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"BCOUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 357/79
of 5 February 1979
on statistical surveys of areas under vines
(OJ L 54, 5.3.1979, p. 124)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
"M1 Council Regulation (EEC) No 1992/80 of 22 July 1980 L 195 10 29.7.1980
"M2 Council Regulation (EEC) No 3719/81 of 21 December 1981 L 373 5 29.12.1981
"M3 Council Regulation (EEC) No 3768/85 of 20 December 1985 L 362 8 31.12.1985
"M4 Council Regulation (EEC) No 490/86 of 25 February 1986 L 54 22 1.3.1986
"M5 Council Regulation (EEC) No 3570/90 of 4 December 1990 L 353 8 17.12.1990
"M6 Council Regulation (EC) No 3205/93 of 16 November 1993 L 289 4 24.11.1993
"M7 Council Regulation (EC) No 2329/98 of 22 October 1998 L 291 2 30.10.1998
Amended by:
"A1 Act of Accession of Greece L 291 17 19.11.1979
"A2 Act of Accession of Austria, Sweden and Finland C 241 21 29.8.1994
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COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 357/79
of 5 February 1979
on statistical surveys of areas under vines
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic
Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),
Whereas the Commission, in order to fulfil its obligations under the
Treaty and the Community provisions on the common organization of
the market in wine, requires accurate up to date (SIC! up-to-date) data on
the production potential of the areas under vines in the Community and
on medium-term trends in production and supply;
Whereas Article 1 of Regulation No 24 on the progressive establishment
of a common organization of the market in wine (3) provided that
Member States should, not later than 31 December 1964, prepare a
viticultural land register which should thereafter be kept up to date;
Whereas Commission Regulation No 26/64/EEC of 28 February 1964
laying down additional provisions for the preparation of the viticultural
land register, for its management and for keeping it up to date (4), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1456/76 (5), provides that the
complete revision of the Community viticultural land register referred
to in Article 3 (1) should take place every 10 years, beginning in 1979;
Whereas a land register in the strict sense involves major administrative
work on the establishment, processing and constant updating of a list or
register containing information on the owners and on all parcels of land
under vines with sufficient details for their identification; whereas
viticultural land registers in this sense have been established only by
some Member States, which have moreover been able to update them
only partially and at irregular intervals; whereas the surveys on the areas
under vines carried out by certain Member States have different
reference years; whereas these national land registers and surveys do
not therefore permit precise uniform synchronized observation of
production potential and supply on the Community vine markets;
Whereas, in order to assess the Community wine market situation and
developments therein, every 10 years basic statistical surveys covering
the total areas under vines should be conducted in vine-growing holdings
and, in between the basic surveys, smaller statistical surveys should be
conducted only on the area under vines of wine grape varieties;
Whereas, for economic and technical reasons and in view of their limited
significance on the Community wine market, vines cultivated in the open
air in Member States with a total area under vines of less than 500
hectares, vines cultivated under glass and vines produced on very small
areas solely for home consumption by the growers should all be excluded
from the surveys;
Whereas detailed information is necessary on the use of the area under
vines for the production of wine grapes, table grapes and material for
vegetative propagation of vines, as well as on the varieties and the age of
the vines; whereas the overproduction (SIC! over-production) of table
wine in particular can create serious difficulties in the wine economies of!B
(1) OJ No C 276, 20. 11. 1978, p. 1.
(2) OJ No C 296, 11. 12. 1978, p. 58.
(3) OJ No 30, 20. 4. 1962, p. 989/62.
(4) OJ No 48, 19. 3. 1964, p. 753/64.
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certain producer countries; whereas it is therefore necessary to record
separately the area under vines intended for the production of quality
wines psr and of table wines;
Whereas, in order to keep the development of wine production potential
under constant observation, there should be annual intermediate surveys
of any changes by way of grubbing, new planting or replanting in the
area under vines of wine grape varieties;
Whereas the results of both the basic and the intermediate surveys should
be forwarded to the Commission as quickly as possible;
Whereas consideration should also be given to statistics resulting from
the application of other Community provisions laying down measures for
reorganizing Community wine production;
Whereas, since sample survey methods can produce accurate results at
moderate cost over large areas under vines, Member States should be
allowed to conduct the surveys either exhaustively or by sample,
provided that standards of statistical reliability are laid down;
Whereas, in order to be able to assess the production of wine in the
Community, information is required each year on yields per hectare and
on the mean natural alcoholic strength of fresh grapes, of grape must and
of wine; whereas, in view of the existence of areas with widely differing
yields, the area under vines of wine grape varieties should be subdivided
into yield classes;
Whereas the Commission must submit reports in order to enable the
Council to examine the extent to which the surveys carried out and the
information communicated can help achieve the objectives of this
Regulation; whereas, where appropriate, it must propose the harmon-
ization of the methods used;
Whereas Member States and the Commission must cooperate as fully as
possible when applying this Regulation; whereas the implementing rules
must be laid down after consultation with the Standing Committee for
Agricultural Statistics, set up by Decision 72/279/EEC (1);
Whereas the procedure to be followed by the Standing Committee for
Agricultural Statistics must be laid down;
Whereas statistical surveys allow production potential to be adjusted to
market demand in good time; whereas such adjustment can considerably
reduce the ever-increasing costs of managing the wine market; whereas
the Community should therefore be made financially responsible with
regard to the expenses incurred by the Member States concerned in
connection with the first basic survey under this Regulation;
Whereas the establishment of the survey system under this Regulation
requires the consequent amendment of certain Community provisions in
the wine sector,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
1. Member States on whose territory the total area of vines cultivated in
the open air is not less than 500 hectares shall carry out:
— every 10 years basic surveys on the area under vines; the first basic
survey shall be carried out in 1979, or before 1 April 1980 at the
latest, and shall relate to the situation after grubbing and planting in
the 1978/79 wine-growing year,
— annually from the second year after the basic surveys, intermediate
surveys on the changes taking place in the areas under vines of wine
grape varieties; the first intermediate survey shall be carried out in
1981 and shall relate to changes during the two wine-growing years
1979/80 and 1980/81.!B
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However, the first basic survey in Italy may be completed by 31 October
1982 and shall relate to the situation after grubbing and planting in the
1981/82 wine-growing year. The first intermediate survey in this
Member State shall be carried out in 1984 and shall relate to changes
during the two wine-growing years 1982/83 and 1983/84.
The first intermediate survey to be carried out in the territory of the
former German Democratic Republic shall take place not later than two
years after the first basic survey.
If a Community survey on the structure of agricultural holdings on the
basis of Regulation (EEC) No 571/88 (1) is scheduled within a maximum
of 12 months in relation to the basic survey provided for in the first
indent of the first subparagraph, both surveys may be carried out
simultaneously. Member States shall inform the Commission in advance
of their intention to make use of this provision.
2. The wine-growing year shall be that fixed on the basis of Article 5
(4) of Regulation (EEC) No 337/79.
Article 1a
The Hellenic Republic shall carry out the first basic survey in
accordance with the provisions of this Regulation as from 1982.
However, for 1981, the Hellenic Republic undertakes to supply the data
required in Article 5.
Article 1b
The Kingdom of Spain shall conduct the first basic survey in 1987 in
accordance with this Regulation. This survey shall cover the situation
after grubbing, new planting, or replanting in the 1986/87 wine-growing
year.
The Portuguese Republic shall conduct the first basic survey in 1989.
This survey shall cover the situation after grubbing, new planting or
replanting in the 1988/89 wine-growing year.
Article 1c
The Republic of Austria shall conduct the first basic survey in 1999. This
survey shall cover the situation after grubbing, new planting, or
replanting in the 1998/1999 wine-growing year.
Article 2
1. The basic surveys shall cover all holdings having a cultivated area
under vines normally intended for the production for sale of grapes,
grape must, wine or vegetative propagation material for vines.
2. During the basic surveys, the following particulars shall be recorded
for each holding referred to in paragraph 1:
A. agricultural area in use;B. area under vines cultivated.
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The area under vines cultivated is to be broken down according to its
normal production use into:
(a) the area under wine grape varieties, further broken down into:
— quality wines psr,— other wines:
— including wine compulsorily intended for the manu-
facture of certain potable spirits obtained from wine
with a registered designation of origin;
(b) the area under table grape varieties;(c) the area planted with root-stock for future grafting;(d) the area cultivated solely for the production of vegetative
propagation material for vines subdivided into:
— nurseries,— parent vines for root-stock;
(e) the areas under grapes intended for drying.
Varieties which are classified simultaneously as wine grape varieties
and table grape varieties shall be recorded according to their
predominant use in the geographical units concerned.
3. During the basic surveys, the following particulars shall be recorded
for the area under wine grape varieties:
A. Vine varieties
In the Member States concerned, a separate record shall be made for
each geographical unit referred to in Article 4 (3) of those vine
varieties which together constitute at least 70% of the total area
under wine grape varieties, and, in any case, of those varieties which
constitute 3% or more of the said area. The remaining varieties may
be grouped together according to the colour of the grapes.
However, as regards the 1999 basic survey, the Portuguese Republic
may transmit information on vine varieties which together represent
at least 53 % of the total area under wine grape vines.
B. Age of the vines
The age of the vines shall be calculated from the wine-growing year
in which they were planted or grafted. The age groups shall be
established for each Member State concerned in accordance with the
procedure laid down in Article 8.
4. This Regulation shall not affect any provisions in the Member States
providing for surveys of the areas under vines which include, together
with the information referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3, additional
information obtained, for example, as a result of a wider field of enquiry
than that referred to in paragraph 1 or from a more detailed specification
of the particulars of the areas under vines and the holdings concerned.
Such additional results must also be forwarded to the Commission.
Article 3
1. The Member States concerned shall submit to the Commission
before 30 September of the preceding year a detailed description of the
methods to be used for the basic surveys and, where appropriate, of the
sampling plan.
2. The Member States concerned shall take suitable measures to limit
and, where necessary, to estimate errors of observation for the total area
under vines cultivated for each type of production use referred to in
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3. The basic surveys may either be exhaustive, or based on random
sampling. As regards the results of the basic surveys carried out by
random sampling, the Member States shall take all the necessary
measures to ensure that the sampling error at the 68% confidence level
shall be of the order of 1% at most for the survey particulars referred to
in Article 2 (2) (B) within the geographical units concerned. The samples
shall include holdings of all sizes.
4. Member States which have completed the establishment of the
vineyard register at national level or in certain regions and which update
it annually, in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 2392/86, may use
the data in the vineyard register as a source for communicating to the
Commission the basic-survey information.
Article 4
1. The Member States concerned shall notify the Commission of the
results of the basic surveys as soon as possible but not later than 15
months after completion of the field work.
2. The results of the basic surveys shall be submitted by geographical
unit in the form of a schedule of tables to be adopted in accordance with
the procedure laid down in Article 8.
3. The geographical units referred to in paragraph 2, Article 2 (2) (B)
and (3) (A) and Article 3 (3) are:
— in the Federal Republic of Germany: the wine-growing regions
defined in accordance with Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC)
No 338/79 of 5 February 1979 laying down special provisions
relating to quality wines produced in specific regions (1), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3687/84 (2),
— in Greece: the wine-growing regions referred to in the Annex,— in Spain: the regions referred to in the Annex,— in France: the départements or groups of départements listed in the
Annex,
— in Italy: the provinces,— in Portugal: the regions referred to in the Annex,— in the other Member States concerned: their entire national territory.
4. Member States which process their basic survey results electroni-
cally shall submit these results in a machine-readable form, to be
determined in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 8.
Article 5
1. The intermediate surveys shall cover the area under vines of wine
grape varieties in the holdings referred to in Article 2 (1) and shall relate
to changes which have taken place in that area during the preceding
wine-growing year; however, the first intermediate surveys following the
basic surveys shall relate to the changes during the previous two
wine-growing years.
2. During the intermediate surveys the areas under vines which:— have been grubbed or are no longer cultivated,
— have been replanted within the meaning of Annex IVa (d) to
Regulation (EEC) No 337/79 and, separately, those which have been!B
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newly planted within the meaning of Annex IVa (e) to that
Regulation,
shall be recorded for the areas normally used for the production of:
— quality wines psr,
— other wines:
— including wines compulsorily intended for the manufacture of
certain potable spirits obtained from wine with a registered
designation of origin,
by the vine variety and at least by the yield classes referred to in Article 6
(2). Any figures relating to the grubbing and planting of vines obtained
as a result of the implementation of other Community provisions shall be
taken into consideration.
3. The intermediate surveys may be either exhaustive or based on
random sampling. As regards the results of the intermediate surveys
carried out by random sampling, the Member States concerned shall take
all necessary measures to ensure that the sampling error at the 68%
confidence level shall be of the order of 3% at most for the whole of the
cultivated area under vines normally intended for the production of wine
grapes in the geographical units concerned.
4. The Member States concerned shall submit to the Commission
before 30 June 1980, "A2and in the Hellenic Republic and the
Republic of Austria 3at the time of accession, a detailed description of
the methods to be used for intermediate surveys; advance notice shall be
given of any change in such methods.
However, Italy may submit this detailed description before 30 June 1983.The Kingdom of Spain shall forward this detailed description by 30 June
1987 and the Portuguese Republic by 30 June 1990.
4a. The Commission shall examine in close collaboration with the
Member States concerned whether the conditions governing the use of
the data from the vineyard register for statistical purposes have been
fulfilled.
5. The Member States concerned shall submit the results of the
intermediate surveys to the Commission before 1 May of the year
following the wine-growing years concerned. They shall be broken down
into the geographical units set out in Article 4 (3) in the form of a
schedule of tables to be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid
down in Article 8.
6. Member States which process their intermediate survey results
electronically shall submit the results referred to in paragraph 5 in a
machine-readable form, to be determined in accordance with the
procedure laid down in Article 8.
Article 6
1. The Member States concerned shall forward to the Commission, for
each wine-growing year, the mean yield per hectare, of hectolitres per
hectare, of grape must or wine or decitonnes per hectare, of grapes
produced for the areas under vine of wine grape varieties, broken down
into the yield classes referred to in paragraph 2.
This data shall be forwarded with effect from the 1979/80 wine-growing
year for Germany, France and Luxembourg, 1982/83 for Italy and
Greece, 1987/88 for Spain and 1989/90 for Portugal,
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2. The Member States concerned shall subdivide the areas under the
vines cultivated with wine grape varieties as recorded in the basic
surveys into yield classes based upon the mean yield per hectare referred
to in paragraph 1 and established in accordance with the procedure laid
down in Article 8.
3. The Member States concerned shall estimate the future trends over
five wine-growing years in average yields per hectare for each yield class
referred to in paragraph 2, taking into account agronomic and economic
developments.
4. The information referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 shall be broken
down by the geographical units referred to in Article 4 (3), distinguishing
between the areas under vines of varieties normally intended for the
production of:
— quality wines psr,
— other wines:
— including wines compulsorily intended for the manufacture of
certain potable spirits obtained from wine with a registered
designation of origin.
5. The Member States concerned shall communicate to the Commis-
sion, for each wine-growing year and broken down by geographical
units, estimates of the mean natural alcoholic strength by percentage vol.
or in Öchsle degrees of the fresh grapes, grape musts or wines produced
in the areas under vines of wine grape varieties normally intended for the
production of:
— quality wines psr,— other wines:
— including wines compulsorily intended for the manufacture of
certain spirits obtained from wine with a registered designation
of origin.
These data shall be communicated with effect from the 1979/80
wine-growing year for Germany, France and Luxembourg, 1982/83 for
Italy and Greece, 1987/88 for Spain and 1989/90 for Portugal.
6. The annual information referred to in paragraphs 1 and 5 shall be
communicated before 1 April following each wine-growing year. The
information on the yield classes referred to in paragraph 2 shall be
submitted within the period laid down in Article 4 (1). The estimate of
future trends in average yields per hectare referred to in paragraph 3 shall
be submitted:
— for the first time before 1 October 1981 for Germany, France and
Luxembourg, before 1 October 1984 for Italy and Greece, before 1
October 1991 for Spain and Portugal, and before 1 October 1996 for
Austria,
— thereafter every five years before 1 April except for the second
estimate by Italy and Greece which shall be submitted after two
years.
7. The information referred to in this Article shall be forwarded to the
Commission in the form of a schedule of tables to be adopted in
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Article 6a
The Member States which have introduced the vineyard register at
national level or in some regions and which update it annually, as
provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 2392/86, may communicate to the
Commission the annual information laid down in Articles 5 and 6 of this
Regulation, using the data in the vineyard register as their source.
Article 7
1. The Commission shall study in consultation and continuing
collaboration with the Member States:
(a) the results supplied;
(b) the technical problems raised by the surveys and the collection of
information to be communicated, with particular reference to the
Community definitions relating to plantings/replantings and the
definition relating to cessation of wine-growing;
(c) the significance of the findings of the surveys and the information
communicated.
2. The Commission shall submit to the Council, within one year of
communication of the results by the Member States concerned, these
results together with a report on experience acquired during the basic
surveys.
3. The Commission shall publish the results of the intermediate surveys
and the annual information referred to in Article 6 as part of the annual
reports provided for in Article 30c (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 337/79.
Article 8
1. Where the procedure laid down in this Article is to be followed, the
chairman shall refer the matter to the Standing Committee for
Agricultural Statistics, hereinafter called ‘the Committee’, either on his
own initiative or at the request of the representative of a Member State,
2. The representative of the Commission shall submit to the Committee
a draft of the measures to be taken. The Committee shall deliver its
opinion on the draft within a time limit which the chairman may lay
down according to the urgency of the matter. The opinion shall be
delivered by the majority laid down in Article 148 (2) of the Treaty in the
case of decisions which the Council is required to adopt on a proposal
from the Commission. The votes of the representatives of the Member
States within the Committee shall be weighted in the manner set out in
that Article. The Chairman shall not vote.
3. (a) The Commission shall adopt the proposed measures when they
are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee.
(b) When the proposed measures are not in accordance with the
opinion of the Committee, or in the absence of any opinion, the
Commission shall without delay submit to the Council a
proposal concerning the measures to be taken. The Council
shall decide by a qualified majority.
(c) If no decision has been taken by the Council three months after a
proposal has been submitted to it, the proposed measures shall
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Article 9
The necessary expenditure for the basic survey on the situation after the
1978/79 wine-growing year, in Germany, France and Luxembourg, after
the 1981/82 wine-growing year for Italy and Greece, after the 1986/87
wine-growing year in Spain and after 1988/89 in Portugal shall be
covered by the Community up to a flat-rate sum to be determined.
Article 10
1. Council Regulation (EEC) No 978/78 of 10 May 1978 on statistical
surveys of areas under vines (1) is hereby repealed.
2. References to the Regulation repealed by paragraph 1 shall be
construed as references to this Regulation.
Article 11
This Regulation shall enter into force on 2 April 1979.
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ANNEX
FRANCE
1. Aude
2. Gard
3. Hérault
4. Lozère
5. Pyrénées-Orientales
6. Var
7. Vaucluse
8. Bouches-du-Rhône
9. Gironde
10. Gers
11. Charente
12. Charente-Maritime
13. Ardèche
14. Aisne
15. Seine-et-Marne
16. Ardennes, Aube, Marne, Haute-Marne
17. Cher, Eure-et-Loir, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, Loiret
18. Côte-d’Or, Nièvre, Saône-et-Loire, Y onne
19. Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle, V osges
20. Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin
21. Doubs, Jura, Haute-Saône, Territoire-de-Belfort
22. Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Sarthe, Vendée
23. Deux-Sèvres, Vienne
24. Dordogne, Landes, Lot-et-Garonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
25. Ariège, Aveyron, Haute-Garonne, Lot, Hautes-Pyrénées, Tarn, Tarn-et-
Garonne
26. Corrèze, Haute-Vienne
27. Ain, Drôme, Isère, Loire, Rhône, Savoie, Haute-Savoie
28. Cantal, Allier, Haute-Loire, Puy-de-Dôme
29. Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes
30. Corse-du-Sud, Haute-Corse
GREECE
1. Central Greece and Euboea
2. Peloponnesus
3. Ionian Islands
4. Epirus
5. Thessaly
6. Macedonia
7. Thrace
8. Aegean Islands
9. Crete!B
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SPAIN
1. Galicia
2. Principado de Asturias3. Cantabria4. País Vasco A (provincia de Álava)5. País Vasco B (provincias de Guipúzcoa y Vizcaya)6. Navarra
7. La Rioja
8. Aragón A (provincia de Zaragoza)9. Aragón B (provincias de Huesca y Teruel)10. Cataluña A (provincia de Barcelona)11. Cataluña B (provincia de Tarragona)12. Cataluña C (provincias de Gerona y Lérida)
13. Baleares
14. Castilla-León A (provincia de Burgos)15. Castilla-León B (provincia de León)16. Castilla-León C (provincia de Valladolid)17. Castilla-León D (provincia de Zamora)18. Castilla-León E (provincias de Ávila, Palencia, Salamanca, Segovia y Soria)19. Madrid
20. Castilla-La Mancha A (provincia de Albacete)
21. Castilla-La Mancha B (provincia de Ciudad Real)22. Castilla-La Mancha C (provincia de Cuenca)23. Castilla-La Mancha D (provincia de Guadalajara)24. Castilla-La Mancha E (provincia de Toledo)25. C. Valenciana A (provincia de Alicante)26. C. Valenciana B (provincia de Castellón)
27. C. Valenciana C (provincia de Valencia)
28. Región de Murcia29. Extremadura A (provincia de Badajoz)30. Extremadura B (provincia de Cáceres)31. Andalucía A (provincia de Cádiz)32. Andalucía B (provincia de Córdoba)
33. Andalucía C (provincia de Huelva)
34. Andalucía D (provincia de Málaga)35. Andalucía E (provincias de Almería, Granada, Jaén y Sevilla)36. Canarias
PORTUGAL
1. Entre Douro e Minho
2. Trás-os-Montes
3. Beira Litoral
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