Article 10
United Kingdom
The competent authority of the Member State that has approved the storage agency shall conduct on-the-spot checks as follows:
in the case of unprocessed dried grapes, from takeover to the end of February of the following year checks shall be conducted on at least 20 % of the quantities in storage and at least once at each storage agency to see that records are properly kept and shall also cover storage conditions and the quality of the product in storage;
in the case of unprocessed dried figs, systematic checks shall be conducted at the time of takeover to see that the product meets the minimum quality requirements;
checks shall be conducted on at least 10 % of the quantities in storage to verify the information given in applications for storage aid and for financial compensation.
F1In the event of the uses referred to in Article 4(3), the checks provided for in points (b) and (c) of the first subparagraph of this paragraph shall cover 100 % of each consignment removed from storage during the marketing year. After those checks the products removed from storage shall be denatured under the conditions laid down by the Member State and in the presence of the competent authorities.
The competent authority shall withdraw approval where any of the conditions for approval are no longer met. No storage aid or financial compensation shall be paid in respect of the marketing year in progress and amounts already paid shall be reimbursed, plus interest for the time elapsing between payment and reimbursement.
The rate of interest shall be that applied by the European Central Bank to its transactions in euro, as published in the ‘C’ series of the Official Journal of the European Union and in force on the date of the wrong payment, plus three percentage points.
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