Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 replaced Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/20073 and lays down new rules regarding public intervention and aid for private storage. It also empowers the Commission to adopt delegated and implementing acts in that respect. In order to ensure the smooth functioning of the public intervention and aid for private storage schemes in the new legal framework, certain rules have to be adopted by means of such acts.

Article 11 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 provides that public intervention applies in respect of common wheat, durum wheat, barley, maize, paddy rice, fresh or chilled meat of the beef and veal sector, butter and skimmed milk powder, in accordance with the conditions set out in that Regulation and additional requirements determined by the Commission.

Article 17 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 provides that aid for private storage may be granted for white sugar, olive oil, flax fibre, fresh or chilled meat of bovine animals aged eight months or more, butter, cheese, skimmed milk powder, pigmeat, or sheepmeat and goatmeat in accordance with the conditions set out in that Regulation and additional requirements determined by the Commission.

In order to simplify and improve the effectiveness of the management and control mechanisms related to the public intervention and aid for private storage schemes, common rules for all the eligible products should be laid down.

As a general rule, in order to facilitate management and control, participation in the public intervention and aid for private storage schemes should be allowed only to operators established and registered for VAT purposes in a Member State.

In order to provide for effective control of the production of olive oil and sugar, operators eligible for aid for private storage should fulfil additional conditions.

Since products covered by public intervention and aid for private storage have a different nature as to production or harvest time and storage requirements, specific conditions of eligibility for each product should be provided for. In order to give the operators the time to adapt to the new system, some conditions should be applicable only from the 2017/18 marketing year with regard to cereals.

In order to guarantee the seriousness of the offer or tender or application and to ensure that the measure will have the desired effect on the market, both in the case of intervention buying-in, sales and disposal under the scheme for the most deprived in the Union, and in respect of aid for private storage, requirements relating to the lodging of a security should be laid down.

Provisions should also be laid down for the release and forfeiture of the security for intervention buying-in, sales and disposal under the scheme for the most deprived in the Union, and in respect of aid for private storage.

In respect of intervention sales, the tendering procedure can take place properly only if genuine tenders are submitted. To achieve that objective, it should be required that the security be released subject to the payment of the selling price within the time limit laid down.

In order to ensure that the public intervention scheme operates as simply and efficiently as possible throughout the Union, as regards the buying-in of eligible products on the one hand and the selling of products taken over by paying agencies on the other hand, the storage places should fulfil certain conditions.

It is necessary to provide that the paying agencies in charge of public intervention in the Member States, in accordance with Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 907/20144, ensure that those conditions relating to the storage places are complied with.

In the event that the allocation of beef for buying-in exceeds the cold storage capacity available in a Member State, it is necessary to provide for the possibility for a Member State to utilise cold storage capacity in another Member State.

In order to ensure that aid for private storage is managed efficiently, specific rules related to the payment of the aid for private storage should be laid down.

As the aim of this Regulation and the implementing act to be adopted in respect of public intervention and private storage is to simplify and adapt the provisions applicable to the products covered by public intervention and aid for private storage to the new legal framework established by Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and Council Regulation (EU) No 1370/20135, it should replace the provisions contained in Commission Regulations (EEC) No 3427/876, (EEC) No 2351/917, (EC) No 720/20088, (EC) No 826/20089, (EC) No 1130/200910, (EU) No 1272/200911 and (EU) No 807/201012. For the sake of clarity, those latter Regulations should therefore be repealed,