Decision No 1919/2002/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2002 amending Council Decision 96/411/EC on improving Community agricultural statistics
Date: 2002-10-21
Institutions: Council of the European Union, European Parliament
Subjects: EU programme, EU statistics, action programme, agricultural statistics, national statistics, statistical method

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

DECISION No 1919/2002/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

amending Council Decision 96/411/EC on improving Community agricultural statistics

of 21 October 2002

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION,

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

(6)

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
251 of the Treaty (2),

to plan future developments with a view to responding
satisfactorily to the needs of the common agricultural
policy.

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

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Council Decision 96/411/EC is designed to allow
Community agricultural statistics (3)
to respond more
satisfactorily to the information needs arising from the
common agricultural policy.

The report by the Commission to the European Parlia-
ment and to the Council on progress in implementing
Decision 96/411/EC makes a positive assessment of the
application of that Decision.

The process of adapting national statistical systems to
the needs arising from changes in the common agricul-
tural policy has not yet been completed.

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

The proposal for a decision of the European Parliament
the Council on the Community statistical
and of
programme (2003 to 2007) (4) recommends continuing
the actions to improve existing agricultural statistics and

(1) OJ C 126 E, 28.5.2002, p. 403.
(2) Opinion of the European Parliament of 3 September 2002 (not yet
Journal) and Council decision of 14

published in the Official
October 2002.

(3) 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, 18.10.2000, p. 1).
(4) OJ C 75 E, 26.3.2002, p. 274.

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 96/411/EC is hereby amended as follows:

1.

in Article 3, the terms ‘during the period 2000 to 2002’
shall be replaced by the terms ‘during the period 2003 to
2007’;

2.

in Article 6, paragraph 4 shall be replaced by the following:

The financial framework for the implementation of
‘4.
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

in Article 11, the figure ‘2002’ shall be replaced by the
figure ‘2007’;

in Article 11, the phrase ‘having consulted the Standing
Committee on Agricultural Statistics’ shall be deleted.

3.

4.

Article 2

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

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This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 3

Done at Luxembourg, 21 October 2002.

For the European Parliament

The President

P. COX

For the Council

The President

M. FISCHER BOEL