Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 357/79 on statistical surveys of areas under vines
Date: 1993-07-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: area of holding, statistics, viticulture

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES 

C0M(93) 346 final 

Brussels, 20 July  1993 

Proposal  for a 

COUNCIL  REGULATION  (EEC) 

amending Council  Regulation (EHC) No 357/79 on statistical surveys oi areas under vines 

(presented  by  the Commission) 

EXPLANATORY  MEMORANDUM 

Article  1 of  Council  Regulation  (EEC)  No  2392/86  of  24  July  1986 ^  required  Member  States  in 
which  the  total  area  under  vines in the  open  air is  equal  to or  more  than  500  hectares  to  establish  a 
Community  vineyard  register  within  six  years of the date of  the Regulation's entry  into force,  i.e. by 
the end of July  1992. The purpose of the register is to obtain essential information  on the potential  for 
and trends in the production  of grapes and wine. Regulation 2392/86 also provides  for  the register to 
be used for statistical purposes. 

Council  Regulation  (EEC) No 357/79 of 5 Eebruary  1979^) on statistical  surveys of areas under  vines 
provides for basic Community  surveys to be carried out once every ten years, starting in  1979/80, and 
annual  intermediate surveys, starting in 1981. 

Articles 5 and 6 of Council  Regulation  (EEC) 357/79 lay down the annual results  which  the  Member 
States must submit to the Commission concerning intermediate surveys. 

Under  current  Community  legislation,  the  Member  States  must  collect  from  their  wine-growers 
certain  types of information  requested  by the Commission  twice annually:  once  as part  of  the  annual 
intermediate  survey  and  once  as  part  of  the  establishment  and  annual  up  dating  of  the  vineyard 
register. 

As the results of  the annual  intermediate surveys requested  by the Commission  can  be obtained  from 
the vineyard register, and as certain Member States are already in a position to use the register  for this 
purpose,  the  present proposal  for  a Regulation  is designed  to  allow  progressive  statistical  use  of  the 
register with a view to reducing, as far as possible, the workload on the Member States concerned. 

The proposal  for  a Council  Regulation, which  amends Regulation  (EHC) 357/79, therefore  represents 
the  first  step  towards  the statistical  use of  the  vineyard  register,  while  initially  restricting  that  use It) 
the  annual  information  referred  to  above.  Under  the  proposal,  the  register  can  only  be  used  for 
statistical  purposes  by  those  Member  States  which  have  already  established  the  register  at  national 
level or in certain regions and which update it annually. 

i )  L 208 of 31 July 1986, p. 1 

2)  OJ L 54 of 5 March 1979, p. 124 

Proposal 

f or  a 

rotlNCIL  REGULATION  (EEC) 

amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 357/79 on statistical surveys of areas under vines 

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  Article  5  of  Council  Regulation  (EEC) No  357/79  of  5  February  1979  provides  for 
some  annual  data on vineyard areas collected in intermediate  surveys  to  be  forwarded  to  the 
Commission ; 

Whereas  Article  4  of  Council  Regulation  (EEC)  No  2392/86  provides  for  the  register  to  be 
established within a period of six years from the date of that Regulation's entry into force, and 
whereas the register is teginning to become operational or at least to be presented in a form that 
enables it to be used for statistical purposes in some Member States and regions, especially  as 
regards the characteristics of areas under vines ; 

Whereas the Member States which have already set up the vineyard register at national level or 
in  some  regions  and  ensure  its  regular  updating  in  accordance  with,  article  3  of  Council 
Regulation (EEC) No 2392/86, can begin to use it for statistical purposes ; 

Whereas  it  is  appropriate  to  use  the  statistical  results  from  the  vineyard  register  annually 
updated as the source of the annual data to be forwarded to the Commission, once its statistical 
reliability has been validated : 

Whereas  it  is  essential  to  ensure  close  cooperation  between  the  Member  States  and  the 
Commission ; 

Whereas the Treaty  lays down that agricultural  policies  are Community policies; whereas  it is 
necessary to establish general and comprehensive rules valid throughout the Community for the 
agricultural  statistics on which the Common Agricultural Policy is based; whereas the resulting 
workload must be kept to a minimum by avoiding that the same information is collected by the 
Member States, several times. 

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 

Council Regulation (EEC) No 357/79 is hereby amended as follows: 

1. 

The following paragraph shall be added to Article 5 at the end of paragraph 4: 

"4a.  The  Commission  shall  examine  in  close  collaboration  with  the  Member  States 
concerned  whether  the  conditions  governing  the  use  of  the  vineyard  register  for 
statistical purposes have been fulfilled''. 

2, 

The following Article shall be added at the end of Article 6: 

"Article 6a" 

The Member States which have introduced the vineyard register at national level  or in 
some  regions  and which update  it annually,  as  provided  for in Regulation  (EEC)  No 
2392/86,  may  communicate  to  the  Commission the  annual  information  laid  down  in 
Articles 5 and 6, using the data in the vineyard  register as their source. 

A£ticje_2 

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 
Journal of the European Communities. 

day following its publication in the  Official 

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. 

Done at Brussels, 

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