No L 104/18 Official Journal of the European Communities 24. 4. 91 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 993/91 _of 23 April 1991 laying down detailed rules for the granting of private storage aid ‘for long-keeping cheeses THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, : Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by Regula- tion (EEC) No 3641/90 (%), and in particular Articles 9 (3) and 28 thereof, Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 508/71 (}) provides that private storage aid may be granted for certain long-keeping cheeses where there is a serious imbalance of the market which may be eliminated or reduced by seasonal storage ; Whereas the seasonal nature of Emmental and Gruyére cheese production is aggravated by the fact that the seasonal trend in consumption of such cheeses is the opposite of their production ; whereas, therefore, provi- sion should be made for recourse to such storage in respect of a quantity corresponding to the difference between summer and winter production ; Whereas the detailed rules for the application of this measure should essentially be the same as those laid down for a similar measure during previous years; Whereas, in view of experience in controls, the provisions relating thereto should be specified, in particular as regards the documents to be presented and the on-the- spot checks to be conducted ; whereas these new require- ments on the subject make it necessary to stipulate that the Member States may provide that the costs of controls be fully or in part charged to the contractor; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Milk and Milk Products, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Aid shall be granted in respect of the prlvate storage of 20 150 tonnes of Emmental and Gruyére cheeses manu- factured in the Community which satisfy the requxre- ments of Articles 2 and 3 hereof. () OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13. () OJ No L 362, 27. 12. 1990, p. § () O] No L 58, 11. 3. 1971, p. 1 Article 2 1. ~ The intervention agency may conclude storage contracts only if the following conditions are satisfied : (a) the batch of cheeses to which a contract relates must comprise at least five tonnes; (b) the cheeses shall be indelibly marked with an indica- tion (which may take the form of a number) of the undertaking in which they were manufactured and of the day and month of manufacture; (c) the cheeses must have been manufactured at least 10 days before the date specified in the contract as being the date of commencement of storage ; (d) the cheeses must have undergone quality tests which _establish that their classification after maturing could be expected to be: — ‘Premier choix’ in France, — ‘Markenkise’ or ‘Klasse fein’ in Germany, — ‘first quality’ in Denmark, — ‘special grade’ in Ireland; (e) the storer shall undertake : — to keep the cheese during the entire period of storage in premises where the maximum tempera- ture is as indicated under paragraph 2, — not, during the term of the contract, to alter the composition of the batch covered by the contract without authorization from the intervention agency. If the condition concerning the minimum quantity fixed for each batch continues to be met, the intervention agency may authorize an altera- tion which is limited to the removal or replace- ment of cheeses which are found to have deterio- rated to such an extent that they can no longer be stored. In the event of release from store of certain quan- tities (1) if the aforesaid quantities are replaced with the authorization of the intervention agency, the contract is deemed not to have undergone any alteration ; (ii) if the aforesaid quantities are not replaced, the contract is deemed to have been concluded ab ‘initio for the quantity permanently retained. Any costs of controls arising from an alteration shall be met by the storer, — to keep stock records and to inform the interven- tion agency each week of the cheeses put into storage during the previous week and of scheduled withdrawals.