The storekeeper shall prepare an annual stock statement on the basis of the monthly statements referred to in Article 2. The instructions issued for this purpose by the intervention agency shall be sent for information to the Commission within six months of the entry into force of this Regulation.
2. The annual stock statement, of which a specimen form is shown for guidance in Annex II, shall recapitulate the quantities in store, broken down by product and place of storage, and shall give for each product the quantities in store, the lot numbers (except in the case of cereals), the year of their entry into store (except in the case of alcohol) and an explanation of any anomalies detected.
