CELEX: 31968L0161
Language: en
Date: 1968-03-27 00:00:00
Title: Council Directive 68/161/EEC of 27 March 1968 concerning surveys of pig production to be made by Member States

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28.3.68                             Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 76/ 13
                                               COUNCIL DIRECTIVE
                                                  of 27 March 1968
                      concerning surveys of pig production to be made by Member States
                                                     (68/161/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                      Whereas, since the results of these surveys may serve
                                                               as a basis for interventions on the market, it is
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                   necessary that such results be forwarded to the
European Economic Community, and in particular                 Commission as soon as possible, for radical changes
Article 43 thereof;                                            in pig numbers or in market conditions may occur
                                                               over a relatively short period of time;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
                                                               Whereas a change in those statistical methods which
Having regard to the Opinion of the European                   have proved effective might have a disruptive effect
Parliament;                                                    on statistical recording; whereas provision should
                                                               therefore be made for a transitional period, during
                                                               which States may adapt their existing methods;
Whereas, in order to carry out the tasks imposed on            whereas any Member State which carries out surveys
it by the Treaty and by Council Regulation
                                                               at more frequent intervals, records trends in pig
No 121 /67/EEC1 of 13 July 1967 on the common                  population by means of other types of statistical
organisation of the market in pigmeat, the Com­                survey, or compiles returns for pigs by age group,
mission needs to be precisely informed as to trends in         should therefore be given the option of continuing
pig population and in pigmeat production in the                to apply its own system for a limited period ;
Member States, and to have at its disposal short­
term forecasts of market supplies of pigmeat ;
                                                               Whereas it is desirable that the Commission submit
                                                               a report whereby it may be examined to what extent
Whereas an accurate and uniform appraisal of the               the surveys undertaken have made it possible for the
market cannot be made from the surveys of pig                  objective of this Directive to be achieved, and that
population carried out at present in the Member                it propose, where appropriate, an alignment of the
States ; whereas the monthly statistics for slaughter­         methods in use ;
ings are inadequate for this purpose, while short­
term forecasts of pigmeat production are under­
taken regularly only in some Member States ;                   Whereas, in order to ensure that efforts are co-ordi­
                                                               nated as efficiently as possible, all problems arising
                                                               in connection with the implementation of this
Whereas surveys of the pig population should there­            Directive, and in particular those conccrning the
fore be undertaken in all Member States at com­
                                                               conduct and analysis of the surveys, must be the
parable points in time, covering similar categories            subject of consultation and permanent co-operation
and conducted with comparable accuracy ; whereas               between the Commission and the Member States ;
monthly statistics for slaughterings should be
supplemented and forecasts of pigmeat production
should be made regularly and in respect of identical
periods ;                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE :
Whereas these surveys should in principle be restric­
ted to holdings which normally engage in the breed­
                                                                                        Article 1
ing or fattening of pigs ; whereas it is necessary,
however, in order that a complete picture may be               1 . Member States :
obtained, that a special study be made to cover pigs
not coming within the field of survey;                         ( a) shall every four months carry out surveys, one
                                                                    of which shall be at the beginning of December,
                                                                    of the pig population in their countries coming
1 OJ No 117, 19.6.1967, p. 2283/67.                                 within the field of survey defined in Article 3 ( 1 );
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 ( b) shall, during 1971 at the latest, undertake a                  D. breeding pigs of not less than 50 kilogrammes
         study of the number of pigs not coming within                    live weight :
        the field of survey defined in Article 3 ( 1 ).
                                                                          (a) boars;
 2 . A complete census shall be taken not later than                      (b) sows and gilts mated :
 December 1971 .
                                                                              b ( 1 ) of which gilts mated for the first time ;
 3 . Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1
 ( a ), any Member State which at the time when this                      (c) other sows :
 Directive enters into force carries out surveys at more                      c ( 1 ) of which gilts not yet mated for the first
frequent intervals than those laid down in para­                              time.
 graph 1 (a) or records trends in pig population by
 means of other types of statistical inquiry may con­                2. However, any Member State which at the date
 tinue to follow that procedure until 30 November                   when this Directive enters into force carries out
 1972 provided that it carries out, at the beginning                 surveys wherein pigs are classified by age may con­
of the month of December in each year, the survey
                                                                    tinue such practice until the survey preceding that to
provided for in paragraph 1 ( a).                                    be carried out in the month of December 1972 .
4. The first survey shall be carried out at the begin­              In such case the data obtained shall be converted
 ning of December 1968 .                                            into the categories of weight set out in paragraph 1 .
                            Article 2                               3 . Member States shall communicate the results of
For the purposes of this Directive 'pigs' means swine               these surveys and conversions to the Commission as
of domestic species falling within subheading                       soon as possible.
No 01.03 A of the Common Customs Tariff.
                                                                    4. Member States which in pursuance of Article 3
                            Article 3                               (2) do not restrict their surveys to holdings of an
                                                                    agricultural or 'industrial' type as defined in Article 3
1 . The surveys provided for in Article 1 ( 1 ) ( a) and            ( 1 ) shall supply data relating to such holdings in the
(2) shall cover all pigs on holdings of an agricultural             form of an estimate.
or 'industrial' type. For the purposes of this Directive,
holdings of an agricultural or 'industrial' type are
the following :                                                                                Article 5
— holdings with a utilised agricultural area of not                 1 . Where there is no provision under this Directive
        less than one hectare;                                      or under provisions of national law for a complete
— holdings with not less than one breeding pig;                     census, surveys shall be carried out by random
                                                                    sampling.
— holdings with not less than three pigs other than
       breeding pigs.
                                                                    2. Sampling errors in the results of the surveys of
                                                                    pig population shall in no Member State exceed 3%.
2 . However, such surveys may also cover pigs out­
side the field of survey defined in paragraph 1 .
                                                                   3 . Member States shall take appropriate measures
                                                                    to estimate errors of observation .
                            Article 4
1 . The purpose of the surveys provided for in                     4. The results of the December survey shall be
Article 1 ( 1 ) ( a) and (2) shall be to ascertain the pig         supplied in respect of each division listed in the
population, broken down by category as follows :                   Annex to Council Regulation No 791651EEC1 of
                                                                    15 June 1965 setting up a network for the collection
A. piglets of less than 20 kilogrammes live weight;                of accounting data on the incomes and business
B. pigs of not less than 20 kilogrammes but less                   operation of agricultural holdings in the European
       than 50 kilogrammes live weight;                            Economic Community.
C. pigs for fattening, including cull boars and
       cull sows, having a live weight of:                                                    Article 6
       ( a) not less than 50 kilogrammes but less than             1 . Member States shall with effect from the month
             80 kilogrammes ;                                      of December 1968 , compile monthly statistics for pig
       ( b ) not less than 80 kilogrammes but less than            slaughterings.
             110 kilogrammes ;
      (c) not less than 110 kilogrammes ;                          1 OJ No 109 , 23.6.1965 , p. 1859/65.
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Where necessary they shall every four months supply                                     Article 8
additional data, broken down by month, relating in             The Commission shall, in consultation and perma­
particular to any slaughterings not covered by the             nent co-operation with the Member States examine :
monthly statistics referred to in the previous sub­
paragraph, thereby making it possible to compare               ( a) the results submitted in accordance with thii
such statistics and to supplement them in such a way                Directive;
as to cover all slaughterings.
                                                               (b) the technical problems raised by, in particular,
                                                                    the preparation and conduct of the surveys and
2. The statistics referred to in paragraph 1 shall                  forecasts provided for in this Directive;
cover the number of slaughterings and the average
weight of the pigs slaughtered.                                ( c) the interpretation to be placed on the results of
                                                                    the surveys and forecasts provided for in this
Member States shall indicate in which cuts pigs were                Directive.
weighed.
                                                                                        Article 9
3 . Member States shall forward to the Commission
the results of the statistics referred to in this Article      The Commission shall before 1 January 1972 pre­
not later than six weeks after the end of the month            sent to the Council a report on the experience
to which they relate.                                          gained in conducting the surveys and forecasts pro­
                                                               vided for in this Directive and shall if necessary
                        Article 7                              submit proposals for the purpose of aligning the
                                                               methods used in Member States for the conduct of
1 . Member States shall provide forecasts of the               surveys and the preparation of forecasts, with par­
number of pig slaughterings, broken down by two                ticular reference to the procedures followed by Mem­
monthly periods, for the periods 1 December to                 ber States under the provisions of Article 1 (3 ). The
30 September, 1 April to 31 January and 1 August               Council shall take a decision on such proposal in
to 31 May.                                                     accordance with the voting procedure laid down in
                                                               Article 43 (2) of the Treaty.
2. The results of the forecasts referred to in para­
graph 1 shall be forwarded to the Commission by                                         Article 10
not later than the fifteenth day of the third month
of the period covered by each forecast.                        This Directive is addressed to the Memb^ • States.
              Done at Brussels, 27 March 1968 .
                                                                                     . For the Council
                                                                                        The President
                                                                                          E. FAURE