15. 5. 84 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 129/17 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1327/84 of 14 May 1984 laying down detailed rules for the granting of private storage aid for long-keeping cheeses during the 1984/85 milk year THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 856/84 (%), and in particular Articles 9 (3) and 28 thereof, Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 508/71 () provides that private storage aid may be granted for certain long-keeping cheeses where there is a serious imbalance of the market which may be eliminated or reduced by seasonal storage ; Whereas, in view of price trends and of the increase in stocks of Emmentaler and Gruyere cheeses, provision should be made for recourse to such storage during the coming months; Whereas the detailed rules for the application of this measure should essentially be the same as those laid down for a similar measure during previous milk years, and in particular 1983/84 by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1402/83 (*), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 14/84(%); Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Milk and Milk Products, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Aid shall be granted in respect of the private storage of Emmentaler and Gruyere cheeses manufactured in the Community which satisfy the requirements of Articles 2 and 3 hereof. Article 2 1.  The intervention agency may conclude storage contracts only if the following conditions are satisfied : (a) the batch of cheeses to which a contract relates must comprise at least five tonnes; 1 ¢) OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, () O] No L 90, 1. 4. 1984, p. 10 () O] No L 58, 11. 3. 1971, p. 1 () O] No L 143, 2. 6. 1983, p. 19 () O] No L 3, 5. 1. 1984, p. 13. 5 (b) the cheeses shall be indelibly marked with an indi- cation (which may take the form of a number) of the undertaking in which they were manufactured and of the day and month of manufacture ; (c) the cheeses must have been manufactured at least 10 days before the date specified in the contract as being the date of commencement of storage ; (d) the cheeses must have undergone quality tests which established that their classification after maturing could be expected to be : — ‘class A’ in France, — ‘Markenkise’ or ‘Klasse Fein’ in Germany, — ‘Ist quality’ in Denmark, — ‘Special Grade’ in Ireland ; (e) the storer shall undertake : — to keep the cheese during the entire period of storage in premises where the maximum temperature is as indicated under paragraph 2, — not, during the term of the contract, to alter the composition of the batch which is the subject of the contract without authorization from the intervention agency. If the condition concer- ning the minimum quantity fixed for each batch continues to be met, the intervention agency may authorize an alteration which is limited to the removal or replacement of cheeses which are found to have deteriorated to such an extent that they can no longer be stored. In the event of release from store of certain quantities : (1) if the aforesaid quantities are replaced with the authorization of the intervention agency, the contract is deemed not to have undergone any alteration, (i) if the aforesaid quantities are not replaced, the contract is deemed to have been concluded ab initio for the quantity perma- nently retained. Any supervisory costs arising from an alteration shall be met by the storer. — to keep stock records and to inform the inter- vention agency each week of the cheeses put into and withdrawn from storage during the previous week.