Report on the exercise of the power to adopt delegated acts conferred to the Commission under Council Directive 96/16/EC on statistical surveys of milk and milk products

Background and further information:

Council Directive 96/16/EC was amended by Regulation (EU) No 1350/2013 amending certain legislative acts in the field of agricultural and fishery statistics to align implementing powers with the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Article 3(2) of the Directive confers powers to adopt delegated acts on the Commission. This power is conferred to amend the list of milk products covered by the surveys and to lay down the standard definitions applicable for the communication of the results for the various products.

The power to adopt delegated acts is conferred for a period of five years from 10 January 2014. This power is to be tacitly extended for periods of five years unless the European Parliament or the Council object. The Commission is obliged to draw up a report on the delegation of power not later than nine months before the end of the five-year period. This report fulfils this obligation.

Most milk products were not subject to changes during the period in question. A few of them were subject to changes, but these were so minor that the adaptation of European and national statistical systems could not be justified. The Commission has therefore not yet exercised the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on it by Directive 96/16/EC.