1.Any operator established and registered for VAT purposes in the Community can submit an offer or a tender under a public intervention scheme.
However, for the purposes of buying-in, for cereals and rice, registration in a farm register is sufficient if the operator has no VAT registration.
2.In the case of beef for buying-in only the following operators may submit tenders:
(a)slaughterhouses for bovine animals registered or approved in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council(1), whatever their legal status; and
(b)livestock or meat traders who have slaughtering undertaken therein on their own account.
3.For butter and skimmed milk powder, approved undertakings as referred to in Article 10(1)(e) and (f) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 are eligible only if they fulfil the conditions referred to in Part III of Annex IV and Part III of Annex V.
1.Offers or tenders submitted in accordance with this Regulation shall use the method made available to the operators by the Member State concerned.
2.The intervention agencies may require that electronic offers or tenders be accompanied by an advance electronic signature within the meaning of Article 2(2) of Directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(2) or by an electronic signature offering equivalent assurances with regard to the functionalities attributed to a signature, by applying the same rules and conditions as those applied by the Commission in accordance with its provisions on electronic and digitised documents, set out by Decision 2004/563/EC, Euratom(3), and in its implementing rules.