CELEX: 31976R1035
Language: en
Date: 1976-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/76 of 30 April 1976 relating to the organization of a survey on the earnings of permanent workers employed in agriculture

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                                     COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1035/76
                                                     of 30 April 1976
              relating to the organization of a survey on the earnings of permanent workers
                                                 employed in agriculture
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                                             Article 3
 COMMUNITIES,
                                                                 The survey shall be carried out by means of random
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           sampling.
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 213
 thereof,                                                        In respect of those holdings appearing in the survey
                                                                 sample, employers shall supply the information
 Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by              required for the survey in the manner set out
 the Commission,                                                 hereafter.
Whereas, in order to carry out the tasks assigned to it
 under the Treaty, and in particular those set out in                                    Article 4
Articles 2, 39, 117, 118 , 119 and 122 thereof, the
 Commission needs to know the earnings situation and            The survey shall consist in the collection for each
 trends in the Member States ;                                   permanent worker of all data relating to gross cash
Whereas such statistical data as do exist within the            earnings for September, October, or November 1976,
                                                                the existence or absence of benefit in kind, the nature
Member States on the earnings of agricultural workers
do not at present permit valid comparisons to be                of work performed, the basis on which earnings are
 made, and hence it is necessary to conduct a specific          calculated and the number of hours paid, as well as
Community survey based on uniform definitions and               sex, age and job categories.
characteristics as was done in 1974 and 1975, pursuant
to Regulations (EEC) No 677/74 (J ) and (EEC) No                                         Article 5
 1103/75 (2);
Whereas the technical difficulties involved in a survey          Information shall be gathered by the statistical offices
                                                                of the Member States .
on earnings in agriculture make it necessary to restrict
the survey at present to the earnings of permanent              The Commission, with the collaboration of these
workers in agriculture ;                                        offices, shall determine the technical details of the
Whereas it is possible and more economical to carry             survey and the arrangements for transmitting the
                                                                results to the Commission .
out such a survey by random sampling only,
                                                                                         Article 6
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                Individual items of information supplied for purposes
                          Article 1                             of the survey may be used for statistical purposes only.
                                                                It shall be prohibited to use the information for taxa­
The Commission shall undertake a survey of the
                                                                tion purposes, or to communicate it to third parties.
actual earnings of permanent workers employed in
agriculture on the basis of the statistical data relating       Member States shall take appropriate measures to
to September, October or November 1976.                         avoid any infringement of :
                          Article 2                             (a) the obligation to supply the information referred
                                                                     to in Article 3,
The survey shall cover all holdings which employ                (b) the obligation, under the first paragraph of this
permanent workers and and which engage in activities                 Article, to maintain secrecy as regards the informa­
as specified and defined under class 01 of the General               tion obtained.
Nomenclature of Economic Activities in the Euro­
pean Communities (NACE), with the exception of
holdings whose activities are mainly or exclusively                                      Article 7
directed to creating and maintaining gardens and
parks, to hunting or to activities ancillary to agricul­        To cover the expenditure incurred in conducting the
ture .                                                          survey, the Member States shall receive a global sum
                                                                proportionate to the number of holdings covered. This
(») OJ No L 83, 28 . 3 . 1974, p. 4.                            sum shall be charged against the European Communi­
(2) OJ No L 110, 30 . 4. 1975, p. 2.                            ties' budget appropriations allocated for this purpose.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Luxembourg, 30 April 1976.
                                                                     For the Council
                                                                       The President
                                                                          B. BERG