CELEX: 51992PC0579
Language: en
Date: 1992-12-18
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DIRECTIVE on the statistical surveys to be carried out on bovine animal production

23 . 1 . 93                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                  No C 18 / 19
                Proposal for a Council Directive on the statistical surveys to be carried out on bovine animal
                                                                production
                                                              (93 /C 18 / 10)
                                                           COM(92) 579 final
                                      (Submitted by the Commission on 18 December 1992)
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                level and arrange for the harmonized methodologies
                                                                         necessary to implement Community policies ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   Whereas, in order to facilitate implementation of this
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                        Directive, close cooperation is necessary between the
 thereof,                                                                Member States and the Commission and this should be
                                                                         effected via the Standing Committee on Agricultural
                                                                         Statistics established by Decision 72/279/EEC (J),
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE :
 Having regard to the opinion of the European                                                    SECTION I
 Parliament,
                                                                                 SURVEYS OF THE BOVINE POPULATION
                                                                                            A. At national level
Whereas Council Directive 73/ 132/EEC of 15 May
 1973 on the statistical surveys to be carried out on                                   Frequency — Field of survey
 bovine livestock, on forecasts of the availability of bovine
 animals for slaughter and on statistics on slaughtering                                           Article 1
 bovine animals (') and Council Directive 78 / 53 /EEC of
 19 December 1977 laying down additional provisions                      1 . The Member States shall carry out statistical
 relating to the statistical surveys to be carried out by               surveys of the bovine population on their territory each
 Member States on bovine livestock (2) have been                        year on one day in the month of May or June and on
 amended       several   times,     and    whereas,       further       one day in the month of December.
 amendments being necessary, the Directives should, for
reasons of clarity, be recast in a single text;                         2. Those Member States whose national bovine popu­
                                                                        lation is less than 1,2 million head may apply to dispense
                                                                        altogether with one of the two surveys laid down in
Whereas provision should be made for those Member                       paragraph 1 or to carry it out in selected regions only.
States whose national bovine population makes up only a
small percentage of the overall population of the                       3. In considering the application referred to in
European Community to reduce the number of annual                       paragraph 2, the Commission shall decide in accordance
surveys where appropriate ;                                             with the procedure laid down in Article 16, the obli­
                                                                        gations arising from Article 6 being taken into account.
Whereas, in order to ensure that the common agri­                                                 Article 2
cultural policy is properly administered, particularly
where the beef and veal market is concerned, the                        1.     For the purposes of this Directive, the term 'bovine
Commission requires regular data on trends in livestock                 animals' means domestic animals of the species bos
and in beef and veal production ;                                       taurus, bubalus bubalus and beefalo.
                                                                        2. The surveys referred to in Article 1 shall cover all
Whereas the collection and processing of the data as well               bovine animals held on agricultural holdings as defined
as the organization of the survey at national level should              by the Commission after consulting the Standing
continue to be within the competence of the statistical                 Committee on Agricultural Statistics, hereinafter called
services of the Member States, and the Commission                       the 'Committee', set up by Council Decision of 31 July
should be responsible for the collection, coordination                  1972, in accordance with the procedure l,aid down in
and harmonization of statistical information at European                Article 16. The surveys shall cover sufficient holdings to
                                                                        account for at least 95 % of the bovine population as
                                                                        determined by the last survey on the structure of agri­
(') OJ No L 153, 9. 6. 1973, p. 25. Directive last amended by           cultural holdings.
    Regulation (EEC) No 1057/91 (OJ No L 107, 27. 4. 1991 ,
    p. 11 ).
(*) OJ No L 16, 20. 1 . 1978 , p. 20. Directive last amended by
    Directive 86/ 80 /EEC (OJ No L 77, 22. 3 . 1986, p. 27).            (J) OJ No L 179, 7. 8 . 1972, p. 1 .
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3. As far as possible, Member States shall supplement             shall not exceed 1 % of the total number of bovine
the results of the above surveys with an estimate of the          animals and 1,5 % of the total number of cows, these
bovine population not covered by the surveys referred to          percentages representing a confidence interval of 68 % .
in paragraph 2.
                                                                  3. As regards the sampling frame and the
                   Breakdown by category                          supplementary estimates referred to in Article 2 (3),
                                                                  Member States shall take whatever measures they deem
                           Article 3
                                                                  appropriate to maintain the quality of the survey results.
1 . The surveys provided for in Article 1 shall be
conducted in such a way as to provide a breakdown of                                 Transmission deadline
the bovine population into at least the following
categories :                                                                                Article 5
A. Bovine animals less than one year old                          1 . Member States shall notify the Commission of the
    (a) calves for slaughter                                      provisional results of the surveys and supplementary
                                                                  estimates not later than :
    (b) other
        (aa) male
                                                                  — 30 September of the same year for the May/June
                                                                       survey,
        (bb) female.
B. Bovine animals aged between one and two years                  — 15 February of the following year for the December
                                                                       survey.
    (a) male
    (b) female                                                    2. Member States shall notify the Commission of the
        (aa) animals for slaughter                                final results of the surveys and the supplementary
                                                                  estimates, in compliance with Article 4 (2), not later
        (bb) other.                                               than :
C. Bovine animals of two years and over
                                                                  — 15 October of the same year for the May/June
    (a) male                                                           survey,
    (b) female                                                    — 1 April of the following year for the December
        (aa) heifers                                                   survey.
              (i) heifers for slaughter
                                                                                    B. At regional level
              (ii) other
        (bb) cows                                                                    Territorial subdivisions
              (i) dairy cows                                                                Article 6
              (ii) other.
                                                                   1 . The final results of the December survey shall be
D. Buffaloes                                                      compiled for each of the territorial subdivisions as
                                                                  defined by the Commission following consultation of the
    (a) female breeding buffaloes                                 Committee, in accordance with the procedure laid down
                                                                  in Article 16 .
    (b) other buffaloes .
2. The categories referred to in paragraph 1 may be               2. In accordance with the procedure laid down in
modified by the Commission in accordance with the                 Article 16, the Commission may approve an application
procedure laid down in Article 16.                                from a Member State to use the regional breakdown
                                                                  referred to in paragraph 1 for the final results of the
3.    The Commission shall define the categories after             May/June survey.
consulting the Committee in accordance with the
procedure laid down in Article 16.                                 3. The territorial subdivisions defined in paragraph 1
                                                                  may be amended by the Commission in accordance with
                          Accuracy                                the procedure laid down in Article 16.
                           Article 4
                                                                                     Transmission deadline
 1.   The surveys referred to in Article 1 shall be
conducted in the form of exhaustive surveys or by                                            Article 7
representative sampling.
                                                                  The Member States shall notify the Commission of the
2. For each of the Member States, sampling errors for              data referred to in Article 6 not later than 15 May of the
the results of the surveys provided for in Article 2 (2)          year following the reference month.
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               C. Breakdown by herd size                                            Transmission deadline
                        Size classes                                                        Article 11
                          Article 8                               Member States shall inform the Commission of the
                                                                 results of the statistics referred to in Article 10 ( 1 ) not
 1.      In odd-numbered years , the Member States shall, at      later than eight weeks following the reference month.
 national level, break down the final results of the
 December surveys by herd size classes as defined by the                                 SECTION III
Commission after consulting the Committee in
 accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 16 .                          PRODUCTION FORECASTS
                                                                                            Article 12
2 . In accordance with the procedure laid down in
Article 16, the Commission may approve an application             1 . The Member States shall use the survey results and
from a Member State to use the breakdown by herd size            other available information to produce forecasts, for
classes referred to in paragraph 1 for the final results of      each calendar half-year, of their gross indigenous
                                                                 production of bovine animals.
even-numbered years and of the May/June survey.
                                                                 Gross indigenous production shall include all bovine
3. The herd size classes referred to in paragraph 1              animals slaughtered plus the balances of intra­
may be amended by the Commission in accordance with              Community and external trade in live bovine animals .
the procedure laid down in Article 16 .
                                                                 2. The forecasts referred to in paragraph 1 shall be
                                                                 drawn up for the following categories :
                   Transmission deadline
                                                                 A:   Calves,
                          Article 9                              B:   Heifers,
The Member States shall notify the Commission of the             C:   Cows,
data referred to in Article 8 not later than 1 5 May of the      D:   Bulls,
year following the reference month.                              E : Bullocks .
                        SECTION II                               3. The Commission shall define the categories
                                                                 referred to in paragraph 2 after consulting the
                SLAUGHTERING STATISTICS                          Committee, in accordance with the procedure laid down
                                                                 in Article 16 .
                         Article 10
                                                                 4. The Commission may amend this Article in
1 . The Member States shall draw up monthly statistics           accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 16 .
relating to the number and carcase weight of bovine
animals slaughtered in the slaughterhouses on their                                 Transmission deadline
territory, the meat of which is deemed fit for human
consumption.                                                                                Article 13
                                                                 The Member States shall forward these forecasts to the
If necessary, they shall also supply estimates of slaugh­        Commission at the following times and for the following
terings not included in the returns, so that the statistics      six-month periods :
include all the bovine animals slaughtered on their
territory.                                                       (a) before 15 February for forecasts up to the first six
                                                                      months of the following year (inclusive) ;
2 . The statistics referred to in paragraph 1 shall be           (b) before 30 September for forecasts up to the second
drawn up for the following categories :                               six months of the following year (inclusive).
A : Calves ,                                                                              SECTION 4
B : Heifers,
                                                                                   GENERAL PROVISIONS
C : Cows,
D : Bulls,                                                                                  Article 14
E : Bullocks .                                                   The Commission shall examine :
                                                                 (a) the results supplied ;
3 . The Commission shall define the carcase weight
referred to in paragraph 1 and the categories referred to        (b) the technical problems which arise, in particular in
in paragraph 2 after consulting the Committee, in                     preparing and carrying out the surveys and
accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 16.                estimates ;
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(c) the reliability of the survey results and estimates.          4.     The Commission shall take maximum account of
                                                                  the Committee's opinion and shall inform the Committee
                          Article 15                              of how it has taken account of its opinion.
The Member States shall inform the Commission of any                                        Article 17
methodological or other change which could
considerably influence the statistics. This shall be done         Council Directives 73/ 132/EEC of 15 May 1973 on the
not later than three months after the change in question          statistical surveys to be carried out on bovine livestock,
enters into force. The Commission shall notify the other          on forecasts of the availability of bovine animals for
Member States of any such communication in the appro­             slaughter and on statistics of slaughtered bovine animals
priate working parties .                                          and Council Directives 78 /53 /EEC of 19 December
                                                                  1977 laying down additional provisions relating to the
                          Article 16                              statistical surveys to be carried out by Member States on
                                                                  bovine livestock shall cease to apply as from 1 January
1 . Where the procedure laid down in this Article is              1994 .
invoked, the matter shall be referred to the Standing
Committee on Agricultural Statistics (hereinafter referred                                  Article 18
to as the 'Committee') by the Chairman, either on his
own initiative or at the request of a representative of a         The Member States shall introduce the laws, regulations
Member State .                                                    and administrative provisions necessary to comply with
                                                                  this Directive not later than 1 January 1994.
2.    The Commission representative shall submit to the           When Member States adopt these measures, they shall
Committee a draft of measures to be taken . The                   contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accom­
Committee shall give its opinion on the draft within a            panied by such reference on the occasion of their official
time limit to be set by the Chairman in accordance with           publication. The methods of making such a reference
the urgency of the matter, if necessary by a vote.                shall be laid down by the Member States.
3.    The opinion shall be recorded in the minutes . In                                     Article 19
addition, each Member State shall be entitled to ask for
its own position to be recorded in the minutes.                   This Directive is addressed to the Member States .