Commission Regulation (EC) No 1265/2008 of 16 December 2008 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82 concerning the selection of returning holdings for the purpose of determining incomes of agricultural holdings
Date: 2008-12-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Spain, economic accounts for agriculture, farm accountancy data network, farmers' income, sampling

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1265/2008

of 16 December 2008

amending Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82 concerning the selection of returning holdings for the
purpose of determining incomes of agricultural holdings

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

referred to in Article 4 of Regulation 79/65/EEC in ESU shall
be as follows:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation 79/65/EEC of 15 June
1965 setting up a network for the collection of accountancy
data on the incomes and business operation of agricultural
holdings in the European Economic Community (1), and in
particular Article 4(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

of Commission Regulation
(EEC) No
Article
2
1859/82 (2)
fixes per Member State the threshold of
economic size of returning holdings falling within the
field of survey of the farm accountancy data network.

In the case of Spain, structural changes have lead to a
decrease in the number of smaller holdings and in their
contribution to the total output of agriculture. The
holdings with an economic size smaller than 4 ESU
(435 307 holdings)
total
standard gross margin. The most relevant part of agri­
cultural activity can therefore be covered with a threshold
excluding the smaller holdings. The threshold set at 2
ESU should consequently be raised to 4 ESU.

represent only 4,04 % of

Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Community
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for the Farm Accountancy Data Network,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82 is replaced by the
following:

‘Article 2

For the 2008 accounting year (a period of 12 consecutive
months beginning between 1 January 2008 and 1 July 2008)
the threshold as
and for

subsequent accounting years,

(1) OJ 109, 23.6.1965, p. 1859/65.
(2) OJ L 205, 13.7.1982, p. 5.

— Belgium: 16 ESU

— Bulgaria: 1 ESU

— Czech Republic: 4 ESU

— Denmark: 8 ESU

— Germany: 16 ESU

— Estonia: 2 ESU

— Ireland: 2 ESU

— Greece: 2 ESU

— Spain: 4 ESU

— France: 8 ESU

— Italy: 4 ESU

— Cyprus: 2 ESU

— Latvia: 2 ESU

— Lithuania: 2 ESU

— Luxembourg: 8 ESU

— Hungary: 2 ESU

— Malta: 8 ESU

— Netherlands: 16 ESU

— Austria: 8 ESU

— Poland: 2 ESU

— Portugal: 2 ESU

— Romania: 1 ESU

— Slovenia: 2 ESU

— Slovakia: 8 ESU

— Finland: 8 ESU

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— Sweden: 8 ESU

Article 2

— United Kingdom (with the exception of Northern Ireland):

16 ESU

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Union.

— United Kingdom (only Northern Ireland): 8 ESU.’

It shall apply from the 2008 accounting year.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 16 December 2008.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission