{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1238/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1238/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2016/1238",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1238 of 18 May 2016 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to public intervention and aid for private storage (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1238",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Security",
  "text": "Operators shall lodge a security in favour of the relevant paying agency in accordance with Section 2 of Chapter IV of Delegated Regulation (EU) No 907/2014 when:\n(a)submitting an offer or a tender for the buying-in or sale of intervention products...;\n(b)submitting a tender or an application for aid for private storage unless ... the tendering procedure or the Regulations fixing the amount of aid in advance as referred to in Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1240 provide otherwise.\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, or in relation to private storage aid schemes in England.\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) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, for a period of five years beginning on 1 July 2023.\nThis Article ceases to apply in relation to private storage aid schemes in Scotland.\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. 4(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Market Measures Payment Schemes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/823), regs. 1, 5(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Art. 4(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Market Measures Payment Schemes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/823), regs. 1, 5(4A)(a) (as inserted by S.I. 2020/1445, regs. 1(2)(a), 15(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(b) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures Payment Schemes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/823), regs. 1, 5(4A)(b) (as inserted by S.I. 2020/1445, regs. 1(2)(a), 15(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in Art. 4(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures Payment Schemes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/823), regs. 1, 5(4A)(c) (as inserted by S.I. 2020/1445, regs. 1(2)(a), 15(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4 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), 8(4) (with reg. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4 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, 8(4) (with reg. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4 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), 9(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/1238/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:45:40.011432+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."
}