1.By way of derogation from Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 826/2008, applications shall only relate to products that have been fully placed into storage.
2.Point (a) of the first paragraph of Article 20 of Regulation (EC) No 826/2008 shall not apply.
3.Member States may waive the requirements referred to in Article 22(1)(e) of Regulation (EC) No 826/2008 to mark the contract number provided that the store manager undertakes to enter the contract number in the register referred to in point III of Annex I to that Regulation.
4.By way of derogation from Article 36(6) of Regulation (EC) No 826/2008, at the end of the contractual storage period, the authority responsible for checking shall, throughout the whole removal period from August 2012 to February 2013, in respect of at least one half of the number of contracts, by sampling, verify weight and identification of the butter in storage.