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Date: 1977-07-26
Title: Proposal for a Council regulation relating to the organisation of a survey on the structure of agricultural holdings in 1979 (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak---  COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                            , COM(77)372 final.
                                                              Brussels , 26 July 1977
                                                                        . 1
              Proposal for a Council regulation relating to the
                organisation of a survey on the structure of
                        agricultural holdings in 1979
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                     ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
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CQH(77 ) 372 final .
 ---pagebreak---                            EXPL AFITOP Y TÍFIÍOi? ,'<?7DW!
Tho Commission is subnitting a proposal for a Regulation on tho organization of
a survey on the structure of agricirltur&l i.o 1 dings.
This survey is a sequel to the "basic survey presoribed "by Regulation n° 70/66/EIvG
(1 ) f as amended "by Regulation n° 315/67/eeC ( 2 ), to the general cenrms of agri­
culture recommended "by the FAO and prescribed "by Directive n° 69/40C/EEC ( 3 )»
to the structure survey for 19713 prescribed by Directive n° 75/lOo/EBO ( 4 ) and to
the structure survey for 1977 prescribed "by Regulation (EEC ) n° 3228/76 ( 5 )*
The present proposal provides for the continuation of the collection of data on
the structure of agricultural holdings throughout tho Community, in order to
satisfy tho requirements of the common agricultural policy. The proposed survey
will permit the data already obtained in the course of the four previouo sur­
veys , to be updated , comparable data to be collected throughout the Member
states and basic data for research on the structure of agricultural holdings to
be provided.
In order to safeguard the comparability of the figures , tho definitions used
for the 1977 structures survey are in principle to be retained for the present
survey, while however allowing the possibility of certain adaptations to the
definitions for the specific needs of tho 1979 survey.
The proposal for a Regulation contained 'in this document is based cn the ack­
nowledged' Interest of providing high quality information periodically on troncla
in agricultural structures , which is , moreover , one of the main conditions for
the success of the measrui-es agreed at Community level .
The development of tho measure; 0 at regional level , particularly those Envisaged
for mountain and hill farming and certain le so-favoured areas , maker it all the
raoro necessary to collect data at regional or area level .
 fl ) OJ n° 112 of 24 Jure 1966, p. 206$/C6
 ( 2 ) OJ n° 33 of 24 February 1967 , P- 5U/CI
 ( 3 ) OJ n° L2S0 of 17 November 1969 , P^l
 ( 4) OJ n° L 42 of 15 February 1975 , P - 21 .
  ( 5 ) OJ n° L366 of 31 December 1976 , p.l.
 ---pagebreak--- In design and execution, this survey is similar to the 1969 general agri­
cultural census ; at the same time , however , it permits comparison with the
results of the structures survey for 1975 an<i 1977 » which were the first
                                                               «
surveys to provide comparable information for the nine Member states# It
is "based on the decennial surveys recommended "by FAO already carried out
in the Member states and provides a Community schedule of tables for the
purposes of analysis of the data at. Community level . This survey basically
oovers the following characteristics : type of tenure , land use , livestock,
machinery and equipment , and farm labour forc<S»
Provision is made for applying on the oocasion of this survey the community
classification of agricultural holdings currently being developed by the
Commission' s services and the Member states*
 ---pagebreak---                        Proposal for a Counoil Regulation
 on the organization of a survey on the structure of agricultural holdings
 for 1979-
                                                                       i   >
 THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the- European Economio Community, and
 in partioular Article 43 thereof ,
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, ( l ),
 Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament ( 2 ),
 Whereas the Member states are preparing to oarry out a survey as part of the next
 ten-yearly world agricultural survey recommended "by the FAO and to be .conduoted
'sometime around 1980 ;
 Whereas the results of this survey may he used for Community purposes if the re­
 ference period , the soope and the definitions are harmonised as part of a Community
 programme |
 Whereas the structural trends of agricultural holdings are an important factor in
 determining the oourse to he followed by the common agricultural policy; whereas
 the series of surveys on the structure of holdings , the latest of which was pro­
  vided in Council Regulation (EEC ) No 3228/76 ( 3), should be continued;
 Whereas in order correctly to assess the technical and economic operation of the
 holdings the agricultural area utilized for farming should , in the case of combined
  orops , be divided among the latter in proportion to the amount of land which these
  aotually take up; whereas the experiments required for this purpose were carried
  out in the Member states conoerned during the 1977 survey on the structure of agri­
  cultural holdings ( 3 );
  ( 1 ) 0 J N»
  ( 2) OJF
  ( 3 ) 0 J N» L366 , 31.12.1976 , p.l
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas in order to facilitate the implementation of the envisaged provisions           \
there should "be close cooperation between the Member States and the Commission,        •
 in particular within the Standing Committee for Agricultural Statistics set up
by Decision 72/279/eEC ( l )?                                             «              i
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION (
                                       Article 1
Member states shall , between 1        May 1979 and 15 June 1980 , in accordance with
the FAO recommandation for a world agricultural survey , carry out a survey (hereinafter
referred to as to "the survey") on the structure of the agricultural holdings in
their territories covering the crop year corresponding to a crop harvested in 1979.
                                        Article 2
 1 * For the purposes of this Regulation :
      ( a) "agricultural holding" shall mean a single unit , both teohnically and
            economically, which has a single management and the output of which is
            agricultural produots;                                                         j
                                                                                           i
                                                                                           1
      (b ) "agricultural area utilized for farming" shall mean the total area taken
            up by arable land , permanent pasture and meadow, land used for permanent
            orops and kitchen gardens *
                                           «
 2. The survey shall cover t
      ( a ) agricultural holdings where the agricultural area utilized for farming is
            one hectare or more ;
 ( 1 ) 0 J N° L i79 , 7.8.1972 , p.l
 ---pagebreak---     (b) agricultural holdings where the agricultural area utilized for farming
        is less than one heotare , if they market a oertain proportion of their
        products or if their standard gross production exceeds certain physical
        units.
                                                                  «
                                Article 3
1 * In the oase of combined crops , the agricultural area utilized for farming
    shall be allocated between the 'various crops surveyed in such a way that
    the area actually devoted to each one in known.
2. The agricultural area utilized for secondary successive crops shall be re­
    corded separately from the agricultural area utilized for farming.
                                Article 4
Member states shall include in their national questionnaires all necessary
questions            to obtain the information relating to the characteristics
listed in the Annex.
                                Article 5
The definitions of the characteristics referred to in Article 4     of the
regions and districts referred to in Artiole 8 shall be determined in
 accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 12 .       •     ^
                                Article 6
The survey shall be carried out as a general survey of a random cample survey.
Member states may use these two forms of inquiry for different parts of the
list of characteristics. In particular , the characteristics of Section M shall
be recorded only in respeot of holdings where the holder or at least one of the
members of his family engaged in agricultural work for the holding has another
gainful activity and this only within a random sample of 10$ of the holdings.
The results obtained by random sampling shall be extrapolated.
 ---pagebreak---                                           - 4 -
                                       Article 7
    Member states shall set out the results of the survey in the form of a schedule
    of tables drawn up in accordance with a Community outline . This outline shall be
    drawn up in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 12*
                                       Article 8'
1 . Member states Bhall draw up the tables of the Community schedule of tables
    at national , regional and district levels©
    When the Community outline of tables is drawn up the Commission may decide that
    certain tables are not applicable in certain Member States at district level,
    2*   With the exception of the Netherlands , the results shall be broken down by
         less-favoured agricultural areas , within the meaning of Article 3 of Directive
         75/268/EEC ( l ) or by groups of such areas and broken down by other agricultural
         areas or by groups of such areas* The Commission shall lay down, in agreement
         with the Member states oonoered, the groupings of less-favoured agricultural
         areas on the one hand and other agricultural areas on the other*
                                       Article 9
                                           *
    Member states shall i
    (a) transcribe the results referred to in Artiole 8 on to magnetio tape using a
          standard programme for all Member states* The method of transcription and the
          standard programme shall be drawn up in accordance with the procedure laid
          down in Article 12 ;                               N
    (b) submit the magnetic tapeB referred to in ( a) to the Statistical Offioe of
          the European Communities* They shall be submitted within 18 months of con*-
          pletion of the field work*
    (1 ) 0 JF L 128 , 19*5*1975 , P*1
 ---pagebreak---                               Article 10
The information referred to in Article 8 shallbe communicated to the Statis­
tical Office of the European Communities in such a form that the holdings con­
cerned cannot "be identified#
                              Article 11
In oooperation with the Member States , the Commission shall publish the Com­
munity sohedule of tables.
                              Article 12
1* Where the procedure laid down in this Article is invoked ,    the matter shall
   be referred to the Standing Committee for Agricultural Statistics set up by-
   Decision 72/279/EEC (hereinafter referred to as "the Committee'1 ) by its
   ohairman, either on his own initiative or at the request of the representa­
   tive of a Member State *
2. The Commission representative shall submit to the Committee a draft of the
   measures to be taken • The Committee shall give its opinion on that draft
   within a time limit set by the chairman having regard to the urgency of the
   matter . Opinions shall be delivered by a majority of 41 votes , the votes of
   the Member states being weighted as provided in Article 148 ( 2 ) of the Treatyi
   The chairman shall not vote .
3. The Commission shall adopt measures which shall take immediate effect . How­
   ever , if these measures are not in accordance with the Committee 's opinion ,   .
   the Commission shall submit them forthwith to . the Council ? in this case , the
   Commission may defer application of the measures it has adopted for not more
   than one month from the date of their submission to the Council .
   The Council , acting by a qualified majority, may take a different decision
   within one month.
 ---pagebreak---                                 - 6 -
                            Article 13
 1 * Member States shall submit to the Commission as necessary all information
     which the latter may require of them in order to achieving the tasks
     referred to in this Regulation .
 2 * The information collected "by the Member States under the survey referred
     to in this Regulation shall "be available in the Member States at district
     level and shall remain so , as far as is technically possible , until the
     next general survey carried out under the PAO or at Community level .
 3 . Further tables may be added to the schedule referred to in Article 7 in
     accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 12 .
 4 * Is the Commission undertakes further studies , Member States shall as far
     as possible supply the information required in close collaboration with
     the other Member States and the Commission , particular attention being
     paid to the need to guarantee statistical confidentiality .
                            Article 14
 Member States shall receive a flat-rate contribution to the costs in connection
 with Section M of the list of characteristics of 1-g- units of account in respect
of each of the holdings for which the information referred to in that Section
 is supplied to the Commission.                          s
 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
 all Member States .
 Done at Brussels ,                                  For the Council
                                                      The President
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                                                                 Α Ν Ν Ε Χ
                              LIST 0? CHARACTERISTICS
A * Geographical nitration of "the holcHnr;
    01 District
    02 Handicapped area                                                   - yeo/no
        »*                      .                                                 •
D. Leffal TDornonnlitv arid mnnn /remcnt of the holdm?
    ( on tho day of the survey)       ■            •
    01 Is the legal and economic re nponsibil ity of the holding
           assumed "by a natural person ?■         ' .                      yen/no
    02 If yes ,
           is this person (the holder) also the manager                     yes/no
    03 Managers' agricultural training                • • .
     /
      I – primary        '    »              •
                                                                   .        yes/no
    I - secondary               '                                           yes/no
           - higher                                                         yes/no
    04 Are accounts kept for the holding                                    yes/no
C. Type of tenure ( in relation to the holder ) .
     ( on the day of the survey)
    Agricxiltural area utilized :                                           ho/ are
    01 for owner farming                       •
    02 for tenant farming
    * .
                                                                       •••••/
    03 for share farming or other modes                              "
                                                            «
    Arallc lrnd ( as used for 1977 harvest )                                hn/are
    Cereals for the production of grain ( including seed) :
    01 Common wheat and spelt         •          '        x                  /
    02 ])urum v/heat
    03 Rye                                                        ■ .        /
    04 Barley
    05 Oats                                                    •
    06 Grain maize
    07 Hice                                ,                           •••••/•••••
    08 Other cereals "
 ---pagebreak---                                             2
    09 Dried vegetables ( including seed and mixtures of cereals
         and dried vegetables )
    10 Potatoes ( including early potatoes and sets )
    11 Sugar "beet ( excluding seeds )
    12 Forage roots and tubers ( excluding' seeds )
    13 Industrial plants ( including seeds for herbaceous olea­
         ginous plants ; excluding seeds for textile plants , hops ,
         tobacco and othelr industrial plants ) of which : ( l )
         13a tobacco
         13b hop s
         13c oilseeds and textile plants
                                        _ ,   •     «
                                       t
         Fresh vegetables , melons , strawberries :
 • 14 - outdoor :
            (a) open field
           (b) market gardening
     15 - under glass
         Flowers and ornamental plants ( excluding seedlings ):
     16 - outdoor
     17 – under glass                                             ' ■
     18 Forage plants
         18a temporary grass
         10b other
     19 Horticultural seeds and other arable land seeds or
         plants ( excluding cereals , dried vegetables , potatoes
         and oleaginous plants )
     20 Other arable land crops
     21 Fallow land
                                                • '
       \                             '                s •
E. Kitchen gardens
F« Permanent pnrvl.urc and meadow
     01 Pasture and meadow , excluding rough grazings
     02 Hough graaings
( l ) Headings included primarily to facilitate farm classification
 ---pagebreak---                                   - 3 -
G* Permanent crons                '          .•'                            ha/arc
     01 Fruit and berry plantations
     02 Citruo plantations
     03 Olivo plantations
     04 Vineyard3, of which producing ( l ) s                                   /. .
        04a quality wine '                       ■
        04b ordinary wine                                                ••••»/•*
        04o table grapes                                                 •••••/..
                                            • .    .    - *                      /
     05 Nurseries                                                       .•••••/»■-
     06 Other permanent crops                             *'
     07 Permanent crops under glass                                       ••••«/••
H» Other land                                                             . ha/are
     01 Unutilized agricultural area ( agricultural land which is
        no longer farmed , for economic , social or other reasons
        and which is not used in the crop rotation system )
     02 Woodland                              . ".
     03 Other land ( land covered by buildings, farmyards , tracks,
        ponds, quarries , infertile land, rock, etc.)                    ••••»./     •
X. Successive cronpin.?,. mushrooms , irrigation , /rreenhouses              ha/are
     01 Successivo secondary orops _
        ( exoluding market garden crops and crops under glass)            •••••/•••
     02 Mushrooms                                     .              *     •••••/.»•
     03 Area capable of being irrigated                        •
                                                                 ,         •••••/•»•
        Ground area covered by greenhouses in use
     04 withoxit heating installation •
     05 with heating installation                            s                  /•••
J» Livestock (ap of . « . ) ( dat£ 'to be determined)                         Head
     01 hcruidae
        Bovine animals 1
     02 Under one . year old :
        02a of which females not intended for slaughter as calves (l)
        ovor one but under two years old
 (l ) Headings included primarily to facilitate farm c.l nm:i f     rv»
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                                                                     hoîxd
03 Hole animals                                                   . ... j ...
      «                       .           •
04 Female animals :                                                .......
   ' 04a of which not slaughter animals (l )
     two years old and over
 05 Kale animals                                    ,
 06 Kcifers
     06a of which not slaughter animals (l )
 07 Dairy cows
 08 Other cows                         •
 09 Sheep ( all ages)           .     »           .  . *
      09a of whioh ewes ( l )
  10 Goats ( all agec)
                                                                      head
      rigs :
  11 Piglets of live weight under 20 kg
  12 Breeding sows weighing 50 kg and over
  13 Other pigs
      Poultry :          '
                                            ■ . .
   14 Broilers
   15 Laying hens
   16 Other poultry (ducks, turkeys, geeso, guinea-fowl)
(1) llcadin- included priraarily to facilitato fnrm clasr-ification
 ---pagebreak---       K* Tractors , cultivators , machinery and equipment
                                                                           On tno day of survey       f--.chir.cry us~4 in the 12
                                                                                                      months prccodirvj the day
                                                                                                      of the svrvcv
                                                                    Cilc.-vjir^ exclusively -to the   U=cd "by ocvcr?.l holdings (Tjo-
                                                                                 fcoldin/r            lonjiirv; to mother holding, tc
                                                                                                      n. cooperative or ov.-r.ed jointl ;.-
                                                                                                      with other holdings )
                                                                                                      Or 'bclorvrinc to a o'.-rvice
                                                                                                      eunplv a.-er.cy
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01 Pour-wheel tractors-, track-laying tractors , tool-carriers □□□□□
02 Cultivators , hoGins machines , rotary hoes and motor sowers
03 Combine harvesters
04 For^e-harvesters
Cp Fotato-harve ct grs- (totally mechanised)
06 Sugar beet–harvesters ( totally mechnized)
07 Killing machinery ( fixed or movable )
07a of which multiple milking stands
        4
 ---pagebreak---                                                            - 6 -
                L. Farm labour force fin the 12 months nrecedinrj tho day of the nurvcvV
                                       Sex      Age rroups                        Farm vork for folding X 2 )
                                              rj-                vtf-
                                                                                  Part time with working hourr. of:| 1
                                              CSJ   rO  5    ir\ VO     tS e>
                                                                                                     50- r V5-, fn:a-
        Farm labour force            m*   f. H                I    I      rj £ < 25fll 25- _ ^l
                                                                                  >0-
                                                                                                          r I dCO',' ti-ir.e
                                                                                                          A
                                                                             ,o
                                              •     ir\ <r\  ir\  irs   | f> r;
                                                    CM  m         m     VO         of annual time worked by a
–,–,
                                                                                  •full-time farm worker
               _*
                                    (tick) J                ( tick )                                    ( tick )
01 Holdcr
                                                                                i    '
02 Spouse carrying out
       farm vjork for holding
                                    Farm work for holding                                      Age groups
                                    as $ of annual time
                                    worked by a full-time .TTTiy- 25-                           35-    45-      • 55-   65 a/:a
                                    farm worker                      24                34        44      54        64   above
03a Other members of
         holders family:              > 0 - ■<• 25
         male ( 3 )
03b Other members of
         holders family:                 25 - < 50
        'female ( 3)
                                                                                             I                I
04a Hon family labour
         regularly employed : 1          50 - <. 75
         male ( 3)                j
04b Hon family labour
         regularly employed :            75 - < 100
         demale ( 3)
                                                  100
        Hon-family work
                                                                                         •• s
         force not regularly             Number of working
         employed                                 days
 05      Halo
                                                                                                      Φ
 06      Female
07 Does the holder or his r.pouGe or nny member of his family ongagod in
         the fann work of the holding have any other gainful activity                                             yen / no
 ( l ) rro:n oc'nool-1 caving age
 !<?)3) Apart   fro;nViehouse-work
         'iVnIo to       propn.vcd for ofioh of group separatoly (03a to 04b)
 ---pagebreak--- Other rsinful activity "by the holder or members of his family en.TS .~ed in the farn work of the holding                              :
                               se:
                                  se | |        âges groups       !   Gainful factivity other than xne farm w<>rk
                                                                                         of the holding                  ; !
                                    f.l ra
                                         \2 /j
                                                                    i Time worked as % of arjiuax
                                                                    |     full-time work                I sejf-      nerfc
                                                                                                                               type
                                               25  35  45   55                                                      colf-
                                         24 i                  65 I nil .or      less tnan     50 ®
                                                                                                          em-
                                                                                                                      em-       (3 )
                                               34  44  54   64  +                                         plqyen
                                                                                    50         more                 plqyo
                                                                                             1
                                                                               I                                  i
                                      i
    01   Eolaer
    02   Spouse
    03   Other members of
         holders family (4 )
                   «
                                                                                                      1
                    _ . .    1
(1)' To "be completed only for sample holdings ( 10$ sample) and when the answer to question L/07 is "yes".
       Include all individual entered in headings L/oi } L/02 , l/03
 ( 2 ) From 'school-leaving age
( 3) Cods a ■ on came holding                                              .                                    "
             0 ■ outsida                                                                                             .       .       •
             1 » agricultural and forestry                (Sxam^le : A caravan site on the holdinj « aj>J
             2 - fishery                                                     .
             3 ■ tourism and ancillary activities
             4 • craft industries                                     '
             5 ■ other
(4 ; Spcciiy individually#
 ---pagebreak---                                   NOTE
       Proposal for a Council Regulation on the organization of a survey
       on the structure of agricultural holdings for 1979
       Financial effect of the proposal on tho budget of the European
       Communities
       Expenditure arising out of Article 14
The main costs of the survey fall to the Member elates in view of their
commitment to carry out a major 10 yearly survey as recommended "by F.A.O.
The regulation envisages a flat rate contribution at the rate of iy2 U. A.
per supplementary questionnaire completed. The holdings concerned are thoso
within a 10$ sample where cither tho holder or his spouse , or a member - of
their family working on the holding has a lucrative activity out. aide tho
agricul tural work of tho holding. The (theoretical ) maximum community fin?.n-
cial commitment is thus 10% of all holdings surveyed ( i.e. 10$ of c . 5 million
holdings ) times 2 U.A. or c. 750|Q^0 U.A. Sinco not all thp cample holdings
will havo such an external income source the actual , community payment vfill "bo
less. No comprehensive figures are available on which to "base an exact esti­
mate. However the community financial contribution is unlikely to exceed /, 00,000
U.A.