CELEX: 51997PC0221
Language: en
Date: 1997-05-26
Title: Proposal for a Council Decision repealing Directive 82/606/EEC relating to the organization by the Member States of surveys on the earnings of permanent and seasonal workers employed in agriculture

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                Brussels, 26.05.1997
                                                COM(97) 221 final
                                 Proposal for a
                            ÇQUNÇH DECISION
repealing Directive 82/606/EEC relating to the organization by the Member States of
surveys on the earnings of permanent and seasonal workers employed in agriculture
                        (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                       EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1. Specific surveys on the earnings of permanent workers employed in agriculture
   have been carried out in the Member States of the Community since 1974. Up to
   and including 1980 the surveys were annual, but the scope was not always
   identical : those for 1977, 1978 and 1979 referred only to male workers and
   used a reduced sample.
2. In Regulation (EEC) 3112/80 on the organization of the 1980 survey, the
   Council stipulated that future surveys should be organized on the basis of a
   directive establishing a permanent system. The system itself was laid down in
   Council Directive 82/606/EEC of 28 July 1982. According to that Directive the
   Member States were obliged, in 1982 and every two years thereafter, to carry
   out a survey by random sampling on the actual earnings of permanent full-time
   and/or seasonal workers of both sexes, employed on holdings engaged in
   activities specified and defined under Class 01 of NACE 70 (Agriculture and
   Hunting); this obligation did not apply to holdings whose activities consisted
   exclusively or mainly in the creation and maintenance of parks and gardens,
   hunting and activities ancillary to agriculture.
3. Directive 82/606/EEC was amended in 1988. Under Article 8 of Directive
   88/562/EEC the Council was to review the Directive in 1990 and submit
   proposals on the system to be implemented, if necessary, for the years after
   1990. To this end the Commission submitted a report on the experience gained
   in carrying out the surveys, including a recommendation to conduct the next
   survey on earnings for the year 1991 and every three years thereafter.
4. A new Directive was approved in 1991 (91/534/EEC). The surveys on 1991
   and 1994 have been carried out.
5. With a view to limiting the amount of EU legislation to the minimum necessary
   and reducing the workload of the National Statistical Institutes, Eurostat has
   consulted the Member States in order to examine the extent to which such a
   survey is necessary to fulfil national and EU statistical requirements.
6. The results of the consultation show that for most countries the survey is carried
   out to meet Community requirements, and that in countries where such
   information is necessary, other sources can meet users' needs. The Commission
   departments concerned have not expressed the need to continue the survey.
7. In view of the above, Eurostat is of the opinion that Directive 82/606/EEC can
   be repealed.
8. The Statistical Programme Committee, consulted by written procedure on 16
   January 1997, has given a favourable opinion on this proposal.
9. The Commission therefore submits the attached proposal for Decision to the
   Council for approval.
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 ---pagebreak---                                     COUNCIL DECISION
                                            of
  repealing Directive 82/606/EEC relating to the organization by the Member States of
  surveys on the earnings of permanent and seasonal workers employed in agriculture
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article
213 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Council Directive 82/606/EEC relating to the organization by the Member States
of surveys on the earnings of permanent and seasonal workers employed in agriculture, last
amended by Directive 91/534/EEC , was adopted in order to make available comparable
statistics on the development of the earnings of agricultural workers in the Member States;
Whereas the requirement for national and Community statistics can now be met using other
sources;
Whereas it is in the general interest to reduce the volume of Community legislation and to
limit the statistical burden on the Member States to those requirements which are essential;
Whereas the Statistical Programme Committee established by Council Decision
89/382(EEC/Euratom)
89/382(EI                 , has been consulted in accordance with Article 3 of the aforesaid
Decision,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
                                            Article 1
Directive 82/606/EEC is hereby repealed.
                                            Article 2
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels,
'OJL 247,23.8.1982, p.22
2
  OJL 288, 18.10.1991, p.36
'OJL 181, 28.6.1989, p.47
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