1.Member States shall designate a single competent authority or body responsible for fulfilling the notification obligations with respect to each one of the following topics:
(a)producer organisations, associations of producer organisations and producer groups, as provided for in Article 97 of this Regulation;
(b)producer prices of fruit and vegetable in the internal market, as provided for in Article 98 of this Regulation;
(c)prices and quantities of the products imported from third countries sold on the representative import markets, as provided for in Article 134 of this Regulation;
(d)import volumes put into free circulation, as provided for in Article 139 of this Regulation.
2.Member States shall notify the Commission of the designation and the contact details of the authority or body concerned, and every change of this information.
The list of the designated authorities or body containing their names and addresses shall be made available to the Member States and to the public by every appropriate means via the information systems put in place by the Commission, including publication on the Internet.
3.Without prejudice to any specific provisions of this Regulation, all notifications to be made by Member States to the Commission under this Regulation shall be made by electronic means of the information system made available to the competent authorities or bodies of the Member States by the Commission and in the format specified by the Commission.
Notifications not made by the means and in the format referred to in the first subparagraph may be considered as not made at all, without prejudice to paragraph 5.
4.Without prejudice to any specific provisions of this Regulation, Member States shall take all measures necessary to ensure that they are able to meet the deadlines for notifications set out in this Regulation.
5.If a Member State fails to make a notification as required under this Regulation or Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 or if the notification appears incorrect in the light of objective facts in the Commission’s possession, the Commission may suspend part or all of the monthly payments referred to in Article 14 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005(1) as regards the fruit and vegetables sectors until the notification is correctly made.