
Article 1 
Implementing Regulation (EU) No 948/2014 is amended as follows:

((1)) Article 4 is replaced by the following:
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Article 4 

1. The aid for the products referred to in Article 1 shall be fixed as follows:
(a) where the contractual storage period is between 90 and 210 days, the aid shall be:
((1)) 8,86 EUR per tonne of storage for fixed storage costs;
((2)) 0,16 EUR per tonne per day of contractual storage;
(b) where the contractual storage period is 365 days, the aid shall be:
((1)) 8,86 EUR per tonne of storage for fixed storage costs;
((2)) 0,36 EUR per tonne per day of contractual storage.However, by way of derogation from Article 34(6) of Regulation (EC) No 826/2008, where the contractual quantity can be removed after a minimum storage period of 270 days, the aid amounts shall be reduced by 10 %.
2. Applications shall be valid only when they show the aid rates applied for.Concluded contracts under this Regulation for a storage period between 90 and 210 days cannot be changed into contracts under point (b) of the first subparagraph of paragraph 1.
3. Contractual storage shall end on the day preceding that of the removal from storage.';
((2)) the following Article 4a is inserted:
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Article 4a 
By way of derogation from Article 31(2) of Regulation (EC) No 826/2008, the advance payment for contracts under point (b) of the first subparagraph of Article 4(1) of this Regulation shall not exceed the amount of aid corresponding to a storage period of 270 days.';
((3)) Article 6 is replaced by the following:
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Article 6 
Member States shall notify the Commission of the following:

((a)) by each Tuesday for the previous week and separately for the quantities referred to respectively in points (a) and (b) of the first subparagraph of Article 4(1), 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 Regulation (EC) No 826/2008.'.
Article 2 
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, 15 October 2015.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER