Reporting of market prices for live animals
Article 16
1. For the purposes of reporting market prices, live animals listed in Article 13(b) shall be classified in the following different types: (a) as regards male calves aged between eight days and four weeks: (i) ‘dairy type male rearing calf’ for male rearing calf from dairy breed, (ii) ‘beef type male rearing calf’ for male rearing calf from a meat breed, dual purpose breed or born of a cross with a meat breed; (b) as regards store cattle: (i) ‘young store cattle’ for male and female bovine animals aged six months or more but less than 12 months, bought after weaning to be fattened, (ii) ‘yearling male store cattle’ for male bovine animals aged 12 months or more but less than 24 months, bought to be fattened, (iii) ‘yearling female store cattle’ for female bovine animals aged 12 months or more but less than 24 months, bought to be fattened; (c) as regards pigs: ‘piglets’ for pigs weighing on average approximately 25 kg in live weight, bought to be fattened. 2. The market price reported shall be the average of the prices paid in that Member State at the same wholesale stage, for the type of animal as referred to in paragraph 1, net of value added tax and weighted by coefficients. The coefficients shall reflect the relative proportion of the different qualities of the animals referred to in paragraph 1(a), (b) and (c) and the relative importance of each market.