CELEX: 51976PC0051
Language: en
Date: 1976-02-23
Title: DRAFT REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL 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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                                        DRAFT
                        ■ REGULATION ( EEC ) OP TIE COUNCIL
 relating to the organization of a survey on the earnings of permanent workers
                               employed in agriculture
                       ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
 COMC76 ) 51 final .
 ---pagebreak---                                Explanatory Memorandum
In order to perform certain tasks assigned to it under the Treaty , the Com­
mission needs to know the earnings situation and trends in the Community
countries .    It therefore requires comparable statistics on these matters .
To this end , a coordinated set of comparable statistics on earnings has been
progressively developed by Community surveys conducted with the collaboration
of national statistical offices .     Although initially such Community surveys
related only to industry and services , agriculture has recently been included
within the scope of these investigations .
The work undertaken by the Working Party on Agricultural Wage Statistics , in
which governments , management and labour are represented , finally led to the
implementation of a Community study of the earnings of permanent workers in
agriculture .    Thus , a survey was carried out in 1974 and another in 1975
pursuant to Council Regulations (1 ) •     these supplied comparable information
on the level and distribution of earnings , the number of paid hours and the
existence or absence of benefits in kind., taking account of certain personal
data on wage earners such as age , sex and professional qualifications .     The
results for 1974 are in the course of publication and those for 1975 will be
available towards the middle of 1976 .
When consulted on the appropriate follow-up to this work , the Working Party
on Agricultural Wage Statistics decided on 24 October 1975 » by a very large
majority, to repeat the survey in 1976 in accordance with the same procedure
as that adopted in 1974 and 1975 *
 ( 1 ) Council Regulations (EEC ) no 677 /74 of 21 March 1974 (OJ no L 83 of
       28/3/1974, p. 4) and 1103/75 of 28 April 1975 (OJ no L 110 of 30/4/1975 ,
       p. 2).
 ---pagebreak---                     Regulation ( EEC ) No          of the Council
                    of ,
relating to the organization of a survey on the earnings of permanent work­
ers employed in agriculture .
THE COUNCIL OP 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 T » 118 , 119      122
thereof , the Commission needs to know the earnings situation and trends 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 hence it is necessary to conduct a specific Community survey
based on uniform definitions and characteristics as was done in 1974 aM
1 975 » pursuant to Regulations (EEC) No        /j4 and 1103/75 0 )-
Whereas the technical difficulties involved in a survey on earnings in
agriculture make it necessary to restrict the'survey at present tp the
earnings of permanent workers in agriculture .;
Whereas it is possible and more economical to carry out such a BurVey by
random sampling only ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :               ,*
 ( 1 ) 0J No L 83 , 28.3.1974, p . 4 , and 0J No L 110 , 30.4.1975 , P - 2;
 ---pagebreak---                                   Article 1
The Commission shall undertake a survey of the actual earnings of permanent
workers employed in agriculture on the basis of the statistical data relating
to September , October or November 1976 .
                                  Article 2
The survey shall cover all holdings which employ permanent workers -and whiclu
engage in activities as specified and 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 directed
to creating and maintaining gardens and parks , to hunting or to activities
ancillary to agriculture .                                      •       ,
                                  Article 3
The survey shall be carried out by means of random sampling. In respect of '
those holdings appearing in the survey sample , employers shall supply the
information required for the survey in the manner set out hereafter .
                                  Article 4
The survey shall consist in the collection for each permanent worker of all
data relating to gross cash earnings for September , October or November 197^i
the existence or absence of benefit in kind , the nature of work performed ,
the basis on which earnings are calculated and the number of hours paid , as
well as sex , age and professional qualification .
                                  Article 5
Information shall be gathered by the statistical offices 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 .
 ---pagebreak---                                    Article 6
Individual iljems of information supplied for purposes of the survey shell be
used for statistical purposes only.    It shall "be prohibited to use the inform­
ation for taxation purposes , or to communicate it to third parties .
Member States shall take appropriate measures to prevent any infringement of
a) the obligation to supply the information referred to in Article 3 »
b) the obligation , tinder the first paragraph of this article , to maintain
   secrecy as regards the information obtained .
                                   Article 7
To cover the expenditure incurred in conducting the survey , the Member States
shall receive a global sum proportionate to the number of holdings covered .
This sum shall be charges against the European Communities 1 budget appropria­
tions allocated for this prupose .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
all Member States .
Done at                                               For the Council
                                                       The President
 ---pagebreak---                               Incidence financière
                          sur le budget communautaire
               du projet de règlement relatif à l' organisation
   d' une enquête sur les gains des ouvriers permanents dans 1 'agriculture
Comme il est prévu a l' article 7 du projet de règlement f les Etats membres
recevront pour l' exécution de cette enquête une contribution forfaitaire par
exploitation interrogée . Ces frais sont imputés sur les crédits prévus à
cette fin au budget des Communautés européennes pour l' année 1976 (article
264 "Enquêtes et études de caractère statistique").
Compte tenu du nombre d' exploitations qu' il est envisagé d' interroger
(4 50.000), le coût de l 'enquête peut être estimé, pour les neuf Etats mem­
bres , sur la base d' une contribution de 10 unités de compte par exploitation
interrogée , à 500,000 unités de compte .