2008/690/EC: Commission Decision of 4 August 2008 amending Directive 2001/109/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Decision 2002/38/EC, as regards the statistical surveys carried out by the Member States on plantations of certain species of fruit trees (notified under document number C(2008) 4070)
Date: 2008-08-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural statistics, fruit-growing, plantation, production capacity, statistics

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Official Journal of the European Union

23.8.2008

COMMISSION DECISION

of 4 August 2008

amending Directive 2001/109/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Decision
2002/38/EC, as regards the statistical surveys carried out by the Member States on plantations of
certain species of fruit trees

(notified under document number C(2008) 4070)

(2008/690/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

The measures provided for
accordance with
Committee
Council Decision 72/279/EEC (3),

the
for Agricultural

opinion

in this Decision are in
the
Standing
instituted by

of
Statistics

and of

the European
Having regard to Directive 2001/109/EC of
Parliament
the Council of 19 December 2001
concerning the statistical surveys to be carried out by the
Member States in order to determine the production potential
trees (1), and in
of plantations of certain species of
particular
and
third
Article 4(2) thereof,

subparagraph of Article 1(2)

fruit

the

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Directive 2001/109/EC, which establishes the list of
species to be surveyed in the Member States,
is im­
plemented by Commission Decision 2002/38/EC of
27 December 2001 setting out the survey parameters
and laying down the code and standard rules for the
transcription,
the data
relating to the surveys on plantations of certain species
of fruit trees (2). That Decision establishes the limits of
the production areas to be set and their respective codes
and lists the species of fruits and the varieties concerned.

in machine-readable form, of

For technical reasons, Directive 2001/109/EC should be
amended in order to update the Annex.

Annex I to Decision 2002/38/EC should be amended in
order
to establish the limits of production areas in
Bulgaria and Romania.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The Annex to Directive 2001/109/EC is replaced by the text set
out in Annex I to this Decision.

Article 2

Annex I to Decision 2002/38/EC is amended as set out in
Annex II to this Decision.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 4 August 2008.

For the Commission

Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 13, 16.1.2002, p. 21. Directive as last amended by Council

Directive 2006/110/EC (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 418).

(2) OJ L 16, 18.1.2002, p. 35. Decision as amended by Decision

2006/128/EC (OJ L 51, 22.2.2006, p. 21).

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

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ANNEX I

‘ANNEX

SPECIES SURVEYED IN THE VARIOUS MEMBER STATES

Apples

Pears

Peaches

Apricots

Oranges

Lemons

Small-fruited
Citrus fruits

Belgium

Bulgaria

Czech Republic

Denmark

Germany

Estonia

Ireland

Greece

Spain

France

Italy

Cyprus

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Hungary

Malta

Netherlands

Austria

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Slovenia

Slovakia

Finland

Sweden

United Kingdom

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x (*)

x (*)

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x (*)

x

x (*)

x

x (*)

x (*)

x (*)

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x (*)

x

x (*)

x (*)

x (*)

(*) Surveys are not conducted for: age of trees, density of plantation and variety of fruit.’

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

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ANNEX II

Annex I to Decision 2002/38/EC is amended as follows:

1. The following entry is inserted after the entry relating to Belgium:

‘Bulgaria

26

Severozapaden

Severen tsentralen

Severoiztochen

Yugoiztochen

Yugozapaden

Yuzhen tsentralen

2. The following entry is inserted after the entry relating to Portugal:

‘Romania

27

Nord-Vest

Centru

Nord-Est

Sud-Est

Sud - Muntenia

București - Ilfov

Sud-Vest Oltenia

Vest

01

02

03

04

05

06

01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

BG31

BG32

BG33

BG34

BG41

BG42’

RO11

RO12

RO21

RO22

RO31

RO32

RO41

RO42’