Obligation to notify when selling dairy products directly in Austria

Published 2021년 2월 11일

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The article highlights the requirement for farmers who marketed at least 25,000 kg of cow's milk directly in 2020 to submit a direct marketing report by March 31, 2021. This report is essential to detail the quantity of milk used and the products created from it, including drinking milk, butter, and various cheeses and milk products. The definition of direct marketing includes sales made in the farmer's own name to end consumers, food retailers, wholesalers, and the sale of milk for animal feed. AMA has made the necessary forms and guides available on their website to assist with the report preparation.

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Farmers who marketed at least 25,000 kg of cow's milk directly in the 2020 calendar year must submit a direct marketing report for this period by March 31, 2021, the AMA announced. The amount of milk used and the products made from it, broken down into drinking milk, butter, mountain cheese & Emmentaler, other cheeses including curd cheese and other milk products (cocoa, fruit yoghurt, natural yoghurt, sour cream, whipped cream), must be specified. Definition of direct marketing Farmers are direct marketers if they sell the cow's milk or products made from it in their own name, for their own account and at their own responsibility directly to end consumers (also applies to catering for guests on holiday on the farm), food retailers, wholesalers, Hand in community suppliers or gastronomy. The sale of cow's milk to farms for animal feed also falls under this definition. Personal consumption on the farm and the sale of cow's milk to “first-time buyers” ...

Source: Bauernzeitung