CELEX: 31976R3228
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 3228/76 of 21 December 1976 on the organization of a survey on the structure of agricultural holdings for 1977

31 . 12 . 76                                Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 366/ 1
                                                                      I
                                                    (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                            COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3228/76
                                                           of 21 December 1976
                  on the organization of a survey on the structure of agricultural holdings for 1977
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                              areas and it is appropriate to take account of them in
 COMMUNITIES,                                                             the presentation of the results of the survey ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                    Whereas certain results of this survey must, in prin­
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                         ciple, be submitted on the basis of a Community
 thereof,
                                                                          typology for agricultural holdings ; whereas the
                                                                          typology is being worked out but it has not yet proved
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                       possible to lay down the precise date on which it will
                                                                          be operational ; whereas, therefore, the deadline for
 Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­                     submitting tables relating to the said typology should
 ment ('),                                                                be fixed separately ;
 Whereas, pursuant to Directive 75/ 108 /EEC (2), a
 survey on the structure of agricultural holdings was                     Whereas the data collected during the survey by the
                                                                          statistical services of the Member States shall be
 carried out for 1975 as part of a programme of
 Community surveys necessitated by the requirements                       submitted in grouped form to the Commission ;
 of the common agricultural policy ; whereas a survey                     whereas taking into account the organization of the
 should also be carried out as part of the same                           analysis, the possibility of transmitting the data for
 programme for 1977 in order to record the trends of                      individual holdings or data at an intermediate stage of
 the said structure on the basis of information which is                  aggregation must nevertheless be provided for ;
 comparable for the whole Community, since these
 trends are an important factor in determining the                        Whereas secrecy must be guaranteed to the farmers
 course to be followed by the common agricultural                         covered by the survey for the individual information
 policy ;                                                                 which concerns them ;
 Whereas      such    trends     cannot       be   recorded  unless
 comparable data are available and it is therefore neces­                 Whereas in order to facilitate the implementation of
 sary for the survey to have the same scope as the struc­                 the envisaged provisions there should be close cooper­
                                                                          ation between the Member States and the Commis­
 tures survey for 1975 ; whereas the definitions laid
 down for the 1975 survey in Decision 75/682/EEC (3)                      sion , in particular within the Standing Committee for
 should, in principle, be retained for the 1977 structure                Agricultural Statistics set up by Decision
 survey ; whereas it is nevertheless necessary to lay                     72/279/EEC (<>) ;
 down a procedure which allows certain adjustments to
 be made to the definitions for the specific needs of                    Whereas the proposed survey satisfies Community
 the present survey ;                                                     requirements and the Community must therefore
                                                                          make a contribution towards the costs ; whereas
 Whereas Council Directive 75/268/EEC of 28 April                        certain Member States already conduct annual or peri­
 1975 on mountain and hill farming and farming in                        odic surveys which may be used as the basis for the
 certain less-favoured areas (4), as amended by Directive                Community survey ; whereas other Member Stares will
 76/400/ EEC (5), defined certain less-favoured farming                   have to bear a greater financial burden since their
                                                                         programme of surveys does not include a survey of
(') Opinion    delivered on 17 December 1976 (not yet                    this type ; whereas it is therefore reasonable that the
    published  in the Official Journal).                                 Community contribution should be related to the addi­
(2) OJ No L     42, 15 . 2 . 1975, p. 21 .
(3) OJ No L     301 , 20 . 11 . 1975, p . 8 .                            tional national expenditure, arising out of this survey,
(4) OJ No L     128 , 19 . 5. 1975, p . 1 .
 5) OJ No L     108 , 26 . 4 . 1976, p . 21 .                            (o) OJ No L 179, 7. 8 . 1972, p. 1 .
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 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                 The definitions relating to them shall be determined
                                                               according to the procedure laid down in Article 8 .
                         Article 1
                                                                                          Article 6
Member States shall carry out a survey (hereinafter
 referred to as 'the survey') on the structure of the agri­    1.     Member States shall :
 cultural holdings in their territories covering the crop
year corresponding to the crop to be harvested in              (a) set out the results of the survey in the form of a
 1977.                                                              schedule of tables drawn up in accordance with a
                                                                    Community outline. This outline shall be drawn
                         Article 2                                  up in accordance with the procedure laid down in
                                                                    Article 8 ;
The survey shall be conducted in one or more stages
between 1 December 1976 and 31 January 1978 .                 (b) set out the results of the survey at national level.
The survey shall be carried out by means of an exhaus­             The following Member States shall also set out the
tive survey or by random sampling.                                  results for the regions indicated :
                                                                   Germany :          'Bundeslånder ,
                         Article 3                                  France :          'Regions de programme',
                                                                    Italy :           'Regioni',
 1.    For the purposes of applying this Regulation :              United
                                                                   Kingdom :          Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales,
(a) 'agricultural holding' shall mean a single unit, both
     technically and economically, which has a single                                 agricultural regions of England.
     management and the output of which is agricul­
     tural products ;                                              The details of any possible grouping of several
(b) 'agricultural area utilized for farming' shall mean            regions shall be laid down by the Commission in
     the total area taken up by arable land, permanent             agreement with the Member State concerned.
     pasture and meadow, land used for permanent
     crops and subsistence plots.                                  The results extrapolated at regional level by
                                                                   Member States which conduct the survey by
2.     The survey shall cover :                                    random sampling must have a degree of accuracy
(a) agricultural holdings where the agricultural area              corresponding at least to that required at survey
     utilized for farming is one hectare or more ;                 district level in the structures survey for 1975 ;
(b) agricultural holdings where the agricultural area         (c) with the exception of the Netherlands, give the
     utilized for farming is less than one hectare, if             results of the survey broken down by less-favoured
     they market a certain proportion of their products            agricultural areas, within the meaning of Article 3
     or if their standard gross production exceeds                 of Directive 75/268/EEC, or by groups of such
     certain physical units.                                       areas and broken down by other agricultural areas
                                                                   or by groups of such areas. The Commission shall
                         Article 4                                 lay down, in agreement with the Member State
                                                                   concerned, the groupings of less-favoured agricul­
1 . In the case of combined crops, the agricultural                tural areas on one hand and other agricultural
area utilized for farming shall be allocated between               areas on the other hand ;
the various crops surveyed in such a way that the area
actually devoted to each one is known .                       (d) transcribe the results of the surveys referred to in
                                                                   (a), (b), and (c) onto magnetic tape using a standard
However, in some Member States and with regard to                  program for all Member States. The method of
combined crops one at least of which is a permanent                transcription and the standard program shall be
woody crop, this provision shall only be applied in                drawn up in accordance with the procedure laid
certain regions and as an experiment.                              down in Article 8 ;
2. The Commission shall lay down the necessary                (e) submit the magnetic tapes referred to in (d) to the
detailed rules in agreement with the Member States in              Statistical Office of the European Communities.
whose territories the regions referred to in the second            They shall be submitted within 15 months of
subparagraph of paragraph 1 are situated.                          completion of the field work and at the latest by
                                                                   30 April 1979 . However, the deadline for the
                         Article 5                                 submission of tables relating to the classification
                                                                   of agricultural holdings on the basis of a Commu­
Member States shall carry out a survey on the charac­              nity typology shall be fixed in accordance with the
teristics listed in the Annex .                                    procedure laid down in Article 8 .
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2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1 (a),               Committee ) by its chairman, either on his own initia­
Member States may furnish the Statistical Office of         tive or at the request of the representative of a
the European Communities with :                             Member State .
— data for individual holdings,                             2.     The Commission representative shall submit to
     or                                                     the Committee a draft of the measures to be taken .
— data at an intermediate stage of aggregation,             The Committee shall give its opinion on that draft
                                                            within a time limit set by the chairman having regard
which the Statistical Office, instead of the Member         to the urgency of the matter. Opinions shall be deliv­
State concerned, shall use to draw up tables.               ered by a majority of 41 votes, the votes of the
The Statistical Office shall determine in agreement         Member States being weighted as provided in Article
with the Member State concerned the form in which           148 (2) of the Treaty. The chairman shall not vote.
these data must be communicated. As a general rule it       3.     The Commission shall adopt measures which
shall be the same as that used for the 1975 structures      shall    take    immediate    effect. However, if these
survey.                                                     measures are not in accordance with the Committee's
                                                            opinion, the Commission shall submit them forthwith
                       Article 7                            to the Council ; in this case, the Commission may
                                                            defer application of the measures it has adopted for
1.    The information referred to in Article 6 must be      not more than one month from the date of their
communicated to the Statistical Office of the Euro­         submission to the Council .
pean Communities in such a form that the holdings
concerned cannot be identified. The data for indi­          The Council, acting by a qualified majority, may take
                                                            a different decision within one month .
vidual holdings referred to in Article 6 (2) may only
be divulged to those persons responsible at the Statis­
tical Office for the application of this Regulation .                                 Article 9
                                                            Member States shall receive a contribution towards
The Member States and the Commission shall adopt
                                                            their costs which shall take into account the addi­
such measures as may be required to penalize infringe­
ments of the first subparagraph .                           tional expenditure arising out of this survey. The total
                                                            sum may not exceed one million units of account. It
2. In cooperation with the Member States, the               shall be charged to the appropriations set aside for
Commission shall publish the results of the survey.         this purpose in the budget of the European Communi­
                                                            ties .
                       Article 8
                                                                                      Article 10
1 . Where the procedure laid down in this Article is
invoked, the matter shall be referred to the Standing       This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
Committee for Agricultural Statistics set up by Deci­       following its publication in the Official Journal of
sion 72/279/EEC (hereinafter referred to as 'the            the European Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 21 December 1976 .
                                                                          For the Council
                                                                            The President
                                                                    A. P. L. M. M. van der STEE
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                                                      ANNEX
           LIST OF CHARACTERISTICS FOR THE COMMUNITY SCHEDULE OF TABLES FOR
                                                       1977 (a)
           Number
                    Geographical situation of the holding
               1    Region
               2    Holding type
                    Type of tenure (C)
                    Agricultural area utilized (AAU)
               3    For owner farming (C/01 )
               4    For tenant farming (C/02)
                    Land use
                    Arable land (E)
                    Cereals for the production of grain (including seeds)
               5    Common wheat and spelt (E/01 )
               6    Durum wheat (E/02)
               7    Rye (E/03) (b)
               8    Barley (E/04)
               9    Oats (E/05) (b)
              10    Grain maize (E/06)
              11    Rice (E/07) (b)
              12    Other cereals (E/08) (b)
              13    Dried vegetables (including seed and mixtures of cereals and dried vegetables) (E/09)
              14    Potatoes (including early potatoes and sets) (E/ 10)
              15    Sugar beet (excluding seeds) (E/ 11W 1)
              16    Forage roots and tubers (excluding seeds) (E/ l 2) (')
              17    Industrial plants (including seeds for herbaceous oleaginous plants ; excluding seeds for
                    textile plants, hops, tobacco and other industrial plants) (E/ l 3) (b)
                    Fresh vegetables, melons, strawberries :
                    — outdoor (E/ 14) :
              18    (a) open field (E/ 14/a) (b)
              19    (b) market gardening (E/ 14/b)
              20    — under glass (E/ 15) (b)
                    Flowers and ornamental plants (excluding seedlings) :
              21    — outdoor (E/ 16) (b)
              22    — under glass (E/ 17) (b)
              23    Forage plants (E/ 18)(>)
              24    Horticultural seeds and other arable land seeds or plants (excluding cereals, dried vegeta­
                    bles, potatoes and oleaginous plants (E/ l 9) (b)
              25    Other arable land crops (E/20) (b)
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            Number
              26   Fallow land (E/21 ) (b)
              27   Subsistence plots (F) (b)(2)
                   Permanent pasture and meadow (G)
              28   Pasture and meadow including mountain pastures (G/01 )
                   Permanent crops (H)
              29   Fruit and berry plantations (H/01 ) (b)
              30   Citrus plantations (H/02) (b)
              31   Olive plantations (H/03) (b)
              32   Vineyards (H/04) (b)
              33   Nurseries (H/05) (b)
              34   Other permanent crops (H/06) (b)
              35   Permanent crops under glass (H/07) (b)
                   Other land (I)
              36   Unutilized agricultural area (agricultural land which is no longer farmed, for economic,
                   social or other reasons and which is not used in the crop rotation system) (1/01 ) (b) (3)
              37   Woodland (1/02) (b)
              38   Other land (land covered by buildings, farmyards, tracks, ponds, quarries, infertile land,
                   rock, etc.) (1/03) (b)
                   Livestock (K)
              39   Equidae (K/01 ) (b)
                   Bovine animals
              40   Under one year old (K/02) (b)
                   Over one but under two years old
              41   Male animals (K/03) (b)
              42   Female animals (K/04) (b)
                   Two years and over
              43   Male animals (K/05) (b)
              44   Heifers (K/06) (b)
              45   Dairy cows (K/07)
              46   Other cows (K/08)
              47   Sheep (all ages) (K/09)
              48   Goats (all ages) (K/ 10) (b)
                   Pigs
              49   Piglets of live weight under 20 kg (K/ ll ) (b)
              50   Breeding sows weighing 50 kg and over (K/ 12)
              51   Other pigs (K/ 13)
                   Poultry
              52   Broilers (K/ 14)
              53   Laying hens (K/ 15)
              54   Other poultry (ducks, turkeys, geese, guinea fowl) (K/ 16) (b)
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           Number
                  Use of m chinery and equipment (L)(4)
                                                                   Belonging exclusively   Other (5)
                                                                      to the holding
                  Tractors (L/02)                                                           (tick)
                                                                         (number)
             55   — less than 51 hp
                  comprising :
             56   — less than 35 hp (6)
             57   — 35 but less than 51 hp (6)
             58   — 51 hp and over
                  comprising :
             59   — 51 but less than 80 hp (6)
             60   — 80 hp and over (6)
             61   Combine-harvesters (L/04)
             62   Potato-harvesters
                  (totally mechanized) (L/06)
             63   Sugar beet-harvesters
                  (totally mechanized) (L/07)
             64   Milking machinery
                  (fixed or movable) (L/08)
             65   Ground area covered by
                  greenhouses in use (L/ 10, L/ ll )
                  Farm labour force (M)(7)
                  Holder (M/01 ) :
             66   — age (8)
             67   — male/female (8)
             68   — full-time / 50 — < 100 % / < 50 %
                  Members of the holder s family (M/02, M/03) :
             69   — total
             70   — male
             71   — full-time
             72   — 50 — < 100 % (6)
                  Non-family labour regularly employed (M/04) :
             73   — total
             74   — male
             75   — full-time
             76   — 50 — < 100 % (0)
             77   Non-family labour not regularly employed (M/05, M/06) working hours (9).
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                                                                       Footnotes
            (a) The reference numbers are those used in the list of characteristics given in Directive 75/ 108/EEC ; headings without a reference
                number indicate a change in relation to this list of characteristics.
            (b) Item included in order to establish the type of holding or sub-totals.
            (') For the United Kingdom : including seeds.
            (2) Optional for the United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark.
            (3) For the United Kingdom and Ireland item 36 is to be combined with item 38 .
            (*) Optional for Germany.
            (5) Optional for Ireland and Denmark.
            (6) Optional.
            (') For Ireland — on the basis of male labour having agriculture as chief occupation .
            (*) Optional for the United Kingdom.
            (9) Yes/No for the Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland ; number of persons for United Kingdom and Denmark.