Chapter I: Markets of national interest

The standard application file for classification as a market of national interest contains, in addition to the deliberation of the regional council concerned, the following documents: 1° The deliberation of the territorial authority or public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation requesting the establishment of the market of national interest on its territory and deciding on the method of development and management of the said market; 2° In the event that the…

The standard application for early declassification of the national interest market contains, in addition to the deliberation of the regional council concerned, the following documents: 1° The deliberation of the commune or the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation on whose territory the market of national interest is located; 2° An economic and financial report setting out the reasons for the request, in particular a loss-making management of the said market…

The manager of a market of national interest sends the following activity and financial reports to the municipalities and public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation on whose territory the market is located, the regional council and the prefect: 1° The balance sheet for the past year and a provisional balance sheet for the coming year; 2° The profit and loss account for the past year and a provisional profit and loss…

Market News Service centres are responsible for collecting, processing and disseminating economic and statistical information relating to prices and volumes of transactions carried out on markets of national interest whose monitoring is, in view of the aforementioned volumes, included in the national section of the service’s annual programme. Market News Service centres may also monitor other markets as part of the regional section of the service’s annual programme.

The managers of the markets of national interest concerned are consulted by the market news department prior to drawing up the list of sites to be included in the various sections of the department’s annual programme.

In order to establish the quotations published by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, the agents of the market news service centres record, with the assistance of users, the prices charged on the sales sites of the markets mentioned in article A. 761-4. To this end, the agents of the market news service centres may be provided with any document enabling prices to be established. They may be assisted in…

Information on trading volumes on markets of national interest is transmitted by their managers to the relevant centre of the market news department, in accordance with procedures to be agreed for each market between its manager and the head of the centre. .

The market news department makes available to the managers of markets of national interest, for their own use, the economic and statistical information available to them.