2004/747/EC: Commission Decision of 26 October 2004 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Directive 93/25/EEC on the statistical surveys to be carried out on sheep and goat stocks (notified under document number C(2004) 4092)Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2004-10-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, agricultural census, agricultural holding, animal production, application of EU law, carcase, goat, regional and local authorities, sheep

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(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 26 October 2004

laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Directive 93/25/EEC on the statistical
surveys to be carried out on sheep and goat stocks

(notified under document number C(2004) 4092)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2004/747/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 93/25/EEC of 1 June 1993
on the statistical surveys to be carried out on sheep and goat
stocks (1), and in particular Articles 2(2), 3(2) and (3), 7, and
13(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

the definition of

Precise definitions are required in order to carry out the
in Directive 93/25/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-
nition of carcass weight is necessary for the drawing-up
of slaughtering statistics.

Because of the accession of the Czech Republic, Cyprus,
Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland,
Slovakia and Slovenia,
it is necessary to make certain
technical adaptations.

the European
Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of
Parliament and the Council (2) establishes a common clas-
sification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) for the
Member States; the regional levels previously defined for
these must therefore be replaced by the new NUTS clas-
sification.

(1) OJ L 149, 21.6.1993, p. 10. Directive 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 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1.

Commission Decision 2003/597/EC of 4 August 2003
laying down detailed rules for the application of Council
Directive 93/25/EEC as regards the statistical surveys on
sheep and goat population and production (3) should be
repealed.

(5)

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 93/25/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.
93/25/EEC shall cover:

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

or more;

(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 (4), of
the
Member State concerned.

determine

to

(3) OJ L 203, 12.08.2003, p. 46.
(4) OJ L 220, 17.8.1985, p. 1.

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Article 2

The definitions of the categories of sheep and goat referred to in
Article 3(1) and Article 13(2) of Directive 93/25/EEC are set out
in Annex I to this Decision.

joint), of the feet (severed at the carpo-metacarpal or tarso-
metatarsal
(severed between the sixth and
seventh caudal vertebrae) and of the genital organs (including
udder).

joints), of the tail

Article 3

Kidneys and kidney fats are included in the carcass.

For the territorial subdivisions referred to in Article 7(1) of
Directive 93/25/EEC the Member States shall follow the level
of the common classification of Territorial Units for Statistics
set out in Annex II to this Decision.

Article 6

Decision 2003/597/EC is repealed.

They need not compile results for regions with herd popu-
lations of less than 1 % of the national population.

Article 4

The herd size classes referred to in Article 10(1) of Directive
93/25/EEC are set out in Annex III to this Decision.

References to the repealed Decision shall be construed as
references to this Decision.

Article 7

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 5

Done at Brussels, 26 October 2004.

The carcass weight referred to in Article 13(1) of Directive
93/25/EEC is the weight of
the slaughtered animal's cold
body after having been bled, skinned and eviscerated, and
the atlanto-occipital
after

the head (severed at

removal of

For the Commission

Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

DEFINITIONS OF CATEGORIES

Ewes and ewe lambs put to the ram

Females of the ovine species which have already lambed at least once as well as those which have been put to the ram for
the first time.

Milk ewes

Ewes which are kept exclusively or principally to produce milk for human consumption and/or for processing into dairy
products. This includes cast milk sheep (whether fattened or not between their last lactation and slaughtering).

Other ewes

Ewes other than milk ewes.

Lambs

Male or female sheep under 12 months old.

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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

for sheep:

for goats:

for sheep:

for goats:

for sheep:

for goats:

for sheep:

for goats:

NUTS 1

NUTS 2

—

NUTS 1

—

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

—

NUTS 2

—

—

—

NUTS 2

—

NUTS 3

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

—

NUTS 2

—

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

NUTS 2

—

NUTS 1

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