Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1240Show full title

Article 28 U.K. Opening of the tendering procedure

1. Products taken over into public intervention and available for sale shall be sold through a tendering procedure.

[F1 2. The tendering procedure must be open for at least six days.]

3. Tendering procedures may be open for the sale of products stored in one or several regions of the [F2 constituent nation].

4. The [F3 tendering procedure] opening the sale shall contain, in particular, the following information:

(a) the products covered, and in particular:

(i)

for rice, an indication of the type and variety,

(ii)

for beef, the relevant cuts;

(b) the period covered (‘tendering period’) and the different sub-periods during which the tenders can be submitted;

(c) for beef, butter and skimmed milk powder, the minimum quantity for which a tender may be submitted;

(d) the amount of the security that shall be lodged when submitting a tender.

In addition, that [F3 tendering procedure] may contain:

(a)

the global quantities covered by the tendering procedure;

(b)

if applicable, provisions concerning transport costs for cereals and rice.

5. Tendering procedures may be restricted to specified uses or destinations and include provisions for verifying the use or destination.

[F4 6. This Article does not apply in relation to public intervention schemes in England, otherwise than in connection with exceptional market conditions which are the subject of a declaration under section 20 of the Agriculture Act 2020.]

[F5 7. This Article ceases to apply in relation to public intervention schemes in Scotland, otherwise than in connection with public intervention measures which the appropriate authority takes under Article 219(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, for a period of five years beginning on 1 July 2023.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Art. 28(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 59(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Words in Art. 28(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 59(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Words in Art. 28(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 59(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F4 Art. 28(6) inserted (E.) (28.2.2023 at 9.10 a.m.) by The Market Measures Payment Schemes (Amendments, Revocation and Transitional Provision) (England) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/124), regs. 1(2)(b), 9(6) (with reg. 10)

F5 Art. 28(7) inserted (S.) (1.7.2023) by The Public Intervention and Private Storage Aid (Amendment and Suspension) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/150), regs. 1, 9(6) (with reg. 10)