Commission Regulation (EC) No 730/2004 of 19 April 2004 adapting Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82 concerning the selection of returning holdings for the purpose of determining incomes of agricultural holdings by reason of the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the European Union
Date: 2004-04-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural holding, economic policy, farm income, trading account

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 730/2004

of 19 April 2004

adapting Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82 concerning the selection of returning holdings for the
purpose of determining incomes of agricultural holdings by reason of the accession of the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the
European Union

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

the Czech
Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of
Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta,
Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia, and in particular Article 2(3)
thereof,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia, and in particular Article 57(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1859/
82 (1) fixes per Member State the threshold of economic
size of returning holdings falling within the field of
survey of the farm accountancy data network.

The number of returning holdings per Member State to
be selected by division is fixed in Annex I to Regulation
(EEC) No 1859/82.

In view of the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia,
Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia (hereinafter ‘the new Member
States’) the threshold for the new Member States, as well
as the number of returning holdings by division for the
new Member States should be fixed.

(4)

The deadline for the delivery of the first approved selec-
tion plan concerning the new Member States should be
fixed.

(5)

Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82 should therefore be
amended accordingly,

(1) OJ L 205, 13.7.1982, p. 5. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 659/2004 (OJ L 104, 8.4.2004, p. 95).

Article 1

Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82 is amended as follows:

1. Article 2 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 2

For the 2004 accounting year (a period of 12 consecutive
months beginning between 1 January 2004 and 1 July
2004) and for subsequent accounting years, the threshold as
referred to in Article 4 of Regulation No 79/65/EEC in ESU
shall be as follows:

— Belgium:

— Czech Republic:

— Denmark:

— Germany:

— Estonia:

— Greece:

— Spain:

— France:

— Ireland:

— Italy:

— Cyprus:

— Latvia:

— Lithuania:

— Luxembourg:

— Hungary:

— Malta:

— Netherlands:

— Austria:

— Poland:

— Portugal:

— Slovenia:

— Slovakia:

— Finland:

— Sweden:

— United Kingdom (with the exception of

Northern Ireland):

— United Kingdom (only Northern Ireland):

16 ESU

4 ESU

8 ESU

8 ESU

2 ESU

2 ESU

2 ESU

8 ESU

2 ESU

4 ESU

1 ESU

2 ESU

2 ESU

8 ESU

2 ESU

8 ESU

16 ESU

8 ESU

2 ESU

2 ESU

2 ESU

6 ESU

8 ESU

8 ESU

16 ESU

8 ESU.’

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2. In Article 5, the following subparagraph is added:

‘The Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania,
Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia shall forward
to the Commission their selection plan for the accounting
year 2004 before 30 November 2004.’

3. Annex I is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regu-

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force subject to and on the
date of the entry into force of the Treaty of Accession of the
Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary,
Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia.

lation.

It shall apply from the 2004 accounting year.

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

Done at Brussels, 19 April 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

Reference number

Name of division

Number of returning holdings

341

342

343

745

370

010

020

030

040

050

060

070

080

090

100

110

112

113

114

115

116

755

450

460

470

480

500

505

510

515

520

525

Total Belgium

BELGIUM

Flanders

Brussels

Walloon Region

CZECH REPUBLIC

DENMARK

GERMANY

Schleswig-Holstein

Hamburg

Lower Saxony

Bremen

North Rhine-Westphalia

Hessen

Rheinland-Pfalz

Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

Saarland

Berlin

Brandenburg

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Saxony

Saxony-Anhalt

Thuringia

ESTONIA

GREECE

Total Germany

Macedonia-Thrace

Epirus-Peloponnese-Ionian Islands

Thessaly

Continental Greece, Aegean Islands, Crete

Total Greece

SPAIN

Galicia

Asturias

Cantabria

Basque Country

Navarre

Rioja

600

—

400

1 000

1 300

2 000

500

40

800

—

660

370

480

620

960

70

—

180

130

220

140

130

5 300

500

2 000

1 350

700

1 450

5 500

800

350

230

310

430

290

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Reference number

Name of division

Number of returning holdings

Aragon

Catalonia

Balearic Islands

Castile-Leon

Madrid

Castille-La Mancha

Valencia

Murcia

Extremadura

Andalusia

Canary Islands

FRANCE

Île-de-France

Champagne-Ardenne

Picardy

Upper Normandy

Centre

Lower Normandy

Burgundy

Nord/Pas-de-Calais

Lorraine

Alsace

Franche-Comté

Region Loire

Brittany

Poitou-Charentes

Aquitaine

Midi-Pyrénées

Limousin

Rhône-Alpes

Auvergne

530

535

540

545

550

555

560

565

570

575

580

121

131

132

133

134

135

136

141

151

152

153

162

163

164

182

183

184

192

193

201

203

204

380

221

222

230

241

242

Languedoc-Roussillon

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Corsica

Total France

IRELAND

ITALY

Valle d'Aosta

Piedmont

Lombardy

Trentino

Alto Adige

640

870

270

1 230

270

870

700

530

590

1 470

250

Total Spain

10 100

95

260

230

145

350

215

285

305

215

160

200

440

475

325

425

430

195

360

320

340

270

60

6 100

1 300

367

1 110

917

404

404

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Name of division

Number of returning holdings

243

244

250

260

270

281

282

291

292

301

302

303

311

312

320

330

740

770

775

350

760

761

762

763

764

765

766

780

360

660

785

790

795

800

Veneto

Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Liguria

Emilia-Romagna

Tuscany

Marche

Umbria

Lazio

Abruzzi

Molise

Campania

Calabria

Apulia

Basilicata

Sicily

Sardinia

CYPRUS

LATVIA

LITHUANIA

LUXEMBOURG

HUNGARY

Közép-Magyarország

Közép-Dunántúl

Nyugat-Dunántúl

Dél-Dunántúl

Észak- Magyarország

Észak-Alföld

Dél-Alföld

MALTA

NETHERLANDS

AUSTRIA

POLAND

Pomorze and Mazury

Wielkopolska and S´la˛sk

Mazowsze and Podlasie

Małopolska and Pogórze

1 589

795

590

914

620

951

668

931

882

445

748

911

1 013

1 138

1 350

1 253

Total Italy

18 000

500

1 000

1 000

300

160

190

230

260

210

380

470

1 900

500

1 500

2 000

1 640

3 980

5 060

1 420

Total Hungary

Total Poland

12 100

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Reference number

Name of division

Number of returning holdings

610

620

630

640

650

820

810

670

680

690

700

710

720

730

411

412

413

421

431

441

PORTUGAL

Between Douro e Minho and Beira Litoral

Trás-os-Montes and Beira Interior

Ribatejo and the West

Alentejo and Algarve

Azores and Madeira

980

560

650

460

350

Total Portugal

3 000

SLOVENIA

SLOVAKIA

FINLAND

Etelä-Suomi

Sisä-Suomi

Pohjanmaa

Pohjois-Suomi

900

600

581

272

277

170

Total Finland

1 300

SWEDEN

Plains of South and Central Sweden

Forest and mixed agricultural and forest areas of
South and Central Sweden

Areas of North Sweden

600

295

105

Total Sweden

1 000

UNITED KINGDOM

England — North Region

England — East Region

England — West Region

Wales

Scotland

Northern Ireland

420

650

430

300

380

320

Total United Kingdom

2 500’