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Proposal from me Commission of the European Communities to the Council concerning a 
Directive on the limit values for discharges of aldrin, dieldrin and endrin into the aquatic 
environment 
Preamble, recitals and Articles 1 to 4 unchanged 
Article 5 
ORIGINAL TEXT (») AMENDED TEXT 
1. Member States shall bring into force the measures 
necessary to comply with this Directive within two years 
of its notification. They shall forthwith inform the 
Commission thereof. 
2. Member States shall communicate to the 
Commission the text of the provisions of national law 
which they adopt in the field governed by this Directive. 
(*) For complete text, see OJ No C 146 of 12 June 1979, 
page 5. 
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, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European 
Parliament, 
Whereas Council Regulation No 79/65/EEC (*), as last 
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2910/73 (2), set up a 
(*) OJ No 109, 23. 6. 1965, p. 1859/65. 
(2) OJ No L 299, 23.10.1973, p. 1. 1. Member States shall bring into force the measures 
necessary to comply with this Directive by 1 January 
1982. They shall forthwith inform the Commission 
thereof. 
2. unchanged 
network for the collection of accountancy data on the 
incomes and business operation of agricultural holdings 
in the European Economic Community; 
Whereas, at a time when price movements are both rapid 
and divergent, accountancy data cannot be properly 
compared unless the relevant accounting periods are 
synchronized; 
Whereas, if improved comparability is to be achieved 
between the accounting results furnished by the data 
network and the results of national farm accounts, the 
calendar year must be chosen as common accounting 
period; whereas such a choice, which is consistent with 
the practice followed by a large majority of returning Article 6 unchanged 
Annexes unchanged 
Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation No 79/65/EEC setting up a network 
for the collection of accountancy data on the income and business operation of agricultural 
holding in the European Economic Community 
(Presented by the Commission to the Council on 12 December 1980) 
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holdings, will also have the advantages of rendering the 
accounting results available to the Commission in time 
for the preparation of its annual proposals relating to the 
common agricultural policy; 
Whereas a certain amount of time is required to make 
this alteration to the accounting period; 
Whereas the field of survey of the data network must 
comprise all the holdings of a certain economic size, 
irrespective of any outside work the operator may engage 
in; 
Whereas, in order to obtain accounting results that are 
sufficiently homogenous at Community level, the 
returning holdings should be distributed among the 
various divisions and the various categories of holdings 
on the basis of a stratification of the field of survey based 
on the Community typology of agricultural holdings as 
defined by Commission Decision 78/463/EEC (1);. 
Whereas all the returning holdings studied in the 
Member States for the purposes of recording farm 
incomes in order to provide guidelines for agricultural 
policies must belong to the Community data network 
and the number of returning holdings must be increased 
accordingly; whereas it must be possible to vary the said 
number within certain limits according to developments 
in the field of agriculture and the information required 
for the common agricultural policy; 
Whereas holdings must be selected in accordance with 
the rules laid down in the context of a selection plan 
aimed at obtaining a representative accounting sample of 
the field of survey; 
Whereas, in view of experience gained, it is desirable that 
the main decisions concerning the selection of returning 
holdings, particularly the establisment of the selection 
plan, should be adopted at national level; whereas, 
consequently, it is at that level that a body should be 
made responsible for this task; whereas those Member 
States which have several divisions should, however, be 
free to maintain their regional committees; 
Whereas the national liaison agency must play a key role 
in the management of the data network; whereas, to this 
end, it should be entrusted with new tasks; 
Whereas experience shows that it is no longer desirable 
to make provision for supplementary terms to be 
included in the contract to be made between the Member 
State and the accountancy offices; 
Whereas the divisions of the data network must, as far as 
possible, be identical with those used for the presentation 
of other regional data that are essential for the guidance 
(!) OJ No L 148, 5. 6. 1978, p. 1. of the common agricultural policy; whereas, in this 
respect, the Annex to Regulation No 79/65/EEC should 
be amended, using the 'regions de programme' as 
divisions for France, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
Regulation No 79/65/EEC is hereby amended as 
follows: 
1. Article 2 (a) shall be replaced by the following: 
'(a) "Accounting year" means a period of 12 
months beginning on 1 January and ending on 
31 December. However, until 1 January 1985, 
the accounting year may begin at any time 
between 1 January and 1 July, to end between 
31 December and 30 June of the following 
year.' 
2. Article 2 (b) shall be replaced by the following: 
'(b) "Category of holding" means a group of 
agricultural holdings which belong to the same 
categories as regards type of farming and 
economic size as defined in the Community 
typology for agricultural holdings established 
by Commission Decision 78/463/EEC 
3. Article 4 shall be replaced by the following: 
Article 4 
'1. The field of survey referred to in Article 1(2) 
(a) shall cover the holdings having an economic size 
equal to or greater than a threshold expressed in 
European size units (ESU) as defined by Decision 
78/463/EEC. 
2. To qualify as a returning holding, an 
agricultural holding shall: 
(a) have an economic size equal to or greater than a 
threshold to be determined in accordance with 
paragraph 1; 
(b) be farmed by a person willing and able to keep 
farm accounts and willing to allow the 
accountancy data from his holding to be made 
available to the Commission; 
(c) be representative, together with the other 
holdings and at the level of each division, of the 
field of survey. 
3. The number of returning holdings shall be 
fifty thousand; however, the number may vary by 
up to ten per cent above or below that figure. 
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4. Detailed rules for the implementation of this 
Article, in particular the threshold for the economic 
size of holdings and the number of returning 
holdings per division, shall be adopted in 
accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 
19.' 
4. Article 5 shall be replaced by the following: 
Article 5 
'1. Each Member State shall, within two months 
of the date of entry into force of this Regulation, set 
up a national committee for the data network, 
hereinafter called "national committee". 
2. The national committee shall be responsible 
for the selection of returning holdings. To this end, 
its duties shall include approval of: 
(a) the plan for the selection of returning holdings 
specifying in particular the distribution of 
returning holdings per category of holding and 
the detailed rules for selecting the said returning 
holdings, 
(b) the list of the returning holdings, 
(c) the list of the accountancy offices referred to in 
Article 6. 
3. The Member States which have several 
divisions may, for each of the divisions under their 
jurisdiction, set up a regional committee of the Data 
Network hereinafter called "regional committee". 
The regional committee shall be responsible for 
cooperating with the liaison agency referred to in 
Article 6 
— in drawing up the list of returning holdings, 
— in selecting the returning holdings. 
4. Where necessary, detailed rules for the 
implementation of this Article shall be adopted 
pursuant to the procedure laid down in Article 19.' 
5. Article 6 shall be replaced by the following: 
Article 6 
'1. Each Member State shall appoint a liaison 
agency whose duties shall be: 
(a) to inform the national committee, regional 
committees and accountancy offices as to the 
detailed implementing rules concerning them 
and to ensure that such rules are properly 
applied; (b) to compile and submit to the national 
committee for its approval and thereafter to 
forward to the Commission: 
— the plan for the selection of returning 
holdings; this plan shall be drawn up on the 
basis of the most recent statistical data, 
presented in accordance with the 
Community typology of agricultural 
holdings, 
— the list of returning holdings, 
— the list of the accountancy offices willing 
and able to complete farm returns in 
accordance with the terms of the contracts 
provided for in Articles 9 and 14; 
(c) to muster the farm returns sent to it by the 
accountancy offices and to verify on the basis of 
a common inspection programme that they 
have been duly completed; 
(d) to forward, after verification, the duly 
completed farm returns to the Commission; 
(e) to pass on to the national committee, regional 
committees and accountancy offices the 
requests for information mentioned in Article 
16 and to forward the relevent answers to the 
Commission. 
2. Detailed rules for the implementation of this 
Article shall be adopted in accordance with the 
procedure laid down in Article 19.' 
6. The second subparagraph of Article 9 (2) is hereby 
repealed. 
7. The first indent of Article 16 (1) is hereby amended 
as follows: 
'1. The national committee, regional committees 
and accountancy offices shall, within their 
respective areas of responsibility, furnish the 
Commission with all information which the latter 
may request of them regarding the discharge of 
their duties under this Regulation.' 
8. Article 20 shall be replaced by the following: 
'1. The Community Committee shall be 
consulted: 
(a) for the purpose of verifying that the plans for 
the selection of returning holdings 
are in conformity with the provisions of 
Article 4; 
(b) for the purpose of analysing and evaluating the 
weighted annual results furnished by the data 
network, while having regard in particular to 
data deriving from other sources such as farm 
statistics and national farm accounts. 
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2. The Community Committee may examine any 
other matter raised by its Chairman, either on his 
own initiative or ar the request of a representative 
of a Member State. 
It shall examine once a year, in October, the trend 
of farm incomes in the Community, referring in 
particular to the up-dated results of the data 
network. 
It shall be kept regularly informed of the working of 
the data network.' 
9. Article 22 (2) shall be replaced by the following: 
'2. Costs in respect of the setting up and 
operation of the national committee, regional 
committees and liaison agencies shall not be 
included in the Community budget.' 
10. In Article 23, '1 January 1980' is hereby replaced 
by '1 January 1990'. 
11. The ten divisions in the Annex concerning France 
are hereby replaced by the following twenty-two 
divisions: 1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. 
6. 
7. 
8. 
9. 
10. 
11. 
12. 
13. 
14. 
15. 
16. 
17. 
18. 
19. 
20. 
21. 
22. Region He de France 
Champagne-Ardenne 
Picardie 
Haute-Normandie 
Centre 
Basse-Norm andie 
Bourgogne 
Nord-Pas de Calais 
Lorraine 
Alsace 
Franche Comte 
Pays de la Loire 
Bretagne 
Poitou-Charentes 
Aquitaine 
Midi-Pyrenees 
Limousin 
Rhone-Alpes 
Auvergne 
Languedoc 
Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur 
Corse 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1981. It 
shall apply with effect from the 1982 accounting year. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and 
directly applicable in all Member States. 
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