Submit quantity reports in accordance with the Market Regulation Goods Reporting Ordinance

Service Description

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

  • fat industry,
  • the grain industry,
  • starch industry,
  • animal feed industry,
  • dairy industry,
  • sugar industry,
  • alcohol industry.

If you are active in one of the above economic sectors, you are obliged to report regularly to the BLE.

In the reports, you report on the purchase of agricultural raw materials, their stocks, processing, sales as well as the production, stocks and sales of the manufactured products and the components of the milk producer price as well as the sugar sales price and the sugar beet purchase price.

As a rule, you must submit the reports online on a monthly basis. The alcohol quantities and sugar beet prices must be reported on request using the Excel form

Small businesses:

There is an exception for small businesses in the grain, starch and animal feed industries. Here, one quantity report in the marketing year (01.07. of one year to 30.06. of the following year) is sufficient. This also applies to the alcohol industry. An exception also applies to small companies in the fat industry. Here too, a quantity declaration in the calendar year (01.01 to 31.12 of a year) is sufficient.

The following companies are considered small businesses and only have to submit a quantity declaration once per financial year or calendar year:

  • Mills processing 1,000 to less than 5,000 tons of grain per year.
  • In addition to grinding mills, mills also include hulling mills and rice mills.
  • Malting plants with a malt production of 1,000 to less than 10,000 tons per year,
  • Manufacturers of starch with an annual production of 1,000 to less than 5,000 tons of starch per year,
  • Compound feed companies with an annual production of 1,000 to less than 10,000 tons of compound feed,
  • Trading companies with annual sales of 1,000 to less than 10,000 tons of cereals, pulses, oilseeds, oil cakes, oilseed meals and expellers,
  • Companies with an annual production of 1,000 to less than 10,000 hectoliters of ethyl alcohol from grain,
  • Oil mills processing 1,000 to less than 10,000 tons of oilseeds per year,
  • Refineries, hardening plants and manufacturers of fish oil with a production of up to less than 1,000 tons of oils and fats per year,
  • Manufacturers of margarine products, margarine preparations, edible fats and edible oils with a production of less than 1,000 tons of these products per year,
  • Manufacturers of mixed fat products and preparations of mixed fat products, including dairies, with a production of less than 1,000 tons of these products per year,

Other companies:

An annual quantity declaration is also sufficient for the following companies:

  • Producers and manufacturers of pasta from 1,000 tons of pasta production,
  • Coffee substitutes, nutritional and baking products and other cereal products from a processing of 1,000 tons of raw materials,
  • Producers of ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin with an annual production of more than 1,000 hectoliters,
  • importers of ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin with an annual traded quantity of more than 1,000 hectoliters

per year.

Exemption from the obligation to declare:

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

  • Dairies that process less than 3,000 liters of milk per day on average per year,
  • Milk purchasers who buy less than 500 liters of milk per day on average from the producer in a year,
  • Mills with an annual processing of less than 1,000 tons of grain,
  • Malting plants with an annual production of less than 1,000 tons of malt,
  • producers of starch with an annual production of less than 1,000 tons of starch,
  • Manufacturers of pasta with an annual production of less than 1,000 tons of pasta,
  • Manufacturers of nutrients and baking agents as well as coffee substitutes and other cereal products with an annual processing of less than 1,000 tons of raw materials,
  • compound feed companies with an annual production of compound feed of less than 1,000 tons,
  • Trading companies with annual sales of less than 1,000 tons of cereals, pulses, oilseeds, oil cakes, oil meals or expellers,
  • Oil mills with an annual oilseed processing volume of less than 1,000 tons,
  • Sugar manufacturers with an annual sugar production of less than 1,000 tons (white sugar value),
  • Traders in sugar with an annual purchase of less than 1,000 tons of crystalline or liquid sugar,
  • Manufacturers of isoglucose who produce less than 1,000 tons of isoglucose per year,
  • producers of ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin with an annual production of 1,000 hectoliters or less,
  • importers of ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin who import 1,000 hectoliters of ethyl alcohol or less per year.

Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)

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Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung (BLE) Referat 415

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