CELEX: 31977R0646
Language: en
Date: 1977-03-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 646/77 of 29 March 1977 supplementing Regulation (EEC) No 984/76 providing for a comparative test of data-collection methods for the establishment of a register of olive cultivation

No L 81 / 12                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                 30 . 3 . 77
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 646/77
                                                      of 29 March 1977
                supplementing Regulation ( EEC) No 984/76 providing for a comparative test of
                  data-collection methods for the establishment of a register of olive cultivation
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Article 1 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 154/75.
COMMUNITIES,                                                         The results of this test shall be examined in accor­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                dance with the same procedure as that referred to
                                                                     in Article 1 .'
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     2. Article 1 (2) shall read :
 154/75 of 21 January 1975 on the establishment of a
register of olive cultivation in the Member States                   '2. The texts referred to in paragraphs 1 and 1
producing olive oil ('), and in particular Article 5                 (a) shall be conducted in Italy in an area yet to be
                                                                     determined .'
thereof,
Whereas Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 984/76 of                3 . In Article 2 for 'the test referred to in Article 1 '
29 April 1976 (2) provided for a comparative test of                 read ' the test referred to in Article 1 ( 1 )'.
data-collection methods for the information referred
to in Article 1 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 154/75 ;          4. The following Article is added :
Whereas the setting up of this olive oil register has                'Article 2a
considerable importance both from the point of view                  The test referred to in Article 1 ( la) shall include
of the proper functioning of the market organization                 the operations necessary for conducting a collec­
and in order to improve agricultural statistics ;                    tion of the information referred to in Article 1 (2)
Whereas in the light of present knowledge it is impos­               (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 154/75.
sible precisely to define the technical problems raised
by the collection of the information referred to in the              Furthermore , this rest shall determine the time
said Article 1 (2) (b) ;                                             required for the execution of each of the opera­
                                                                     tions concerned .'
Whereas, in order to facilitate this second part of the
register of olive cultivation, a test should be conducted        5 . Article 3 ( 1 ) shall read :
of the relevant operations ; whereas additions should
therefore be made to Regulation ( EEC) No 984/76 ;                   'The amount for financing the tests referred to in
                                                                     Article   1   shall be deducted    from  the amount
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation                 obtained under the provisions of Article 3 ( 1 ) of
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­                    Regulation (EEC) No 154/75.'
ment Committee for Oils and Fats,
                                                                 6. Article 4 ( 1 ) is amended to read as follows :
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                     'The test operations referred to in Article 2 and 2
                           Article 1                                 (a) may be entrusted to third parties.'
Regulation (EEC) No 984/76 is hereby amended as
follows :                                                                                   Article 2
 1 . The following paragraph is added to Article 1 :             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
     ' la. The Commission shall conduct a test regarding         following its publication in the Official Journal of
     the collection of the information referred to in             the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels , 29 March 1977 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                 Vice-President
(') OJ No L 19 , 24 . 1 . 1975, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 1 13 , 30 . 4. 1976, p. 21