Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/232 of 15 December 2015 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to certain aspects of producer cooperation

Article 1

Scope

This Regulation lays down rules supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 with regard to certain aspects of producer cooperation. It applies without prejudice to the specific rules laid down in the following regulations:

(a) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011 (¹) as regards the fruit and vegetables sector;

(b) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 880/2012 (²) and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 511/2012 (³) as regards the milk and milk products sector; and

(c) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 611/2014 (⁴) as regards the olive-oil and table-olives sector.

Article 2

Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:

(a) ‘transnational producer organisation’ means any producer organisation of which the member producers' holdings are located in more than one Member State;

(b) ‘transnational association of producer organisations’ means any association of producer organisations of which the member organisations are located in more than one Member State;

(c) ‘transnational interbranch organisation’ means any interbranch organisation of which the members are engaged in production, processing or trade in the products covered by the organisation's activities in more than one Member State.

Article 3

Outsourcing

Article 4

Recognition of transnational organisations and associations

Article 5

Notifications

By 31 March each year, Member States shall notify the Commission of the following information concerning producer organisations, associations of producer organisations and interbranch organisations, whether national or transnational, recognised by those Member States (‘recognised entities’) during the previous year, grouped according to the different sectors of agricultural products listed in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013:

(a) the name, the identification number, if any, and the date of recognition of the recognised entities, as well as the relevant provision of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 under which each entity has been recognised;

(b) the total number of members of each entity;

(c) the indication as to which of those entities have implemented an operational programme in accordance with Article 42 of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 during the previous financial year;

(d) for producer organisations, the number of their non-producer members;

(e) the name of the entities for which recognition was refused, suspended or withdrawn, including the date of the decision, and, where appropriate, their identification number;

(f) the name of the recognised entities that merged with other recognised entities, including the date of the merger, the total number and name of recognised entities resulting from the merger and, where appropriate, their identification number.

By 31 March each year, Member States shall also notify the Commission of a complete and updated list of all recognised entities having that status on 31 December of the previous year, accompanied by the relevant information listed in the first subparagraph.

By 15 November each year, Member States shall notify the Commission of the following data for the previous year concerning recognised national and transnational producer organisations and recognised associations thereof, grouped according to the different sectors of agricultural products listed in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013:

(a) the value of marketed production per entity, determined in accordance with Articles 31 and 32 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/126 (⁵) and, where appropriate, for each product or list of products for which the recognition was granted. If no data on marketed production is available, a value of ‘0’ shall be communicated;

(b) for entities recognised in the milk and milk products sector, where appropriate, the annual marketable raw milk volumes produced by each entity, broken down per Member State of production in the case of a transnational organisation;

(c) for entities recognised in the fruit and vegetable sector, the part of the production intended for the fresh market and the part of the production intended for processing, in value and volume.

In the fruit and vegetables and processed fruit and vegetables sectors, the information notified shall also include the economic area or areas in which the extension of rules apply.

Article 6

Repeals

Regulations (EC) No 223/2008 and (EC) No 709/2008 are repealed.

Article 7

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.