Article 3
1. Aid shall be granted only for cheese put into storage during the period 15 May to 30 November 1997. 2. No aid shall be granted in respect of storage under contract for less than 60 days. 3. The aid payable may not exceed an amount corresponding to 150 days' storage under contract terminating before 31 March 1998. By way of derogation from the second indent of Article 2 (1) (d), when the period of 60 days specified in paragraph 2 has elapsed, the storer may remove all or part of the batch under contract. The minimum quantity that may be removed shall be 500 kilograms. The Member States may, however, increase this quantity to two tonnes. The date of the start of operations to remove cheese covered by the contract shall not be included in the period of storage under contract.