Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Decision 96/411/EC on improving Community agricultural statistics
Date: 2002-02-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU programme, EU statistics, action programme, agricultural statistics, national statistics, statistical method

28.5.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 126 E/403

Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Decision
96/411/EC on improving Community agricultural statistics

(2002/C 126 E/19)

COM(2002) 80 final — 2002/0044(COD)

(Submitted by the Commission on 13 February 2002)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 285(1) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

(6) The tool introduced by Decision 96/411/EC has helped to
further the process of adapting the system of Community
to
agricultural
statistical
statistics
in
information needs of
the common agricultural policy.
However,
this process has not yet been completed.
Decision 96/411/EC should therefore be amended in
order to extend this process,

changes

the

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
251 of the Treaty,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Whereas:

(1) Council Decision 96/411/EC of 25 June 1996 on
improving Community agricultural statistics is designed
to allow Community agricultural statistics (1) to respond
more satisfactorily to the information needs arising from
the common agricultural policy.

(2) The report by the Commission to the European Parliament
and the Council on progress in implementing Decision
96/411/EC makes a positive assessment of the application
of that Decision.

(3) The process of adapting national statistical systems to the
needs arising from changes in the common agricultural
policy has not yet been completed.

(4) Both the internal development of the common agricultural
policy and the external context of enlargement to the east,
and the opening of the new round of multilateral trade
negotiations, call for improved identification of statistical
needs and, where appropriate, for measures to complete
the current regulatory framework laying down the scope
of the statistical information on the common agricultural
policy which Member States are obliged to make available
to the Commission.

(5) Decision No . . . of the European Parliament and of the
Council of . . . [on the Community statistical programme
2003-2007]
to
improve existing agricultural statistics and to plan future
developments with a view to responding satisfactorily to
the needs of the common agricultural policy.

recommends

continuing

actions

the

Article 1

Decision 96/411/EC is amended as follows:

1. In Article 3, the words ‘during the period 2000 to 2002’ are
replaced by the words ‘during the period 2003 to 2007’;

2. In Article 6, paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:

‘4.
The financial framework for the implementation of
this programme for the period 2003 to 2007 is hereby
set at EUR 5 million.

The annual appropriations
budgetary authority within the limits of
perspective.’

shall be authorised by the
the financial

3. In Article 11, the figure ‘2002’

is replaced by the figure

‘2007’.

4. In Article 11, the phrase ‘having consulted the Standing

Committee on Agricultural Statistics’ is deleted.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the third day following
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

(1) OJ L 162, 1.7.1996, p. 14. Decision as last amended by Decision
No 2298/2000/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
(OJ L 263, 28.10.2000, p. 1).