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Article 12 Public intervention periodsC1C2C3C4C5

United Kingdom

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

Public intervention shall be available for:

  1. (a)

    common wheat, durum wheat, barley and maize, from 1 November to 31 May;

  2. (b)

    paddy rice, from 1 April to 31 July;

  3. (c)

    beef and veal, throughout the year;

  4. (d)

    butter and skimmed milk powder, from 1 March to 30 September.

F1This Article does not apply in relation to public intervention schemes in England, otherwise than in connection with exceptional market conditions which are the subject of a declaration under section 20 of the Agriculture Act 2020.

F2This Article ceases to apply in Scotland in relation to public intervention schemes, otherwise than in connection with public intervention measures which the appropriate authority takes under Article 219(1), for a period of five years beginning on 1 July 2023.

F3This Article does not apply in relation to public intervention schemes in Wales.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Art. 12 inserted (E.) (28.2.2023 at 9.10 a.m.) by The Market Measures Payment Schemes (Amendments, Revocation and Transitional Provision) (England) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/124), regs. 1(2)(b), 4(3) (with reg. 10)

F2

Words in Art. 12 inserted (S.) (1.7.2023) by The Public Intervention and Private Storage Aid (Amendment and Suspension) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/150), regs. 1, 3(4) (with reg. 10)

F3

Words in Art. 12 inserted (W.) (16.2.2026) by The Closure of European Union Legacy Agriculture Schemes (Wales) Regulations 2026 (W.S.I. 2026/44), regs. 1(2), 4(3)

Modifications

C1

Arts. 8-18: power to modify conferred (W.) (11.11.2020 for specified purposes and 11.1.2021 otherwise) by Agriculture Act 2020 (c. 21), s. 57(1)(b)(c)(6), Sch. 5 para. 9 (with s. 47)

C2

Arts. 8-18: power to modify conferred (N.I.) (11.11.2020 for specified purposes) by Agriculture Act 2020 (c. 21), s. 57(1)(b)(c)(4)(a), Sch. 6 para. 9

C3

Arts. 8-18: power to modify conferred (E.) (11.11.2020 for specified purposes and 11.1.2021 otherwise) by Agriculture Act 2020 (c. 21), ss. 22, 57(1)(b)(c)(6)

C4

Arts. 8-21: power to modify conferred (S.) (1.1.2021) by Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 17), ss. 6, 26(2) (with s. 25); S.S.I. 2020/373, reg. 2(2)(a) (as amended (16.6.2025) by Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 11), ss. 26, 38(2); S.S.I. 2025/167, reg. 2(1))

C5

Arts. 8-18: power to modify conferred (W.) (17.10.2023) by Agriculture (Wales) Act 2023 (asc 4), ss. 23, 56(4); S.I. 2023/1092, art. 2(a)