CELEX: 51986PC0502
Language: en
Date: 1986-09-23
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE AMENDING DIRECTIVE 76/625/EEC CONCERNING THE STATISTICAL SURVEYS TO BE CARRIED OUT BY THE MEMBER STATES IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE PRODUCTION POTENTIAL OF PLANTATIONS OF CERTAIN SPECIES OF FRUIT TREES

No C 265/10                            Official Journal of the European Communities                             21.10. 86
           Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 76/625/EEC concerning the statistical
           surveys to be carried out by the Member States in order to determine the production potential
                                        of plantations of certain species of fruit trees
                                                     COM(86) 502 final
                             (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 6 October 1986)
                                                        (86/C 265/10)
           THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
           Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in
           particular Article 43 thereof,
           Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
           Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,
           Whereas the Commission, in order to perform the task conferred upon it by the Treaty and by
           Community provisions governing the common organization of the market in fruit and
           vegetables, needs information on the production potential of plantations of species of fruit trees
           other than those which are already covered by surveys under Council Directive 76/625/
            EEC ('), last amended by Directive 86/84/EEC (2),
            HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE,
                                                           Article 1
            Directive 76/625/EEC is hereby amended as follows:
            (1) In Article 1, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
                '1.    Member States shall carry out in 1987, and each fifth year thereafter, in the spring,
                surveys on plantations of fruit trees existing on their territory for the production of dessert
                apples and pears, except for purely non-dessert varieties of apples and pears, peaches,
                apricots, oranges, lemons and small-fruited citrus. The survey on plantations of purely
                non-dessert varieties of apples and pears shall be optional.
                For the purposes of paragraph 2 and of Articles 2, 3, 5 and 6, the group of small-fruited
                citrus (mandarins, Clementines, satsumas and other small-fruited citrus) shall be regarded as
                one species.'
            (2) In Article 2 (1) (a), the final paragraph is replaced by the following:
                'The survey relating to peach trees and apricot trees shall be carried out in Greece, Spain,
                France, Italy and Portugal only. The survey relating to orange trees, lemon trees and
                small-fruited citrus trees shall be carried out in Greece, Spain, France, Italy and Portugal
                only, insofar as any of the abovementioned species of citrus fruit exists in significant
                quantities on the territory of the Member State.'
                                                           Article 2
            This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
            O OJNoL218, 11. 8. 1976, p. 10.
            O OJ No L 77, 22. 3. 1986, p. 32.