2005/422/EC: Commission Decision of 3 June 2005 authorising France to make use of the system established by Title I of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 to replace the May survey of bovine livestock (notified under document number C(2005) 1626) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2005-06-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: France, agricultural statistics, cattle, database, livestock, statistical method

7.6.2005

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Official Journal of the European Union

L 143/45

COMMISSION DECISION

of 3 June 2005

authorising France to make use of

the system established by Title I of Regulation (EC)

No 1760/2000 to replace the May survey of bovine livestock

(notified under document number C(2005) 1626)

(Only the French text is authentic)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2005/422/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(5)

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:

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

In particular, France proposed the methods of calculation
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 the
title I of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000. France should
take all the appropriate measures to ensure that these
methods of calculation ensure the accuracy of
the
statistical data.

(6)

(7)

Following examination of
the request based on the
technical documentation provided by the French 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),

Commission Decision 2001/399/EC recognises the fully
operational character of the French database for bovine
animals (3).

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

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.

On 5 October 2004 France sent to the Commission a
request to replace the May survey of the bovine livestock
by the system established by Title I of Regulation (EC)
No 1760/2000.
request, France
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 support of

its

(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 140, 24.5.2001, p. 69.

Article 1

France is authorised to replace the survey of May of bovine
animals provided for by Council 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 makes it possible to obtain
reliable statistical information regarding all or certain categories
of bovine animals, France shall return to a statistical survey
system for the purpose of estimating the cattle population or
the categories concerned.

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

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

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This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.

Article 3

Done at Brussels, 3 June 2005.

For the Commission

Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission