This Regulation lays down rules supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 as regards:
the buying-in and selling from public intervention of products listed in Article 11 of that Regulation; and
the granting of aid for private storage for products listed in Article 17 of that Regulation.
Operators shall be established and registered for VAT purposes in the Union in order to submit:
an offer or a tender for the buying-in, or a tender for the selling, of products under public intervention; or
a tender for aid for private storage or an application for aid for private storage fixed in advance.
In the case of buying-in of beef, only the following operators referred to in paragraph 1 may submit tenders:
slaughterhouses for bovine animals approved in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council(1);
livestock or meat traders who have slaughtering undertaken therein on their own account.
In the case of aid for private storage, only the following operators referred to in paragraph 1 may apply or submit tenders:
in the olive oil sector, operators who fulfil the requirements laid down in Annex VII;
in the sugar sector, operators who are sugar manufacturers.
Products shall be of sound, fair and marketable quality and meet the requirements laid down in Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.
In the case of buying-in, products shall fulfil the requirements laid down as follows:
for cereals: in Annex I to this Regulation;
for rice: in Annex II to this Regulation;
for beef: in Annex III to this Regulation;
for butter: in Parts I and II of Annex IV to this Regulation and Article 21 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1240(2);
for skimmed milk powder: in Parts I and II of Annex V to this Regulation and Article 21 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1240.
In addition, butter and skimmed milk powder must have been produced in an undertaking approved in accordance with Part III of Annex IV or Part III of Annex V to this Regulation, respectively.
In the case of aid for private storage, products shall fulfil the requirements laid down in Annex VI to this Regulation.