TITLE IIU.K.PUBLIC INTERVENTION

CHAPTER IIU.K.Buying-in of products into intervention

Section 1U.K.General provisions

Article 5U.K.Minimum quantities of products offered or tendered

1.The minimum quantity of products offered or tendered for buying-in shall be:

(a)for common wheat, barley and maize: 160 tonnes;

(b)for durum wheat: 20 tonnes;

(c)for rice: 40 tonnes;

(d)for beef: 20 tonnes;

(e)for butter: 30 tonnes;

(f)for skimmed milk powder: 30 tonnes.

[F1If the United Kingdom has an average annual production of cereals of less than 20 million tonnes, the appropriate authority may decide to apply a minimum quantity of 120 tonnes for common wheat, barley and maize.].

2.A paying agency may set a minimum quantity higher than that provided for in paragraph 1 if justified by the conditions and practices of the wholesale trade or environmental rules in force in the [F2United Kingdom].

[F33.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.]

[F44.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.]

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