Obligations of the contracting party
Article 7
1. Contracts shall stipulate at least the following obligations for the contracting party: (a) to place and to keep the contractual quantity in storage, during the contractual storage period, at his own risk and expense in conditions ensuring the maintenance of the characteristics of the products, without substituting the stored products or transferring them to another storage place. Where the contracting party submits a reasoned request, the competent authority may authorise a relocation of the stored products; (b) to retain the weighting-in documents established at the time of entry into the storage place; (c) to allow the competent authority to check at any time that all the obligations laid down in the contract are being observed; (d) to make the products stored easily accessible and individually identifiable: each unit individually stored shall be marked so that date of placing in storage, the contract number, the product and the weight are shown. However, Member States may waive the requirement to mark the contract number provided that the store manager undertakes to enter the contract number in the register referred to in Article 3(3). 2. The contracting party shall make available to the authority responsible for checking all documentation, for each contract, allowing in particular the following information on the products placed in private storage to be verified: (a) the approval number identifying the factory and the Member State of production; (b) the origin and the date of manufacture of the products; (c) the date of placing into storage; (d) the weight and the number of pieces packaged; (e) the presence in the store and the address of the store; (f) the expected date of the end of the contractual storage period and completed by the actual date of removal. 3. The contracting party or, where applicable the operator of the storage place, shall keep stock accounts available at the warehouse covering, by contract number: (a) the identification of the products placed in private storage by lot; (b) the dates of placing in and removal from storage; (c) the quantity indicated per storage in lot; (d) the location of the products in the store.