The intervention agency can take the paddy rice over at the place where it is stored when the offer is submitted rather than at the intervention centre nominated by the applicant.F1In this case the goods taken over must be stored separately from other goods.

In such cases, the quantity can be established on the basis of the stock accounts — drawn up to professional specifications and in accordance with the intervention agency's requirements — provided that:

• the accounts indicate the weight established by weighing, the quality characteristics at the moment of weighing, moisture content in particular, any inter-bin transfers, and any treatments carried out. Weighing must have occurred within the previous 10 months,

• the storekeeper declares that the lot offered corresponds in every detail to the information in the accounts.

In this case:

• the weight to be recorded shall be the weight entered in the accounts, adjusted as appropriate to take account of any difference between the moisture content established at weighing and the content established on the basis of the representative sample,

• the intervention agency shall carry out a volumetric check within 30 days of the date of taking over. Any difference between the quantity weighed and the quantity estimated using the volumetric method may not exceed 6 %.

If volumetric measurement indicates that:

• the weight is up to 6 % less than the quantity recorded in the storekeeper's accounts, the storekeeper shall bear all the costs relating to the missing quantities established as such in a subsequent weighing compared to the weight recorded in the accounts (at taking over),

• the weight is over 6 % less than the quantity recorded in the storekeeper's accounts, the storekeeper shall carry out an immediate weighing. The storekeeper shall bear the weighing costs if the weight thus established is less than the weight as recorded. The EAGGF shall bear the costs in the opposite case.