Directive 2003/107/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 December 2003 amending Council Directive 96/16/EC on statistical surveys of milk and milk products
Date: 2003-12-05
Institutions: Council of the European Union, European Parliament
Subjects: EU statistics, milk product, statistical method

L 7/40

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

13.1.2004

DIRECTIVE 2003/107/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

amending Council Directive 96/16/EC on statistical surveys of milk and milk products

of 5 December 2003

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EURO-
PEAN UNION,

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

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Acting in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article
251 of the Treaty (1),

(b) paragraph 2 shall be deleted;

2. the last sentence of Article 5(2) shall be replaced by the

following:
‘Member States shall notify the Commission annually of the
methodological
information relating to the information
referred to in Article 4(1), using a standard questionnaire
drawn up by the Commission in accordance with the proce-
dure laid down in Article 7.’;

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

The purpose of Council Directive 96/16/EC (2)
is to
provide reliable and comparable data on milk produc-
tion and use and reliable, regular, short-term information
on milk deliveries to undertakings which treat or process
milk and on the production of milk products in the
Member States.

In view of the growing economic importance of the
protein content of milk,
is becoming increasingly
it
necessary to have statistical information on the protein
content of the main milk products.

Specialisation in agriculture is increasing in general, and
the milk sector,
is currently undergoing
regional specialisation which gives rise to enormous
differences between the regions of a single Member
State, requiring detailed information at regional level.

in particular,

To guarantee comparability of results, methodological
reports need to be compiled according to a standard
format,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

Council Directive 96/16/EC shall be amended as follows:

1. Article 4 shall be amended as follows:

(a) the following shall be added to paragraph 1(b):

‘(iv) the protein content of the main milk products,
based on the measuring or estimating method most
likely to guarantee reliable data;

(v) the quantity of cows' milk produced by agricultural
holdings on a regional basis (territorial unit NUTS
2) according to the most appropriate measuring or
estimating method for guaranteeing the reliability
of the data.’

3. Article 6(3) shall be amended as follows:

(a) in point (b), the second indent shall be deleted;
(b) point (c) shall be replaced by the following:

‘(c) in September of the year following the year of the
reference date, the results referred to in point 2 of
Article 1 and in points (b)(v) and (c) of Article 4(1).’

Article 2

Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and
administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Direc-
tive by 31 March 2004. They shall
forthwith inform the
Commission thereof.

When Member States adopt these measures, they shall contain
a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such
reference on the occasion of their official publication. The
methods of making such reference shall be laid down by
Member States.

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following
that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Union.

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Article 4

Done at Brussels, 5 December 2003.

For the European Parliament

The President

P. COX

For the Council

The President

P. LUNARDI

(1) Opinion of the European Parliament of 2 September 2003 (not yet
Journal), and Council Decision of 17

published in the Official
November 2003.

(2) OJ L 78, 28.3.1996, p. 27.