
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 butter that entered into contractual storage by 28 February 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 to in Article 1 shall be:
— EUR 15,62 per tonne of storage for fixed storage costs,
— EUR 0,44 per tonne per day of contractual storage.
2. Entry into contractual storage shall take place:
(a) between 1 January and 15 August 2009; or
(b) between 16 August 2009 and 28 February 2010.
3. Removal from storage may take place only as:
(a) from 16 August 2009 for the products entered into contractual storage in the period referred in paragraph 2(a);
(b) from 16 August 2010 for the products entered into contractual storage in the period referred in paragraph 2(b).
4. Contractual storage shall end:
(a) 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 storage for the products entered into contractual storage in the period referred in paragraph 2(a);
(b) on the day preceding that of the removal from storage for the products entered into contractual storage in the period referred in paragraph 2(b).
5. Aid may be granted only where the contractual storage period is:
(a) between 90 and 227 days for the products stored in the period referred in paragraph 2(a);
(b) maximum 365 days for the products stored in the period referred in paragraph 2(b).
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 826/2008 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 to that Regulation.
3. By way of derogation from Article 31(2) of Regulation (EC) No 826/2008, the advance payment for the butter entered into contractual storage during the period referred to in Article 4(2)(b) of the present Regulation shall not exceed the amount of aid corresponding to a storage period of 168 days.
4. 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 2009 to February 2010, in respect of at least one half of the number of contracts, by sampling, verify weight and identification of the butter in storage.
Article 7 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply to applications for aid submitted as from 1 January 2009.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.