Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1185Show full title

ANNEX I Requirements relating to weekly price notifications referred to in Article 11

1. Cereals

Content of the notification: representative market prices for each of the cereals and the cereal qualities considered relevant for the Union market, expressed per tonne of product.

Member States concerned: all Member States.

Other: prices shall refer, in particular, to the qualitative properties, the place of quotation and the stage of marketing of each product.

2. Rice

Content of the notification: representative market prices for each of the varieties of rice considered relevant for the Union market, expressed per tonne of product.

Member States concerned: rice producing Member States.

Other: prices shall refer, in particular, to the processing stage, the place of quotation and the stage of marketing of each product.

3. Olive oil

Content of the notification: average prices recorded on the main representative markets and national average prices for the categories of olive oil listed in Part VIII of Annex VII to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, expressed per 100 kg of product.

Member States concerned: Member States producing more than 20 000 t of olive oil in the annual period from 1 October to 30 September.

Other: prices shall correspond to olive oil in bulk, ex-mill for virgin olive oil and ex-factory for other categories. Representative markets shall cover at least 70 % of the national production of the product concerned.

4. Fruit and vegetables

Content of the notification: a single weighted average price for the types and varieties of fruit and vegetables listed in Part A of Annex XV to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011 meeting the general marketing standard set out in Part A of Annex I to that Regulation or for Class I for products covered by a specific marketing standard, expressed per 100 kg net weight of product.

Member States concerned: Member States as specified in Annex XV to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011, when data are available.

Other: Prices shall be ex-packaging station, sorted, packaged and where applicable on pallets.

5. Bananas

Content of the notification: wholesale prices for yellow bananas falling within the CN code 0803 90 10, expressed per 100 kg of product.

Member States concerned: all Member States marketing more than 50 000 tonnes of yellow bananas per calendar year.

Other: prices shall be notified by group of countries of origin.

6. Meat

Content of the notification: prices for beef, pig and sheep carcasses and certain live cattle, calves and piglets as regards the classification of beef, pig and sheep carcasses and the reporting of market prices in accordance with Union rules under Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.

Member States concerned: all Member States.

Other: where in the opinion of the competent authority of the Member State concerned there are insufficient numbers of carcasses or live animals to notify, the Member State concerned may decide for the period in question to suspend the recording of prices for such carcasses or live animals and shall notify the Commission of the reason for its decision.

7. Milk and milk products

Content of the notification: prices of whey powder, skimmed milk powder, whole milk powder, butter and commodity cheeses expressed per 100 kg of product.

Member States concerned: Member States whose national production represents 2 % or more of Union production; or, in the case of commodity cheeses, where the cheese type represents 4 % or more of the total national cheese production.

Other: prices shall be notified for products purchased from the manufacturer, excluding any other cost (transport, loading, handling, storage, pallets, insurance, etc.) based on contracts concluded for deliveries within three months.

8. Eggs

Content of the notification: wholesale price for Class A eggs from caged hens (average of categories L and M), expressed per 100 kg of product.

Member States concerned: all Member States.

Other: prices shall be notified for products in packing stations. Where the production in cages is no longer representative, the Member State concerned shall notify the wholesale price of Class A eggs, produced by laying hens kept in barn systems, expressed per 100 kg.

9. Poultrymeat

Content of the notification: average wholesale price for whole Class A chickens (‘65 % chickens’), expressed per 100 kg of product.

Member States concerned: all Member States.

Other: prices shall be notified for products in slaughter plants or recorded on representative markets. Where another chicken presentation or specific cuts of chicken are important in terms of its market structure, the Member State concerned may notify, in addition to the average wholesale price for whole Class A chickens (‘65 % chickens’), the wholesale price of a different chicken presentation or cuts of Class A quality, specifying the type of presentation or cuts to which the price refers, expressed per 100 kg.

ANNEX II Requirements relating to non-weekly price notifications as referred to in point (a) of Article 12

1. Sugar

Content of the notification

(a)

the weighted averages of the following sugar prices, expressed per tonne of sugar, as well as the total corresponding quantities and the weighted standard deviations:

(i)

for the previous month, the selling price;

(ii)

for the current month, the selling price forecast in the framework of contracts or other transactions;

(b)

the weighted average price of sugar beet during the previous marketing year, expressed per tonne of beet, as well as the total corresponding quantities.

Member States concerned

(a)

for sugar prices, all Member States where more than 10 000 tonnes of sugar is produced from sugar beet or from raw sugar;

(b)

for sugar beet prices, all Member States where sugar beet is produced.

Period of notification

(a)

for sugar prices, by the end of each month;

(b)

for sugar beet prices, by 30 June each year.

Other

Prices shall be established in line with the methodology published by the Commission and shall relate to:

(a)

bulk white sugar prices ex-factory for sugar of a standard quality as defined in point B II of Annex III to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 collected from sugar undertakings and refiners;

(b)

sugar beet price for sugar beet of a standard quality as defined in point B I of Annex III to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 paid by sugar undertakings to producers. The beet shall be attributed to the same marketing year as the sugar extracted from it.

2. Flax fibre

Content of the notification: average prices ex-factory for the previous month recorded on the main representative markets for long flax fibre, expressed per tonne of product.

Member States concerned: all Member States where long flax fibres are produced from a planted area exceeding 1 000 ha of fibre flax.

Period of notification: by 25th of each month in respect of the preceding month.

3. Wine

Content of the notification: in relation to the wines referred to in point 1 of Part II of Annex VII to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013:

(a)

a summary of the prices for the previous month expressed per hectolitre of wine with reference to the volumes concerned; or

(b)

by 31 July 2017, the publicly available information sources considered credible for the recording of prices.

Member States concerned: Member States whose wine production during the past five years on average exceeded 5 % of the total Union wine production.

Period of notification: by 15th of each month in respect of the preceding month.

Other: prices shall be for product unpacked ex-producer's premises. For the information referred to in points (a) and (b), the Member States concerned shall make a selection of the eight most representative markets to be monitored, which shall include at least two for wines with protected designation of origin or protected geographical indication.

4. Milk and milk products

(a) Milk

Content of the notification: the price of raw milk, and the estimated price for deliveries in the running month, expressed per 100 kg of product at real fat and protein content.

Member States concerned: all Member States.

Period of notification: by the end of each month in respect of the preceding month.

Other: the price shall be that paid by first purchasers established in the territory of the Member State.

(b) Milk products

Content of the notification: prices for cheeses, other than commodity cheeses referred to in Point 7 of Annex I, expressed per 100 kg of product.

Member States concerned: all Member States for types of cheeses relevant for the national market.

Period of notification: by 15th of each month in respect of the preceding month.

Other: the prices shall relate to cheese purchased from the manufacturer, excluding any other cost (transport, loading, handling, storage, pallets, insurance, etc.) based on contracts concluded for deliveries within three months.

ANNEX III Requirements relating to production and market information notifications as referred to in point (b) of Article 12

1. Rice

Content of the notification: for each of the types of rice referred to in points 2 and 3 of Part I of Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013:

(a)

area planted, agronomic yield, production of paddy rice in the harvest year and milling yield;

(b)

stocks of rice (expressed in milled equivalent) held by producers and by rice mills on 31 August each year, broken down by rice produced in the European Union and rice imported.

Period of notification: by 15 January each year in respect of the previous year.

Member States concerned

(a)

for paddy rice production, all rice producing Member States;

(b)

for rice stocks, all rice producing Member States and Member States with rice mills.

2. Sugar

A. Beet areas

Content of the notification: sugar beet area for the current marketing year and an estimate for the following marketing year.

Period of notification: by 31 May each year.

Member States concerned: all Member States with a planted area of more than 1 000 ha of sugar beet in the year in question.

Other: these figures shall be expressed in hectares and broken down by areas intended for production of sugar and those intended for production of bioethanol.

B. Sugar and bioethanol production

Content of the notification: sugar production and bioethanol production by each undertaking in the previous marketing year and an estimate of sugar production by each undertaking for the current marketing year;

Period of notification: by 30 November each year as regards the previous marketing year production and by 31 March each year (30 June for the French departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique) as regards the current marketing year production.

Member States concerned: all Member States where more than 10 000 tonnes of sugar is produced.

Other

(a)

‘sugar production’ means the total quantity, expressed in tonnes of white sugar as follows, of:

(i)

white sugar, disregarding differences in quality;

(ii)

raw sugar, on the basis of yield determined in accordance with point B.III of Annex III to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013;

(iii)

invert sugar, by its weight;

(iv)

sucrose or invert sugar syrups which are at least 70 % pure and are produced from sugar beet, on the basis of extractable sugar content or on the basis of real yield;

(v)

sucrose or invert sugar syrups which are at least 75 % pure and are produced from sugar cane, on the basis of sugar content;

(b)

sugar production shall not include white sugar obtained from any of the products referred to in point (a) or produced under inward processing arrangements;

(c)

the sugar extracted from beet sown in a particular marketing year shall be attributed to the following marketing year. However, Member States may decide to attribute the sugar extracted from beet sown in the autumn of a particular marketing year to the same marketing year, notifying the Commission of their decision at the latest on 1 October 2017;

(d)

the figures for sugar shall be broken down by month and, with regard to the current marketing year, shall correspond to provisional figures until the month of February and to estimates for the remaining months of the marketing year.

(e)

bioethanol production shall only include bioethanol obtained from any of the products referred to in point (a) and shall be expressed in hectolitres.

C. Isoglucose production

Content of the notification

(a)

quantities of own production of isoglucose shipped by each producer during the previous marketing year;

(b)

quantities of own production of isoglucose shipped by each producer during the previous month.

Period of notification: by 30 November each year with regard to the previous marketing year and by 25th of each month with regard to the previous month.

Member States concerned: all Member States where isoglucose is produced.

Other:‘Production of isoglucose’ means the total quantity of product obtained from glucose or its polymers with content by weight in the dry state of at least 41 % fructose, expressed in tonnes of dry matter irrespective of actual fructose content in excess of the 41 % threshold. The yearly production figures shall be broken down by month.

D. Sugar and isoglucose stocks

Content of the notification

(a)

quantities of sugar production stored at the end of each month by sugar undertakings and refiners;

(b)

quantities of isoglucose production stored by isoglucose producers at the end of the previous marketing year.

Period of notification: by the end of each month in respect of the preceding month in question with regard to sugar, and by 30 November with regard to isoglucose.

Member States concerned

(a)

for sugar, all Member States where sugar undertakings or refiners are located and production of sugar exceeds 10 000 tonnes;

(b)

for isoglucose, all Member States where isoglucose is produced.

Other: the figures shall refer to products stored in free circulation on Union territory and to sugar production and isoglucose production as defined in points B and C.

With regard to sugar:

• the figures shall refer to quantities owned by the undertaking or the refiner or covered by a warrant,

• the figures shall specify, for the quantities in storage at the end of the months of July, August and September, the quantity which comes from the production of sugar under the following marketing year,

• if storage is in a different Member State from the one notifying the Commission, the notifying Member State shall inform the Member State concerned of the quantities stored on their territory and their locations by the end of the month following that of notification to the Commission.

With regard to isoglucose, the quantities shall refer to quantities owned by the producer.

3. Fibre crops

Content of the notification

(a)

the fibre flax area for the current marketing year and the estimate for the next marketing year, expressed in hectares;

(b)

the production of long flax fibres for the previous marketing year and an estimate for the current marketing year, expressed in tonnes;

(c)

the area planted with cotton for the previous crop year and an estimate for the current crop year, expressed in hectares;

(d)

the production of unginned cotton for the previous crop year and an estimate for the current crop year and, expressed in tonnes;

(e)

the average price of unginned cotton paid to cotton producers in respect of the previous crop year, expressed per tonne of product.

Period of notification

(a)

for fibre flax area, by 31 July each year;

(b)

for production of long flax fibres, by 31 October each year;

(c), (d) and (e)

for cotton, by 15 October each year.

Member States concerned

(a) and (b):

for flax, all Member States where long flax fibres are produced from a planted area exceeding 1 000 ha of fibre flax;

(c), (d) and (e):

for cotton, all Member States where at least 1 000 ha of cotton are sown.

4. Hops

Content of the notification: the following production information, given as a total and for information referred to in points (b) to (d), broken down by bitter and aromatic hops varieties:

(a)

number of farmers growing hops;

(b)

area planted with hops, expressed in hectares;

(c)

quantity in tonnes and average farm gate price, expressed per kg of hops sold under a forward contract and without such a contract;

(d)

alpha-acid production in tonnes and average alpha-acid content (in percent).

Period of notification: by 30 April of the year following the hops harvest.

Member States concerned: Member States with a planted area of more than 200 hectares of hops in the previous year.

5. Olive oil

Content of the notification

(a)

data on final production, total domestic consumption (including by the processing industry) and ending stocks for the preceding annual period from 1 October to 30 September;

(b)

an estimate of monthly production and estimates of total production, domestic consumption (including by the processing industry) and ending stocks for the current annual period from 1 October to 30 September.

Period of notification

(a)

for the preceding annual period by 31 October each year.

(b)

for the current annual period by 31 October and by the 15th day of each month from November to June.

Member States concerned: Member States producing olive oil.

6. Bananas

Content of the notification

(a)

average selling prices on local markets of green bananas marketed in the region of production, expressed per 100 kg of product and related quantities;

(b)

average selling prices of green bananas marketed outside the region of production, expressed per 100 kg of product and related quantities.

Period of notification

• by 15 June each year in respect of the previous period from 1 January to 30 April,

• by 15 October each year in respect of the previous period from 1 May to 31 August,

• by 15 February each year in respect of the previous period from 1 September to 31 December.

Member States concerned: Member States with a region of production, namely:

(a)

the Canary Islands;

(b)

Guadeloupe;

(c)

Martinique;

(d)

Madeira and the Azores;

(e)

Crete and Lakonia;

(f)

Cyprus.

Other: prices for green bananas marketed in the Union outside their region of production shall be at the first port of unloading (goods not unloaded).

7. Tobacco

Content of the notification: for each raw tobacco variety group:

(i)

number of farmers;

(ii)

area in hectares;

(iii)

quantity delivered in tonnes;

(iv)

the average price paid to farmers, excluding taxes and other levies, expressed per kg of product.

Period of notification: by 31 July of the year following the harvest year.

Member States concerned: Member States with a planted area of more than 3 000 hectares of tobacco for the previous harvest.

Other: the variety groups of raw tobacco are:

Group I

:

Flue-cured: tobacco dried in ovens with controlled air circulation, temperature and humidity, in particular Virginia;

Group II

:

Light air-cured: tobacco dried in the air under cover, not left to ferment, in particular Burley and Maryland;

Group III

:

Dark air-cured: tobacco dried in the air under cover, left to ferment naturally before being marketed, in particular Badischer Geudertheimer, Fermented Burley, Havana, Mocny Skroniowski, Nostrano del Brenta and Pulawski;

Group IV

:

Fire-cured: tobacco dried by fire, in particular Kentucky and Salento;

Group V

:

Sun-cured: tobacco dried in the sun, also called ‘Oriental varieties’, in particular Basmas, Katerini and Kaba-Koulak.

8. Wine sector products

Content of the notification

(a)

estimates of the production of wine products (including vinified and non-vinified grape must) on the territory of the Member State during the current wine year;

(b)

the definitive result of the production declarations referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 436/2009, as well as an estimate of the production not covered by such declarations;

(c)

a summary of the stock declarations referred to in Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 436/2009, held at 31 July of the previous wine year;

(d)

the final balance sheet of the previous wine year including full information on availabilities (opening stocks, production, imports), uses (human and industrial consumption, transformation, exports and losses) and final stocks.

Period of notification

(a)

estimates of production, by 30 September each year;

(b)

definitive result of the production declarations, by 15 March each year;

(c)

summary of stock declarations, by 31 October each year;

(d)

final balance sheet, by 15 January each year.

Member States concerned: Member States that maintain an updated vineyard register in accordance with Article 145(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.

9. Milk and milk products

Content of the notification: the total quantity of cow's raw milk, expressed in kilograms at real fat content.

Period of notification: by the 25th of each month.

Member States concerned: all Member States.

Other: the quantities refer to milk delivered in the preceding month to first purchasers established in the territory of the Member State. Member States shall ensure that all first purchasers established in their territory declare to the competent national authority the quantity of cow's raw milk that has been delivered to them each month in a timely and accurate manner so as to comply with this requirement.

10. Eggs

Content of the notification: the number of eggs production sites with the breakdown by farming methods referred to in Annex II of Regulation (EC) No 589/2008, including the maximum capacity of the establishment in terms of number of laying hens present at one time.

Period of notification: by 1 April each year;

Member States concerned: all Member States.

11. Ethyl alcohol

Content of the notification: for alcohol of agricultural origin, expressed in hectolitres of pure alcohol:

(a)

production by fermenting and distilling, broken down by the agricultural raw material from which the alcohol is produced;

(b)

the volumes transferred from alcohol producers or importers for processing or packaging, broken down by category of use (food and beverages, fuels, industrial/Others).

Period of notification: by 1 March each year in respect of the previous calendar year.

Member States concerned: all Member States.