{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1240/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1240/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2016/1240",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1240 of 18 May 2016 laying down rules for the application of 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-2016-1240",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Minimum quantities of products offered or tendered",
  "text": "1. The minimum quantity of products offered or tendered for buying-in shall be:\n(a) for common wheat, barley and maize: 160 tonnes;\n(b) for durum wheat: 20 tonnes;\n(c) for rice: 40 tonnes;\n(d) for beef: 20 tonnes;\n(e) for butter: 30 tonnes;\n(f) for skimmed milk powder: 30 tonnes.\nIf the United Kingdom has an average annual production of cereals of less than 20 million tonnes, the appropriate authority may decide to apply a minimum quantity of 120 tonnes for common wheat, barley and maize..\n2. A paying agency may set a minimum quantity higher than that provided for in paragraph 1 if justified by the conditions and practices of the wholesale trade or environmental rules in force in the United Kingdom.\n3. 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.\n4. 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.\n5. This Article does not apply in relation to public intervention schemes in Wales.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 5(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures Payment Schemes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/823), regs. 1, 6(7)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 5(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures Payment Schemes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/823), regs. 1, 6(7)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 5(3) 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(4) (with reg. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 5(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, 9(4) (with reg. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 5(5) 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(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/1240/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:45:39.577408+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."
}