CELEX: 51984PC0066
Language: en
Date: 1984-02-15
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) ON THE ORGANIZATION OF SURVEYS ON THE STRUCTURE OF AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS FOR 1985 AND FOR 1987

N o C 60/4                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 2.3.84
                                                                II
                                                        (Preparatory Acts)
                                                  COMMISSION
                Proposal for a Council Regulation on the organization of surveys on the structure of
                                            agricultural holdings for 1985 and 1987
                                                        COM(84) 66 final
                               (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 21 February 1984)
                                                          (84/C 60/04)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                         the standard code and the detailed rules for the
COMMUNITIES,                                                        transcription onto magnetic tape of the data, laid
                                                                    down in Commission Decision 83/460/EEC (4),
                                                                    should be retained;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community, and in particular
Article 43 thereof,                                                 Whereas the coordinating role of the Statistical
                                                                    Office of the European Communities is necessary to
                                                                    ensure uniform analysis of the results obtained and to
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                    meet the Community requirements for information in
                                                                    this sector;
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-
liament,
                                                                    Whereas, in order to facilitate the implementation of
                                                                    the provisions of this Regulation, close cooperation
Whereas trends in the structure of agricultural                     between the Member States and the Commission
holdings are an important factor in determining the                 should continue, in particular via the Standing
development of the common agricultural policy;                      Committee for Agricultural Statistics set up by
whereas implementation of the statistical programme                 Council Decision 72/279/EEC (5),
providing for a series of surveys on the structure of
agricultural holdings should continue in 1985 and
1987; whereas the most recent such surveys have been                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
conducted pursuant to Council Regulations (EEC)
No 218/78 C) and (EEC) N o 449/82 (2);
                                                                                                  Article 1
Whereas such trends cannot be examined at                           Member States shall, as part of the Community stat-
Community level unless comparable data are available                istical programme, carry out surveys on the structure
for all of the Member States; whereas it is therefore               of the agricultural holdings in their territories (here-
necessary to continue previous harmonization efforts;               inafter referred to as 'the surveys') covering the crop
                                                                    year corresponding to the crop to be harvested in
                                                                    1985 and 1987 respectively.
Whereas it is necessary to achieve the stated aims
while reducing as far as possible the burden of work
on the Member States and the Commission;
                                                                                                  Article 2
                                                                    The surveys shall be conducted in one or more stages
Whereas, with minor changes, the characteristics and                by means of full censuses or random sample surveys
definitions laid down by Regulation (EEC) No                        between 1 December of the year prior to the crop
449/82 and Commission Decision 83/461/EEC ( J ),                    year and 1 March of the following year.
and the Community outline of the schedule of tables,
(') O J N o L 3 5 , 4. 2. 1978, p. 1.
O O J N o L 5 9 , 2. 3. 1982, p. 1.                                 (4) OJ No L 251, 12. 9. 1983, p. 24.
(3) OJ No L 251, 12. 9. 1983, p. 100.                               (5) O J N o L l 7 9 , 7. 8. 1972, p. 1.
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                         Article 3                                                         Article 8
For the purposes of applying this Regulation:                   For the purposes of the surveys, Member States shall:
(a) 'agricultural holding' shall mean a single unit,
     both technically and economically, which has a             (a) devise questionnaires appropriate to the collection
     single management and which produces agri-                      of the information provided for in Article 6;
     cultural products;
                                                                (b) subsequent to checking and correction where
(b) 'agricultural area utilized for farming' shall mean              appropriate of the information collected, set out
     the total area taken up by arable land, permanent               the results of each survey at national and regional
     pasture and meadow, land used for permanent                     levels in the form of schedules of tables drawn up
     crops and kitchen gardens.                                      in accordance with a Community outline. These
                                                                     schedules shall be drawn up in accordance with
                         Article 4                                   the procedure laid down in Article 12;
The survey shall cover:
                                                                (c) with the exception of the Netherlands, give the
(a) agricultural holdings where the agricultural area                results of each survey in tabular form broken
     utilized for farming is one hectare or more;                    down by less-favoured agricultural areas within
                                                                     the meaning of Article 3 of Council Directive
(b) agricultural holdings where the agricultural area                75/268/EEC ('), and by mountain areas within
     utilized for farming is less than one hectare, if               the meaning of paragraph 3 of that Article. The
     they produce a certain proportion for sale or if                Commission may lay down, in agreement with
     their production unit exceeds certain physical                  the Member State concerned, groupings of these
     units.                                                          areas;
                         Article 5                              (d) transcribe the tabular results referred to in (b)
                                                                     and (c) on to magnetic tape using a standard
1.     In the case of combined crops, the agricultural               method for all Member States. The standard
area utilized for farming shall be allocated between                 method and detailed rules for transcription of
the various crops in proportion to the amount of land                results shall be drawn up in accordance with the
the latter take up.                                                  procedure laid down in Article 12;
2.     The area used for secondary successive crops
                                                                (e) subsequent to control and correction, where
shall be recorded separately from the area used for
                                                                     appropriate, of the tabular results, submit the
farming.
                                                                     magnetic tapes to the Statistical Office of the
                                                                     European Communities in one or more stages at
                         Article 6                                   the latest by 1 March 1987 or 1 March 1989
                                                                     respectively. If, by the deadline set out above, a
1.     Member States shall take the necessary steps to
                                                                     Member State cannot submit all tabular results,
ensure that the information collected relates to the
                                                                     the Member State concerned shall notify the
characteristics listed in the Annex hereto. The
                                                                     Commission. For the missing tables a new
definitions relating to these characteristics shall be
                                                                     deadline shall be agreed in accordance with the
those laid down in Decision 83/461 / E E C , and any
                                                                     procedure laid down in Article 12;
changes shall be adopted in accordance with the
procedure laid down in Article 12.
                                                                (f) furnish the Commission as necessary with any
2.     Where, for the purpose of applying the                        information it may request from them concerning
Community typology for agricultural holdings,                        the performance of their tasks under this Regu-
standard gross margins have been established relating                lation.
to subdivisions of certain characteristics listed in the
Annex, the Member States concerned shall collect all
information necessary to permit the application of                                         Article 9
these standard gross margins.                                   The information referred to in Article 8 (b) and (c)
                                                                and in Article 11 shall be communicated to the Stat-
                         Article 7                              istical Office of the European Communities in such a
                                                                form that the holdings concerned cannot be
Member States conducting sample surveys shall                   identified.
design their sample with the aim of achieving stat-
istically reliable raised results, for the needs of the
Communities, at the various levels of aggregation
required by Article 8 (b) and (c).                              (') O J N o L 128, 19. 5. 1975, p. 1.
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                        Article 10                                                     Article 12
                                                               1.    Where the procedure laid down in this Article is
The Commission shall be responsible for:                       invoked, the matter shall be referred to the Standing
                                                               Committee for Agricultural Statistics (hereinafter
(a) having the data provided for in Article 8 (d)              referred to as 'the Committee') by its chairman, either
    aggregated to Community level by the Statistical           on his own initiative or at the request of the rep-
    Office of the European Communities;                        resentative of a Member State.
                                                               2.    The Commission representative shall submit to
                                                               the Committee a draft of the measures to be taken.
(b) making available results of the surveys in consul-
                                                               The Committee shall give its opinion on that draft
    tation with Member States. This dissemination
                                                               within a time limit set by the chairman having regard
    shall take place within six months following the
                                                               to the urgency of the matter. Opinions shall be
    delivery of definitive results from all Member
                                                               delivered by a majority of 45 votes, the votes of the
    States.
                                                               Member States being weighted as provided in Article
                                                               148 (2) of the Treaty. The chairman shall not vote.
                        Article 11                             3.    The Commission shall adopt measures which
                                                               shall take immediate effect. However, if these
                                                               measures are not in accordance with the Committee's
1.    Further tables or geographic levels may, subject         opinion, the Commission shall submit them forthwith
to an acceptable level of statistical reliability, be          to the Council; in this case, the Commission may
added to the schedule referred to in Article 8 in              defer application of the measures it has adopted for
accordance with the procedure laid down in Article             not more than one month from the date of their
12; in such cases the cost to the Member States shall          submission to the Council.
be examined.
                                                               The Council, acting by a qualified majority, may take
                                                               a different decision within one month.
2.    If the Commission undertakes further studies,                                    Article 13
the Member States shall as necessary and as far as
possible provide the information requested by the              This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
Commission. This shall be done by joint agreement              following its publication in the Official Journal of the
between the Commission and the Member State                    European Communities.
concerned, subject, in particular, to the necessary            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
guarantee of statistical confidentiality.                      directly applicable in all Member States.
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                                                            ANNEX
                                              LIST OF CHARACTERISTICS
          A. Geographical situation of the holding
             01 Region
             02 Less-favoured area                                                            yes/no
                 (a) Mountain area                                                            yes/no
          B. Legal personality and management of the holding
             (on the day of the survey)
             01 Is the legal and economic responsibility of the holding assumed by. a
                 natural person?                                                              yes/no
             02 If yes, is this person (the holder) also the manager?                         yes/no
         C. Type of tenure (in relation to the holder)
             Agricultural area utilized:                                                       ha/a
             01 for owner farming                                                                /....,
             02 for tenant farming                                                               /
             03 for share farming or other modes                                                 /
         D. Arable land
             Cereals for the production of grain (including seed):
             01 Common wheat and spelt                                                           /
             02 Durum wheat                                                                      /
             03 Rye                                                                              /
             04 Barley                                                                           /
             05 Oats                                                                             /
             06 Grain maize                                                                      /,....
             07 Rice                                                                             /
             08 Other cereals                                                                    /
             09 Dried vegetables (including seed and mixtures of cereals and dried
                 vegetables)                                                                     /
             10 Potatoes (including early potatoes and seed potatoes)                            /
             11 Sugar beet (excluding seeds)                                                     /
             12 Forage roots and tubers (excluding seeds)                                        /
             13 Industrial plants (including seeds for herbaceous oil-seed plants: excluding
                 seeds for fibre plants, hops, tobacco and other industrial plants) of which:
                 (a) tobacco                                                                     /
                 (b) hops(')                                                                     /
                 (c) cotton (2)                                                                  /
                 (d) other oil-seed and fibre plants and other industrial plants:                /
                                                            3
                       (i) other oil-seed and fibre plants ( )                                   /
                                                   3
                     (ii) other industrial plants ( )                                            /
         (') Optional for Greece.
         (2) Optional except for Greece.
         (3) Optional.
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                                                                                             ha/a
               Fresh vegetables, melons, strawberries:
               14 — outdoor, of which                                                          /..
                       (a) open field                                                          /..
                       (b) market gardening                                                    /..
               15 — under glass                                                                /..
               Flowers and ornamental plants (excluding nurseries):
               16 — outdoor                                                                    /..
               17 — under glass                                                                /..
               18 Forage plants:                                                               /..
                   (a) temporary grass                                                         /..
                   (b) other                                                                   /..
               19 Arable land seeds and seedlings (excluding cereals, dried vegetables,
                   potatoes and oil-seed plants)                                               /..
               20 Other arable land crops                                                      /..
               21 Fallow land                                                                  /..
          E. Kitchen gardens                                                                   /..
          F. Permanent pasture and meadow (')
               01 Pasture and meadow, excluding rough grazings                                 /..
               02 Rough grazings                                                               /..
          G. Permanent crops
               01 Fruit and berry plantations:                                                 /..
                                                       2
                   (a) fresh fruit, including berries ( )                                      /..
                             2
                   (b) nuts( )                                                                 /..
               02 Citrus plantations                                                           /..
               03 Olive plantations                                                            /..
               04 Vineyards, of which normally producing:                                      /..
                   (a) quality wine                                                            /..
                   (b) other wines                                                             /..
                   (c) table grapes                                                             /..
                                2
                   (d) raisins ( )                                                              /..
               05 Nurseries                                                                     /..
               06 Other permanent crops                                                         /.
                                                    3
               07 Permanent crops under glass ( )                                               /•
          H. Other land
               01 Unutilized agricultural land (agricultural land which is no longer farmed,
                    for economic, social or other reasons, and which is not used in the crop
                    rotation system) '                                                          I-
          (') Italy and Greece may merge heading 01 with heading 02.
          (2) Optional except for Greece.
           (3) Optional for Greece.
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                                                                                                             ha/a
              02 Wooded area, of which:                                                                        /
                  (a) non-commercial (')                                                                       /
                  (b) commercial (')                                                                           /
                         (i) deciduous (')                                                                     /
                        (ii) coniferous (')                                                                    /
                       (iii) mixed (')                                                                         /
              03 Other land (land occupied by building, farmyards, tracks, ponds, quarries,
                 infertile land, rock, etc. (2)                                                                /
         I.   Successive cropping, mushrooms, irrigation, greenhouses
              01 Successive secondary non-fodder crops (excluding market garden crops
                 and crops under glass) (3)                                                                    /
                                 4
              02 Mushrooms ( )                                                                                 /
                                   4
              03 Irrigated area ( )                                                                            /
                                                                      4
              04 Ground area covered by greenhouses in use ( )                                                 /
         J.   Livestock (on          ) (date to be fixed):                                                 Number of
                                                                                                             head
                             5
              01 Equidae( )
              Bovine animals:
              02 Under one year old
                 (a) of which male
                 (b) of which female
                       One year or over but under two years old
              03 Male animals
              04 Female animals
                 Two years old and over:
              05 Male animals                                             .
              06 Heifers
              07 Dairy cows
              08 Other cows
              Sheep and goats:
              09 Sheep (all ages):                                                                       "
                 (a) of which ewes
                 (b) of which other sheep
              10 Goats (all ages):
                 (a) of which breeding females (6)
                 (b) of which other goats (6)
         (') Optional.
         (2) The United Kingdom and Ireland may merge heading 03 with heading 01.
         (3) In Member States where the area covered by this heading is substantial, it may be subdivided into several
         (4) Optional for the Federal Republic of Germany.
         (s) Optional for the United Kingdom.
         (6) Optional except for Greece.
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                                                                                                        Number of
                                                                                                          head
               Pigs:
               11 Piglets having a live weight of under 20 kilograms
               12 Breeding sows weighing 50 kilograms and over
               13 Other pigs
               Poultry:
               14 Broilers
               15 Laying hens
               16 Other poultry (ducks, turkeys, geese, guinea-fowl)
               17 Rabbits, breeding females (l)
                                                                                                        Number of
                                                                                                          hives
               18 BeesC)
               19 Other livestock (')                                                                    yes/no
           L. Farm labour force (in the 12 months preceding the day of the survey)
                                                         Farmwork for holding (2) as °/o of annual time
                                                               worked by a full-time farm worker
                                              0 — < 25     25 — < 50     50 — < 75        7 5 — < 100       100
               01 (a) Holder
               02 Spouse carrying
                  out farm work on
                  the holding
               03 Other members of                            Number of persons
                  holders' family
               04 Non-family
                  labour
                  regularly
                  employed
                                                   < 24     25—34      35—44         45—54       55—64     65 and
                                                                                                             over
               01 (b) Age of holder (years)
                        — tick:
               01 (c) Sex of holder
                                                               Male
                        — tick:
                                                             Female
               Non-family labour employed on a non-regular basis:
               05 + 06 Number of equivalent full-time working days during the 12 months
                          preceding the day of the survey:
           (') Optional.
           (2) Apart from housework.
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             07 Does the holder have any other gainful activity:
                     as his/her major occupation?
                                                                      Tick as appropriate
                     as a subsidiary occupation?
             08 Does the holder's spouse, carrying out farmwork for the holding, have any other gainful
                 activity:
                     as his/her major occupation?
                                                                      Tick as appropriate
                     as a subsidiary occupation?
             09 Does any other member of the holder's family engaged in the farmwork of the holding have
                 any other gainful activity:
                     as his/her major occupation?
                                                                                Insert number of persons
                     as a subsidiary occupation?
             10 Total number of equivalent full-time working days of farmwork »of included under L 01 to
                 L 06, undertaken on the holding by persons not employed directly by the holding (e.g. con-
                 tractors' employees).
                                    Insert number of equivalent full-time working days during the 12 months
                                    preceding the day of the survey (').
         (') Optional for Member States which are able to provide a global estimate for this characteristic on national