Article 19 Delegated powersC1

In order to ensure that products bought in under public intervention or subject to aid for private storage are suitable for long-term storage and are of sound, fair and marketable quality, and in order to take into account the specific characteristics of the different sectors for the purposes of ensuring the cost-effective operation of public intervention and private storage, the F1appropriate authority may make regulations laying down the requirements and conditions to be met by those products, in addition to the requirements laid down in this Regulation. Those requirements and conditions shall aim to guarantee, for the products bought in and stored:

In order to take account of the specific characteristics of the cereals and paddy rice sectors, the F2appropriate authority may make regulations laying down the quality criteria as regards both buying-in and sales of common wheat, durum wheat, barley, maize and paddy rice.

In order to ensure appropriate storage capacity and the efficiency of the public intervention system in terms of cost-effectiveness, distribution and access for operators, and in order to maintain the quality of products bought in under public intervention for their disposal at the end of the storage period, the F3appropriate authority may make regulations laying down:

Paragraphs 1 to 3 do 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.

Paragraphs 1 to 3 cease to apply in relation to public intervention schemes in Scotland, 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.

In order to ensure that aid for private storage has the desired effect on the market, the F7appropriate authority may make regulations laying down:

In order to ensure the proper functioning of the public intervention and private storage systems, the F8appropriate authority may make regulations:

Paragraph 5 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.

In relation to private storage aid schemes in England, paragraph 5 is to be read as if point (c) were omitted.

Paragraph 5 ceases to apply in relation to public intervention schemes in Scotland, 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.

In relation to private storage aid schemes in Scotland, paragraph 5 is to be read as if point (c) has no effect.

In order to take account of technical developments and of the needs of sectors referred to in Article 10, as well as of the need to standardise the presentation of the different products for the purposes of improving market transparency, price recording and the application of the market intervention measures, the F12appropriate authority may make regulations:

F17This paragraph does not apply to the classification, identification and presentation of carcasses by slaughterhouses in Scotland (see section 11 of the Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Act 2020).

F18This paragraph does not apply to the classification, identification and presentation of carcasses by slaughterhouses in England (see section 40(1) of the Agriculture Act 2020).

F19This paragraph does not apply to the classification, identification and presentation of carcasses by slaughterhouses in Wales F20(see section 35(1) of the Agriculture (Wales) Act 2023).

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, or in relation to private storage aid schemes in England, the first subparagraph of paragraph 6 is to be read as if, for “the market intervention measures”, there were substituted “aid for private storage”.

In relation to public intervention schemes in Scotland, 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, the first paragraph is to be read as if, for “the market intervention measures”, there were substituted “aid for private storage”.

This Article does not apply in relation to public intervention schemes or private storage aid schemes in Wales.