Calculation of weekly market prices for carcasses and live animals
Article 13
1. In the absence of price recording on representative markets or by operators of slaughterhouses or by the natural or legal persons referred to in Articles 10, 11 and 12, the prices shall be recorded by chambers of agriculture, quotation centres, farmers` cooperatives or farmers` unions in the Member State concerned. However, where a Member State has established a committee in the relevant region, to determine prices for that region, and where the membership of such committee is divided equally between buyers and sellers of bovine animals aged eight months or more and their carcasses, that Member State may use the prices determined by that committee for the calculation of the prices to be reported. 2. Where flat-rate purchases account for more than 35 % of total slaughterings of bovine animals aged eight months or more in a Member State, that Member State may establish criteria to exclude certain consignments from the calculation of prices where those consignments disproportionally influence the prices. However, where flat-rate purchases account for less than 35 % of total slaughterings of bovine animals aged eight months or more in the Member State, that Member State may decide not to take the prices for such purchases into account in the calculations of prices. In the cases referred to in the second subparagraph a representative national price for each class shall be calculated by the competent authority, taking into account the factors referred to in Article 14 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182 and in Article 5 of this Regulation.