70. Calls on the Commission to work together with stakeholders to fix indicators on production costs which take into account energy costs, fertilisers, animal feed, salaries, rent and other key input costs, and to revise the reference prices accordingly; calls on the Commission, furthermore, to work together with stakeholders to define a market index comprising the trend in product quotations, milk prices and production costs, which should serve as a basis for the implementation of supply management instruments when the index falls to a predefined level and should also serve to suspend supply management measures when the index recovers; ...[+++]

The index of business activity for food and beverage services declined by 8.26 % between 2010 and 2012 and the number of businesses operating in this sector fell by 11 % in Aragón between 2009 and 2011, as a consequence of decreased expenditure on away-from-home food.

K. whereas applying an ‘EU’ or ’non-EU’ label to minced meat and trimmings is almost meaningless and might set an undesirable precedent, especially regarding any future labelling of the country of origin for meat used as an ingredient; whereas origin labelling requirements for beef show that more precise indication of the origin of minced meat and trimmings is both feasible and appropriate in order to ensure consumer information and traceability;

K. whereas applying an ‘EU’ or ‘non-EU’ label to minced meat and trimmings is almost meaningless and might set an undesirable precedent, especially regarding any future labelling of the country of origin for meat used as an ingredient; whereas origin labelling requirements for beef show that more precise indication of the origin of minced meat and trimmings is both feasible and appropriate in order to ensure consumer information and traceability;

The Spanish authorities state that according to the annual report of Federación Española de Hostelería y Restauración (FEHR) on the accommodation, food and beverage service activities for 2012, the sectoral index of business activity declined by 8.26 % during the period 2010-2012.

(22) In order to ensure that the necessary rules for the proper functioning of the identification, registration and traceability of bovine animals and beef are applied, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty should be delegated to the Commission in respect of requirements for alternative means of identification of bovine animals, special circumstances in which Member States may extend the maximum periods for the application of the means of identification, data to be exchanged between the computerised databases of the Member States, the maximum period for certain reporting obligations, the requirements for means of identification, the information to be included in the passports and in the individual registers to ...[+++] be kept on each holding, the minimum level of official controls, the identification and registration of movements of bovine animals when put out to summer grazing in different mountain areas , rules for labelling certain products which should be equivalent to the rules laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000, the definitions of minced beef, beef trimmings or cut beef, the specific indications that may be put on labels, the labelling provisions related to the simplification of the indication of origin, the maximum size and composition of certain groups of animals, the approval procedures related to labelling conditions on packaging of cut meat and the administrative sanctions to be applied by the Member States in cases of non-compliance with Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000.