2004/760/EC: Commission Decision of 26 October 2004 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Directive 93/23/EEC as regards the statistical surveys on pig population and production (notified under document number C(2004) 4090)Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2004-10-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, agricultural census, agricultural holding, carcase, regional and local authorities, statistical method, swine

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 26 October 2004

laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Directive 93/23/EEC as regards the
statistical surveys on pig population and production

(notified under document number C(2004) 4090)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2004/760/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 93/23/EEC of 1 June 1993
on the statistical surveys to be carried out on pig production (1),
and in particular Articles 1(3), 2(2), 3(2), 6(1) and (2), 8(1) and
10(3) thereof,

Whereas:

According to Directive 93/23/EEC, the Member States
may, at their request, be authorised to carry out the
in selected
April and August or May/June surveys
regions, on the understanding that these surveys cover
at least 70 % of the pig population. Member States whose
pig population makes up only a small percentage of the
overall population of the Community may be authorised
to carry out the survey once a year in April, May/June or
November/December, or to use the regional breakdown
for the final results of the April or May/June survey.
Finally,
their request, be
the prescribed breakdown by
authorised to conduct
herd size classes
the survey results of a given
for
month of the year.

the Member States may, at

(1)

(2)

Commission Decision 94/432/EC of 30 May 1994 laying
the application of Council
down detailed rules
Directive 93/23/EEC as regards the statistical surveys on
pig 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 93/23/EEC. This
surveys provided for
requires
the agricultural holdings
covered by the survey. The herd size classes and
regions according to which the Member States draw up
should be
the
determined. A single definition of carcass weight
is
necessary for the drawing-up of slaughtering statistics.

intervals

regular

survey

results

at

(1) OJ L 149, 21.6.1993, p. 1. 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. 22. Decision as last amended by the Act of

Accession of 2003.

(4)

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

(5)

(6)

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 of the Council (3) establishes a common
classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) for
the Member States; the new NUTS nomenclature must
levels.
therefore replace the previously defined regional

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

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Decision 94/432/EC should therefore be repealed.

Article 4

The carcass weight referred to in Article 10(1) of Directive
93/23/EEC is the weight of the slaughtered pig's cold body,
either whole or divided in half along the mid-line, after being
bled and eviscerated and after removal of the tongue, bristles,
hooves, genitalia, flare fat, kidneys and diaphragm.

Article 5

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

2.
The list of Member States authorised to carry out the
survey once a year in April, May/June, August or November/
December is set out in Annex III, point (b) to this Decision.

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

The

list of Member States

4.
the
breakdown by herd size classes for the results of a given
month of the year is set out in Annex III, point (d) to this
Decision.

authorised to use

Article 6

Decision 94/432/EC is
repealed. References made to the
repealed Decision shall be construed to be made to the
present Decision.

Article 7

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 26 October 2004.

For the Commission

Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission

(7)

(8)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

For the purposes of Article 2(2) of Directive 93/23/EEC,
1.
‘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.
93/23/EEC shall cover:

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

or more;

(b) agricultural holdings with a utilized 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

For the territorial subdivisions referred to in Article 6(1) of
Directive 93/23/EEC, the Member States shall follow the level
of the common classification of territorial units for statistics
(NUTS) defined in Annex I. They do not need to compile
results for regions in which the pig population is less than
1 % of the national pig population.

Article 3

The herd size classes referred to in Article 8(1) of Directive
93/23/EEC are set out in Annex II to this Decision.

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

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

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ANNEX I

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 2

NUTS 2

—

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 1

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ANNEX III

(a) Member States authorised to carry out the April and August or May/June surveys in selected regions, on the under-

standing that these surveys cover at least 70 % of the pig population

France

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(b) Member States authorised to carry out the survey once a year in April, May/June, August or November/December

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Poland, August

Sweden, June