
Article 1 

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 contracts concluded from 1 March 2012.
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 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 3 

1. 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.
2. Point (a) of the first paragraph of Article 20 of Regulation (EC) No 826/2008 shall not apply.
3. 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 III of Annex I to that Regulation.
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 removal period from August 2012 to February 2013, in respect of at least one half of the number of contracts, by sampling, verify weight and identification of the butter in storage.
Article 4 

1. The aid for the products referred in Article 1 shall be:
— EUR 14,88 per tonne of storage for fixed storage costs,
— EUR 0,26 per tonne per day of contractual storage.
2. Entry into contractual storage shall take place between 1 March and 15 August 2012. Removal from store may take place only as from 16 August 2012. 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 

1. 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 Regulation (EC) No 826/2008.
2. The notifications referred to in paragraph 1 shall be made in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 792/2009.
Article 6 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall expire on 28 February 2013.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 23 February 2012.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO