CELEX: 51975PC0085
Language: en
Date: 1975-03-06
Title: DRAFT COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) relating to the organization of a survey on the earnings of permanent workers in agriculture (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                          DRAFT
                                COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
                  relating to the organization of a survey on the
                     earnings of permanent workers in agriculture
                     ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission)
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    COM(75) 85 final
 ---pagebreak---                              Explanatory Memorandum
In order to perform certain tasks assigned to it under the Treaty, the
Commission needs to know the earnings situation and trends in the Community
countries .    It therefore requires comparable statistics on these matters .
To this end, a coordinated set of comparable statistics on earnings has been
progressively developed by Community surveys conducted with the collaboration
of national statistical offices . However , such Community surveys have been
made only on industry, transport and services and have only recently been
applied to agriculture .
In order to meet the most urgent requirements work was undertaken by the
Working Party on Agricultural Wage Statistics , in which government , manage­
ment and labour are represented, and finally led in 1974 "to the implementation
af an initial Community study of the earnings of permanent workers in
agriculture . This study was carried out pursuant to Counxri.1 Regulation
(EEC) No 677/74 of 21 Iferch 1974^", and its purpose was to provide the first
comparable information on the level and distribution of earnings , the number
of paid hours and the existence of absence of advantages in kind, taking
aocount of certain personal data on wage earners such as age , sex and
professional qualifications . The results will be published in the course
of 1975 .
The manner in which this Community survey was to be followed up was still to
be determined. On 5 November 1974 the Working Party on Agricultural Wage
Statistics agreed in principle to propose that in the first instance the
survey should be repeated in 1975 using the same procedure as that adopted
in 1974 .
In accordance with Article 7 of this draft regulation, the Member States
shall receive a global sum to cover their expenses in conducting the survey,
to be proportional to the number of holdings covered, and charged against
the European Communities budget appropriations allocated for this purpose .
On the basis of 10 u.a. per holding covered, the appropriations necessary in
1975 "to complete the survey may be estimated at $00 000 u.a.
 ( 1 ) O.J. No L 83 of 28/3/1974 , P. 4/5 .
 202/75 e
 ---pagebreak---                                         DRA.PT
                             Council Régulation (EEC )
   relating to the organization of a survey on the earnings of permanent
  workers in agriculture .
. THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
  and in particular Article 213 thereof,
  Having regard to the draft regulation submitted by the Commission ,
  Whereas , in order to carry out the tasks assigned to it under the Treaty,
  in particular those set out in Articles 2 , 39 > 117 1     H9 and 122
  thereof, the Commission needs to know the earnings situation and trends in
  the countries of the Community,
  Whereas statistical data on the earnings of agricultural workers as do
  exist within : the Member States do not in their present state permit valid
  comparisons to be made and it is thus necessary to conduct a specific
  Community survey based on uniform definitions and characteristics as was
  done in 1974 pursuant to Counoil Regulation (EEC ) No 677/74»
  Whereas . the technical difficulties involved in a survey of earnings in
  agriculture make it necessary to restrict the survey at present to the
  earnings of permanent agricultural workers ,
  Whereas it is technically possible and more economical to carry out such
  ■& survey by sampling,
  HAS ADOPTED THIS 'REGULATION s
   ( 1 ) O.J. No L 83 of 28/3/1974, p. 5/5.
  202/75 e
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                                      - 2 -
                                    Article 2
  On the basis of the statistical data- relating to September or October 1975 »
  the Commission shall undertake a survey of the actual earnings of permanent
  workers in agriculture .
                                    Article 2
  The survey shall cover all holdings employing permanent workers with duties
  as specified and defined under class 01 of the General Nomenclature of
  Economic Activities in the European Communities (NACE) with the exception
  of holdings whose activities are mainly or exclusively directed to oreating
  and maintaining gardens and parks , to activities ancillary to agriculture ,
  and to hunting.
                                    Article 3
  The survey shall be carried out by means of sampling.    In respect of given
  holdings in the survey sample , employers shall supply the information
  needed, in the manner set out hereafter ,                              • . ■
                                    Article 4
  The survey shall consist in the collection of the following data from each
  holding and for each permanent worker covered by the samples gross cash
  earnings for the month of September or October 1975 » existence or absence
  of advantages in kind, nature of the work performed , basis on which earnings
  are calculated, number of paid hours , sex, age and professional qualifications .
                                    Article 5
  The information shall be gathered by the statistical offices of the
  Member States .
  The Commission , with the collaboration of these offices , shall determine
  the technical details of the survey and the arrangements for transmitting
  the results to the Commission .
  202 /75 e
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                                  Article 6
The personal information supplied for this survey shall be used for statistical
purposes only . It may not "be used for taxation purposes or communicated to
any other persons .
Member States shall take appropriate measures to prevent any infringement
of
a) the obligation to supply the information referred to in Article 3»
b ) the obligation, under the first paragraph of this article , to maintain
    secrecy as regards the information obtained.
                                  Article 7
To cover their expenses in conducting the survey, the Member States shall
receive a global sum proportionate to the number of holdings covered. This
sum shall be charged against the European Community budget appropriations
allocated for this purpose .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States .
Done at                                               For the Council
                                                      The Président
202 /75 e
 ---pagebreak---                               Incidence financière
                        sur < le 'budget communautaire
             du projet de règlement relatif à l' organisation
d' une enquête SUT les gains des ouvriers permanents dans l' agriculture
Comme il est prévu a l' article 7 du projet de règlement , les Etats Tnem-
bres recevront pour l' exécution de cette enquête une contribution for­
faitaire psr exploitation interrogée . Ces frais sont imputés sur les
crédits prévus à cette fin au budget des Communautés européennes .
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Compte tenu du nombre d' exploitations qu' il est envisagé d' interroger
(1            I e coCt de l' enquête peut être estimé , pour les neuf Etats
membres , sur la base d' une contribution de 10 unités de compte par
exploitation interrogée , à^OO.OOb unités de compte .               .
Les dépenses découlant de ce projet de règlement sont à imputer à l' art .
264 du bu.dgst . Au stade actuel l' article 264 ne comporte pas de crédits
à cette fin . Toutefois , une réserve de crédits de 500.000 unités de compte
est encore disponible au chapitre 98 ^ elle est destinée à être virée
vers l' art . 264 j la proposition de virement correspondant est en voie
d ' établissement .                         \