Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014Show full title

Article 16 U.K. Content of the public storage accounts to be kept by paying agencies

1. The stock accounts provided for in point (a) of the first subparagraph of Article 3(3) of Delegated Regulation (EU) No 907/2014 shall contain the following categories of elements, shown separately:

(a) the quantities of products recorded on entry into and removal from storage, with or without physical movement;

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(c) quantities taken as samples, distinguishing samples taken by purchasers;

(d) the quantities which, after checking by visual examination in the context of the annual stock-taking or during the inspection after taking into intervention, may no longer be repackaged and are the subject of direct sales;

(e) quantities missing, for identifiable or unidentifiable reasons, including those corresponding to the legal tolerance limits;

(f) quantities which have deteriorated;

(g) surplus quantities;

(h) missing quantities exceeding the tolerance limits;

(i) quantities which have entered into storage and been found not to meet the requirements and for which taking-over has therefore been refused;

(j) net quantities in storage at the end of each month or accounting year, which are carried forward to the next month or accounting year.

2. The financial accounts provided for in point (a) of the first subparagraph of Article 3(3) of Delegated Regulation (EU) No 907/2014 shall contain:

(a) the value of the quantities referred to in point (a) of paragraph 1 of this Article, showing separately the value of the quantities bought in and of the quantities sold;

(b) the book value of the quantities used or taken into account under the free distribution arrangements referred to in point (b) of paragraph 1 of this Article;

(c) the financing costs referred to in point (a) of Article 3(1) of Delegated Regulation (EU) No 906/2014;

(d) expenditure on physical operations as referred to in points (b) and (c) of Article 3(1) of Delegated Regulation (EU) No 906/2014;

(e) amounts resulting from depreciation as referred to in point (e) of Article 3(1) of Delegated Regulation (EU) No 906/2014;

(f) the amounts collected or recovered from sellers, purchasers and storers, other than those referred to in Article 20(2) of this Regulation;

(g) the amount from direct sales carried out after the annual stock-taking or following checks after products are taken into intervention storage;

(h) losses and gains on removals of products, taking account of depreciation as referred to in point (e) of this paragraph;

(i) other debits and credits, in particular those corresponding to the quantities referred to in points (c) to (g) of paragraph 1 of this Article;

(j) the average book value, expressed per tonne or per hectolitre, as the case may be.

[F2 3. 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.]

[F3 4. 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. 16(1)(b) omitted (31.12.2020 in so far as it relates to common organisation of the markets and rural development measures) by virtue of The Common Agricultural Policy (Financing, Management and Monitoring Supplementary Provisions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/765), regs. 1, 4(10) (as substituted by S.I. 2019/1405, regs. 1(2), 3(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Art. 16(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), 7(3) (with reg. 10)

F3 Art. 16(4) 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, 7(4) (with reg. 10)