2014R0948 — EN — 10.09.2016 — 005.001

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COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 948/2014

of 4 September 2014

opening private storage for skimmed milk powder and fixing in advance the amount of aid

Article 1

1.  This Regulation provides for private storage aid for skimmed milk powder as referred to in Article 17(g) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.

2.  Regulation (EC) No 826/2008 shall apply save as otherwise provided for in this Regulation.

Article 2

The unit of measurement referred to in Article 16(2)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 826/2008 is the ‘storage lot’ which corresponds to the quantity of the product covered by this Regulation, weighing at least 1 tonne and of homogeneous composition and quality, produced in a single factory, taken into storage in a single warehouse on a single day.

Article 3

1.  Point (a) of the first paragraph of Article 20 of Regulation (EC) No 826/2008 shall not apply.

2.  Member States may waive the requirements referred to in Article 22(1)(e) of Regulation (EC) No 826/2008 to mark the contract number provided that the store manager undertakes to enter the contract number in the register referred to in point V of Annex I to that Regulation.

3.  By way of derogation from Article 36(6) of Regulation (EC) No 826/2008, at the end of the contractual storage period, the authority responsible for checking shall, in respect of at least one half of the number of contracts, by sampling, verify weight and identification of the skimmed milk powder in storage.

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Article 4

1.  The aid for the products referred to in Article 1 shall be fixed as follows:

However, by way of derogation from Article 34(6) of Regulation (EC) No 826/2008, where the contractual quantity can be removed after a minimum storage period of 270 days, the aid amounts shall be reduced by 10 %.

2.  Applications shall be valid only when they show the aid rates applied for.

Concluded contracts under this Regulation for a storage period between 90 and 210 days cannot be changed into contracts under point (b) of the first subparagraph of paragraph 1.

3.  Contractual storage shall end on the day preceding that of the removal from storage.

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Article 4a

By way of derogation from Article 31(2) of Regulation (EC) No 826/2008, the advance payment for contracts under point (b) of the first subparagraph of Article 4(1) of this Regulation shall not exceed the amount of aid corresponding to a storage period of 270 days.

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Article 5

Applications for private storage aid for may be lodged as from the date of entry into force of this Regulation. The last date for the submission of applications shall be ►M6  28 February 2017 ◄ .

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Article 6

Member States shall notify the Commission of the following:

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Article 7

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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