
Article 1 
This Regulation provides for private storage aid for salted and unsalted butter as referred to in Article 28(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 for the contracts concluded from 1 March 2010.
Article 2 

1. Regulation (EC) No 826/2008 shall apply save as otherwise provided for in this Regulation.
2. By way of derogation from Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 826/2008 applications shall only relate to products that have been fully placed into storage.
Article 3 
The unit of measurement referred to in Article 16(2)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 826/2008 is the ‘storage lot’ which corresponds to the quantity of the product covered by this Regulation, weighing at least one tonne and of homogeneous composition and quality, produced in a single factory, taken into storage in a single warehouse on a single day.
Article 4 

1. The aid for the products referred in Article 1 shall be:
— EUR 18,31 per tonne of storage for fixed storage costs,
— EUR 0,34 per tonne per day of contractual storage.
2. Entry into contractual storage shall take place between 1 March and 15 August 2010. Removal from store may take place only as from 16 August 2010. Contractual storage shall end on the day preceding that of the removal from storage or at the latest the last day of February following the year of entry into store.
3. Aid may be granted only where the contractual storage period is between 90 and 210 days.
Article 5 
Member States shall notify the Commission each Tuesday by 12 noon (Brussels time) the quantities for which contracts have been concluded as required under Article 35(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 826/2008, as well as the quantities of products for which applications to conclude contracts have been submitted.
Article 6 

1. Article 20, first paragraph, point (a) of Regulation (EC) No 826/2008 shall not apply.
2. Member States may waive the requirements referred to in Article 22(1)(e) of Regulation (EC) No 862/2008 to mark the contract number provided the store manager undertakes to enter the contract number in the register referred to in Annex I point III of that Regulation.
3. By way of derogation from Article 36(6) of Regulation (EC) No 826/2008, at the end of the contractual storage period, the authority responsible for checking shall, throughout the whole of the removal period from August 2010 to February 2011, in respect of at least one half of the number of contracts, by sampling, verify weight and identification of the butter in storage.Subparagraph 1 shall apply to checks during the removal period from 16 August 2010 as referred to in Article 4(3)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1182/2008.
Article 7 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 25 February 2010.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO