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COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC ) No 1198 / 79 of 15 June 1979 on the granting at a standard rate fixed in advance of private storage aid for beef forequarters

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN granting private storage aid for beef and veal ( 8 ), as COMMUNITIES , amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 428 / 77 (9 ), provides that a decrease or an increase of the storage period can be decided on if the market situation calls for it ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European whereas it is therefore appropriate to fix, in addition Economic Community , to the amounts of aid for a specified storage period , the amount to be added when this period is lengthened ; Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 805/ 68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in beef and veal ('), as last amended by Regulation ( EEC ) No 425 / 77 (2 ), and in particular Arti­ whereas, in order to avoid financing normal private cles 6 ( 5) (b) and 8 (2) thereof, storage , it appears desirable to specify high minimum quantities ; Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No 878 /77 of 25 April 1977 on the exchange rates to be applied in agriculture (3 ), as last amended by Regula­ Whereas the amount of the security required should tion ( EEC) No 705/ 79 (4 ), be such as to oblige the storer to fulfil the obligations undertaken by him ; Whereas, in the present situation , which is character­ ized by diverging prices in the different Member States and in particular by seasonal difficulties in the Whereas under Article 4 ( 2) of Council Regulation market for forequarters , aids for the private storage of ( EEC) No 1 134 / 68 ( 10 ) sums referred to in the said beef forequarters should be granted ; Article are to be paid on the basis of the conversion rate applicable at the time when the transaction or Whereas it should be ensured that the animals from part transaction is carried out ; whereas under Article which the forequarters come are slaughtered solely in 6 of the same Regulation the time when a transaction slaughterhouses approved and supervised in accor­ is carried out shall be considered as being the date on dance with Council Directive 64 /433/ EEC of 26 June which the event occurs, as defined by Community 1964 on health problems affecting intra-Community rules or, in the absence of and pending adoption of trade in fresh meat (5), as last amended by Directive such rules , by the rules of the Member State 75 / 379 / EEC ( 6) ; concerned , which gives entitlement to the amount involved in the transaction ; whereas, however, by virtue of Article 4 (3) of Regulation ( EEC) No 878 /77, Whereas, in order to facilitate storage operations, derogations may be made from the abovementioned certain conditions of Commission Regulation ( EEC) provisions ; No 1071 / 68 of 25 July 1968 laying down detailed rules for granting private storage aid for beef and veal ( 7), and in particular those concerning the security required , should be amended ; whereas the Whereas, in respect of private storage aid for beef, the consequences of putting too small a quantity into rate of exchange to be used for calculating the amount storage and of withdrawing meat prematurely should of this aid in national currency should be that also be specified ; obtaining at the time when the contract for private storage aid is concluded ; Whereas Article 3 of Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 989/ 68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation (') OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 24 . are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ (2 ) OJ No L 61 , 5 . 3 . 1977, p. 1 . ment Committee for Beef and Veal , ( 3 ) OJ No L 106, 29 . 4 . 1977, p . 27 . (•*) OJ No L 89 , 9 . 4 . 1979 , p . 1 . (5 ) OJ No 121 , 29 . 7 . 1964, p . 2012/ 64 . ( s ) OJ No L 169 , 18 . 7 . 1968 , p . 10, (6) OJ No L 172, 3 . 7 . 1975 , p. 17 . O OJ No L 61 , 5 . 3 . 1977 , p . 17 . ( 7) OJ No L 180 , 26 . 7 . 1968 , p. 19 . ( IC ) OJ No L 188 , 1 . 8 . 1968 , p . 1 .

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : (a) not less than 90 % of that quantity, the amount of private storage aid shall be reduced proportion­ ally ; Article 1 (b) less than 90 % of that quantity, private storage aid 1 . From 25 June until 31 July 1979 applications shall not be paid . may be submitted for aid for the private storage of forequarters from adult bovine animals . The amounts In the case of boned meat, the percentage indicated in of such aid per tonne, exclusive of packaging, shall be (a) and (b) and the lower percentage indicated in as shown in the Annex hereto . If the quantities for Article 4 ( 3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1071 / 68 shall be which contracts have been applied for or if the market equal to 85 % . situation make it appropriate the final date for the submission of applications may be changed . 4 . No aid shall be granted in respect: of any quan­ tity placed in store in excess of the quantity for which 2 . The amount of aid shall be adjusted if the dura­ the contract was concluded . tion of storage is lengthened . The amount to be added per month shall be as shown in column 4 of the Annex hereto . Article 5 3 . Subject as provided in this Regulation , the rules 1 . The period of storage shall , at the request of the laid down in Regulation ( EEC) No 1071 / 68 shall storer to be submitted when lodging his tender, be apply . either five or six months .

Article 2 2 . No aid shall be payable unless all the meat remains in store throughout the storage period . Private storage aid may be granted only in respect of meat produced in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) A (a) to (e) of Council Directive 64/ 433 / EEC . Article 6

Article 3 1 . The amount of the security shall be 120 ECU per tonne . 1 . The minimum quantity per contract shall be 30 tonnes . 2 . In cases of force majeure, the intervention agency shall take such measures as it considers neces­ 2 . Storing must be completed within 40 days sary having regard to the circumstances invoked . following the conclusion of the contract and at the latest on 1 September 1979 . The intervention agency shall inform the Commission of each case of force majeure and of the action taken The storage period shall begin on the day on which in respect thereof . storing is completed .

3 . By way of derogation from Article 2 ( 2 ) of Regu­ Article 7 lation ( EEC) No 1071 / 68 , private storage aid may be granted only for products obtained from animals slaughtered within the Community not more than 10 Aid shall be paid at the request of the person entitled days previously . thereto and at the latest on the 1 5th day following that on which it is ascertained that the obligations under the contract have been fulfilled . Article 4

1 . The contractor may , before placing them in Article 8 store , cut and bone all or part of the products referred to in the Annex, provided that all the meat resulting The rate to be used in relation to private storage aid is from such boning or cutting operations is placed in the representative rate on the day the contract is store . finalized . 2 . For the purposes of this Regulation , 100 kilo­ grams of unboned meat shall be equal to 70 kilograms Article 9 of boned meat .

3 . In the case of meat stored without cutting or This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its boning, if the quantity stored is less than the quantity publication in the Official Journal of the European for which the contract was concluded and : Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 15 June 1979 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

ANNEX

Amount of aid , in ECU / tonne , for a storage period of Amount in ECU / tonne Products for which aid is granted to be added per month 5 months 6 months

Forequarters, fresh or chilled , from adult bovine animals 365 400 35