Commission Regulation (EC) No 6/2008 of 4 January 2008 laying down detailed rules for granting private storage aid for sheepmeat and goatmeat (Codified version)
(a) which have been carrying on business in the meat and livestock sectors for at least 12 months and are officially registered in a Member State; and (b) which have suitable storage facilities at their disposal with the Community.
(a) a declaration by which the contracting party undertakes to only place in storage and to only store products which fulfil the conditions laid down in Article 2(2) and (3); (b) the description and the quantity of the product to be stored; (c) the time limit for placing in storage, referred to in Article 4(3), of the total quantity referred to under (b) of this paragraph; (d) the duration of storage; (e) the amount of the aid per unit of weight; (f) the amount of the security; (g) a provision enabling the storage period to be shortened or extended under the conditions laid down in Community regulations.
(a) to place the agreed quantity of product in storage within the time limits laid down in Article 4 and to store it at his own risk and expense in conditions ensuring the maintenance of the characteristics of the products referred to in Article 2(2) for the contractual period, without altering, substituting or transferring to another warehouse the stored products; however, in exceptional cases and on duly motivated request, the intervention agency may authorise a relocation of the stored products; (b) to advise the intervention agency with which he has concluded the contract, in due time before the entry into storage of each individual lot, within the meaning of the second subparagraph of Article 4(1), of the date and place of storage as well as the nature and quantity of the product to be stored; the intervention agency may require that this information is given at least two working days before the placing in storage of each individual lot; (c) to send to the intervention agency the documents relating to the operations for placing in storage not later than one month after the date referred to in Article 4(4); (d) to store the products in accordance with the requirements for identification referred to in Article 13(4); (e) to permit the agency to check at any time that all the obligations laid down in the contract are being observed.
(a) at the place of storage, where the meat is frozen on the premises; (b) at the place of freezing, where the meat is frozen in suitable facilities outside the place of storage.
(a) not less than 90 % of that quantity, the aid shall be reduced proportionately; (b) less than 90 % but not less than 80 % of that quantity, the aid for the quantity actually stored shall be reduced by half; (c) less than 80 % of that quantity, the aid shall not be paid.
(a) the contract application must be lodged with the competent intervention agency in accordance with Article 3(1) and (2); (b) Decisions on applications to conclude contracts shall be notified by the competent intervention agency to each applicant by registered letter, electronic mail or telefax, or delivered against an acknowledgement of receipt, on the fifth working day following the day on which the application is submitted, provided that the Commission does not adopt special measures in the intervening period. Where an examination of the situation reveals that excessive use has been made of the scheme introduced by this Regulation, or if there is a risk of excessive use, such measures may include: suspending the application of this Regulation for not more than five working days. In that event, applications to conclude contracts submitted during that period shall not be accepted, setting a single percentage by which the quantities in the applications to conclude contracts are reduced, subject to observance of the minimum quantity where appropriate, rejecting applications made before the period of suspension whose acceptance would have been decided on during the period of suspension.
(a) the Regulation issuing the invitation to tender in accordance with Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 2529/2001 shall specify the general conditions, the products to be stored, the time limit (date and hour) for the submission of tenders and the minimum quantities in respect of which a tender may be submitted; (b) tenders must be made in euro and submitted to the intervention agency concerned in accordance with Article 3(1) and (2); (c) tenders shall be examined in private session by the appropriate agencies of the Member States; persons present at the examination shall be sworn to secrecy; (d) tenders submitted must be forwarded anonymously to the Commission by way of the Member States, to arrive not later than the second working day following the final date for submission as specified in the invitation; (e) where no tenders are submitted, Member States shall inform the Commission of this within the time limit as specified under (d); (f) on the basis of the tenders received, the Commission shall decide in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 25(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2529/2001, either to fix a maximum amount of aid, or to make no award; (g) where a maximum amount of aid is fixed, tenders not exceeding this amount shall be accepted.
(a) the ownership at the time of placing in storage; (b) the date of placing in storage; (c) the weight and the number of boxes or items otherwise packaged; (d) the presence of products in the warehouse; (e) the calculated date of the end of the minimum contractual storage period and, where Article 9(5) is applied, the actual date of removal.
(a) the identification of the products placed in private storage; (b) the date of placing in storage and the calculated date of the end of the minimum contractual storage period and the actual date of removal from storage; (c) the number of carcases or half-carcases, boxes or other items stored individually, a description of the products and the weight of each pallet or the other items stored individually, recorded, where applicable, by individual lots; (d) the location of the products in the warehouse.
(a) for each contract, a check on the compliance with all the obligations laid down in Article 3(4); (b) a compulsory check to ensure that the products are present in the warehouse during the final week of the contractual storage period.
either the sealing of all the products stored under a contract in accordance with the second subparagraph of paragraph 4, or an unannounced sample check to ensure that the products are present in the warehouse. The sample taken must be representative and must correspond to at least 10 % of the overall quantity placed in storage in each Member State under a private storage aid measure. Such checks shall include, in addition to an examination of the accounts referred to in paragraph 3, a physical check of the weight and type of the products and their identification. Such physical checks must relate to at least 5 % of the quantity subject to the unannounced check.
(a) the date of the check; (b) its duration; and (c) the operations conducted.
(a) on Monday and Thursday of each week, of the quantities of products for which applications to conclude contracts have been submitted; (b) before Thursday of each week and broken down by storage period, of the products and quantities for which contracts have been concluded during the preceding week, giving a summary of the products and quantities for which contracts have been concluded; (c) every month, of the products and total quantities placed in storage; (d) every month, of the products and total quantities actually in storage and of the products and total quantities in respect of which the contractual storage period has ended; (e) every month, if the storage period has been shortened or extended in accordance with Article 3(3)(g) or reduced in accordance with Article 9(5), of the products and quantities in respect of which the storage period has been revised and of the original and revised months for removal from storage.
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| Regulation (EEC) No 3446/90 | This Regulation |
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| Article 1 | Article 1 |
| Article 2(1), introductory sentence | Article 2(1), introductory sentence |
| Article 2(1), first indent | Article 2(1)(a) |
| Article 2(1), second indent | Article 2(1)(b) |
| Article 2(2) to (5) | Article 2(2) to (5) |
| Article 3 | Article 3 |
| Article 4(1) | Article 4(1) |
| Article 4(2) | Article 4(2) |
| Article 4(3), first subparagraph | Article 4(3), first subparagraph |
| Article 4(3), second subparagraph, introductory sentence | Article 4(3), second subparagraph, introductory sentence |
| Article 4(3), second subparagraph, first indent | Article 4(3), second subparagraph, point (a) |
| Article 4(3), second subparagraph, second indent | Article 4(3), second subparagraph, point (b) |
| Article 4(3), third subparagraph | Article 4(3), third subparagraph |
| Article 4(3), fourth subparagraph | Article 4(3), fourth subparagraph |
| Article 4(4) | Article 4(4) |
| Article 5(1) | Article 5(1) |
| Article 5(2) introductory sentence and first and second indents | Article 5(2) |
| Article 5(3), (4) and (5) | Article 5(3), (4) and (5) |
| Articles 6, 7 and 8 | Articles 6, 7 and 8 |
| Article 9(1), (2) and (3) | Article 9(1), (2) and (3) |
| Article 9(4), first subparagraph | Article 9(4), first subparagraph |
| Article 9(4), second subparagraph, introductory sentence and first and second indents | Article 9(4), second subparagraph |
| Article 9(4), third subparagraph, introductory words and first and second indents | Article 9(4), third subparagraph |
| Article 9(5) | Article 9(5) |
| Articles 10, 11 and 12 | Articles 10, 11 and 12 |
| Article 13(1) to (4) | Article 13(1) to (4) |
| Article 13(5) first subparagraph, introductory words and points (a) and (b) | Article 13(5), first subparagraph, introductory words and points (a) and (b) |
| — | Article 13(5) second subparagraph, introductory words |
| Article 13(5), first subparagraph, paragraph (c), first and second indents | Article 13(5), second subparagraph, first and second indents |
| Article 13(5), second subparagraph | Article 13(5), third subparagraph |
| Article 13(6), first subparagraph, introductory sentence | Article 13(6), first subparagraph, introductory sentence premier |
| Article 13(6), first subparagraph, first indent | Article 13(6), first subparagraph, point (a) |
| Article 13(6), first subparagraph, second indent | Article 13(6), first subparagraph, point (b) |
| Article 13(6), first subparagraph, third indent | Article 13(6), first subparagraph, point (c) |
| Article 13(6), second subparagraph | Article 13(6), second subparagraph |
| Article 13(7) | Article 13(7) |
| Articles 14 and 15 | Articles 14 and 15 |
| Article 16 | — |
| — | Article 16 |
| Article 17, first subparagraph | Article 17 |
| Article 17, second subparagraph | — |
| Annex | — |
| — | Annex I |
| — | Annex II |