The European Commission has launched an initiative which will improve access to information on the EU's market policy. Following a short trial period, the results of the management committee for cereals as well as other relevant information are now publicly accessible via the Europa server to all interested parties. This new approach will replace the dissemination of the information by fax.

At: http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/markets/crops/index_en.htm in the folder "LIBRARY", the following information can be found:

Periodical instruments (APA)

Content: Regulations fixing/modifying the import duties for cereals and export restitutions

Upload: twice a month for the fixing of import duties and whenever there is a non-scheduled change in the duties; monthly for export restitutions.

Licences

Content: Export and import licences per cereal since the beginning of the marketing year, comparison with the same period of the last two marketing years.

Upload: automatically Thursday 19:00, weekly

Import Quotas

Content: Import of Cereals under the tariff quota on a weekly basis since the opening of the quota

Upload: summary page automatically Thursday 19:00, weekly.

Licences to any Central or Eastern European destination

Content: Licences on a monthly basis since the beginning of the marketing year

Upload: summary page automatically Thursday 19:00 monthly update.

Requests for import and export licences

Content: Licences requested since the beginning of the marketing year by Member State

Upload: summary page automatically Thursday 19:00 weekly update.

Results of the Cereals Management Committee

Content: quantities sold this week under tenders, refunds

Upload: summary page automatically Thursday 19:00 weekly update.

Resale of intervention stocks on the EU market

Content: open tenders, quantities sold so far and quantities still to be sold

Intervention stocks

Content: Intervention situation by Member State and by Cereal;

Upload: automatically Thursday 19:00 weekly update.

Regulations

Content: New regulations relevant for the cereals sector (opening of tenders, modifications to Intervention rules, aid regimes…)

Upload: manually, whenever necessary