No L 39/8 Official Journal of the European Communities 14. 2. 86 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 314/86 of 11 February 1986 laying down detailed rules for the grant of a storage premium for certain fishery products THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81 of 29 December 1981 on the common organization of the market in fishery products (*), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, and in particular Article 14a (5) thereof, Whereas, pursuant to Article 14a of Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81, the Member States grant a storage premium to producers’ organizations that offer for sale, stabilize and store Norway lobsters and edible crabs under certain conditions ; whereas, therefore, these conditions should be specified ; Whereas only those categories of the said products that are suitable for disposal after storage or pre-reservation should qualify for this premium ; whereas, accordingly, these categories should be fixed ; Whereas, in order to ensure the smooth running of the storage aid system and in particular to ensure that the Community selling price is observed, the detailed rules for application of this system should be specified ; Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2202/82 of 28 July 1982, laying down the general rules for the granting of financial compensation in respect of certain fishery products(?), and Articles 2 and 4 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3137/82 of 19 November 1982, laying down detailed rules for the gran- ting of financial compensation in respect of certain fishery products (°), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3165/84 (%), establish within the framework of the with- drawal price system the conditions fot the use of the margin of tolerance provided for in Article 13 (1) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81 ; that in order to respect the parallelism between the two systems the use of the margin of tolerance within the framework of the sale price system provided for in Article 14a (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81 should be subject to the same condi- tions ; Whereas, pursuant to the first subparagraph of Article 14a (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81, only 20 % of the annual quantity offered for sale may qualify for the () OJ No L 379, 31. 12. 1981, p. 1. () OJ No L 235, 10. 8. 1982, p. 1. () OJ No L 335, 29. 11. 1982, p. 1. () OJ No L 297, 15. 11. 1984, p. 14. premium ; whereas, accordingly, the factors that are taken into account in calculating this percentage should be specified ; Whereas, to help ensure product quality and to facilitate the disposal of products on the market, the minimum requirements to be satisfied by operations qualifying for the premium should be laid down, together with require- ments for the storage and return to the market of the products concerned ; Whereas, in order to prevent fraudulent operations, in particular in the event of preservation in tanks or cages, appropriate storage and marking arrangements must be introduced ; Whereas the terms ‘technical costs’ and ‘financial costs’ involved in calculating the premium should be defined ; Whereas the producers’ organizations must share the financial burden associated with the application of the storage premium system for frozen products ; whereas the amount of the premium must be fixed on the basis, in particular, of the costs of the stabilization and storage operations ; whereas, therefore, the premium should be graduated on the basis of the period of storage ; whereas, for the same reasons, the period of storage in respect of which a premium is provided for may not exceed six months ; Whereas, to increase the efficiency of checks, the reci- pients of the premium must keep stock records ; whereas these records must contain at least the particulars neces- sary for the purposes of the said check; Whereas the procedure whereby interested parties may submit applications for the premium should be laid down ; Whereas the procedure should also be laid down for the grant of advance payments and the amount of the rele- vant security should be specified ; whereas the procedure must also be laid down for the lodging, release and forfei- ture of the said security; ' Whereas, in the case of minor infringements of the rules concerning the storage premium, the limited financial advantage resulting from each infringement should not — as the rules constitute an innovation — involve total with- drawal of the right to the storage premium but only by a standard reduction thereof ;