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1.Each intervention storage place (‘storage place’) shall have a minimum storage capacity of:
(a)for cereals: 5 000 tonnes, 7 500 tonnes from the public intervention period 2017/18, 10 000 tonnes from the 2018/19 period, 15 000 tonnes from the 2019/20 period;
(b)for rice: 5 000 tonnes, 7 500 tonnes from the public intervention period 2017/18, 10 000 tonnes from the 2018/19 period;
(c)for butter and skimmed milk powder: 400 tonnes, 600 tonnes from the 2017 public intervention period, 800 tonnes from the 2018 period.
Member States with an average annual production of cereals of less than 20 million tonnes may continue to apply from the 2019/20 period a minimum storage capacity of 10 000 tonnes.
2.For the purposes of this Article, the ‘minimum storage capacity’ means a minimum capacity which may not be available permanently, but is readily achievable during the period when buying-in might take place.
3.A paying agency may derogate from paragraph 1 only where it demonstrates that the minimum storage capacity specified in that paragraph is not available and where the replacement storage places have ready access to a river, a sea or a railway connection.
1.The eligibility of products for public intervention shall be established in accordance with the methods laid down in the following provisions:
(a)for cereals: in Parts I, II, III and IV of Annex I;
(b)for rice: in Part I of Annex II;
(c)for beef: in Part I of Annex III;
[F1(d) for butter: in Parts I and Ia of Annex IV to this Regulation;]
[F1(e) for skimmed milk powder: in Parts I and Ia of Annex V to this Regulation.]
[F12. The methods to be used to determine the quality of cereals, butter and skimmed milk powder eligible for public intervention referred to in Annexes I, IV and V respectively, shall be those established by the latest versions of the relevant European or international standards, as the case may be, in force at least 6 months before the first day of the public intervention period as defined in Article 12 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.]