CELEX: 51977PC0013
Language: en
Date: 1977-02-05
Title: DRAFT COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) relating to the organization of a survey on the earnings of permanent workers employed in agriculture (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                              COM(77 ) 13 final .
                                              Brussels , 5 February 1977 •
                  DRAFT COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
    relating to the organization of a survey on the earnings
    of permanent workers employed in agriculture
             ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
 COM(77 ) 13 final .
 ---pagebreak---                                 Explanatory Memorandum
In order to perform certain tasks assigned to it under the Treaty, the Com­
mission must have information on the current status and trends of earnings
in the Community countries . It therefore requires comparable statistics on
these matters for all sectors of ecenomic aotivity.
As a result of the activities of the Working Party for Statistics on Earn­
ings in Agriculture , which is oomposed of representatives of the national
administrations , employers and labour, Community surveys of the earnings of
permanent workers employed in agriculture were conducted in 1974 , 1975 and
1976 ( 1 ). These surveys provided comparable information on the level and
distribution of earnings , the number of hours paid and the existence or
absence of benefits in kind , taking into account certain personl data on
wage earners suoh as age , sex and occupational qualifications . The figures
for 1974 have already been published ( 2 ), those for 1975 will be so shortly
and the 1976 data will be available towards the middle of 1 977 *
In view of the quantity of information now available on the relationship
between the level of earnings and oertain data on wage earners , the Working
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Party for Statistics on Earnings in Agriculture agreed with the Commission
that for the period 1977-1979 small er-soale surveys should make it possible
to monitor current trends adequately provided a more detailed survey, com­
parable to thosa carried out from 1974 to 1976 , was conduoted in 1980 . The
proposed simplification of the survey is largely of a teohnica.1 nature , con­
sisting in a fairly substantial reduction in the size of the sample required
for Community purposes . The survey is also to be limited meantime to wage
earners of the male sex.
 ( 1 ) Council Regulations (EEC ) Nos 677/76 ot 21 Maroh 1974 (OJ No L 83 , 28.3 .
       1974 , p. 4/5), 1103A5 of 28 April 1975 (OJ No L 110 , 30.4.1975 , p. 2/j )
       and 1035/76 of . 30 April 1976 (OJ No L 118, 5-5.1976 , p. 3/4) ■ .
 (2 ) Eurostat , Earnings of permanent workers in agrioulture , 1974 (Scoial
       Statistics , 5/1975)
 ---pagebreak---                          Council Regulation (EEC ) No
                         of
relating to the organization of a survey on the earnings of permanent work-
era employed in agriculture .
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
and in particular Article 213 thereof ,
Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted "by the Commission ,
Whereas , in order to carry out the tasks assigned to it under the Treaty ,
and in particular those set out in Articles 2 , 39 » 1 1 7 » 1.1 8 f 119 and 122
thereof , the Commission requires information on the ourrent status and trends
of earnings in the Member States ;
Whereas such statistical data as do exist within the Member States on the
earnings of agricultural workers do not at present permit valid comparisons
to be made , and it is consequently necessary to conduct a specific Community
survey based on uniform definitions and characteristics as was done in 1 974 »
1975 and 1976 pursuant to Counoil Regulations (EEC ) Nos 677 /74 0 ), 1103 /75
( 2 ) and 1035/76 (3 );
Whereas the technical difficulties involved in a survey on earnings in agri­
culture make it neoossary to restrict the survey at present to the earnings
of permanent agricultural workers ;
Whereas it is convenient , in view of the results already obtained , to
restrict the scope of the survey meantime to data on workers of the male
sex , who represent over $0 $ of the permanent agricultural labour force ;
   1 ) 0J No L 83 , 28.3.1974 , p. 4
  i2 )
   2 ) 0J No L 110 , 30.4.1975 » p . 2
       0J No L 118 , 5.5.1976 , p . 3
 ---pagebreak---  Whereas it is possible and. more eoonomioal to carry out such a survey "by
random sampling only,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                      Article 1
During 1977 ? 197° a-nd 1979 "the Commission shall undertake a survey of "the actual
earnings of permanent workers employed in agriculture on the "basis of sta­
tistical data relating to September , October or November#
                                     Article 2
The survey shall oover all holdings which employ permanent workers and which
engage in acti^tied as specified aild defined under class 01 of the General
Nomenclature of Economic Activities in the European Communities (NACE) , with
the exception of holdings whose activities are mainly or exclusively direoted
to creating and maintaining gardens and parks , to hunting or to aotivities
ancillary to agriculture .
                                    Article 3
The survey shall be carried out by means of random sampling.
In respeot of those holdings appearing in the survey sample , employers shall
supply the information required for the survey in the manner set out here–
after .
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                                    Article 4
The survey shall oonsist in the collection for eaoh male permanent worker of
all data relating to gross oash earnings for September , October , or November
1977 » 1978 and 1979 , the existence or absenoe of benefits in kind , the nature
of work performed , the basis on which earnings are calculated and the number
of hours paid , as well as age and occupational qualifications .
 ---pagebreak---                                  Article 5
The information shall be collected "by the statistical offioes of the Member
States *
The Commission, with the collaboration of these offices , shall determine the
technical details of the survey and the arrangements for transmitting the
results to the Commission.
                                 Article 6
Individual items of information supplied for purposes of the survey may be
used for statistical purposes only . It shall be prohibited to use the
information for taxation purposes or to oommunioate it to third parties .
Member States shall take appropriate sanctions against any infringement of :
a) the obligation to supply the information referred to in Article 3 ,
b) the obligation, under the first paragraph of this Article , to maintain
   secreoy as regards the information obtained.
                                 Article 7
To cover the expenditure incurred in conducting the survey, the Member
States shall receive a lump sum proportionate to the number of holdings
covered. This sum shall be charged against the European Communities' budget
appropriations allooated for this purpose .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and direotly applicable in
all Member States .                         '
Done at           , (date)                            For the Council
                                                       The President