COMMISSION DECISION
of 28 November 1994
amending, for the survey on the structure of agricultural holdings in 1993, the Community programme of tables to be stored in the tabular data bank (BDT) of the Eurofarm system
(94/772/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 571/88 of 29 February 1988 on the organization of Community surveys on the structure of agricultural holdings between 1988 and 1997 (1), as amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No 807/89 (2), and as last amended by Commission Decision No 93/156/EEC (3), and in particular, to point 2 of Annex II thereof;
Whereas, in accordance with the second indent of point 2 of Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 571/88, the tabular data bank (BDT) will contain the survey results in the form of statistical tables, and whereas the content of the BDT will be decided in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 15 of the said Regulation;
Whereas this programme of tables must take into account point 13 of Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 571/88, which states that the tables contained in the BDT must not allow direct or indirect identification of holdings;
Whereas the tables for the various levels of aggregation must be designed in a way which takes into account the statistical reliability of the survey results;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 571/88 gives the Member States the choice of carrying out the Community surveys on the structure of agricultural holdings planned for 1993, 1995 and 1997 in the form of an agricultural census (full survey) or as a sample survey. Most of the Member States are expected to carry these out as sample surveys. The BDT programme of standard tables must take account of this fact and be adapted accordingly;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision reflect the opinion of the Standing Committee for Agricultural Statistics,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
For the 1993 structure survey, the Community programme of tables for the tabular data bank (BDT) of the Eurofarm system, as provided for by Annex II to Council Regulation (EEC) No 571/88, shall be as set out in the Annex of the present Decision.
Article 2
1. The statistical information stored in the tabular data bank (BDT) shall not be made available to users before the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in conjunction with the Member States, has established that it complies with the criteria and rules governing statistical confidentiality and reliability to be established jointly with the Member States.
2. For this purpose, the tables mentioned in Article 1 and the ad hoc tables defined in point 15 of Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 571/88 shall be stored initially in a special field of the tabular data bank (BDT), access to which is restricted to the Statistical Office of the European Communities and the statistical services of the Member States for the tables concerning their own countries.
3. The ad hoc tables for which the authorization to disseminate has been given by the competent services of the Member States, can be also introduced into the tabular data bank when they are of general interest.
Article 3
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 28 November 1994.