CELEX: 31975R1103
Language: en
Date: 1975-04-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1103/75 of the Council of 28 April 1975 relating to the organization of a survey on the earnings of permanent workers employed in agriculture

No L 110 / 2                           Official Journal of the European Communities                               30 . 4 . 75
                                REGULATION ( EEC) No 1103 /75 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                       of 28 April 1975
                relating to the organization of a survey on the earnings of permanent workers
                                                   employed in agriculture
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                                                Articlc 3
 COMMUNITIES,
                                                                  The survey shall be carried out by means of random
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            sampling.
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 213
 thereof ;                                                        In respect of those holdings appearing in the survey
                                                                  sample, employers shall supply the information
 Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by               required for the survey in the manner set out
 the Commission ;                                                 hereafter.
 Whereas, in order to carry out the tasks assigned to it
                                                                                            Articlc 4
 by the Treaty, and in particular those set out in Arti­
 cles 2, 39 , 117 , 118 , 119 and 122 thereof, the Commis­
 sion needs to know the earnings situation and trends             The survey shall consist in the collection for each
 in the Member States ;                                           permanent worker, of all data relating to gross cash
                                                                  earnings for September, October or November 1975,
 Whereas such statistical data as do exist within the             the existence or absence of benefit in kind , the nature
 Member States on the earnings of agricultural workers            of work performed , the basis on which earnings are
 do not at present permit valid comparisons to be                 calculated and the number of hours paid , as well as
 made, and hence it is necessary to conduct a specific            sex, age and professional qualifications .
 Community survey based on uniform definitions and
 characteristics as was done in 1974, pursuant to Regu­                                     Articlc 5
 lation ( EEC) No 677/ 74 (');
                                                                  Information shall be gathered by the statistical offices
 Whereas the technical difficulties involved in a survey          of the Member States .
 on earnings in agriculture make it necessary to restrict
 the survey at present to the earnings of permanent               The Commission , with the collaboration of these
 workers in agriculture ;                                         offices , shall determine the technical details of the
                                                                  survey and the arrangements for transmitting the
Whereas it is possible and more economical to cany                results to the Commission .
 out such a survey by random sampling only,
                                                                                            Articlc 6
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                  Individual items of information supplied for purposes
                                                                  of the survey shall be used for statistical purposes
                            Articlc 1                             only . It shall be prohibited to use the information for
                                                                  taxation purposes, or to communicate it to third
The Commission shall undertake a survey of the                    parties .
actual earnings of permanent workers employed in
agriculture on the basis of the statistical data relating         Member States shall take apppropriate measures to
to September, October or November 1975 .                          prevent any infringement of :
                                                                  (a ) the obligation to supply the information referred
                            Articlc 2                                  to in Article 3 ,
 The survey shall cover all holdings which employ                 (b) the obligation , under the first paragraph of this
permanent workers and which engage in activities as                    Article , to maintain secrecy as regards the informa­
                                                                       tion obtained .
specified and defined under class 01 of the General
Nomenclature of Economic Activities in the Euro­
pean Communities ( NACE), with the exception of                                             Articlc 7
holdings whose activities are mainly or exclusively
directed to creating and maintaining gardens and                  To cover the expenditure incurred in conducting the
parks, to hunting or to activities ancillary to agricul­          survey, the Member States shall receive a global sum
ture .                                                            proportionate to the number of holdings covered . This
                                                                  sum shall be charged against the European Communi­
(') OJ No L 83 , 2(S . 3 . 1974, p. 4 .                           ties' budget appropriations allocated for this purpose.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 28 April 1975 .
                                                                    For the Council
                                                                      The President
                                                                     M. A. CLINTON