{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1308/article-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1308/article-20.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/1308",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1308",
  "path": "article/20",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Implementing powers in accordance with the examination procedure",
  "text": "The appropriate authority may make regulations in relation to the application of this Chapter. Those measures may, in particular, concern the following:\n(a)the costs payable by the operator where products delivered for public intervention do not meet the minimum quality requirements;\n(b)the fixing of minimum storage capacity for intervention storage places;\n(c)the representative periods, markets, and market prices necessary for the application of this Chapter;\n(d)the delivery of the products to be bought in under public intervention, the transport costs to be borne by the offerer, the taking over of the products by paying agencies and the payment;\n(e)the different operations connected with the boning process for the beef and veal sector;\n(f)the practical arrangements for the packaging, marketing and labelling of products;\n(g)the procedures for the approval of undertakings producing butter and skimmed milk powder for the purposes of this Chapter;\n(h)any authorisation of storage outside the constituent nation where the products have been bought in and stored;\n(i)the sale or disposal of products bought in under public intervention, regarding, in particular, selling prices, the conditions for removal from storage, the subsequent use or destination of products released...;\n(j)in respect of products bought in under public intervention, the provisions relating to the possibility for the relevant authority to sell, at their own responsibility, small quantities remaining in storage or quantities which may no longer be repackaged or which have deteriorated;\n(k)in respect of private storage, the conclusion and the content of contracts between the competent authority ... and the applicants;\n(l)the placing and keeping of products in private storage and their removal from storage;\n(m)the duration of the private storage period and the provisions according to which such periods, once specified in the contracts, may be curtailed or extended;\n(n)the procedures to be followed for buying-in at a fixed price, including the procedures for, and the amount of, the security to be lodged, or for the granting of aid fixed in advance for private storage;\n(o)the use of tendering procedures, both for public intervention and for private storage, in particular as regards:\n(i)the submission of offers or tenders and the minimum quantity for an application or submission;\n(ii)the procedures for, and the amount of, the security to be lodged; and\n(iii)the selection of offers ...;\n(p)the implementation of ... scales for the classification of beef, pig and sheep carcasses;\n(q)a different presentation of carcasses and half carcasses than the one laid down in point A.IV of Annex IV for the purpose of establishing market prices;\n(r)the corrective factors ... to be used for a different presentation of beef and sheep carcasses where the reference presentation is not used;\n(s)the practical arrangements for the marking of classified carcasses and for the calculation of the weighted average price in the United Kingdom for beef, pig and sheep carcasses;\n(t)provision for a different presentation of pig carcasses than the one laid down in point B.III of Annex IV, if one of the following conditions is fulfilled:\n(i)normal commercial practice in the constituent nation differs from the standard presentation defined in the first subparagraph of point B.III of Annex IV;\n(ii)technical requirements warrant it;\n(iii)carcasses are dehided in a uniform manner;\n(u)...\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nPoints (p) to (t) do not apply in relation to slaughterhouses in Scotland (see section 11 of the Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Act 2020).\nPoints (p) to (t) do not apply in relation to slaughterhouses in England (see section 40(1) of the Agriculture Act 2020).\nPoints (p) to (t) do not apply in relation to slaughterhouses in Wales (see section 35(1) of the Agriculture (Wales) Act 2023).\nThis 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.\nIn relation to private storage aid schemes in England, point (o) is to be read as if point (ii) were omitted.\nThis Article 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.\nIn relation to private storage aid schemes in Scotland, point (o) is to be read as if point (ii) were omitted.\nThis Article does not apply in relation to public intervention schemes or private storage aid schemes in Wales.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 8(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(h) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 8(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(i) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 8(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(j) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 8(d); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(k) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 8(e); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(o)(iii) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 8(f); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in Art. 20(p) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 8(g); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(r) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 8(h); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(s) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 8(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Word in Art. 20(t) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 8(j)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(t)(i) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 8(j)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Art. 20(u) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 8(k); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 8(l); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20 inserted (S.) (1.1.2021) by Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 17), s. 26(2), sch. para. 1(3) (with s. 25, sch. para. 2); S.S.I. 2020/373, reg. 2(2)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20 inserted (30.11.2022) by Agriculture Act 2020 (c. 21), s. 57(2)(d), Sch. 7 para. 5 (with Sch. 7 para. 16); S.I. 2022/1255, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20 inserted (13.12.2022) by Agriculture Act 2020 (c. 21), s. 57(3)(c), Sch. 7 para. 20 (with Sch. 7 para. 31); S.I. 2022/1204, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20 substituted (17.10.2023) by Agriculture (Wales) Act 2023 (asc 4), s. 56(4), Sch. 3 para. 15 (with Sch. 3 para. 18); S.I. 2023/1092, art. 2(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F18",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20 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(10) (with reg. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F19",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20 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(11) (with reg. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F20",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20 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(11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "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))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2020/21",
      "affecting_title": "Agriculture Act 2020"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/1308/article/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:06.542387+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}