has been given. 2. The period on which calculation of aid is to be based shall run from the date on which the batch of Article 7 cheese to which the contract relates was put into storage. No aid shall be grafted in respect of storage This Regulation shall enter into force on the day for less than 90 days. The maximum aid payable shall following its publication in the Official Journal of be an amount corresponding to 180 days storage. the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 April 1978 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President