Corrigendum to Commission Decision 2004/412/EC of 28 April 2004 authorising Austria to make use of the system established by Title I of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council to replace surveys of bovine livestock (OJ L 151, 30.4.2004)
Date: 2004-06-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Austria, agricultural statistics, cattle, database, labelling, statistical method

10.6.2004

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Official Journal of the European Union

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Corrigendum to Commission Decision 2004/412/EC of 28 April 2004 authorising Austria to make use of the
system established by Title I of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council
to replace surveys of bovine livestock

(Official Journal of the European Union L 151 of 30 April 2004)

Decision 2004/412/EC should read as follows:

COMMISSION DECISION

of 28 April 2004

authorising Austria to make use of the system established by Title I of Regulation (EC) No
1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council to replace surveys of bovine livestock

(notified under document number C(2004) 1557)

(Only the German text is authentic)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2004/412/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Com-
munity,

Having regard to Council Directive 93/24/EEC of 1 June 1993
on the statistical surveys to be carried out on bovine animal
production (1), and in particular Article 1(2) and (3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Title I of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the Euro-
the Council (2) establishes a
pean Parliament and of
system for the identification and registration of bovine
animals.

Commission Decision 1999/571/EC recognises the fully
operational character of
the Austrian database for
bovine animals (3).

Pursuant
to Directive 93/24/EEC the Member States
may, at their request, be authorised to use administrative
statistical sources instead of surveys of bovine animals
on condition that they satisfy the obligations arising out
of that Directive.

In support of its request of 12 June 2003, Austria has
submitted technical documentation as to the structure
and the updating of the database referred to in Title I of
Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 and the methods of
calculating the statistical data.

(1) OJ L 149, 21.6.1993, p. 5; Directive as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and the Council
(OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 204, 11.8.2000, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 217, 17.8.1999, p. 62

(5)

(6)

(7)

Austria has previously been authorised, by Commission
Decision 2000/554/EC (4), to make use of the register of
bovine animals to partially replace surveys of bovine
livestock; however,
that authorisation expired on 31
December 2003.

Following examination of the request based on the tech-
nical documentation provided by the Austrian authori-
ties, the request should be met.

This Decision is in accordance with the opinion of the
Standing Committee on Agricultural Statistics set up by
Council Decision 72/279/EEC (5),

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Austria is authorised to replace the surveys of bovine animals
provided for by Directive 93/24/EEC by using the system for
the identification and registration of bovine animals as referred
to in Title I of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 to obtain all the
statistical data required to comply with the obligations arising
out of that Directive.

Article 2

If the system referred to in Article 1 ceases to be operational or
if its content no longer makes it possible to obtain reliable
statistical
information regarding all or certain categories of
bovine animals, Austria shall return to a statistical survey
system for the purpose of estimating the cattle population or
the relevant categories.

(4) OJ L 235, 19.9.2000, p. 23.
(5) OJ L 179, 7.8.1972, p. 1

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This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Austria.

Article 3

Done at Brussels, 28 April 2004.

For the Commission

Pedro SOLBES MIRA

Member of the Commission