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►B COMMISSIONREGULATION(EEC)No1859/82
of12July1982
concerning theselection ofreturningholdingsforthepurposeofdeterminingincomes ofagricul-
turalholdings
(OJ L 205, 13.7.1982, p. 5)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
►M1Commission Regulation (EEC) No 13/84 of 4 January 1984 L 3 11 5.1.1984
►M2Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1561/84 of 5 June 1984 L 150 12 6.6.1984
►M3Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3368/84 of 30 November 1984 L 313 40 1.12.1984
►M4Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3122/85 of 6 November 1985 L 297 12 9.11.1985
►M5Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3548/85 of 16 December 1985 L 338 16 17.12.1985
►M6Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1753/87 of 24 June 1987 L 166 10 25.6.1987
►M7Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3665/90 of 18 December 1990 L 356 15 19.12.1990
►M8Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3549/92 of 9 December 1992 L 361 17 10.12.1992
►M9Commission Regulation (EC) No 1381/96 of 17 July 1996 L 179 6 18.7.1996
►M10Commission Regulation (EC) No 60/97 of 16 January 1997 L 14 28 17.1.1997
►M11Commission Regulation (EC) No 285/2000 of 4 February 2000 L 31 79 5.2.2000
►M12Commission Regulation (EC) No 1555/2001 of 30 July 2001 L 205 21 31.7.2001
►M13Commission Regulation (EC) No 659/2004 of 7 April 2004 L 104 95 8.4.2004
►M14Commission Regulation (EC) No 730/2004 of 19 April 2004 L 113 8 20.4.2004
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COMMISSIONREGULATION(EEC)No1859/82
of12July1982
concerning the selection of returning holdings for the purpose of
determining incomesofagricultural holdings
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation No 79/65/EEC of 15 June 1965
setting up a network for the collection of accountancy data on theincomes and business operation of agricultural holdings in the
European Economic Community (
1), aslas t amended by Council Regu-
lation (EEC) No 2143/81 (2), and in particular Articles4 (4), 5 (5) and
6 (2) thereof,
Whereas returning holdings must be selected in a uniform manner in
each division and whereas to that end detailed rules should be laid
down to implement the relevant provisions of Regulation No 79/65/
EEC;
Whereasin the light of the lates t amendmentsto Regulation No 79/65/
EEC and of experience acquired since 1965 the detailed rules for the
selection of returning holdings should be completely revised; whereas,
accordingly, Commission Regulation No 91/66/EEC (3), should be
repealed and replaced by a new Regulation;
Whereasthe holdingsto be s tudied in connection with the farm
accountancy data network fall within the field of survey of the struc-
ture surveys and of Community or national censuses of agricultural
holdings;
Whereas the data available for the purposes of drawing up selection
plans for the ‘1982’ and subsequent accounting years and the differ-
ence in the agricultural situation as between the different Member
States require that thresholds of economic size which vary by MemberState, and even in some cases by division, be adopted for that year;
Whereasexperience s howsthat operation of the data network isfacili-
tated if the number of returning holdings selected per division is
allowed to vary within certain limitson condition that the total number
of holdingsper Member State iscomplied with;
Whereas the selection plan must include a minimum number of
elementsenabling itsvalidity in relation to the objectivesof the farm
accountancy data network to be assessed;
Whereas the selection plan must be drawn up prior to the beginning of
the corresponding accounting year so that it can be approved beforebeing used for the selection of returning holdings;
Whereasthe report on the implementation of the s election plan for
returning holdings must cover the different aspects of the plan's imple-mentation with a view in particular to identifying any adjustmentswhich may be necessary for subsequent accounting years and whereasthe report must also take account of the use of certain data from the
plan for the purposes of the weighting to be given to the accountancy
data;
Whereasthe meas uresprovided for in thisRegulation are in accor-
dance with the opinion of the Community Committee on the FarmAccountancy Data Network,1982R1859 — EN — 01.01.2004 — 012.001 — 2
(1) OJ No 109, 23. 6. 1965,, p. 1859/65.
(2) OJ No L 210, 30. 7. 1981, p. 1.
(3) OJ No 121, 4. 7. 1966, p. 2249/66.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
For the purposes of this Regulation ‘agricultural holding’ means a farm
business as defined in the context of the Community agriculturalsurveys and censuses.
Article 2
For the 2004 accounting year (a period of 12 consecutive months
beginning between 1 January 2004 and 1 July 2004) and for subsequent
accounting years, the threshold as referred to in Article 4 of RegulationNo 79/65/EEC in ESU shall be as follows:
— Belgium: 16 ESU
— Czech Republic: 4 ESU— Denmark: 8 ESU— Germany: 8 ESU— Estonia: 2 ESU— Greece: 2 ESU— Spain: 2 ESU— France: 8 ESU— Ireland: 2 ESU— Italy: 4 ESU— Cyprus: 1 ESU— Latvia: 2 ESU— Lithuania: 2 ESU— Luxembourg: 8 ESU— Hungary: 2 ESU— Malta: 8 ESU— Netherlands: 16 ESU— Austria: 8 ESU— Poland: 2 ESU— Portugal: 2 ESU— Slovenia: 2 ESU— Slovakia: 6 ESU— Finland: 8 ESU— Sweden: 8 ESU— United Kingdom (with the exception of Northern
Ireland): 16 ESU
— United Kingdom (only Northern Ireland): 8 ESU.
Article 3
The number of returning holdings per division shall be as shown in
Annex I.
The number of returning holdings to be selected in each division may
differ from that shown in Annex I by up to 20 % in either directionprovided that thisdoesnot entail a reduction in the total number ofreturning holdingsper Member State.1982R1859 — EN — 01.01.2004 — 012.001 — 3
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Article 4
The plan for the selection of returning holdings must ensure the repre-
sentativeness of the returning holdings as a whole.
It shall include:
(a) the elementson which it isbas ed, namely:
— particulars of the statistical reference sources,
— the procedures for stratifying the field of survey in accordance
with the Community typology of holdings, taking account,where appropriate, of additional national criteria,
— the procedures for determining the selection rate chosen for
each stratum.
— the procedures for the selection of returning holdings,
— the procedures for the possible later updating of the selection
plan,
— the probable period of validity of the selecting plan;
(b) the breakdown of holdings in the field of survey classified in accor-
dance with the Community typology of holdings(corres ponding atleast to the principal types) and the number of returning holdings tobe selected for each of the strata adopted.
Article 5
The selection plan shall be forwarded to the Commission not later than
two monthsbefore the beginning of the firs t accounting year to which
it relates. ►
M14The Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia,
Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia shallforward to the Commission their selection plan for the accountingyear 2004 before 30 November 2004. ◄
The proceduresand time limitsfor communicating adjus tmentsto the
selection plan to the Commission shall be the same as for the
forwarding of the plan itself.
Article 7
Regulation No 91/66/EEC ishereby repealed.
Article 8
ThisRegulation s hall enter into force on the day following itspublica-
tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
It shall be applicable as from the accounting year 1982.
ThisRegulation s hall be binding in itsentirety and directly applicable
in all Member States.1982R1859 — EN — 01.01.2004 — 012.001 — 4
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ANNEXI
Reference
numberName of division Number of returning holdings
BELGIUM
341 Flanders600
342 Brussels —
343 Walloon Region 400
Total Belgium 1 000
745 CZECH REPUBLIC 1 300370 DENMARK 2 000
GERMANY
010 Schleswig-Holstein 500
020 Hamburg 40
030 Lower Saxony 800
040 Bremen —
050 North Rhine-Westphalia 660
060 Hessen 370
070 Rheinland-Pfalz 480
080 Baden-Württemberg 620
090 Bavaria 960
100 Saarland 70
110 Berlin —
112 Brandenburg 180113 Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 130
114 Saxony 220
115 Saxony-Anhalt 140
116 Thuringia 130
Total Germany 5 300
755 ESTONIA 500
GREECE
450 Macedonia-Thrace 2 000
460 Epirus-Peloponnese-Ionian Islands 1 350
470 Thessaly 700480 Continental Greece, Aegean Islands,
Crete1 450
Total Greece 5 500
SPAIN
500 Galicia 800
505 Asturias 350
510 Cantabria 230
515 Basque Country 310
520 Navarre 430
525 Rioja 290
530 Aragon 6401982R1859 — EN — 01.01.2004 — 012.001 — 5
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Reference
numberName of division Number of returning holdings
535 Catalonia 870
540 Balearic Islands 270545 Castile-Leon 1 230
550 Madrid 270
555 Castille-La Mancha 870560 Valencia 700
565 Murcia 530
570 Extremadura 590575 Andalusia 1 470
580 Canary Islands 250
Total Spain 10 100
FRANCE
121 Île-de-France 95
131 Champagne-Ardenne 260
132 Picardy 230133 Upper Normandy 145134 Centre 350
135 Lower Normandy 215
136 Burgundy 285141 Nord/Pas-de-Calais 305
151 Lorraine 215
152 Alsace 160153 Franche-Comté 200
162 Region Loire 440
163 Brittany 475164 Poitou-Charentes325
182 Aquitaine 425
183 Midi-Pyrénées430184 Limousin 195
192 Rhône-Alpes360
193 Auvergne 320201 Languedoc-Roussillon 340
203 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur 270
204 Corsica 60
Total France 6 100
380 IRELAND 1 300
ITALY
221 Valle d'Aosta 367222 Piedmont 1 110
230 Lombardy 917
241 Trentino 404242 Alto Adige 404
243 Veneto 1 589
244 Friuli-Venezia Giulia 7951982R1859 — EN — 01.01.2004 — 012.001 — 6
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Reference
numberName of division Number of returning holdings
250 Liguria 590
260 Emilia-Romagna 914
270 Tuscany 620
281 Marche 951
282 Umbria 668291 Lazio 931
292 Abruzzi 882
301 Molise 445
302 Campania 748
303 Calabria 911
311 Apulia 1 013
312 Basilicata 1 138
320 Sicily 1 350
330 Sardinia 1 253
Total Italy 18 000
740 CYPRUS 500770 LATVIA 1 000775 LITHUANIA 1 000350 LUXEMBOURG 300
HUNGARY
760 Közép-Magyarország 160
761 Közép-Dunántúl 190
762 Nyugat-Dunántúl 230
763 Dél-Dunántúl 260
764 Észak- Magyarország 210
765 Észak-Alföld 380
766 Dél-Alföld 470
Total Hungary 1 900
780 MALTA 500
360 NETHERLANDS 1 500
660 AUSTRIA 2 000
POLAND
785 Pomorze and Mazury 1 640
790 Wielkopolska and Śląsk 3 980
795 Mazowsze and Podlasie 5 060
800 Małopolska and Pogórze 1 420
Total Poland 12 100
PORTUGAL
610 Between Douro e Minho and Beira
Litoral980
620 Trás-os-Montes and Beira Interior 5601982R1859 — EN — 01.01.2004 — 012.001 — 7
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Reference
numberName of division Number of returning holdings
630 Ribatejo and the West 650
640 Alentejo and Algarve 460
650 Azoresand Madeira 350
Total Portugal 3 000
820 SLOVENIA 900
810 SLOVAKIA 600
FINLAND
670 Etelä-Suomi 581
680 Sisä-Suomi 272
690 Pohjanmaa 277
700 Pohjois-Suomi 170
Total Finland 1 300
SWEDEN
710 Plainsof South and Central Sweden 600
720 Forest and mixed agricultural and forest
areasof South and Central Sweden295
730 Areasof North Sweden 105
Total Sweden 1 000
UNITED KINGDOM
411 England — North Region 420
412 England — East Region 650
413 England — West Region 430
421 Wales300
431 Scotland 380
441 Northern Ireland 320
Total United Kingdom 2 5001982R1859 — EN — 01.01.2004 — 012.001 — 8
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