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Amended by Regulation (EU) 2021/2117 32021R2117 on EUR-Lex (external, EUR-Lex)
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A new paragraph 2a was added requiring Member States to notify the Commission of all information needed to monitor compliance with the principles set out in paragraph 1.
Paragraph 3 was expanded so the Commission's annual publication now covers conditions under which products were bought as well as sold, and must include the relevant volumes and the buying and selling prices, whereas the earlier text referred only to conditions of sale.
Cited: Art. 16, v2 (external, EUR-Lex) · Art. 16, v1 (external, EUR-Lex)
v1 is the previous version, v2 this one.
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Previous version, in force 29 December 2020 02013R1308-20201229 → this version, in force 7 December 2021 02013R1308-20211207
Article 16 General principles on disposal from public intervention 1. Disposal of products bought in under public intervention shall take place in such a way as to: (a) avoid any disturbance of the market, (b) ensure equal access to goods and equal treatment of purchasers, and (c) be in compliance with the commitments resulting from international agreements concluded in accordance with the TFEU. 2. Products bought in under public intervention may be disposed of by making them available for the scheme for food distribution to the most deprived in the Union as set out in the relevant Union legal acts. In such cases, the accounting value of such products shall be at the level of the relevant fixed public intervention price referred to in Article 15(2) of this Regulation. 2a. Member States shall notify to the Commission all the information needed to allow for the monitoring of compliance with the principles laid down in paragraph 1. 3. Each year the Commission shall publish details of the conditions under which products bought in under public intervention were bought or sold in the previous year.Those details shall include the relevant volumes and the buying and selling prices.