Art. 222a
Common Market Organisation Regulation · 32013R1308 · every event for this act · on EUR-Lex
Union market observatories
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in force 2026-08-18 MODIFIED+117 −0§
Amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1739 32026R1739
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Paragraph 2 now adds a sentence stating that the Commission may make a specific distinction between organic and non-organic production within the Union market observatories.
The rest of Article 222a, including paragraphs 1, 3 and 4, remains textually unchanged between the two versions.
Cited: Art. 222a, v2 · Art. 222a, v1
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Article 222a
Union market observatories
1. In order to improve transparency within the food supply chain, to inform the choices of economic operators and public authorities, to facilitate the monitoring of market developments and threats of market disturbance, the Commission shall establish Union market observatories.
2. The Commission may decide for which agricultural sectors from those listed in Article 1(2) the Union market observatories shall be established.
The Commission may make a specific distinction between organic and non-organic production within those observatories.
3. The Union market observatories shall make available the statistical data and information necessary for the monitoring of market developments and threats of market disturbance, in particular:
(a) production, supply and stocks;
(b) prices, costs and, as far as possible, profit margins at all levels of the food supply chain;
(c) short- and medium-term market forecasts;
(d) imports and exports of agricultural products, in particular the filling of tariff quotas for the import of agricultural products into the Union.
The Union market observatories shall produce reports containing the elements referred to in the first subparagraph.
4. The Member States shall collect the information referred to in paragraph 3 and provide it to the Commission.
in force 2023-12-08 INSERTED§
Amended by Regulation (EU) 2021/2117 32021R2117
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in force 2021-12-07 INSERTED§
Amended by Regulation (EU) 2021/2117 32021R2117
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This article is entirely new, establishing Union market observatories that the Commission is to set up to improve transparency in the food supply chain, inform economic operators and public authorities, and monitor market developments and threats of disturbance.
It further states that the Commission may decide for which agricultural sectors listed in Article 1(2) such observatories are established, sets out the categories of statistical data and reports the observatories are to produce, and requires Member States to collect and supply that information to the Commission.
Cited: Art. 222a, v2
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