TITLE IIPUBLIC INTERVENTION

CHAPTER IIBuying-in of products into intervention

Section 3Buying-in via a tendering procedure

Article 12Tendering procedure

1.

F1Where the appropriate authority decides to buy-in products under Article 13(2) of Regulation (EU) No. 1308/2013 or Article 3(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1370/2013, it must publish a tendering procedure. The tendering procedure must contain, in particular, the following information:

(a)

the products covered, and:

  1. (i)

    for rice, an indication of the type and variety;

  2. (ii)

    for beef, whether the tender is for the bought-in carcasses to be deboned or for storage without deboning;

(b)

the period covered (‘tendering period’) and, if necessary, the different sub-periods during which the tenders can be submitted;

F2c)

in the case of a restricted tendering procedure under Article 3(3) of Regulation (EU) No. 1370/2013, the region covered.

F32.

The appropriate authority may open a tendering procedure for buying-in of beef by category or region on the basis of the two most recent weekly market prices recorded. The appropriate authority may close the tendering procedure on the basis of the most recent weekly market prices recorded.

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4.

With regard to rice, the tendering procedure may be restricted to specific varieties or one or more types of paddy rice, namely ‘round grain rice’, ‘medium grain rice’, ‘long grain rice A’ or ‘long grain rice B’, as defined in points (a), (b) or (c) of point I.2 of Part I of Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.

5.

With regard to beef, the following rules shall apply:

(a)

the average market price by eligible category in F5the United Kingdom or in a region thereof shall take account of the prices for qualities U, R and O, expressed in quality R3 using the conversion coefficients set out in Part II of Annex III in the F6United Kingdom or the intervention region concerned;

(b)

the average market prices shall be recorded in accordance with F7Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182 and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1184.;

(c)

the average market price by eligible category in F8the United Kingdom or a region thereof shall be the average of the market prices for all the qualities referred to in point (b), weighted by the proportion each quality represents in the total number of slaughterings in F9the United Kingdom or region.

The United Kingdom shall consist of two intervention regions as follows:

  1. (i)

    region I: Great Britain;

  2. (ii)

    region II: Northern Ireland.

F10(6.

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.

F11(7.

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.