CELEX: 51987PC0582
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Date: 1987-11-24
Title: Amendment to the Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) on the organization of a series of surveys on the structure of agricultural holdings between 1988 and 1997 (submitted by the Commission pursuant to Article 149(3) of the EEC Treaty)

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 ---pagebreak---    COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                  COM(87 ) 582 final
                                                 Brussels , 24 November 1987
                               Amendment to the
                                Proposal for a
                           COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
       on the organization of a sériés of surveys on the structure of
( submitted by the Commission pursuant to Article 149(3) of the EEC Treaty )
C0M(87 ) 582 final
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                              EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
      Community contribution to the costs incurred by Member States in
     organizing the Community surveys on the structure of agricultural
                         holdings between    1988 and 1997
1 . Outline of the problem
     On 5 June 1987 ,    the Commission forwarded to the Council a proposal
     for a Council Regulation ( EEC ) on the organization of a series of
     surveys on the structure of agricultural holdings during the period
     1988 to 1997 ( COM ( 87 ) 245 final )
     On 26.6.1987 and 6.7.1987 the competent Council Working Party
     studied the proposal . Several delegations pointed out the high costs
     which would be borne by the Member States in organizing these
     surveys . The question was raised of whether the Community could
     contribute to these costs by means of a grant from budget funds ; it
     would otherwise be impossible to carry out this very extensive
     survey programme , particularly the part which was of particular
     importance to the Community .
     As a result of        this suggestion ,     the Commission proposed the
     inclusion in the     text of the proposal for a Regulation of a new
     article providing     for a partial subsidy by the Community of the
     costs incurred by    the Member States in carrying out the surveys .
2 . Importance of the surveys in monitoring the            Common Agricultural
     Policy and administration of the budget
     The structure of agricultural holdings largely determines potential
     agricultural income . Statistical information on changes in the
     structure of agricultural holdings is therefore an essencial factor
     in directing Community policies ,              particularly the common
     agricultural policy and regional policy .
     Decisions taken by the Community should increasingly be quantified
     in respect of their effect on European agriculture and therefore on
     the Community budget . The structure surveys enable the effects and
     results of decisions relating to agricultural and regional policy
     ( milk quotas , for example ) to be monitored over a period .
     The reliable and objective statistical information collected in the
     course of these       surveys is   therefore indispensable    for proper
     forecasting and administration of the Community agricultural budget .
     It enables measures taken under the different Community policies to
     be rationalized and made more effective and realistic .
     The level of detail of the structure surveys and the consistency of
     their methodology over a period mean that comprehensive and reliable
     results can be obtained without recourse to much more expensive ad
     hoc surveys , the results of which are sometimes obtained too late
     and which carry the risk of causing reluctance among the respondents
      ( farmers ) if carried out too often .
    Published in Official Journal nr .         C 179 of 8 July 1987,    p.  3,
    reference number 87 / C 179 / 03 .
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    The EUROFARM project , which is integral to the proposal for a
    Regulation , will also provide a flexible aid to administration ,
    giving the Community Institutions and all the Member States a means
    of evaluating the effects of Community policies for the whole of the
    Community .
3 . Justifications for a Community subsidy :
    A contribution by the Community to the surveys' costs would appear
    to be justified for the following reasons :
    - We are currently witnessing a move away from a market and price
      policy within the common agricultural policy , and a corresponding
      move towards a structural and social policy . This trend is likely
      to become even more pronounced in the future .
    - Greater emphasis on a structural and social policy créâtes a need
      for more detailed structural statistics and ,            even more
      importantly ,    more detailed and regularly available statistical
      information on persons employed in agriculture .        Statistical
      information on those directly affected by any future agricultural
      policy decisions needs to be known in advance .           The Draft
      Regulation mentioned above takes account of these additional
      statistical requirements .     This will mean an increase in the
      workload for the    Member States as a result both of the inclusion
      of new survey characteristics and of the increase in sampling
      ratios which will enable maximum reliability of results to be
      obtained .
    - The organization of Community surveys on the structure of
      agricultural holdings is first and foremost in the interest of the
      common agricultural policy . This is shown , for example , by the
      fact that each country will be recording survey characteristics
      which are purely Community requirements and are not necessary for
      national needs .
    - The increasing importance of the regional aspect of Community
      policy calls for greater attention to the reliability of survey
      results at this level . For the structural surveys , this means an
      increase in the sampling ratios in order to guarantee reliable
      results at regional level . This also creates an increase in the
      workload for the Member States .
    - In the Member States respondents are noticeably less willing to
      answer questions they regard as personal for example age , whether
      employed solely in agriculture or with other gainful employment
      unrelated to the agricultural holding .        This results in an
      additional burden for national statistical offices :    an increase
      in the survey work proper , extra checking of survey results ,
      collection of survey characteristics by interviewer rather than by
      post , which has so far been customary in several Member States .
      The Community must also take account of this development .
    - There has been a noticeable decline in the Member States in the
      number of people employed in the statistical field and in funds
      available for statistics . It is therefore increasingly difficult
      for national statistical offices to meet Community requirements .
    - Also to be considered are the large-scale surveys already
      scheduled to take place in the Member States around 1990 , e.g. the
      population census and the industrial survey , which will also make
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       great demands on available national resources . These comprehensive
       and expensive surveys will in general be accorded priority by
       Member States in the distribution of resources as , unlike the
       Community structural surveys , they are essentially          aimed at
       obtaining statistical information for national policy purposes .
    The above reasons would all appear to justify the granting of
    financial aid by the Community for the structural surveys .
4 . Level and nature of survey costs
    In   comparison  to  total  expenditure on    Community    and national
    agricultural policy , the level of funding to be provided by the
    Member States for the structural surveys may indeed seem very low
    ( in the region of 50 ECU per holding if the surveys are carried out
    by interview ; the census of all 9 million holdings in the Community
    at the end of    the decade  would mean a total cost of around 450
    million ECU ).   However ,  in the light of the difficult economic
    situation in most of the Member States ,            the    survey   costs
    nevertheless pose a strain on the budget .
    The survey costs can be divided into three categories :
    - actual collection of data at the holding ,
    - checking the data collected and preparing them for Processing ,
    - data evaluation and the compilation of the tables of results
       required by the Commission .
    In order to reduce the workload of the national statistical ofices
    and make the survey results available to the users more quickly , the
    Commission has devised the EUROFARM project ( cf . Annex 2 of the
    Draft Regulation ), which will enable data evaluation work to be
    rationalized , allowing simpler , quicker and cheaper production of
    the tables of results than    has been possible hitherto .
    The EUROFARM project is a long-term investment which is available
    not only to the Community Institutions , but also to the statistical
    offices and government departments of the Member States .
    The cost of the actual survey and the checking and transfer onto
    computer of the data cannot , however , be reduced without affecting
    the quality of the results . A reasonable balance must therefore be
    achieved between the quantity and        quality   of the information
    collected and the costs thereby incurred .
5 . Proposai for a possible Community subsidy
    In the circumstances the SOEC , with the agreement of the Directorate
    General for Agriculture , proposes that a Community contribution to
    the survey costs in the sum of 20 ECU for each holding for which
    survey results are forwarded to EUROSTAT should be considered . A
    ceiling should be placed on this subsidy to cover a maximum of 25X
    or 100 000 , whichever is the lower , of the holdings in any one
    Member State . This procedure is appropriate since , in order to
    obtain reliable results , the sampling ratio must be higher in Member
    States with a relatively small number of holdings .
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Under the F.UROF ARM project , much of the work of evaluating the data
and compiling tables of results will fall to the Commission
( EUROS rAT ). Adequate resources for carrying out this project must
therefore also be guaranteed .
The table below gives an overview of the funds necessary for a
Community subsidy and their chronological distribution in the
Community budget .
 ---pagebreak--- "Proposai for a Council Régulation on the organization of a sériés of
    surveys on the structure of agricultural holdings between 1988 and
                      1997"1 ( reference nunber 87/C 179/03).
The Commission proposes to the Council amendments to the proposai for
a Régulation 87 / C 179 / 03 as follows :
1 . The last " récital " should be replaced by the following :
     "whereas ,     in order to facilitate the implementation of the
     provisions of this Regulation , close cooperation between the Member
     States and the Commission should continue , in particular via the
     Standing Committee for Agricultural Statistic^ ,
     procedures set up by Council Decision 87 / 373 / EEC .
                                                                following the
          Set up by Council Decision 72 / 279 / EEC ;  0J nr. L 179, 7.8.1972 ,
     2 P. 1 -
          0J nr. L 197 , 18.7.1987 , p. 33 ."
2 . At the end of the " récitals " the following should be added :
     " whereas , in order to carry out the surveys , considerable funding
     will be required from both the Member States and the Commission over
     a number of years , a large proportion of which will be used to meet
     the requirements of the Community , a Community subsidy to assist the
     programme is appropriate ."
3 . The former Article 14 should be replaced by the following :
                                      Article 14
     "1 .   As a contribution to expenses incurred by the Member States in
            carrying out the basic survey and the surveys provided for in
            Article 3 of this Regulation , 20 ECU per holding for which
            complete survey results are forwarded to EUROSTAT will be
             reimbursed up to a maximum per survey of :
               -   100 000  ECU  for Luxembourg ,
               -   500 000  ECU  for Belgium and Denmark ,
               -   700 000  ECU  for the Netherlands ,
               - 1 100 000  ECU  for Ireland ,
               - 1 300 000  ECU  for the United Kingdom,
               - 2 000 000  ECU  for the Fédéral Republic of Germany , Greece ,
                 Spain , France , Italy and Portugal .
            The estimated appropriations required to cover the cost of ail
             four surveys shall be entered in the European Community budget .
 1
    Published in Official Journal nr . C 179 of 8 July 1987, p. 3 .
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    2.   The   financial   resources   considered necessary for the
         development arid management of the EUROFARM projet shall be
         granted to the Commission of the European Communities up to an
         annual maximum of :
           -   480 000 ECU for 1989 ,
               480 000 ECU for 1990 ,
               240 000 ECU for 1991 ,
                80 000 ECU for 1992-1998 ,
         to be entered in the European Community budget ".
4 . The former Article 14 should be renumbered Article 15
 ---pagebreak---      FINANCIAL              STATEMENT                      concerning : Community contribution to costs
      incurred by Member States in carrying out the community surveys on the structure
     of agricultural holdings between 1988 and 1997 .
 1 . Budget heading :                Ite· :           Title :   Statistical surveys and analyses ,
    Chapter 35 A
                              .        . .    , ςι .            processing and dissemination of
                                                                statistical data .
 2 . Legal basis :       Art . 43 of the EEC treaty .
3 . Classification :                  (HAI IWIMIHftH/ Non-coapul sory expendi ture
                                » ··
4 . Purpose/descriptlon of the leasure : Financial contribution to the realization of the
      farm structure surveys in the Member States and to the processing and
      évaluation of the survey results in order to guarantee that the data necessary
     for the Common Agricultural Policy will continue to be avai labié .
S.     Method of calculation
5.1 Fora of expenditure : Contribution to the national expenditure on the farm structure
        surveys and to the implementation of the EUROFARM project .
5.2 Coaaunity contribution : Between 5 and 25% ( depending on the type of survey and on
        the Member State concerned ).
5.3 Calculation : Member States : - 25% sample of holdings                       surveyed, Limited to
                                                    100 000 holdings per Member State .
                                                 - 20 ECU per holding surveyed for which the complété
                                                    data hâve been transmitted to EUR0STAT .
                   EUR0FARM project : - development of the System ( 1989-91 ): 15 man-years
                                                 - maintenance ( 1992-98 ): 1 man-year par annum
                                                  - 80 000 ECU per man-year
6. Financial iaplication HIB95URjB&BBB9B*JM£RASBigi                                                     *
5.1 Schedule                                                                  ECU )
          Budget    Year                                  Budget Year
                    19 89                 5.58                1994            8.28
                    19 90                  7.18               1995            8.08
                    19 91                  3.44               1996            8.28
                    19 92                  3.28               1997            8.08
                    19 93                  6.08               1998            8.28
       Financing during current year :          nothing
7 . Observations :     For more detailed information please see annex .
 ---pagebreak---                                                                          Annex to the financial statement
                                        CoflMBUk'iity structure surveys ( 1988-1997)
                         Proposi’, for a Co»<nunity contribution to thè survey and processing
                                                               costs
                                                                                                       1000 ECU
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      ;          ij _BUDGET                    B U D G E T       YYEAR_|
                                                                     E A R                                    I   TOTAL_
                                                                                                                  TOTAL       I|
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 !                I    1989   1990   1991   1992 I      1993   1994   I    1995   1996 I          1997   1998 I                !
 I                                                                                                                             I
                                                                                                                               1
 I Collecti ng , assessing and checking                of the data in      the Member States ^                                  1
 II                                                                                                                             1
  !               I      Survey 1989 / 90           !    Survey       !     Survey      |          Survey     | 1989- per       |
      I              !                              I     1993        I      1995       I           1997      I 1998 survey |
  I               !                                 I                 I                 !                                       !
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  j!              II                                I                 I                 I                                       11
                                                    I                 I                 I
      ! DK           !  250    250                  It   250    250   I     250    250 I           250    250 I   2000    500 ¡
   II             II                                 I                I                 II
                                                     I                I                                                          1
    I
      I D
                  I
                     I  700    700    600     500 jI     500   1000   I
                                                                      I
                                                                           1000   1000 i          1000   1000 I   8000   2000 1
    I             I                                  I                I                  II                                      11
    ! GR             I         700    700     600 I     1000   1000   I    1000   1000 I          1000   1000 I   8000   2000 1
    II            II                                                  I                   II                                      i
                                                                      I                                                           1
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    I              I                                                  I                    II                                     !
    I              I                                                  I                                                           !
    I F            I   1000   1000            500 I      500   1000   I    1000   1000 I          1000   1000 I   8000   2000 I
    II             II                                I                I                     II
                                                     I                 I                                                          1
     I IRL          I   500    600                   I   500    600   I     500    600 I           500    600 I   4400   1100 ¡
     II             II                                                II                     I
                                                                                             I
                                                                                                                                  I
                                                                                                                                  I
     I i            I          700    700     600 I     1000   1000    I   1000   1000 j          1000   1000 I   8000   2000 j
     I!             II                               I
                                                     I
                                                                       I
                                                                       I                     II                                     I
                                                                                                                                    I
     I L             I  100                          I   100           I    100               I    100             400    100 i
     I              I                                I                 I                      II                                  11
      I              !                               I                 I
      I NL           I  300    400                   I   300    400    I    300    400 I           300    400 I   2800    700 ¡
     I               I                               I                 I                        I                                   1
     I               I                               I                 I            «           I                                  I
     I P
      I
                     I
                     I
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                                                     I
                                                         500   1000    I
                                                                       I
                                                                           1000   1000 i          1000   1000 I   8000   2000 j
      I              I                               I                 I                       11                                  11
      ! UK           I  600    700                   I   600    700    I    600    700 1           600    700 I   5200   1300 I
     I               I                               I                 I                       1                                    I
      I Sum          I                               I                 I                        1
      jfor ail j       5100   6700   3200   3200 I      6000   8200    I   8000   8200 1          8000   8200 I  64800  16200 j
      I Member |                                     I                 I                        1                                  I
      I states I                                     I                 I                        1                                   i
                                                                                                                                    i
      I                                                                            ( 2)                                             I
      I Processing and analysis of the survey results by                  EUROSTAT                                                  I
      I                                                                                                                            1
                                                                                                                                    !
      I EUR0FARM |      480    480    240      80 I       80      80   I     80      80 1           80     80 I   1760              1
      !              I                               !                 !                        1                                  i1
      I              I                               I                 I                        1                                   !
                                                                                                                                    1
      I TOTAL        I 5580   7180   3440   3280 I      6080   8280    I   8080   8280 1          8080   8280 I  66560              j
       I             I                               !                 I                        1                                   1
      ( 1 ) Hypothesis :     - 25%  sample , limited to a maximum of 100.000 holdings ,
                             - 20 ECU per holding , for which the complété survey data are transmitted
                                   to EUROSTAT .
      ( 2 ) Hypothesis : - development phase ( 1989-1991 ) : 15 man-years ;
                             - maintenance ( 1992-1998 ) : 1 man-year annually ;
                             - 80.000 ECU per man-year .
 ---pagebreak---                                                                       ANNEXE !
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 1.    OBLIGATIONS ADMINISTRATES DECOULANT DE L' APPLICATION DE LA
       LEGISLATION POUR LES ENTREPRISES                    Neant
 2.    AVANTAGES POUR L' ENTREPRISE
       - OUI / NON
                                                           Sans objet
       - LESQUELLES
3.     INCONVENIENTS POUR L' ENTREPRISE
       ( coût supplémentaires )
       - OUI / NON
                                                           Sans objet
       - CONSEQUENCES
A.     EFFETS SUR L' EMPLOI                               Sans objet
5.     Y A- T- IL EU CONCERTATION PREALABLE AVEC LES PARTENAIRES
       SOCIAUX ?
          OUI / NON
                                                          Sans objet
          AVIS DES PARTENAIRES SOCIAUX
6 . Y A - T - IL UNE APPROCHE ALTERNATIVE MOINS CONTRAIGNANTE ?
                                                          Sans objet