Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/597 of 30 April 2020 granting aid for private storage for butter and fixing the amount of aid in advance

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/597
• Articles: 6

Article 1 Subject matter and scope

1.   This Regulation provides for private storage aid for butter, as referred to in point (e) of the first subparagraph of Article 17 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, hereinafter the ‘aid’.

2.   Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1238 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1240 shall apply save as otherwise provided for in this Regulation.

Article 2 Eligible products

In order to qualify for the aid, the butter shall be of sound and fair marketable quality and of Union origin. The product shall fulfil the requirements laid down in Section IV of Annex VI to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1238.

Article 3 Submission and admissibility of applications

1.   Applications for aid may be lodged as from 7 May 2020. The last date for the submission of applications shall be 30 June 2020.

2.   Applications shall relate to products that have already been placed in storage.

3.   The minimum quantity per application is 10 tonnes.

Article 4 Amount of aid and period of storage

1.   The amount of aid shall be fixed as follows:

(a)

EUR 9,83 per tonne of storage for fixed storage costs;

(b)

EUR 0,43 per tonne per day of contractual storage.

2.   Contractual storage shall end on the day preceding that of the removal from storage.

3.   Aid may be granted only where the contractual storage period is between 90 and 180 days.

Article 5 Checks

1.   By way of derogation from Article 60(1) and (2) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1240, where due to the measures put in place to address the pandemic of COVID-19, hereinafter ‘the measures’, the paying agency is not in a position to carry out in due time the checks referred to in Article 60(1) and (2) of that Regulation, the Member State concerned may:

(a)

extend the period referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 60(1) to carry out those checks by up to 30 days after the end of the measures; or

(b)

substitute those checks during the period when the measures are applicable by the use of relevant evidence, including geotagged photos or other evidence in electronic format.

2.   By way of derogation from the first subparagraph of Article 60(3) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1240, where due to the measures the paying agency is not in a position to carry out the unannounced on-the-spot checks, the paying agency shall not be required to perform unannounced checks during the period when the measures are in place.

Article 6 Entry into force

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .