CELEX: 31974R0677
Language: en
Date: 1974-03-21 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 677/74 of the Council of 21 March 1974 relating to the organization of a survey on the earnings of permanent workers in agriculture

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                            REGULATION ( EEC) No 677/74 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                 of 21 March 1974
              relating to the organization of a survey on the earnings of permanent workers 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 here­
the Commission ;                                               after.
Whereas, in order to carry out the tasks assigned to it
by the Treaty, and in particular Articles 2, 39, 117,                                  Article 4
118 , 119 and 122 thereof, the Commission needs to
know the earnings situation and trends in the Member           The survey shall consist of the collection for each
States ;                                                       permanent worker, of all data relating to gross cash
                                                               earnings for one month in 1974, preferably the month
Whereas, in contrast to those existing for industry and        of April, the existence or absence of benefits in kind,
services, comparable statistics on earnings in agricul­        the nature of work performed, the basis on which earn­
ture are not yet available at Community level and              ings are calculated, and the number of hours paid, as
consequently this gap should be filled ;                       well as the sex, age and professional qualifications.
Whereas such statistical data on the earnings of
workers in agriculture as do exist within the Member                                   Article 5
States do not permit valid comparisons to be made
and hence it is necessary to conduct a specific                Information shall be gathered by the statistical
Community survey based on uniform definitions and              services of the Member States .
characteristics ;
                                                               The Commission , with the collaboration of the statis­
Whereas the technical difficulties of a survey on earn­        tical services of the Member States, shall determine
ings in agriculture make it necessary to proceed by            the technical details of the survey and the manner in
stages and in the first instance only to consider the          which results are to be transmitted to the Commis­
earnings of permanent workers in agriculture ;                 sion .
Whereas it is possible and more economical to carry
out such a survey by random sampling only,                                             Article 6
                                                               Individual items of information supplied for purposes
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                  of the survey shall be used for statistical purposes
                                                               only. It shall be prohibited to use the information for
                        Article 1                              taxation purposes, or to communicate it to third
                                                               parties.
The Commission shall undertake a survey of the
actual earnings of permanent workers in agriculture            Member States shall take appropriate measures to
on the basis of the statistical data relating to one           avoid any infringement of :
month in 1974, preferably the month of April .                 (a) the obligation to supply the information referred
                                                                    to in Article 3 ,
                        Article 2
                                                               (b) the obligation, under the first paragraph of this
The survey shall be extended to all holdings which                 Article, to maintain secrecy as regards the informa­
                                                                    tion obtained .
employ permanent workers, and which exercise
activity specified and defined under class 01 of the
General Nomenclature of Economic Activities in the                                     Article 7
European Communities (NACE), with the exception
of holdings whose activities are mainly or exclusively         The expenditure incurred by Member States in
directed to creating and maintaining gardens and               carrying out this survey shall be charged against the
parks, to hunting and to activities ancillary to agricul­      European Communities' budget appropriations allo­
ture .                                                         cated for this purpose.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 21 March 1974.
                                                                     For the Council
                                                                       The President
                                                                          J. ERTL