Article 11 Weighing the fodder and determining the moisture content of fodder to be dehydrated

The processing undertaking shall systematically weigh fodder for drying and/or grinding delivered for processing, in order to determine the exact quantities thereof.

The obligation to weigh such fodder systematically shall not apply where the production of the undertaking concerned does not exceed 1 000 tonnes per marketing year and the undertaking proves to the satisfaction of the competent authority of the Member State that it cannot make use of public weighing facilities located within a radius of five kilometres. In such cases, the quantities delivered may be determined by any other method approved in advance by the competent authority of that Member State.

The processing undertaking shall determine the average moisture content of fodder to be dehydrated on the basis of a comparison of the quantities used and the quantities of dried fodder obtained.

Before the end of the first month of each quarter, the processing undertaking shall notify the competent authority of the average moisture content, as referred to in paragraph 3, recorded during the previous quarter in respect of the fodder it has dehydrated.