2004/761/EC: Commission Decision of 26 October 2004 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Directive 93/24/EEC as regards the statistical surveys on cattle population and production (notified under document number C(2004) 4091)Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2004-10-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, agricultural census, agricultural holding, application of EU law, carcase, cattle, regional and local authorities, statistical method

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 26 October 2004

laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Directive 93/24/EEC as regards the
statistical surveys on cattle population and production

(notified under document number C(2004) 4091)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2004/761/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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 Articles 1(2) and (3), 2(2), 3(2),
6, 8(1) and (2), 10(3) and 12(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Commission Decision 94/433/EC of 30 May 1994 laying
the application of Council
down detailed rules
Directive 93/24/EEC as regards the statistical surveys on
cattle population and production (2) has been amended
several times.

for

the definition of

Precise definitions are required in order to carry out the
in Directive 93/24/EEC. This
surveys provided for
requires
the agricultural holdings
covered by the survey. The different categories for the
breakdown of the survey results, and the herd size classes
and the territorial subdivisions according to which the
Member States draw up the survey results at regular
intervals must also be precisely defined. A standard defi-
is necessary for drawing up
nition of carcass weight
slaughtering statistics.

Under Directive 93/24/EEC, the Member States may, at
their request, be authorised to carry out the May/June or
November/December
regions,
surveys
provided that these surveys cover at least 70 % of the
bovine population. Member States whose bovine popu-
lation makes up only a small percentage of the overall
livestock population of the Community may also, at their
request, be authorised to dispense altogether with either
the May/June or the November/December survey or to

selected

in

use the regional breakdown for the final results of the
May/June survey. Finally, the Member States may, at their
the prescribed
request, be
breakdown by herd size classes for the results of the
May/June survey.

authorised to conduct

(4)

(5)

(6)

Applications have been made by the Member States for
the various types of derogation.

the accession of

By reason of
the Czech Republic,
Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta,
Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia,
it is necessary to make
certain technical adaptations and to extend certain dero-
gations to these new Member States.

Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of
the European
Parliament and the Council (3) establishes a common clas-
sification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) for the
the new NUTS nomenclature must
Member States;
levels.
therefore replace the previously defined regional

(7)

Decision 94/433/EC should therefore be repealed.

(8)

This Decision is in accordance with the opinion of the
Standing Committee on Agricultural Statistics,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

1.
For the purposes of Article 2(2) of Directive 93/24/EEC,
‘agricultural holding’ means any technical and economic unit
under single management which produces agricultural products.

The survey referred to in Article 1(1) of Directive

2.
93/24/EEC shall cover:

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

(2) OJ L 179, 13.7.1994, p. 27. Decision as

last amended by
Commission Decision 1999/547/EC (OJ L 209, 7.8.1999, p. 33).

(a) agricultural holdings with a utilised agricultural area of 1 ha

or more;

(3) OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1.

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(b) agricultural holdings with a utilised agricultural area of less
than 1 ha, if their production is to a certain extent intended
for sale or if their production unit exceeds certain natural
thresholds.

shall,

however,

undertake

survey
3. Member States wishing to apply a different
threshold
that
threshold in such a way that only the smallest holdings are
excluded, and that together the holdings excluded account for
the total standard gross margin, within the
1 % or less of
meaning of Commission Decision 85/377/EEC (1), of
the
Member State concerned.

determine

to

Article 2

The definitions of
the categories of bovines referred to in
Articles 3(1), 10(2) and 12(2) of Directive 93/24/EEC are set
out in Annex I of this Decision.

Article 3

For the territorial subdivisions referred to in Article 6(1) of
Directive 93/24/EEC, the Member States shall follow the level
of the common classification of territorial units for statistics
(NUTS) defined in Annex II of this Decision. They do not
need to compile results for regions in which the bovine popu-
lation is less than 1 % of the national bovine population.

Article 6

1.
The list of Member States authorised to carry out the
May/June or November/December surveys in selected regions,
on the understanding that these surveys cover at least 70 % of
the bovine population, is set out in point (a) of Annex IV to this
Decision.

The list of Member States authorised to carry out the
(b) of

2.
November/December survey only is set out
Annex IV to this Decision.

in point

The list of Member States authorised to use the regional
3.
breakdown for the final results of the May/June survey is set out
in point (c) of Annex IV to this Decision.

The

the
list of Member States
4.
breakdown by herd size
the
classes
May/June survey is set out in point (d) of Annex IV to this
Decision.

authorised to use
results of
for

the

Article 7

Decision 94/433/EC is repealed.

Article 4

References made to the repealed Decision shall be construed to
be made to the present Decision.

The herd size classes referred to in Article 8(1) of Directive
93/24/EEC are set out in Annex III of this Decision.

Article 8

Article 5

The carcass weight referred to in Article 10(1) of Directive
the slaughtered animal’s cold
93/24/EEC is the weight of
body after being skinned, bled and eviscerated, and after
removal of the external genitalia, the limbs at the carpus and
tarsus, the head, the tail, the kidneys and kidney fats, and the
udder.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 26 October 2004.

For the Commission

Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 220, 17.8.1985, p. 1. Decision as last amended by Commission

Decision 2003/369/EC (OJ L 127, 23.5.2003, p. 48).

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ANNEX I

DEFINITION OF CATEGORIES

Article 3(1) of Directive 93/24/EEC

Article 10(2) and Article 12(2) of
Directive 93/24/EEC

Calves

A(a) bovine animals less than one year old

A. Calves

for slaughter as calves.
The definition of ‘calves’ is given under
A in the next column

Domestic animals of the bovine species, of
not more than 300 kg live weight and not
yet having permanent teeth

Bulls

Bullocks

D. Bulls

Non-castrated male bovines not included
under A

E. Bullocks

Castrated male bovines not included under
A

Heifers

C(b) (ba)

B. Heifers

Female bovines aged two years or more
that have not yet calved

Female bovines that have not yet calved
not included under A

Heifers for slaughter

C(b) (ba)(1)

Heifers raised for meat production

Other heifers

C(b) (ba)(2)

Heifers raised for breeding and intended
to replace dairy or other cows

Cows

C(b) (bb)

Female
calved
(including any aged less than two years)

bovines

have

that

Dairy cows

C(b) (bb)(1)

Cows kept exclusively or principally for
the production of milk for human
consumption and/or
dairy produce,
including cows for slaughter (fattened
or not between last
lactation and
slaughter)

Other cows

C(b) (bb)(2)

Cows other than dairy cows, possibly
including any draught cows

C. Cows

Female bovines that have calved

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ANNEX II

TERRITORIAL SUBDIVISIONS

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

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

—

NUTS 1

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

—

NUTS 3

NUTS 2

—

NUTS 2

NUTS 3

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 1

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ANNEX IV

(a) Member States authorised to carry out the May/June or November/December surveys in selected regions, on

the understanding that these surveys cover at least 70 % of the bovine population

France

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