Commission Regulation (EC) No 826/2008 (repealed)Show full title

Article 22 Obligations of the contracting party

1. Contracts shall stipulate at least the following obligations for the contracting party:

(a) to place and to keep the contractual quantity in storage, during the contractual storage period, at his own risk and expense in conditions ensuring the maintenance of the characteristics of the products referred to in Annex I, without substituting the stored products or transferring them to another storage place. However, for cheeses where the contracting party submits a reasoned request, the competent authority may authorise a relocation of the stored products. For other products, where the contracting party submits a reasoned request the competent authority may authorise a relocation of the stored products only in exceptional cases;

(b) to retain the weighting-in documents established at the time of entry into the storage place;

(c) to send the documents relating to the operations for placing in storage to the competent authority not later than one month after the date of placing into storage referred to in Article 25(1);

(d) to allow the competent authority to check at any time that all the obligations laid down in the contract are being observed;

(e) to make the products stored easily accessible and individually identifiable: each unit individually stored shall be marked so that date of placing in storage, the contract number, the product and the weight are shown.

2. The contracting party shall make available to the authority responsible for checking all documentation, for each contract, allowing in particular the following information on the products placed in private storage to be verified:

(a) the approval number identifying the factory and the Member State of production, if necessary;

(b) the origin and the date of manufacture of the products or for sugar, the marketing year of manufacture and when appropriate the day of slaughtering;

(c) the date of placing into storage;

(d) the weight and the number of pieces packaged;

(e) the presence in the store and the address of the store;

(f) the expected date of the end of the contractual storage period and completed by the actual date of removal.

As regards point (d) of the first subparagraph, where meat is placed in storage after cutting, partial deboning or deboning, weighing shall be carried out on products actually placed in storage and may be done at the place of cutting, partial deboning or deboning. The determination of weights of products to be placed in storage shall not take place before the contract is concluded.

3. The contracting party or, where applicable the operator of the storage place, shall keep stock accounts available at the warehouse covering, by contract number:

(a) the identification of the products placed in private storage by lot/batch/vat/silo;

(b) the dates of placing in and removal from storage;

(c) the quantity indicated per storage in lot/batch/vat/silo;

(d) the location of the products in the store.