{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-1852/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-1852/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2015/1852",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/1852 of 15 October 2015 opening a temporary exceptional private storage aid scheme for certain cheeses and fixing in advance the amount of aid",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-1852",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Eligibility of products",
  "text": "1. In order to qualify for the private storage aid referred to in Article 1, hereinafter the ‘aid’, the cheese shall be of sound and fair marketable quality, of Union origin and have, on the day when the storage contract starts, a minimum age corresponding to the period of maturation laid down in the product specification for the cheeses benefitting from a protected designation of origin or from a protected geographical indication under Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 and to a normal period of maturation set by Member States for the other cheeses.\n2. The cheese shall comply with the following requirements:\n(a) each lot weighs at least 0,5 tonnes;\n(b) it is indelibly marked with an indication, which may be encoded, of the undertaking in which it was manufactured and with the date of manufacture;\n(c) it bears the date of entry into storage;\n(d) it has not been the subject of a previous storage aid contract;\n(e) it is stored in the Member State in which the cheese is produced.\n3. Member States may waive the obligation to indicate the date of entry into store referred to in point (c) of paragraph 2 on the cheese provided that the store manager undertakes to keep a register in which the particulars referred to in point (b) of paragraph 2 are entered on the date of entry into store.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2015/1852/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:46:22.881510+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."
}