The level of stocks is not considered a valid injury indicator due to the seasonality of the sales, to the fact that urea used for captive use is stored together with the urea sold as such on the market and to the fact that urea is partly stored by the producers themselves and partly by cooperatives of farmers.

Level of stocks (Table I)

The level of stocks means all oil stored within the frontiers of the declaring country, with the exception of oil in pipelines, oil held by retailers and in filling stations, stocks held by end-consumers and not subject to administrative supervision, and stocks held for military consumption.

c) types of the stored materials (crude oil, product category) and the volume of the stock

The volume and accumulation of such stocks shall correspond to predetermined targets related solely to food security.

In making a determination of serious damage, or actual threat thereof, as referred to in paragraph 2, the Member shall examine the effect of those imports on the state of the particular industry, as reflected in changes in such relevant economic variables as output, productivity, utilization of capacity, inventories, market share, exports, wages, employment, domestic prices, profits and investment; none of which, either alone or combined with other factors, can necessarily give decisive guidance.

Output stocks comprise:

Stocks comprise all goods which do not form part of fixed capital and are held by producer units at a given moment.

Other changes in volume are generally understood to be stocks of goods destroyed in the wake of exceptional events (such as natural disasters).

The increase in stock between 2000/01 and 2001/02 coincided with a fall in the Community producers' sales volume in the Community of 20 %, and was found to be chiefly attributable to that fall in sales volume.

Whilst an increase in stocks was observed at the sampled Community producers, it was considered that in this case stocks were not a relevant indicator of injury due to the industry specific high fluctuations of stocks.

Given a significant build up of stocks by some importers and the continuing high level of imports most recently, it is considered that this is the maximum volume which should be imported without additional duty.

All individual ampoules must be clearly labelled, and comprehensive records maintained of virus stocks together with dates and results of quality-control checks.

"Fixed asset" livestock are in fact converted into stocks by recording a flow entitled "other change in volume" (cf. 2.136) entered in the "other changes in volume of assets" account.

This fall is mainly explained by the fact that stocks usually build up at the end of each calendar year to allow for reduced production volumes during the winter months when energy costs peak.

Samples Wines of different density and alcoholic strength prepared each month on industrial scale, taken from a properly stored stock of bottles and delivered as anonymous products to the laboratories.

In an attempt to get into line with the perpetual inventory method, the ESA 95 recommends a "quantitative" method which consists in measuring changes in stocks as the difference in volume between the stocks at the opening and closing of the accounting period, valued at the average prices in force during the period concerned.

In addition to the injury factors as set out in recitals 150 to 159 of the Provisional Regulation, i.e. production, production capacity, capacity utilisation, sales volume, market share, sales prices, stocks, profitability, employment and investments, the following injury factors were analysed, and, following the Reports recommendations, are now set out in detail below.

The new Member States shall notify the Commission of the quantity of products in surplus stocks, except of those quantities in public stocks as referred to in Article 5, by 31 October 2004 at the latest.";

Secondly, the volume of stocks has decreased since 1996:

The competent bodies shall at regular intervals check on the volume actually exported and on the volume of stocks.

(63) The level of stocks decreased by around 4 % between 1996 and the IP.

Sales volumes rose by 4,9 % and the corresponding market share by 19 %; during the same period stock volumes decreased by about 4 %.

Output stocks comprise:

The Buffer Stock shall comprise:

Economic factors such as average sales prices per tonne for the most-sold grade, volume of stocks and profitability showed a positive development.

keep stock records showing at least:

The level of stocks is not considered to be a relevant injury indicator owing to the seasonal nature of the sales and the fact that AN is partly stored by the producers themselves and partly by the cooperatives of farmers.

When changes in the volume and the prices of inventories are fairly regular, estimates of changes in inventories can also be obtained by multiplying the volume change of inventories by average prices for the current year or the base year.

The establishment of Community reserves of foot-and-mouth disease vaccine shall consist of:

Whereas the financing costs should be calculated according to a method which takes account of the volume of the stocks, of the different ways in which the goods are presented for intervention, of the depreciation of goods in storage since the beginning of the financial year and also of changes in the intervention prices of products during the financial year;

This is line in with the finding of steady production volumes and stocks in the same period.

If they refer to the current year, the value measures the volume changes in inventories at current prices.If the average prices refer to a base-year, the value corresponds to volume changes in inventories at base-year prices.

When volume and price changes of inventories are not too large, the direct deflation of the change in inventories with an average price index of the year provides an alternative.

Stocks comprise all goods which do not form part of fixed capital and are held by producer units at a given moment.

Thereafter, the level of stocks increased due to the significant decrease of sales volume while production slightly increased.

Inventories at the beginning and at the end respectively of each period may have to be calculated at constant prices in order to estimate the volume change in inventories during the period.

Other changes in volume are generally understood to be stocks of goods destroyed in the wake of exceptional events (such as natural disasters).

if both the volume and the prices of the inventories change substantially within the accounting period, more sophisticated approximation methods are required.

in case the prices of the goods involved remain fairly constant, even large fluctuations in the volume of inventories may not invalidate a simple approximation, i. e. the multiplication of the volume change with the average price;

'Fixed asset' livestock are in fact converted into stocks by recording a flow entitled 'other change in volume' (cf. 2.136) entered in the 'other changes in volume of assets' account.

Whilst an increase in stocks was observed at the sampled Community producers, it was considered that in this case stocks were not a relevant indicator of injury due to the industry specific high fluctuations of stocks.

In relation to the total production volume of the Community industry, closing inventories have decreased by 58 % over the period considered as well, namely inventories represented 20,7 % of total production volume in 1996 and 8,7 % in the IP.

(2) Public sales of wine alcohol for use in the fuel sector in the Community should be organised with a view to reducing Community stocks of wine alcohol and to some extent ensuring supplies to firms approved under Article 92 of Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000.

when changes in the volume of inventories are fairly regular, a practical method which comes close to the theoretical valuation principle is to multiply the volume change of the inventories by the average prices for the period (purchasers' prices for inventories held by users or by wholesalers or retailers, basic prices for inventories held by their producers);

The other injury indicators would have followed the same negative trend, with the exception of the investments, and of the production volume, the increase of which however resulted in higher stocks.

Additional negative indicators were the decrease in sales volume, the loss of market share, the reduction of production capacity and employment, and the increase of stock levels.

(49) In the absence of any comments, the provisional findings regarding stocks, sales volume and market share (growth), investments, employment and productivity are hereby confirmed.

The decrease of the level of stocks in the period 1996 to 1999 is explained by a significant increase of sales volume, namely as compared to the production volume during the same period.

Certain economic factors in the Community, such as sales volumes and market share, as well as stocks, have shown positive developments for the Community industry during the period under review.