Additionally, the accompanying document "Analysis on price transmission along the food chain in the EU" of the Commission Communication "A better Functioning Food Chain in Europe"[22] identifies for the period 2007 - 2009 a rather low and asymmetric transmission of prices from agricultural producers to consumers in the analysed markets (e.g., pork and dairy), which could be due, in part, to possible imbalances in bargaining power and/or anti-competitive practices in the food chain.

Forms of market manipulation include placing and withdrawal of false orders; spreading of false or misleading information or rumours through the media, including the internet, or by any other means; deliberately providing false information to undertakings which provide price assessments or market reports with the effect of misleading market participants acting on the basis of those price assessments or market reports; and deliberately making it appear that the availability of electricity generation capacity or natural gas availability, or the availability of transmission capacity ...[+++]is other than the capacity which is actually technically available where such information affects or is likely to affect the price of wholesale energy products.

The Commission has established a High Level Forum for a better functioning Food Supply Chain[20]. While it does not deal with price volatility as such, it addresses the transmission of price developments throughout the supply chain, examining business to business relations, the competitiveness of the food industry, agri-food logistics and the food price monitoring tool.

4.7. The zeroising mechanisms for the price indicator and for the volume indicator must be so designed that the operation of the mechanism on either of the two indicators automatically returns the other indicator to zero. 4.8.1. The computed price of a quantity equal to the maximum permissible error on the minimum delivery marked on the dial of the indicating mechanism must be not less than one-fifth of the value of the scale interval, but not less than the price corresponding to an interval of two millimetres on the scale of the first element on the price indicator, where the movement of this element is continuous.

The Commission is seeking more information on the prices to be charged to users of the future "Global European Network" (GEN) for data transmission before taking a position on the project, which was submitted at the beginning of 1994 by a number of telecommunications network operators in Europe.

The prices that I give of the crops, other than the Wheat Board prices, are prices taken from the data transmission network stat publishing, so from various grain organizations I have taken an average.