CELEX: 51984PC0708(01)
Language: en
Date: 1985-01-03
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION ON THE RESTRUCTURING OF THE SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURAL SURVEYS IN GREECE

No C 22/8                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                 24.1.85
                                                            II
                                                    (Preparatory Acts)
                                              COMMISSION
              Proposal for a Council Decision on the restructuring of the system of agricultural surveys
                                                        in Greece
                                                   COM(84) 708 final
                           (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 10 January 1985)
                                                      (85/C 22/16)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                     with the current rules governing              the   Farm
COMMUNITIES,                                                    Accountancy Data Network;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                    Whereas, in view of the geographical structure of the
European Economic Community, and in particular                  country and the small divisions of the agricultural
Article 43 thereof,                                             production apparatus, the implementation of a
                                                                modern system for collecting data calls for very
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,              substantial resources;
Having regard to the opinion of the European                    Whereas, because of economic and budgetary
Parliament,                                                     constraints, the Greek Government does not have
                                                                sufficient means to make the considerable effort
Whereas it is necessary, for effective and balanced             involved in establishing a suitable infrastructure and a
implementation of the common agricultural policy in             statistical system comparable to those which already
Greece, to have statistical and accounting information          exist in the other Member States;
of satisfactory scope and reliability on agricultural
holdings in Greece and on the production, processing            Whereas the implementation of an effective system
and marketing of agricultural products;                         for recording agricultural statistics in Greece will be
                                                                in the interest of the Community and will contribute
Whereas the Greek Government is currently unable                to the attainment of the objectives defined in Article
to provide the amount and quality of statistical data           39 (1) (a) of the Treaty;
required for the introduction and implementation of
the common agricultural policy, thus making a                   Whereas a Community contribution to the financing
restructuring of the information collecting and                 of the measures to be taken is envisaged without,
processing system highly desirable in order to create a         however,       making      expenditure     relating    to
more solid basis for the statistical information to be          administrative costs or personnel within the meaning
supplied; whereas the system could at the same time             of Article 1 (4) of Council Regulation (EEC) N o
be brought into line with those in the other Member             729/70 ( J ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
States, thus improving comparability within the                 3509/80 (4), chargeable to the Community budget;
Community;
                                                                Whereas for this purpose the terms on which the
Whereas in pursuance of Council Regulation No                   Community will help to finance a programme
79/65/EEC (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)              planned and implemented by the Member State
No 2143/81 (2), Greece is required to participate in            concerned should be defined; whereas, while the
the Farm Accountancy Data Network; whereas this                 Greek Government should retain responsibility for
participation is currently facing serious infrastructure        such planning in the light of existing administrative
problems; whereas it is therefore desirable that the            structures, certain conditions should be laid down to
best advantage should be drawn from improvements                guarantee optimum utilization of the Community's
in infrastructure whilst at the same time complying             financial contribution;
O OJ No 109, 23. 6. 1965, p. 1859/65.                           (») OJ No L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 13.
(2) OJ No L 210, 30. 7. 1981, p. 1.                             (4) OJ No L 367, 31. 12. 1980, p. 87.
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Whereas the Community must be able to ensure that               apply for a period of five years (1986 to 1990) to the
the measures taken by the Greek Government will                 following work:
help to attain the objectives of the joint action and
will fulfil the conditions under which the Community              1. Surveys on the structure of agricultural holdings,
financing is granted; whereas the Commission, where
necessary, will take action required to review the                2. Surveys on wine-growing holdings,
programme;
                                                                  3. Surveys on areas under fruit trees,
Whereas a procedure should be laid down whereby                   4. Surveys on livestock,
the Member States and the Commission will
cooperate closely in the Standing Committee for                   5. Surveys on milk and dairy products,
Agricultural Statistics,
                                                                  6. Surveys on the production and marketing of eggs
                                                                     and poultry,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
                                                                  7. Surveys on prices and price indices,
                          Article 1                               8. Surveys on wages of agricultural workers,
In order to organize in Greece a system for compiling
agricultural statistics and accounting data which will            9. The Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN),
fully satisfy Community requirements in this field, the
                                                                10. Various operations involved in the processing of
Greek Government shall ensure:
                                                                     data on agricultural statistics.
(a) the gradual introduction          of a coherent             If necessary, this outline programme may be
     programme of statistical surveys, conducted on             supplemented by new projects dealing with sectors
     the basis of samples at agricultural holding level,        not yet covered statistically which are of interest to
     by interviewers chosen and specially trained for           both the Community and Greece.
     that purpose;
 (b) the strengthening of the central technical and             2.     The timetable for the introduction of the
     administrative infrastructure      responsible    for      programme on the basis of the new system shall be as
     organizing, programming and implementing the               follows:
     compiling and processing of data;
                                                                First year:      Macedonia,
                                                                Second year:     Macedonia, Thrace, Thessaly and
 (c) the strengthening or creation of a regional                                 Epirus;
     technical and administrative infrastructure which          Third year:      Macedonia, Thrace, Thessaly, Epirus,
     ensures that the required surveys are carried out                           Central Greece and the Ionian
      and that the data are forwarded to the National                            Islands;
      Statistical Service of Greece and to the Ministry         Fourth year:     Macedonia, Thrace, Thessaly, Epirus,
     of Agriculture.                                                             Central Greece, the Ionian Islands
                                                                                 and the Peloponnese;
                          Article 2                             Fifth year:      the whole of Greece.
The Greek Government shall ensure that, once the                 3.    The Greek Government shall be entitled to
 restructuring is completed, the organization of the            submit amendments to the programme referred to in
 system referred to in Article 1 guarantees the holding          paragraphs 1 and 2. The Commission shall decide
 of the surveys required or likely to be required at            whether such amendments shall be admitted in
 Community level and that these surveys fulfil the               accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 6.
 requirements of Community law as regards scope and
 purpose and the reliability and time limits prescribed,
 without any further financial aid being granted by the                                   Article 4
 Community, other than the contribution provided for
                                                                 1.    From 1986 to 1990, the Greek Government shall
 in this Decision, except in cases where Community
                                                                 submit to the Commission in June each year (t) an
 contributions are also laid down for the other
                                                                 annual programme of measures to implement the
 Member States.
                                                                 programme defined in Article 3. The first annual
                                                                 programme, which shall be presented not later than
                                                                 three months after this Decision comes into force,
                          Article 3
                                                                 shall include details of the programme of measures to
 1.    The organization of the new system of surveys             be introduced in the year after it is submitted. This
 referred to in Article 1 shall begin in 1986 and shall          annual programme shall contain information on:
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(a) all the surveys to be carried out in the following           3.    The annual distribution of the amount referred
    year (t + 1), specifying in particular the field of          to in paragraph 1 shall depend on the progress made
     observation, the sampling plan, the questionnaires          in the implementation of the programme.
     to be used and the anticipated statistical errors;
                                                                                         Article 6
(b) progress achieved in strengthening the technical
     and administrative apparatus both centrally and              1.   Where the procedure laid down in this Article is
     regionally;                                                 to be followed, the chairman shall refer to the
                                                                 Standing Committee on Agricultural Statistics, either
(c) experience gained from the implementation of the             on his own initiative or at the request of the repre-
    previous annual programme (t — 1), including                 sentative of a Member State.
     progress made in the institution of the new survey
     system at regional level in each production sector,         However, in matters covered by the current rules
    the statistical errors recorded and measures taken           governing the operation of the FADN, the
    to increase the reliability of the results. At the           Committee set up under Article 17 of Regulation N o
    same time, a report on the use of the Community              79/65/EEC shall be called upon to deliver its opinion
    contribution      shall   be    submitted     to    the      in accordance with Article 19 of that Regulation.
    Commission.
                                                                 2.    The Commission representative shall submit a
                                                                 draft of the measures to be adopted. The Standing
2.    At the request of the Commission, the Greek
                                                                 Committee on Agricultural Statistics shall deliver its
Government shall provide, in accordance with
                                                                 opinion on the draft within a time limit which the
paragraph 1, further information on the annual
                                                                 chairman may lay down according to the urgency of
programme submitted.
                                                                 the matters submitted for discussion. The opinion
                                                                 shall be delivered by a majority of 45 votes, the votes
3.    The Commission shall decide whether to                     of the Member States being weighted as provided for
approve the annual programme in accordance with                  in Article 148 (2) of the Treaty. The chairman shall
the procedure laid down in Article 6.                            not vote.
                                                                 The Commission shall adopt measures which shall
                         Article 5
                                                                 apply immediately. However, if these measures are
1.    The Community shall contribute to the                      not in accordance with the opinion of the Standing
programme up to the amount of the appropriations in              Committee on Agricultural Statistics, they shall
the budgets of the European Communities earmarked                forthwith be communicated by the Commission. In
for this purpose and in accordance with the                      that event the Commission may defer application of
provisions of this Decision. The expenditure to be               the measures which it has adopted for not more than
borne by the Community is estimated at 23 million                one month from the date of such communication.
ECU for the entire programme.
                                                                 The Council, acting by a qualified majority, may take
                                                                 a different decision within one month.
2.    The contribution shall be made available to the
Greek Government in five yearly instalments after                                        Article 7
submission and approval of the annual programme
referred to in Article 4(1).                                     This Decision is addressed to the Hellenic Republic.
              Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending for the third time Regulation (EEC)
                         No 1430/79 on the repayment or remission of import or export duties
                                                     COM(84) 737 final
                            (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 10 January 1985)
                                                       (85/C 22/17)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
COMMUNITIES,                                                     Having regard to the opinion of the European
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                     Parliament,
European Economic Community, and in particular                   Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
Articles 43 and 235 thereof,                                     Social Committee,