1.Each intervention storage place (‘storage place’) shall have a minimum storage capacity of:
(a)for cereals: 5 000 tonnes, 7 500 tonnes from the public intervention period 2017/18, 10 000 tonnes from the 2018/19 period, 15 000 tonnes from the 2019/20 period;
(b)for rice: 5 000 tonnes, 7 500 tonnes from the public intervention period 2017/18, 10 000 tonnes from the 2018/19 period;
(c)for butter and skimmed milk powder: 400 tonnes, 600 tonnes from the 2017 public intervention period, 800 tonnes from the 2018 period.
[F1If the average annual production of cereals in the United Kingdom is less than 20 million tonnes, the appropriate authority may apply a minimum storage capacity of 10 000 tonnes from the 2019/20 period.]
2.For the purposes of this Article, the ‘minimum storage capacity’ means a minimum capacity which may not be available permanently, but is readily achievable during the period when buying-in might take place.
3.A paying agency may derogate from paragraph 1 only where it demonstrates that the minimum storage capacity specified in that paragraph is not available and where the replacement storage places have ready access to a river, a sea or a railway connection.
[F24.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.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Art. 3(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures Payment Schemes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/823), regs. 1, 6(5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2Art. 3(4) 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(3) (with reg. 10)
1.The eligibility of products for public intervention shall be established in accordance with the methods laid down in the following provisions:
(a)for cereals: in Parts I, II, III and IV of Annex I;
(b)for rice: in Part I of Annex II;
(c)for beef: in Part I of Annex III;
[F3(d)for butter: in Parts I and Ia of Annex IV to this Regulation;]
[F3(e)for skimmed milk powder: in Parts I and Ia of Annex V to this Regulation.]
[F32.The methods to be used to determine the quality of cereals, butter and skimmed milk powder eligible for public intervention referred to in Annexes I, IV and V respectively, shall be those established by the latest versions of the relevant [F4domestic] or international standards, as the case may be, in force at least 6 months before the first day of the public intervention period as defined in Article 12 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.]
[F53.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.]
Textual Amendments
F3Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/150 of 30 January 2018 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1240 as regards methods for the analysis and quality evaluation of milk and milk products eligible for public intervention and aid for private storage.
F4Word in Art. 4(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures Payment Schemes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/823), regs. 1, 6(6); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F5Art. 4(3) 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(4) (with reg. 10)