2005/87/EC: Commission Decision of 2 February 2005 authorising Sweden 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(2005) 194) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2005-02-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Sweden, agricultural census, cattle, database, labelling, statistical method

L 30/20

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

3.2.2005

COMMISSION DECISION

of 2 February 2005

authorising Sweden 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(2005) 194)

(Only the Swedish text is authentic)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2005/87/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 Article 1(2) and (3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

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

Commission Decision 1999/693/EC (3)
the
fully operational character of the Swedish database for
bovine animals.

recognises

their

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

In support of its request of 29 October 2003, Sweden
has submitted technical documentation on the structure
and on the updating of the database referred to in Title I
of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 and on the methods
of calculating the statistical data.

In particular, Sweden proposed the calculation methods
to obtain the statistical data for the categories, referred to
in Article 3(1) of Directive 93/24/EEC, which are not
directly available in the database referred to in Title I
of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000. Sweden should take
all the appropriate measures to ensure that these calcu-
lation methods ensure the precision of the statistical data.

(6)

(7)

Following examination of
the request based on the
technical documentation provided by the Swedish autho-
rities, the request should be met.

This Decision is in compliance with the opinion of the
Standing Committee on Agricultural Statistics, set up by
Council Decision 72/279/EEC (4),

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Sweden 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 the said Directive.

Article 2

When the system referred to in Article 1 ceases to be opera-
tional or its contents no longer make it possible to obtain
reliable statistical information regarding all or certain categories
of bovine animals, Sweden shall return to a statistical survey
system for the purpose of estimating the cattle population or
the categories concerned.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Sweden.

Done at Brussels, 2 February 2005.

For the Commission

Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission

(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 204, 11.8.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by the 2003

Act of Accession.

(3) OJ L 273, 23.10.1999, p. 14.

(4) OJ L 179, 7.8.1972, p. 1.