COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 
Brussels, 05.12.1997 
COM(97) 667 final 
ANNUAL REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE 
COUNCIL ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAMME FOR 
RESTRUCTURING THE SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURAL SURVEYS 
IN GREECE 
1995 
(Article 5, Council Decision 85/360/EEC of 16 July 1985) 

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î The plan for,restructuring,.B^ricukur&l statistics in Greece was adopted in 1985 
(Council Decision 85/360/EEC of 16 July Î985, as last amended by Council 
Decision 92/582/EEC of 14 December 1992 - see Annex 1) with the following 
aims: 
- to.set up a technical acd administrative structure at central, regional and 
province: level, capable of running all operations connected with agricultural 
statistics In both the present and the future; 
- the improve the sairplmg frames, above all by compiling a register of farm 
holdings; 
- to install at eenfea*, regional and sub-regional level a computer system to input, 
cheek and\process ëàîa; 
- to put into practice, on a progressive basis, the Community programme of 
agricultural surveys and statistics in order to provide the Community with the 
information it-requires for implementing the CAP. 
As laid down in Article 5 of Council Decision 85/360/EEC, the Commission 
submits to the Council an annual progress report on the programme, setting out all 
the applications pist into practice, the action taken and the measures adopted 
during 1995 by the competent authorities (Statistical Office and Ministry of 
Agriculture) in order to complete the programme. 
1. 1995, the last year in which the the programme was applied, saw the new system 
established throughout Greece by the agreed deadline (see Annex 1). 
2. Some of the delays experienced in 1994 were made up in 1995. 
3. All surveys an 1995 were designed on the basis of the new farm register, taking 
the agricultural holding as the sampling unit. 
4. The farm register was updated with the help of data from all the surveys, but this 
affected only about 1 d % of the register. 
Since it was not possible to use administrative sources for updating purposes, it 
was cbeided to conduct a special survey or micro-census in 1996. 
5. A pilot survey was carried out to this end in 1995 in nine municipalities in the 
Larisa area. The results enabled us to draw -up the timetable for the special 
updating survey to be conducted in 1996. 
6. The 1955 pTO^mrae o.: statistical applications included the following surveys: 
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- farm structure survey; 
- survey of fruit trees (apple, pear, peach, apricot, cherry, lemon, orange, 
small citrus fruit); 
- wine-growing survey; 
- livestock survey (cattle, pigs, goats, sheep); 
- cereals survey; 
- slaughtering survey; 
- survey of other crop products and 
- the annual agricultural statistics survey. 
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- estimates by geographical sampling; 
- milk and milk products; 
- crop production; 
- production and sales of eggs by incubation (monthly survey); 
- structure and use of hatcheries (annual survey); 
- FADN; 
- animal production: slaughterings and forecasts (meat - monthly survey). 
in conclusion, much progress was made during 1995. Next year, however, those responsible 
must also concentrate on developing databanks and drawing up a general plan for 
interconnection and communications between the computer systems of the Ministry of 
Agriculture ana ESYE. 
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ANNEX 1 
TIMETABLE REMINDER 
The plan was initially to have been completed in five years (1986-1990), with geographical 
dissemination starting in Thrace-Macedonia in 1986 and finishing on the Island of Crete in 
1990. Following two extensions granted to Greece by Council Decisions 90/386/EEC and 
92/582/EEC, however, the deadline for completing the plan was put back to 1996. The new 
timetable is as follows: 
1986 
1987 
1988 
1989 
1990 
1991 
1992 
993 
994 first year 
second year 
third year 
fourth year 
fifth year 
sixth year 
seventh year 
eighth year 
ninth year 
1995 
1996 tenth year 
eleventh year Macedonia; 
Macedonia, Thrace, Thessaly, Epirus; 
Macedonia, Thrace, Thessaly, Epirus, Central Greece 
and Ionian Islands; 
Macedonia, Thrace, Thessaly, Epirus, Central Greece, 
Ionian Islands and Péloponnèse; 
Macedonia, Thrace, Thessaly, Epirus, Central Greece, 
Ionian Islands, Péloponnèse and Crete; 
Macedonia, Thrace, Thessaly, Epirus, Central Greece, 
Ionian Islands, Péloponnèse, Crete, Aegean Islands 
(North and South); 
First trial of the new system throughout Greece; 
Creation of a sampling frame based on the 1991 general 
agricultural census; 
Extension of remote sensing to the whole of mainland 
Greece and the Island of Crete; 
Synergies set up between the central and regional 
technical and administrative infrastructures installed by 
the Statistical Office and the Ministry of Agriculture 
respectively to manage the programme of surveys 
conducted by the Statistical Office; 
New system established throughout Greece; 
Monitoring and critical analysis of the results achieved 
during the first year of proper application. 
In November 1997 the Commission will submit to the Council a report on the implementation 
of the programme, including the results achieved. 
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ANNEX 2 
1995 EXPENDITURE 
Ministry of the National Economy 
ESYE Secretariat General Ministry of Agriculture 
Expenditure category Amount in DR ECU 
1. INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS 
F. Development of computer system 
a) ESYE SECRETARIAT GENERAL 
i) Purchase of equipment and software 
ii) Software support 
iii) Auxiliary equipment and consumables 
iv) Maintenance 
v) Network fees 
vi) VAT at 18 %on i, ii, iii, iv and v 
b) MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE 
i) Purchase of equipment and software 
ii) Software support 
iii) Auxiliary equipment and consumables 
iv) Maintenance 
v) Network fees 
vi) VAT at 18 %on i. ii, iii, iv and v 
2. Premises 
(i) ESYE Secretariat General 
(ii) Ministry of Agriculture 
3. Office equipment 
(i) ESYE Secretariat General 
(ii) Ministry of Agriculture 
4. Training equipment 
(i) ESYE Secretariat General 
(ii) Ministry of Agriculture 
5. Miscellaneous expenditure 
(i) ESYE Secretariat General 
(ii) Ministry of Agriculture 
II. EXPENDITURE ON STATISTICAL 
APPLICATIONS 
a) ESYE SECRETARIAT GENERAL 
1. Animal and crop surveys (cattle, pigs, sheep, 
goats, fruit trees, wine-growing, cereals) 
2. Annual survey of agriculture 
3. Farm structure survey 
4. Restructuring of agricultural statistics 
b) MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE 
I. Statistical applications 
Remote sensing 
GRAND TOTAL (DRACHMAS) 282 979 310 
233 439 490 
49 539 820 
86 412 972 
86 412 972 
38 197 000 
31 994 310 
68 000 000 
29 226 800 
20 454 516 
96 608 5IS 
97 145 319 
53 824 260 
811298 
61 005 185 
54 379 454 557 191 375 1913 675 
369 392 282 
38 197 000 
31 994 310 
68 000 000 
49 681 316 
363 774 037 1206 091 
248 389 398 
115 384 639 
921 038 946 3 053 700 
1 ECU = 301,614 GRD 
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