Annual report from the Commission to the Council on the implementation of the programme for restructuring the system of agricultural surveys in Greece (1995)
Date: 1997-12-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU programme, Greece, activity report, agricultural holding, agricultural statistics

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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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: 

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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, 
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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; 

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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 

first year 
second year 
third year 

1989 

fourth year 

1990 

fifth year 

1991 

sixth year 

1992 
993 

seventh year 
eighth year 

994 

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 

282 979 310 
233 439 490 

49 539 820 

b)  MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE 

86 412 972 

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 

86 412 972 

38 197 000 

31 994 310 

68 000 000 

29 226 800 

20 454 516 

1.  Animal  and  crop  surveys  (cattle,  pigs,  sheep, 

96 608 5IS 

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 

97 145 319 
53 824 260 
811298 

61 005 185 
54 379 454 

369 392 282 

557 191 375 

1913 675 

38 197 000 

31 994 310 

68 000 000 

49 681 316 

248 389 398 

115 384 639 

363 774 037 

1206 091 

G R A ND  TOTAL  (DRACHMAS) 

921 038 946 

3 053 700 

1 ECU = 301,614 GRD 
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