
Article 1 

1. This Regulation provides for private storage aid for skimmed milk powder as referred to in Article 17(g) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.
2. Regulation (EC) No 826/2008 shall apply save as otherwise provided for in this Regulation.
Article 2 
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 1 tonne and of homogeneous composition and quality, produced in a single factory, taken into storage in a single warehouse on a single day.
Article 3 

1. Point (a) of the first paragraph of Article 20 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 826/2008 to mark the contract number provided that the store manager undertakes to enter the contract number in the register referred to in point V of Annex I to 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, in respect of at least one half of the number of contracts, by sampling, verify weight and identification of the skimmed milk powder in storage.
Article 4 

1. The aid for the products referred in Article 1 shall be:
— 8,86 EUR per tonne of storage for fixed storage costs,
— 0,16 EUR per tonne per day of contractual storage.
2. Contractual storage shall end on the day preceding that of the removal from storage.
3. Aid may be granted only where the contractual storage period is between 90 and 210 days.
Article 5 
Applications for private storage aid for may be lodged as from the date of entry into force of this Regulation. The last date for the submission of applications shall be 31 December 2014.
Article 6 
Member States shall notify the Commission of the following:

((a)) by each Tuesday for the previous week, the quantities for which contracts have been concluded as well as the quantities of products for which applications to conclude contracts have been submitted, as required under Article 35(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 826/2008;
((b)) not later than the end of each month for the previous month, the information on the stocks required under Article 35(1)(b) of the Regulation No 826/2008.
Article 7 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of 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, 4 September 2014.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO