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of1June1993
onthestatictical (SIC!statistical)surveystobecarried outonsheepandgoatstocks
(OJ L 149, 21.6.1993, p. 10)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
►M1Council Directive 97/77/EC of 16 December 1997 L 10 28 16.1.1998
Amended by:
►A1Act of Accession of Austria, Sweden and Finland C241 21 29.8.1994
(adapted by Council Decision 95/1/EC, Euratom, ECSC) L 1 1 1.1.1995
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COUNCILDIRECTIVE93/25/EEC
of1June1993
on the statictical (SIC! statistical) surveys to be carried out on
sheepandgoatstocks
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European EconomicCommunity, 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 Council Directive 82/177/EEC of 22 March 1982 on the
statistical surveys to be carried out by the Member States on sheepand goat stocks(
3) has been amended several times; whereas further
amendments being necessary, the provisions thereof should, for reasons
of clarity, be recast;
Whereas provision should be made for those Member States whose
goat population makes up only a small percentage of the overall popu-lation of the Community to reduce the number of surveys whereappropriate;
Whereas it is important to follow the trend in the structure of the agri-
cultural holdings in the Member States;
Whereas, in order to ensure that the common agricultural policy is
properly administered, particularly where the sheepmeat and goatmeatmarket is concerned, the Commission requires regular data on trends
in livestock and in sheepmeat and goatmeat production;
Whereas the collection and processing of the data as well as the orga-
nization of the survey at national level should continue to lie within the
competence of the statistical services of the Member States, and theCommission should be responsible for the coordination and harmoniza-tion of statistical information at European level and arrange for theharmonized methodologies necessary to implement Community poli-
cies;
Whereas, in order to facilitate implementation of this Directive, close
cooperation is necessary between the Member States and the Commis-
sion and this should in particular be effected via the StandingCommittee on Agricultural Statistics set up by Decision 72/279/EEC(
4),
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
SECTION I
SURVEYSOFTHEPOPULATION
A. At national level
Frequency—Field ofsurvey
Article 1
1. The Member States shall carry out a statistical survey of the
sheep population on their territory each year with reference to one dayin November/December.1993L0025 — EN — 05.02.1998 — 001.001 — 2
(1) OJ No C 18, 23. 1. 1993, p. 15.
(2) OJ No C 115, 26. 4. 1993.
(3) OJ No L 81, 27. 3. 1982, p. 35. Directive last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 1057/91 (OJ No L 107, 27. 4. 1991, p. 11).
(4) OJ No L 179, 7. 8. 1972, p. 1.▼M1
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2. Member States shall also carry out a statistical survey of the goat
population, either as a separate survey or as a single survey of bothsheep and goat populations:
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December ◄, where the goat population is 500000 head or more;
(b) at least once every five years where the goat population is less than
500000 head.
3. The Member States may, at their request, be authorized to use
administrative sources instead of the statistical surveys under para-graphs 1 and 2.
4. In considering the requests referred to in paragraph 3, the
Commission shall decide in accordance with the procedure laid down
in Article 20.
Article 2
1. For the purposes of this Directive, ‘sheep’ means domestic
animals of the species Ovisand ‘goats’ means domestic animals of
the species Capra.
2. The surveys referred to in Article 1 shall cover all sheep and
goats on agricultural holdings as defined by the Commission in accor-dance with the procedure laid down in Article 20. They shall coversufficient holdings to account for at least 95 % of the entire populationas determined by the last survey on the structure of agricultural hold-ings.
3. As far as possible, Member States shall supplement the results of
the surveys referred to in paragraph 2 with an estimate of the goat and
sheep population not covered by the surveys.
Breakdownbycategory
Article 3
1. The surveys refered (SIC! referred) to in Article 1 shall be
conducted in such a way as to provide a breakdown of the sheep and
goat populations into at least the following categories:
A. sheep, total:
A.1. ewes and ewe lambs put to the ram:
A.1.1. milk ewes and milk ewe lambs put to the ram;A.1.2. other ewes and ewe lambs put to the ram;
A.2. other sheep.
B. goats, total:
B.1. goats which have already kidded and goats mated:
B.1.1. goats which have already kidded;
B.1.2. goats mated for the first time;
B.2. other goats.
2. The categories referred to in paragraph 1 may be modified in
accordance withth e procedure laid down in Article 20.
3. The categories shall be defined in accordance with the procedure
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Accuracy
Article 4
1. The surveys referred to in Article 1 shall be conducted in the
form of exhaustive surveys or by representative sampling.
2. For each of the Member States, sampling errors for the results of
the surveys provided for in Article 2 (2) shall not exceed 2 % (confi-
dence interval of 68 %) of the total number of sheep and of goats, or
an absolute number to be set in accordance withth e procedure laiddown in Article 20.
3. In addition to the sampling frame and the supplementary esti-
mates referred to in Article 2 (3), Member States shall take whatever
measures they deem appropriate to maintain the quality of the survey
results.
Transmissiondeadline
Article 5
1. Member States shall notify the Commission of the provisional
results of the surveys and supplementary estimates before 1 March
after the reference month for the data referred to in Article 3 (1).
2. Member States shall notify the Commission of the results of the
surveys and of the supplementary estimates, in compliance with Article
4 (2), before 1 April following the reference month.
Derogations
Article 6
1. By way of derogation from Article 3 (1):
(a) the subdivisions of category A.1 shall be optional for those
Member States where the sheep population at the time of thesurvey is less than 2 500000 head;
(b) the subdivisions of category B.1 shall be optional for those
Member States where the goat population at the time of the surveyis less than 500000 head;
(c) the Member States referred to in Article 1 (2) (b) shall make an
estimate of the total numbers referred to in category B, withoutsubdivision, for each of the years not covered by the survey;
(d) the Member States for which the population of category A.1.1
represents less than 1 % of category A.1 shall be authorized to esti-mate the figure or derive it from other sources.
2. By way of derogation from Articles 1 and 5, Belgium, Denmark,
Germany and the Netherlands shall be authorised to estimate the sheepand goat populations and the United Kingdom the goat population held
in November/December on the basis of the populations recorded during
the annual livestock census or agricultural structure survey which theycarry out in the same year. They shall forward the provisional resultsreferred to in Article 5 (1) to the Commission before 1 March and theresults referred to in Article 5 (2) before 1 April of the year followingthe reference year.1993L0025 — EN — 05.02.1998 — 001.001 — 4
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B. At regional level
Territorial subdivisions
Article 7
1. The final results of the survey shall be compiled for each of the
territorial subdivisions as defined in accordance withth e procedure laiddown in Article 20.
2. The territorial subdivisions referred to in paragraph 1 may be
amended in accordance withth e procedure laid down in Article 20.
Transmissiondeadline
Article 8
Member States shall notify the Commission of the data referred to in
Article 7 before 15 May of the year following the reference month.
Derogations
Article 9
By way of derogation from Article 8:
(a) Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands shall be authorised to
notify sheep numbers by ‘région/gewest’, ‘Länder’ or ‘provincie’respectively in the case of populations covered by the livestock
census or agricultural structure survey conducted in the first six
months of the reference year, before 15 October of that year;
(b) the Member States referred to in Article 1 (2) (b) shall be exempt
from notifying the regional breakdown of their goat numbers.
C. Breakdown by size of flock herd
Sizeclasses
Article 10
1. In odd-numbered years, Member States shall provide a breadown
(SIC! breakdown) of the final results of the survey at national level by
size classes as defined in accordance withth e procedure laid down inArticle 20.
2. In accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 20, the
Commission may approve an application from a Member State to usethe breakdown by size classes referred to in paragraph 1 for the finalresults of even-numbered years.
3. The size classes referred to in paragraph 1 may be amended in
accordance withth e procedure laid down in Article 20.
Transmissiondeadline
Article 11
Member States shall notify the Commission of the data referred to in
Article 10 (1) before 15 May of the year following the referencemonth.
Derogations
Article 12
By way of derogation from Article 11, Belgium, Denmark, Germany
and the Netherlands shall be authorised to notify the data on the struc-1993L0025 — EN — 05.02.1998 — 001.001 — 5
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ture of their sheep and goat populations and the United Kingdom those
of its goat population covered by the livestock census or agriculturalstructure survey conducted in the reference year before 15 May of the
following year.
SECTION II
SLAUGHTERINGSTATISTICS
Article 13
1. Member States shall draw up monthly statistics relating to the
number and carcase weight of sheep and goats slaughtered in the
slaughterhouses on their territory, the meat of which is deemed fit forhuman consumption.
If necessary, they shall also supply estimates of slaughterings not
included in the returns, so that the statistics include all the sheep andgoats slaughtered on their territory.
2. The statistics referred to in paragraph 1 shall be drawn up for the
following categories:
A. sheep, total:
A.1. of which: lambs;
B. goats, total.
3. The carcase weight referred to in paragraph 1 and the categories
referred to in paragraph 2 shall be defined in accordance with theprocedure laid down in Article 20.
Transmissiondeadline
Article 14
Member States shall forward the Commission the results of the statis-
tics referred to in Article 13 (1) within the two months following the
reference month.
SECTION III
PRODUCTIONFORECASTS
Article 15
1. Member States shall use the survey results and other available
information to produce forecasts, for each calendar half-year, of theirsupply of sheep and goats.
This supply shall be expressed as the gross indigenous production
which shall include all sheep and goats slaughtered plus the balance
of intra-Community and external trade in live sheep and goats.
2. The definition ‘supply’ referred to in paragraph 1 may be
amended in accordance withth e procedure laid down in Article 20.
Transmissiondeadline
Article 16
Member States shall notify the Commission of the forecasts referred to
in Article 15 (1) before 1 March following the survey for the two six-monthperiods of th e current year.1993L0025 — EN — 05.02.1998 — 001.001 — 6
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SECTION IV
GENERALREMARKS
Article 17
Member States shall forward to the Commission the data referred in
Articles 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14 and 16 in compliance withCouncil Regu-
lation (Euratom, EEC) No 1588/90 of 11 June 1990 on the transmission
of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office ofthe European Communities(
1).
Article 18
The Commission shall examine, in consultation with the Member
States:
(a) the results supplied;
(b) the technical problems which arise, in particular in preparing and
conducting out the surveys and estimates;
(c) the reliability of the survey results and estimates.
Article 19
Member States shall inform the Commission of any methodological or
other change which would considerably influence the statistics. Thisshall be done within three months after the change in question enters
into force. The Commission shall notify the other Member States of
any suchcommunication in th e appropriate working parties.
Article 20
1. Where the procedure laid down in this Article is to be followed,
the chairman of the Standing Committee on Agricultural Statisticshereinafter referred to as ‘the committee’, shall refer the matter of the
committee, either on his own initiative or at the request of the repre-
sentative 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 Chairmanmay lay down according to the urgency of the matter. The opinionshall be delivered by the majority laid down in Article 148 (2) of theTreaty 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 themanner set out in that Article. The Chairman shall not vote.
3. (a) The Commission shall adopt the measures envisaged if they are
in accordance with the opinion of the committee.
(b) If the measures envisaged are not in accordance with the opinion
of the committee, or if no opinion is delivered, the Commissionshall, without delay, submit to the Council a proposal relating tothe measures to be taken. The Council shall act by a qualified
majority.
If, on the expiry of three months from the date of referral to the
Council, the Council has not acted, the proposed measures shallbe adopted by the Commission.
Article 21
1. Directive 82/177/EEC shall be repealed as from 1 January 1994.
2. The references to the repealed Directive shall be construed as
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Article 22
Members States shall bring into force the legal and administrative
measures necessary to comply with this Directive not later than 1
January 1994.
When Member States adopt these measures, they shall contain a refer-
ence to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such reference on theoccasion of their official publication. The methods of making such areference shall be laid down by the Member States.
Article 23
1. This Directive is addressed to the Member States.1993L0025 — EN — 05.02.1998 — 001.001 — 8