Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 (repealed)Show full title

Article 43 Implementing rules

Without prejudice to any specific powers conferred upon the Commission by the provisions of this Chapter, the Commission shall adopt the detailed rules for its implementation, which may relate in particular to:

(a)

the requirements and conditions to be met by, and, in the case of pigmeat, the list of products to be bought-into public intervention as referred to in Article 10 or for which aid for private storage is granted as referred to in Articles 28 and 31, in particular with respect to quality, quality groups, quality grades, categories, quantities, packaging including labelling, maximum ages, preservation, the stage of the products to which the intervention price relates, the duration of private storage;

(b)

amendments to Part B of Annex IV;

(c)

where applicable, the scale of applicable price increases and reductions;

(d)

the procedures and conditions for taking over into public intervention by paying agencies and the granting of aid for private storage, in particular:

(i)

with regard to the conclusion and the content of contracts;

(ii)

the duration of the period of private storage and the conditions according to which such periods, once specified in the contracts, may be curtailed or extended;

(iii)

the conditions according to which it may be decided that products covered by private storage contracts may be remarketed or disposed of;

(iv)

the Member State where a request for private storage may be submitted;

(e)

the adoption of the list of representative markets referred to in Articles 17 and 37;

(f)

the rules as regards the conditions for disposal of products bought-in under public intervention, in particular as regards selling prices, the conditions for release from storage, where appropriate, the subsequent use or destination of products thus released, checks to be carried out and, as the case may be, a system of securities to be applied;

(g)

the setting-up of the annual plan referred to in Article 27(1);

(h)

the condition of mobilisation on the Community market referred to in Article 27(2);

(i)

the rules concerning the authorisations referred to in Article 39 including, as far as strictly necessary, derogations from the rules on trade;

(j)

the rules relating to the procedures to be followed in the case of the making use of tendering procedures;

(k)

the rules concerning the designation of intervention centres referred to in Article 41;

(l)

the conditions to be met by the stores where products may be stored;

(m)

the Community scales for the classification of carcasses provided for in Article 42(1), in particular as regards:

(i)

definitions;

(ii)

carcass presentations for the purpose of price reporting in respect of the classification of carcasses of adult bovine animals;

(iii)

in respect of the measures to be taken by slaughterhouses as provided for in point III of point A of Annex V:

• any derogations referred to in Article 5 of Directive 88/409/EEC for slaughterhouses wishing to restrict their production to the local market,

• any derogations which may be granted to Member States which so request for slaughterhouses in which few bovine animals are slaughtered;

(iv)

authorising the Member States not to apply the grading scale for the classification of pig carcasses and to use assessment criteria in addition to weight and estimated lean-meat content;

(v)

rules concerning the reporting of prices of certain products by the Member States.