Article 4
United Kingdom
Products held by storage agencies shall be put up for sale by the competent authority which granted them recognition. They shall be sold by invitation to tender or standing invitation to tender, with a minimum tendering price, where applicable, and subject to the following conditions:
unprocessed dried figs shall be sold for a specific industrial use or a use as referred to in paragraph 3, to be specified in the notice of invitation to tender;
unprocessed dried grapes shall be sold by the end of February after buying-in for processing into dried grapes for final consumption and, after that date, for a specific industrial use, to be specified in the notice of invitation to tender.
The specific industrial uses referred to in paragraph 1 shall include in particular the production of preparations of a kind used in animal feeding covered by CN code 2309, roasted coffee substitutes covered by CN code 2101 30 and alcohol covered by CN code 2208. The Member States may authorise sales for other industrial uses after notifying the Commission of the commercial grounds for their choice and the controls covering those other uses.
After notifying the Commission of the justified reasons why the uses provided for in paragraph 2 were not possible, Member States may authorise the storage agencies to permit the following uses for unprocessed dried figs:
distribution to animals;
use in composting and biodegrading processes respecting the environment, in particular water quality and the countryside.
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