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

CHAPTER II NOTIFICATIONS ON PRICES, PRODUCTION, MARKET INFORMATION AND THOSE REQUIRED BY INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS

SECTION 1 Notification on prices, production and market information

Article 6 Notification on prices, production and market situation

The notification of information on prices required pursuant to the notification obligation laid down in Article 2 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1183 shall be made in accordance with Annexes I and II.

The notification of production and markets required pursuant to the notification obligation laid down in Article 2 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1183 shall be made in accordance with Annex III.

Article 7 Integrity of information

1. Member States shall take the necessary steps to ensure that information notified is relevant to the market concerned, accurate and complete. Member States shall ensure that quantitative data notified constitute a consistent statistical series. In the event that a Member State has reason to believe that the information notified might not be relevant, accurate or complete, the Member State concerned shall signal this to the Commission when notifying the information.

2. Member States shall notify the Commission of any important new information likely to alter substantially information already notified.

3. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the economic operators concerned provide them with the information required within the appropriate time limits. Economic operators shall provide Member States with the information necessary to comply with the information requirements laid down in this Regulation.

Article 8 Additional information

Member States may notify the Commission of information additional to that required in Annexes I, II and III by means of the information system referred to in Article 1 where such information is considered relevant by the Member State concerned. Such notifications shall be made by means of a form made available by the Commission in the system.

Article 9 Price definition

1. For each price notification required by this Section, Member States shall notify the source and methodology used to determine the prices provided. Such notifications shall include information on the representative markets determined by Member States and the associated weighting coefficients.

2. Member States shall notify the Commission of any changes to the information provided in accordance with paragraph 1.

3. Member States shall ensure that the Commission has the right to publish data that they notify to the Commission, subject to Article 4.

Article 10 Reporting of prices in official currency

Unless otherwise specified in Annexes I, II and III, Member States shall notify price information in their official currency, net of VAT.

Article 11 Weekly price monitoring

Unless otherwise specified in Annex I, Member States shall notify the Commission of the weekly price information referred to in that Annex no later than 12.00 (Brussels time) each Wednesday for the previous week.

Article 12 Non-weekly price information and production monitoring

Member States shall notify the Commission, within the time limits laid down, of:

(a)

non-weekly price information referred to in Annex II to this Regulation; and

(b)

production and market information referred to in Annex III to this Regulation.

SECTION 2 Notifications required by international agreements

Article 13 WTO domestic support data

1. Member States shall notify the Commission by 31 October each year of data on national budgetary outlays, including revenue foregone, on domestic support measures in favour of agricultural producers for the previous Union financial year. The notification shall include data on measures co-financed from the Union budget and shall cover both the national and Union components of financing. The notification shall not cover measures wholly financed from the Union budget.

2. The data required under paragraph 1 shall be that set out in WTO document G/AG/2 on domestic support and shall be notified using the format set out in that document.

Article 14 WTO export competition data

1. Member States shall notify the Commission by 28 February each year of data for the preceding calendar year on the following export competition measures applied by them:

(a) export financing support (export credits, export credit guarantees or insurance programmes);

(b) international food aid;

(c) agricultural exporting state trading enterprises.

2. The data required under paragraph 1 shall be that set out in the Annex to the WTO Ministerial Decision of 19 December 2015 on export competition and shall be notified using the format set out in that Annex.