Article 13Public intervention

1

The appropriate authority must buy in common wheat, butter and skimmed milk powder during the periods referred to in Article 12 in respect of those products.

2

Subject to paragraphs 3 and 4, the appropriate authority may buy in any other products listed in Article 12 under public intervention during the periods referred to in respect of those products.

3

In the case of durum wheat, barley, maize and paddy rice (including specific varieties or types of paddy rice), the appropriate authority may only buy in products if the market situation so requires.

4

In the case of beef and veal, the appropriate authority may only buy in products if, over the representative period determined pursuant to point (c) of the first paragraph of Article 20, the average market price in the United Kingdom or in a particular region of the United Kingdom, recorded on the basis of the scale for classification of carcasses of bovine animals referred to in point A of Annex IV, is below 85% of the reference threshold laid down in point (d) of Article 7(1).

5

The appropriate authority may close the tendering procedure for the beef and veal sector where, over the representative period determined pursuant to point (c) of the first paragraph of Article 20, the conditions provided for in paragraph 4 of this Article are no longer fulfilled.

Article 14Buying-in at a fixed price or tendering

The appropriate authority may make regulations laying down measures on:

a

fixing buying-in prices for the products referred to in Article 11; and

b

quantitative limitations where buying-in is carried out at a fixed price.