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[F1;]
[F2(e) the number of organic aquaculture animal production units;
(f) the volume of organic aquaculture animal production;
(g) optionally, the number of organic seaweed units and the volume of organic seaweed production.]
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.
Textual Amendments
1.Member States shall provide the Commission with the following information by using the computer system enabling electronic exchanges of documents and information made available by the Commission (DG Agriculture and rural development) for information other than statistical information:
(a)before 1 January 2009, the information referred to in Article 35(a) of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 and afterwards each modification when that appears;
(b)by 31 March each year, the information referred to in Article 35(b) of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007, as regards control authorities and bodies approved on 31 December of the previous year;
(c)before 1 July each year, all other information required or needed in accordance with this Regulation[F3;]
[F4(d) within one month from their approval, the exceptions granted by the Member States under points (c) and (e) of the first paragraph of Article 47.]
2.The data shall be communicated, entered and updated in the system referred to in paragraph 1 under the responsibility of the competent authority as referred to in Article 35 of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007, by the authority itself or by the body to which that function has been delegated.
3.The provisions relating to the characteristics of data and metadata shall be defined on the basis of models or questionnaires made available via the system referred to in paragraph 1.