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

CHAPTER I Specific rules related to public intervention

Article 3 Intervention storage places

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.

Member States with an average annual production of cereals of less than 20 million tonnes may continue to apply from the 2019/20 period a minimum storage capacity of 10 000 tonnes.

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.

Article 4 Establishing the eligibility of products

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;

(d) for butter: in Part I of Annex IV to this Regulation and in Commission Regulation (EC) No 273/2008(1);

(e) for skimmed milk powder: in Part I of Annex V to this Regulation and in Regulation (EC) No 273/2008.

2. The methods to be used to determine the quality of cereals for public intervention referred to in Annex I shall be those established by the latest versions of the relevant European or international standards, as the case may be, in force on the first day of each marketing year.

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Commission Regulation (EC) No 273/2008 of 5 March 2008 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards methods for the analysis and quality evaluation of milk and milk products (OJ L 88, 29.3.2008, p. 1).