Regulation 2010/807 - Detailed rules for the supply of food from intervention stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the Union (Codified version) - Main contents

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Official Journal of the European Union

L 242/9

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 of 29 October 1992 on laying down detailed rules for the supply of food from intervention stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the Community (2) has been substantially amended several times (3). In the interests of clarity and rationality the said Regulation should be codified.

The procedure and rules for establishing the annual distribution plan for products from intervention stocks drawn up by the Commission on the basis of information provided by the Member States should be simple and the timetable should be adapted taking into account the requirements of distribution to the recipients and the need for financial management of public intervention stocks.

In order to ensure more standardised implementation in the Member States participating in this scheme, the concepts of ‘beneficiaries’ and ‘final recipients’ of the measure need to be clarified. In order to facilitate the management and control of the implementation of the annual plan, the charitable organisations designated by the competent national authorities can be deemed final recipients if they are actually engaged in the local distribution of the foodstuffs (in various forms) where the most deprived persons live.

The supply of agricultural products and foodstuffs to the most deprived persons in the Union normally involves products processed or packaged from products withdrawn from Union intervention stores. However, the objective may also be achieved by the supply of agricultural products and foodstuffs belonging to the same category of products placed on the Union market. In such cases supply is reimbursed in the form of a withdrawal and transfer of products from the intervention stores.

In order to deal with situations in which certain basic products are temporarily unavailable in intervention stocks at the time of adoption of an annual plan or during its implementation, Article 27 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 provides that the products concerned may be mobilized on the Union market, although only under conditions which do not conflict with the principle of supply from intervention stocks. The rules for such mobilization must be fixed.

In order to comply with the principle that priority should be given to intervention stocks when mobilizing products to supply to the most deprived persons in the Union, optimum distribution of existing public stocks among the Member States participating in the scheme should be ensured when the plan is adopted and intra-Union transfer operations made necessary by the non-availability of the products requested in one or more Member States should be coordinated. For the purposes of applying Article 27 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, a minimum quantity threshold should also be set beneath which, for reasons of good economic management, intra-Union transfers should not be implemented.

In order to allow judicious management of the scheme and to organize the implementation of the annual Union plan, it is appropriate, firstly, to determine, when that plan is being adopted, for...