2005/415/EC: Commission Decision of 1 June 2005 authorising Malta 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) 1588)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2005-06-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Malta, agricultural statistics, cattle, database, livestock, statistical method, statistics

L 141/30

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

4.6.2005

COMMISSION DECISION

of 1 June 2005

authorising Malta 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) 1588)

(Only the English text is authentic)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2005/415/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 2004/588/EC (3)
recognises the
fully operational character of the Maltese database for
bovine animals.

to Directive 93/24/EEC,

Pursuant
the Member States
may, at their request, be authorised to use administrative
sources instead of surveys of the bovine population on
the condition that they satisfy the obligations arising out
of the said Directive.

In support of
its request of 11 March 2005, Malta
submitted technical documentation on the structure
and 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, Malta proposed the calculation methods for
obtaining 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. Malta should take
all the appropriate measures to ensure that these calcu-
lation methods produce accurate statistical data.

(6)

(7)

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

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Malta is hereby authorised to replace the surveys of bovine
animals provided for by Directive 93/24/EEC by using the
identification and registration of bovine
system for
the
referred to in Title I of Regulation (EC) No
animals as
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
information on all or certain categories of
reliable statistical
bovine animals, Malta shall
survey
system for the purpose of estimating the cattle population or
the categories concerned.

return to a statistical

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Malta.

Done at Brussels, 1 June 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 amended by the 2003 Act

of Accession.

(3) OJ L 257, 4.8.2004, p. 8.

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