Article 27 Other communications

Member States shall notify to the Commission measures adopted to apply Regulation (EC) No 1788/2003 and this Regulation, and any amendments thereto, within one month following their adoption. In case of measures adopted pursuant to Articles 16, 17 and 18 of Regulation (EC) No 1788/2003 or pursuant to Article 7 of this Regulation, an explanation of the measures adopted and of their aim shall be joint to the notification.

Member States shall notify to the Commission the method(s) used for the purposes of this Regulation to measure mass or, where applicable, to convert volume into mass, the reasoning behind the coefficients selected, and the exact circumstances in which they apply, together with any subsequent amendments thereto.

Before 1 September 2004, Member States shall notify to the Commission a short report on the system for administering their national references quantities, and before 1 September of each following year, in case of changes to that system, an update of that report.

The report shall comprise a description of the current situation, in particular as regards the measures adopted in case of temporary transfers, transfers with land, other specific transfer measures, the use of the re-allocation of unused quantities and the recourse to the national reserve.

Before 1 October each year, the Member States shall communicate to the Commission a report concerning quota utilisation and levy collection in respect of the 12-month period finishing on 31 March of the same calendar year. Member States shall communicate an update of the report to the Commission before 1 December to include relevant newly available information.

The report referred to in paragraph 4 shall include information on the reallocation of unused quota including the number of producers to whom allocations were made and the basis for the allocations. Member States shall include in the report at least the information referred to in Part 1 of Annex IIa. In the case of the report to be communicated before 1 October 2009 , it shall provide the relevant information in respect of both the 2008/2009 and the 2007/2008 12-month periods.

The report referred to in paragraph 4 shall state the amount of surplus levy paid to date to the competent authority, number of producers contributing to the payment of the surplus levy to date, the amount and the number of cases where levy is yet to be paid, and the amount and number of cases where the surplus levy has been deemed impossible to collect due to bankruptcy or producers’ definitive incapacity to pay. Member States shall communicate the relevant information in the format set out in Part 2 of Annex IIa. The report to be communicated before 1 October 2009 shall include the details in respect of levy collection for each 12-month period from 2003/2004 onwards, or in the case of Member States who first implemented the Regulation after 2003/2004, details as regards each 12-month period of implementation. Each subsequent report shall update the position in respect of the collection of any surplus levy previously reported as not yet paid.

Member States that apply the instalment scheme provided for in Article 15(1) shall notify the Commission by 30 November 2016 and 30 November 2017 of the number of beneficiaries under the scheme and the amount not yet recovered from them concerning each yearly payment by mentioning them in column (i) of the table in Part 2 of the report set out in Annex IIa, using the comment ‘ instalment scheme ’ .