1.Member States shall provide the Commission with the annual statistical information on organic production referred to in Article 36 of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 by using the computer system enabling electronic exchanges of documents and information made available by the Commission (Eurostat) before 1 July each year.
2.The statistical information referred to in paragraph 1 shall comprise, in particular the following data:
(a)the number of organic producers, processors, importers and exporters;
(b)the organic crop production and crop area under conversion and under organic production;
(c)the organic livestock numbers and the organic animal products;
(d)the data on organic industrial production by type of activities.
3.For the transmission of the statistical information referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, Member States shall use the Single Entry point provided by the Commission (Eurostat).
4.The provisions relating to the characteristics of statistical data and metadata shall be defined within the context of the Community Statistical Programme on the basis of models or questionnaires made available via the system referred to in paragraph 1.