Article 1 Regulation (EC) No 6/2008 shall apply subject to the provisions of this Regulation.
Article 2 1. Applications in the context of private storage aid shall be submitted to the intervention agencies listed in Annex I.
2. In the context of a tendering procedure the period for which storage may be tendered is three months. However, the actual storage period shall be chosen by the storer. This period may extend from a minimum of three months to a maximum of seven months. However, if the storage period is greater than three months the aid shall be increased on a daily basis by EUR 1,45 per tonne per day.
Article 3 The minimum quantity per contract shall be four tonnes expressed, as bone-in meat.
Article 4 The minimum quantity for each removal is fixed at four tonnes expressed as product weight per store and per contractor. However, where the quantity left in a store is less than this quantity, one further withdrawal operation of the remaining quantity or part thereof shall be permitted.
Where these withdrawal conditions are not complied with:
the amount of aid for the quantity withdrawn shall be calculated in accordance with Article 6(3) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2008, and
15 % of the security referred to in Article 5 shall be declared forfeit in respect of the quantity withdrawn.
Article 5 The security shall be EUR 145 per tonne.
Article 6 Regulation (EEC) No 3447/90 is repealed.
References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex III.
Article 7 This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth 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.
Done at Brussels, 30 January 2008.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel Barroso