Register of operators
Article 7
1. In order to be eligible for entry in the register referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 12(1) of Regulation (EU) No 228/2013, operators shall undertake to: (a) communicate to the competent authorities, at their request, all relevant information about their commercial activities, particularly regarding the prices and profit margins they practice; (b) operate exclusively in their own name and on their own accounts; (c) submit licence and certificate applications commensurate with their real capacity to dispose of the products concerned, such capacity being proven with reference to objective factors; (d) refrain from acting in a way likely to create artificial shortages of products and from marketing the available products at artificially low prices; (e) ensure to the satisfaction of the competent authorities that, when the agricultural products are disposed of in the outermost region concerned, the advantage is passed on to the end-user. 2. Operators intending to dispatch or export unprocessed, processed or packaged products under the conditions referred to in Article 13 shall, at the time of applying for entry in the register or later, declare their intention to engage in this activity and indicate the location of the packaging plant where applicable. 3. Processors intending to export or dispatch processed products under the conditions referred to in Articles 13 or 15 shall, at the time of applying for entry in the register or later, declare their intention to engage in this activity, indicate the location of the processing plant and, where applicable, provide analytical lists of the processed products.