1.In the absence of price recording on representative markets or by operators of slaughterhouses or by the natural or legal persons referred to in Articles 10, 11 and 12, the prices shall be recorded by chambers of agriculture, quotation centres, farmers` cooperatives or farmers` unions in the Member State concerned.However, where a Member State has established a committee in the relevant region, to determine prices for that region, and where the membership of such committee is divided equally between buyers and sellers of bovine animals aged eight months or more and their carcasses, that Member State may use the prices determined by that committee for the calculation of the prices to be reported.