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COMMISSION DECISION 
of 28 April 2004 
authorising Austria to make use of the system established by Title I of Regulation (EC) No 
1760/2000 to replace surveys of bovine livestock 
(notified under document number C(2004) 1557) 
(Only the German text is authentic) 
(Text with EEA relevance) 
(2004/412/EC) 
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Directive 93/24/EEC of  1 June 1993 on the statistical surveys to be 
carried out on bovine animal production,
1 and in particular Article 1(2) and (3) thereof,  
Whereas: (1) Title I of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of  the European Parliament and of the Council 
2 
establishes a system for the identification  and registration of bovine animals. 
(2) Commission Decision 1999/571/EC recognises the fully operational character of the 
Austrian database for bovine animals 3. 
(3) Pursuant to Directive 93/24/EEC the Member Stat es may, at their request, be authorised to 
use administrative statistical sources instead of surveys of bovine animals on condition 
that they satisfy the obligations arising out of that Directive. 
(4) In support of its request of 12 June 2003,  Austria has submitted technical documentation 
as to the structure and the updating of the data base referred to in Title I of Regulation (EC) 
No 1760/2000 and the methods of calculating the statistical data. 
(5) Austria has previously been author ised, by Commission  Decision 2000/554/EC4, to make 
use of the register of bovine animals to pa rtially replace surveys of bovine livestock; 
however, that authorisation expired on 31 December 2003. 
                                                 
1 OJ L 149, 21.6.1993, p. 5; Directive as last amended by  Regulation (EC) N° 1882/2003 of the European Parliament 
and the Council (OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1). 
2 OJ L 204, 11.8.2000, p. 1. 
3 OJ L 217, 17.8.1999, p. 62 
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(6) Following examination of the request based on the technical documentation provided by 
the Austrian authorities, the request should be met. 
(7) This Decision is in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on 
Agricultural Statistics set up by Council Decision 72/279/EEC 5, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:  
Article 1 
Austria is authorised to replace the surveys of bovine animals provided for by Council Directive 
93/24/EEC by using the system for the identification  and registration of bovine animals as referred 
to in Title I of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 to ob tain all the statistical data required to comply 
with the obligations arising out of that Directive. 
Article 2 
If the system referred to in Article 1 ceases to be operational or if its content no longer makes it 
possible to obtain reliable statistical information regarding all or certain categories of bovine 
animals, Austria shall return to a statistical surv ey system for the purpose of estimating the cattle 
population or the relevant categories. 
Article 3 
This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Austria. 
Done at Brussels, 28 April 2004.  
 For the Commission 
 Pedro SOLBES MIRA 
 Member of the Commission 
 
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4 OJ L 235, 19.9.2000, p. 23. 
5 OJ L 179, 7.8.1972, p. 1