Article 2 Submission and admissibility of offers, tenders and applications

United Kingdom

Operators shall lodge offers and tenders for public intervention as well as tenders and applications for aid for private storage using the method made available by the paying agency F1....

An offer, tender or application shall be admissible if it is submitted in F2English, or in the case of operators from Wales, English or Welsh, and shall include, on a form made available by the paying agency, at least the following information:

(a)

the operator's name, address and F3United Kingdom VAT registration number;

(b)

the product, or type of product, covered with its relevant CN code, if applicable;

(c)

the quantity offered, tendered or applied for, subject to the minimum quantities laid down in Article 5, if applicable.

The offer, tender or application shall not include any additional conditions introduced by the operator other than those laid down in this Regulation or in the relevant F4published tendering procedure or the Regulation fixing the amount of aid for private storage in advance.

Where the time limit for the submission of offers, tenders or applications is a public holiday, the offers, tenders or applications shall be submitted at the latest on the last working day preceding the public holiday.

Offers, tenders or applications submitted on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday shall be deemed to be received by the paying agency on the first working day following the day on which they were submitted.

Offers, tenders or applications shall not be withdrawn or amended after their submission.

The paying agency shall register the admissible offers, tenders or applications and the quantities concerned on the day on which they are received.

The rights and obligations resulting from the acceptance of the offer, tender or application shall not be transferable.

F59.

This 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.

F610.

This 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.

F711.

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

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Art. 2(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Market Measures Payment Schemes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/823), regs. 1, 6(4)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2: Words in Art. 2(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures Payment Schemes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/823), regs. 1, 6(4)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3: Words in Art. 2(2)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures Payment Schemes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/823), regs. 1, 6(4)(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F4: Words in Art. 2(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures Payment Schemes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/823), regs. 1, 6(4)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F5: Art. 2(9) 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), 9(2) (with reg. 10)
F6: Art. 2(10) 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, 9(2) (with reg. 10)
F7: Art. 2(11) 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), 10(2)