Commission monitoring of the market in fruit and vegetables

31.8.2015

Question for written answer E-012290-15
to the Commission
Rule 130
Paloma López Bermejo (GUE/NGL) , Ernest Urtasun (Verts/ALE) , Jordi Sebastià (Verts/ALE) , Estefanía Torres Martínez (GUE/NGL) , Ernest Maragall (Verts/ALE) , Josep-Maria Terricabras (Verts/ALE)

Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 allows the Commission to make the necessary arrangements to monitor market data from individual agricultural sectors on the basis of information received from Member States. According to the answers given by Mr Hogan, on behalf of the Commission, to questions E-011106/2014 and E-004052/2015 and by Mr Ciolos to Question E-006779/2014, the Commission is monitoring the market in fruit and vegetables and has recent data on fruit and vegetable prices. That being the case:

What forms of market data are being analysed in the fruit and vegetables sector and how are their collection and analysis being organised?

Does the Commission consider it desirable to have a good monitoring system to keep track of prices on the fruit and vegetable market?

Does it think that such a system would serve to reveal substantial price rises or falls more quickly and therefore reduce the time needed to ascertain that the market was disturbed or going through a period of severe imbalance, as referred to in Articles 219 and 222 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013?