Commodities Reporting Ordinance. Country/Territory Germany Document type Regulation Date 1999 (2011) Source FAO, FAOLEX Long titleOrdinance on duty to report relating to certain commodities. Subject Livestock, Food & nutrition Keyword Cereals/grains/rice Sugar Agricultural commodities Milk/dairy products Data collection/reporting Animal feed/feedstuffs Geographical area Alps, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Western Europe Abstract Article 1 of the said Ordinance defines inter alia the following terms: "wheat", "cereal products", "starch", "animal feed", "sugar", "oil seeds", "vegetable oil", "fish oil", "dairy products", etc. The Ordinance also establishes that plants producing wheat, starch and foodstuffs, plants producing sugar, plants producing fats, plants producing dairy products must report monthly to the competent authorities on their production and other details as specified in the Annex. The Ordinance consists of 11 articles and 1 Annex indicating the appropriate forms to be dispatched to the Ministry of Nutrition, Agriculture and Forestry. Full text German Website www.bmj.de