CELEX: 51992PC0578
Language: en
Date: 1992-12-18
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DIRECTIVE on the statistical surveys to be carried out on sheep and goat production

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3.      The opinion shall be recorded in the minutes. In                                              Article 18
addition, each Member State shall be entitled to ask for
its own position to be recorded in the minutes.                           The Member States shall introduce the laws, regulations
                                                                          and administrative provisions necessary to comply with
                                                                          this Directive not later than 1 January 1994.
4.      The Commission shall take maximum account of
the Committee's opinion and shall inform the Committee                    When Member States adopt these measures, they shall
of how it has taken account of its opinion.                               contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accom­
                                                                          panied by such reference on the occasion of their official
                                                                          publication. The methods of making such a reference
                            Article 17                                    shall be laid down by the Member States.
Directive 76/630/EEC of 20 July 1976 on the statistical                                               Article 19
surveys to be carried out by the Member States on pig
production shall cease to apply as from 1 January 1994.                  This Directive is addressed to the Member States .
              Proposal for a Council Directive on the statistical surveys to be carried out on sheep and goat
                                                                 production
                                                               (93 /C 18 /09)
                                                            COM(92) 578 final
                                         (Submitted by the Commission on 18 December 1992)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                 Whereas the collection and processing of the data as well
                                                                          as the organization of the survey at national level should
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                    continue to be within the competence of the statistical
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                         services of the Member States, and the Commission
thereof,                                                                 should be responsible for the collection, coordination
                                                                          and harmonization of statistical information at European
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                        level and arrange for the harmonized methodologies
                                                                         necessary to implement Community policies ;
Having regard to the opinion of the European
Parliament,                                                              Whereas, in order to facilitate implementation of this
                                                                         Directive, close cooperation is necessary between the
                                                                         Member States and the Commission and this should in
Whereas Council Directive 82 / 177/EEC of 22 March
                                                                         particular be effected via the Standing Committee on
1982 on the statistical surveys to be carried out by the                 Agricultural     Statistics        established by Decision
Member States on sheep and goat production (') has                       72 /279/EEC (2),
been      amended     several     times ;     whereas,     further
amendments being necessary, the Directives should, for
reasons of clarity, be recast in a single text ;                          HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE :
Whereas it is important to follow the trend in the                                                   SECTION I
structure of the agricultural holdings in the Member                               SURVEYS OF THE SHEEP AND GOAT
States ;
                                                                                            A. At national level
Whereas, in order to ensure that the common agri­
                                                                                        Frequency — Field of survey
cultural policy is properly administered, particularly
where the sheepmeat and goatmeat market is concerned,                                                  Article 1
the Commission requires regular data on trends in
livestock and in sheepmeat and goatmeat production ;                      1 . The Member States shall carry out statistical
                                                                         surveys of the sheep population on their territory each
                                                                         year on one day in December.
(') OJ No L 81 of 27 . 3 . 1982, p. 35 . Directive last amended by
    Regulation (EEC) No 1057/91 (OJ No L 107, 27. 4. 1991 ,
    p. 11 ).                                                              (2) OJ No L 179, 7 . 8 . 1972 , p. 1 .
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 2. Member States shall also carry out a statistical                  2. The categories referred to in paragraph 1 may be
 survey of the goat population, either as a separate survey           modified by the Commission in accordance with the
 or as a single survey of both sheep and goat populations :           procedure laid down in Article 19.
 (a) each year, on a day in December, where the national
     goat population is 500 000 head or more ;                        3 . The Commission shall define the categories after
                                                                      consulting the Committee in accordance with the
 (b) at least once every five years where the national goat           procedure laid down in Article 19.
     population is less than 500 000 head.
                               Article 2                                                       Accuracy
 1.   For the purpose of this Directive, 'sheep' means                                         Article 4
domestic animals of the species ovis and 'goats' means
domestic animals of the species capra.                                1 . The surveys referred to in Article 1 shall be
                                                                     conducted in the form of exhaustive surveys or by
                                                                     representative sampling.
2. The surveys referred to in Article 1 shall cover all
sheep and goats on agricultural holdings as defined by
the Commission after consulting the Standing Committee               2 . For each of the Member States, sampling errors for
for Agricultural Statistics, hereinafter called the                  the results of the surveys provided for in Article 2 (2)
'Committee', set up by Council Decision of 31 July 1972,             shall not exceed 2 % of the total number of sheep and of
in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article                goats, these percentages representing a confidence
 19. They shall cover sufficient holdings to account for at          interval of 68 % .
least 95 % of the entire sheep and goat population as
determined by the last survey on the structure of agri­
cultural holdings .                                                  3 . As regards the basis on which the sampling is to be
                                                                     carried out, and the supplementary estimates referred to
3 . As far as possible, Member States shall supplement               in Article 2 (3), Member States shall take whatever
the results of the above surveys with an estimate of the             measures they deem appropriate to maintain the quality
goat and sheep population not covered by the surveys                 of the survey results.
referred to in paragraph 2 .
                     Breakdown by category                                              Transmission deadline
                               Article 3                                                       Article 5
1 . The surveys provided for in Article 1 shall be                   1 . Member States shall notify the Commission of the
conducted in such a way as to provide a breakdown of                 provisional results of the survey and supplementary
the sheep and goat population into at least the following            estimates, not later than 1 March after the reference
categories :                                                         month for the data referred to in Article 3 ( 1 ).
A. Sheep, total ;
                                                                     2. Member States shall notify the Commission of the
    A.l . Ewes and live lambs put to the ram                         final results of the surveys and of the supplementary
                                                                     estimates, in compliance with Article 4 (2), not later than
          A. 1.1 . Milk ewes                                         1 April following the reference month.
          A.1.2 . Other ewes
          A. 1.3 . Ewe lambs put to the ram                                                  Derogations
                                                                                               Article 6
                    A. 1.3.1 . Milk ewe lambs put to the ram
                                                                     1.     By way of derogation from Article 3 ( 1 ):
                    A. 1.3.2. Other ewe lambs put to the ram
    A.2. Other sheep.                                                (a) the subdivisions of category A.l shall be optional for
                                                                          those Member States where the sheep population at
B. Goats, total :                                                         the time of the survey is less than 2 500 000 head;
    B.l . Goats which have already kidded and goats
          mated                                                      (b) the subdivisions of category B.l shall be optional for
                                                                          those Member States where the goat population at
          B. 1.1 . Goats which have already kidded                        the time of the survey is less than 500 000 head ;
          B.l . 2 . Goats mated for the first time
                                                                     (c) the Member States referred to in Article 1 (2) (b)
    B.2 . Other goats.                                                    shall make an estimate of the total numbers referred
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     to in point B, without subdivision, for each of the           national level according to size classes as defined by the
     years not covered by the survey;                              Commission in accordance with the procedure laid down
                                                                   in Article 19 .
(d) the Member States for which the population of
     category A. 1.1 represents less than 1 % of category
     A.1 shall be authorized to estimate the figure or            2. In accordance with the procedure laid down in
     derive it from other sources. The same shall apply to        Article 19, the Commission may approve an application
     category A. 1.3.1 when this represents less than 1 %         from a Member State to use the breakdown by size
     of category A. 1.3.                                          classes referred to in paragraph 1 for the final results of
                                                                  even-numbered years.
2. By way of derogation from Article 5 : Denmark and
the Netherlands shall be authorized to estimate the sheep         3.     The size classes referred to in paragraph 1 may be
and goat populations and the United Kingdom the goat              amended by the Commission in accordance with the
population held in December on the basis of the popu­             procedure laid down in Article 19.
lations recorded during the annual agricultural census
which they carry out in May/June of the same year.                                     Transmission deadline
They shall notify the provisional results not later than 1
March and the final results not later than 15 September                                      Article 11
of the year following the reference year.
                                                                  The Member States shall notify the Commission of the
                                                                  data referred to in Article 10 not later than 15 May of
                   B. At regional level                           the year following the reference month.
                   Territorial subdivisions
                          Article 7                                                        Derogations
                                                                                             Article 12
1 . The final results of the survey shall be compiled for
each of the territorial subdivisions as defined by the            By way of derogation from Article 11 , Denmark and the
Commission following consultation of the Committee, in            Netherlands shall be authorized to notify the data on the
accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 19.            structure of their sheep and goat populations and the
                                                                  United Kingdom those of its goat populations covered
2. The territorial subdivisions defined in paragraph 1            by the agricultural census conducted in May/June of the
may be amended by the Commission in accordance with               reference year not later than 15 May of the following
the procedure laid down in Article 19.                            year.
                   Transmission deadline                                                   SECTION II
                          Article 8                                              SLAUGHTERING STATISTICS
Member States shall notify the Commission of the data                                       Article 13
referred to in Article 7 not later than 15 May of the year
following the reference month.                                    1 . Member States shall compile monthly statistics
                                                                  relating to the number and carcase weight of sheep and
                                                                  goats slaughtered on their territory, the meat of which is
                         Derogations                              deemed fit for human consumption.
                          Article 9
                                                                  If necessary, they shall also supply estimates of slaugh­
By way of derogation from Article 8 :                             terings not included in the returns, so that the statistics
                                                                  include all the sheep and goats slaughtered on their
(a) The Netherlands shall be authorized to notify sheep           territory.
     numbers by 'provincie' in the case of populations
     covered by the agricultural census conducted in May
     of the reference year, not later than 1 5 September of       2. The statistics referred to in paragraph 1 shall be
     that year.                                                   drawn up for the following categories :
(b) The Member States referred to in Article 1 (2) (b)            A. Sheep, total
     shall be exempt from notifying the regional
     breakdown of their goat numbers.                                  A.l . of which : lambs
                                                                  B. Goats, total
           C. Breakdown by size of holding
                         Size classes                             3 . The Commission shall define the carcase weight
                          Article 10                              referred to in paragraph 1 and the categories referred to
                                                                  in paragraph 2 following consultation of the Committee,
1 . In odd-numbered years, Member States shall                    in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
provide a breakdown of the final results of the survey at         19 .
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                    Transmission deadline                          considerably influence the statistics. This shall be done
                           Article 14
                                                                   not later than three months after the change in question
                                                                   enters into force. The Commission shall notify the other
Member States shall notify the Commission of the results           Member States of any such communication in the appro­
of the statistics referred to in Article 13 ( 1 ) not later than   priate working parties.
eight weeks after the reference month.
                                                                                            Article 19
                         SECTION III
                                                                   1 . Where the procedure laid down in this Article is
                 PRODUCTION FORECASTS                              invoked, the matter shall be referred to the Standing
                                                                   Committee on Agricultural Statistics (hereinafter referred
                           Article 15
                                                                   to as the 'Committee'), by its chairman, either on his own
1.    Member States shall, on the basis of the results of          initiative or at the request of a representative of a
                                                                   Member State .
the surveys and other available data, forecast their gross
indigenous production of sheep and goats for each
six-month calendar period.                                         2. The representative of the Commission shall submit to
                                                                   the Committee a draft of measures to be taken . The
2. Gross indigenous production shall include all sheep             Committee shall give its opinion on the draft within a
and goats slaughtered plus the balances of intra­                  time limit to be set by the chairman in accordance with
Community and external trade in live sheep and goats.              the urgency of the matter, if necessary by a vote .
                                                                   3.     The opinion shall be recorded in the minutes, and
3 . The Commission may amend this Article in                       each Member State shall be entitled to ask for its own
accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 19.             position to be recorded in the minutes.
                    Transmission deadline                          4.     The Commission shall take maximum account of
                           Article 16                              the Committee's opinion and shall inform the Committee
                                                                   of how it has taken account of its opinion.
Member States shall notify the Commission of the
forecasts referred to in Article 15 ( 1 ) not later than 1                                  Article 20
March following the survey for the two six-month                   Council Directive 82 / 177/ EEC of 22 March 1982 on the
periods of the current year.
                                                                   statistical surveys to be carried out by Member States
                         SECTION IV
                                                                   on sheep and goat stocks shall cease to apply as from
                                                                   1 January 1994.
                    GENERAL REMARKS
                                                                                            Article 21
                           Article 17
The Commission shall examine :                                     Member States shall introduce the legal and adminis­
                                                                   trative measures necessary to comply with this Directive
(a) the results supplied ;                                         not later than 1 January 1994.
(b) the technical problems which arise, in particular in           When Member States adopt these measures, they shall
                                                                   contain a reference to this Directive or shall be ac­
    preparing and conducting the surveys and forecasts ;
                                                                   companied by such reference on the occasion of their
(c) the reliability of the survey results and forecasts.           official publication. The methods of making such a
                                                                   reference shall be laid down by the Member States .
                           Article 18
                                                                                            Article 22
Member States shall inform the Commission of any
methodological       or    other    change       which     could   This Directive is addressed to the Member States .