Commission Regulation (EC) No 6/2008 (repealed)Show full title

Article 3

1. Contract applications or tenders and contracts shall relate to only one of the products for which aid may be granted.

2. Contract applications or tenders shall not be acceptable unless they include the particulars referred to in paragraph 3(a), (b), (d) and (e), and proof has been furnished that a security has been provided.

3. Contracts shall include the following particulars:

(a) a declaration by which the contracting party undertakes to only place in storage and to only store products which fulfil the conditions laid down in Article 2(2) and (3);

(b) the description and the quantity of the product to be stored;

(c) the time limit for placing in storage, referred to in Article 4(3), of the total quantity referred to under (b) of this paragraph;

(d) the duration of storage;

(e) the amount of the aid per unit of weight;

(f) the amount of the security;

(g) a provision enabling the storage period to be shortened or extended under the conditions laid down in Community regulations.

4. Contracts shall impose at least the following obligations on the contracting party:

(a) to place the agreed quantity of product in storage within the time limits laid down in Article 4 and to store it at his own risk and expense in conditions ensuring the maintenance of the characteristics of the products referred to in Article 2(2) for the contractual period, without altering, substituting or transferring to another warehouse the stored products; however, in exceptional cases and on duly motivated request, the intervention agency may authorise a relocation of the stored products;

(b) to advise the intervention agency with which he has concluded the contract, in due time before the entry into storage of each individual lot, within the meaning of the second subparagraph of Article 4(1), of the date and place of storage as well as the nature and quantity of the product to be stored; the intervention agency may require that this information is given at least two working days before the placing in storage of each individual lot;

(c) to send to the intervention agency the documents relating to the operations for placing in storage not later than one month after the date referred to in Article 4(4);

(d) to store the products in accordance with the requirements for identification referred to in Article 13(4);

(e) to permit the agency to check at any time that all the obligations laid down in the contract are being observed.