Submit price reports in accordance with the Regulation on the Reporting of Commodities Subject to Market Organization

The Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE) monitors the markets for grains, feed, fats, milk, and sugar in Germany and reports on them regularly. To do so, it draws on data from producers, producer associations, processing plants, and trading companies in the 

• the fats industry,
• grain industry,
• feed industry,
• dairy industry,
• sugar industry
• yeast industry, and the
• food industry. 

If you are engaged in business activities in one of the above-mentioned sectors, you are required to report to the BLE on a regular basis. 

In your price reports, you must report the purchase or selling prices of certain food products:

• Fruit
• Vegetables
• Meat
• Butter
• Cheese
• Drinking milk
• Cream
• Milk powder enriched with vegetable fat
• Flour 
• Molasses
• Olive oil
• Sugar

In addition, you must also report the quantity of milk powder produced that is enriched with vegetable fat. Price reports must generally be submitted on a monthly basis. 

Large processing companies and large enterprises:
Large mills process more than 200,000 metric tons of bread grains annually,

manufacturers of compound feed for livestock who purchase more than 5,000 metric tons of molasses annually as a raw material.

Weekly price reports are required only for so-called large companies in the fat processing industry, as well as dairies, large processors of butter, cheese, and meat, and large food retail companies.

Large food retail companies have annual sales of more than EUR 7 billion.

Large processing companies have an annual turnover of more than EUR 250 million.

Large dairies produce more than 250,000 metric tons of drinking milk and/or more than 20,000 metric tons of cream and/or more than 2,000 metric tons of firm mozzarella.

Large companies in the fats and oils industry produce more than 5,000 metric tons of milk powder enriched with vegetable fat annually.

Exemption from the reporting requirement:

In addition, there are also companies to which the reporting requirement does not apply. The following companies are exempt from this requirement: 

• Dairies that produce neither drinking milk, nor cream, nor mozzarella,
• Dairies with an annual production of 250,000 metric tons of drinking milk or less,
• Dairies with an annual production of 20,000 metric tons of cream or less,
• Dairies with an annual production of 2,000 metric tons or less of firm mozzarella in the form of
• blocks weighing at least 9 kilograms, 
• mills with an annual processing capacity of 200,000 metric tons of bread grains or less, 
• Manufacturers of compound feed for livestock who purchase 5,000 metric tons or less of molasses annually as a raw material,
• Manufacturers of chemical or pharmaceutical products who purchase 500 metric tons or less of refined sugar per year—based on white sugar equivalent—as a raw material,
• Companies in the fat industry that produce 5,000 metric tons or less of milk powder enriched with vegetable fat annually,
• Food retail companies with annual domestic sales of EUR 7 billion or less, or where the product subject to reporting was organically produced,
• Manufacturers of baked goods, long-life baked goods, ready-to-eat meals, confectionery, ice cream, soft drinks, and fruit juice beverages that have annual domestic sales of EUR 250 million or less, or where the product subject to reporting was organically produced. 
• Food industry companies that are neither food retailers nor manufacturers of chemical or pharmaceutical products, nor manufacturers of milk powder enriched with vegetable fat, yeast, baked goods, long-life baked goods, ready-to-eat meals, confectionery, ice cream, soft drinks, or fruit juice beverages.