1.   Interested parties, if their representations are to be taken into account during the investigation, must make themselves known by contacting the Commission, present their views in writing and submit a reply to the questionnaire indicated in recital 10 of this Regulation or any information to be taken into account within 37 days from the date of the entry into force of this Regulation.

Interested parties may also apply to be heard by the Commission within the same 37-day time-limit.

2.   Interested parties are required to make all submissions and requests in electronic format (non-confidential submissions via e-mail, confidential ones on CD-R/DVD), and must indicate their name, address, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers. However, any Powers of Attorney, signed certifications, and any updates thereof, accompanying questionnaire replies must be submitted on paper, i.e. by post or by hand, at the address below. If an interested party cannot provide its submissions and requests in electronic format, it must immediately inform the Commission in compliance with Article 18(2) of the basic Regulation. For further information concerning correspondence with the Commission, interested parties may consult the relevant web page on the website of the Directorate-General for Trade: http://ec.europa.eu/trade/tackling-unfair-trade/trade-defence

All written submissions, including the information requested in this Regulation, questionnaire replies and correspondence provided by interested parties on a confidential basis must be labelled as ‘Limited’ (7) and, in accordance with Article 19(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009, must be accompanied by a non-confidential version, which must be labelled ‘For inspection by interested parties’.

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1.   The average Union price, per head, of male calves aged between eight days and four weeks shall be the average of the prices recorded for dairy type male rearing calves and beef type male rearing calves on the representative markets of the Member States with an important share in the production and trade of those calves as referred to in Annex I, which shall be weighted by coefficients established on the basis of:

2.   The prices to be reported for each type of calves referred to in paragraph 1 shall be recorded on public markets or by natural or legal persons who trade substantial numbers of those types of calves and are designated by the Member State.

Those prices shall be the average of the prices paid in that Member State at the same wholesale stage, exclusive of value added tax (‘VAT’), for the type concerned and weighted by coefficients reflecting the relative proportion of the different qualities of male rearing calves defined by the Member State and the relative importance of each market.

3.   For the purposes of this Article:

1.   The average Union price, per kilogram of live weight, of store cattle shall be the average of the prices recorded for young store cattle, yearling male store cattle and yearling female store cattle on the representative markets of the Member States with an important share in the production and trade of that cattle as referred to in Annex II, which shall be weighted by coefficients established on the basis of:

2.   The prices to be reported for each type of store cattle referred to in paragraph 1 shall be recorded on public markets or by natural or legal persons who trade substantial numbers of the relevant store cattle and are designated by the Member State.

Those prices shall be the average of the prices paid in that Member State at the same wholesale stage, exclusive of VAT, for the type concerned and weighted by coefficients reflecting the relative proportion of the different qualities of store cattle defined by the Member State and the relative importance of each market.

3.   For the purposes of this Article:

1.   The average Union price, per 100 kg of carcass weight, of calves slaughtered at the age of less than eight months shall be the average of the prices recorded for those calves on the representative markets of the Member States with an important share in the production as referred to in Annex III, which shall be weighted by coefficients established on the basis of the net production of those calves in the Union.

2.   The price to be reported for carcasses of the calves referred to in paragraph 1 shall be recorded by the operators of any slaughterhouse which slaughters such calves or by natural or legal persons who send substantial numbers of such calves for slaughter and which are designated by the Member State.

That price shall be the average of the prices paid in that Member State at the slaughterhouse entry stage, exclusive of VAT, for the carcasses of the calves concerned and weighted by coefficients reflecting the relative proportion of the different qualities of carcasses defined by the Member State and the relative importance of each market.

3.   For the purposes of establishing the market prices to be reported, the carcass shall be presented:

Where at the moment of weighing the presentation of the carcass differs from the presentation provided for in the first subparagraph, the weight of the carcass shall be adjusted by applying corrective factors specified by the Member State in order to move from that presentation to the reference presentation. In that case the price for each 100 kg of carcass weight shall be adjusted accordingly.

4.   The carcass weight to be taken into account for the reporting of the market prices shall be the cold weight of the carcass.

The cold weight of the carcass shall correspond to the warm weight taken not later than one hour after the animal has been stuck, less 2 %.

1.   In the absence of price recording on public markets or by operators of slaughterhouses or by the natural or legal persons referred to in Articles 1(2), 2(2) and 3(2), the prices shall be recorded by chambers of agriculture, quotation centres, farmers’ cooperatives or farmers’ unions in the Member State concerned.

However, where a Member State has established a committee to determine prices for a region, and where the membership of such committee is comprised equally of buyers and sellers of certain categories of bovine animals or carcasses of such animals, that Member State may use them for the calculation of the prices to be reported.

2.   The Member States concerned shall communicate to the Commission their representative markets, the qualities to be defined and the weighting coefficients referred to in Articles 1(2), 2(2) and 3(2), as well as the corrective factors referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 3(3) by 1 June 2014 at the latest and thereafter no later than 1 June each year.

As regards representative markets, the communication shall include:

The Commission shall communicate the information referred to in the first subparagraph to all Member States.

3.   The Member States concerned shall communicate to the Commission not later than 12 noon, Brussels time, on Wednesday each week, the national average prices for each type of bovine animals referred to in Articles 1(1), 2(1) and 3(1) recorded on their respective representative markets. They shall not communicate those prices to any other body before they have communicated them to the Commission.

Those prices shall relate to the seven day period from Monday to Sunday preceding the week in which the information is communicated.

The prices reported shall be expressed in euro or, where applicable, in national currency.

For the communications referred to in this paragraph, Member States shall use electronic means of transmission made available to the Member States by the Commission.