CELEX: 51980PC0803(03)
Language: en
Date: 1980-12-04
Title: PROPOSAL FROM THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES TO THE COUNCIL CONCERNING A DIRECTIVE ON THE LIMIT VALUES FOR DISCHARGES OF ALDRIN, DIELDRIN AND ENDRIN INTO THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT

No C 341/26                            Official Journal of the European Communities                             31. 12. 80
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             Proposal from me Commission of the European Communities to the Council concerning a
             Directive on the limit values for discharges of aldrin, dieldrin and endrin into the aquatic
             environment
                             P r e a m b l e , recitals and Articles 1 to 4 u n c h a n g e d
                                                           Article 5
                     ORIGINAL TEXT (»)                                                  AMENDED TEXT
1.    Member States shall bring into force the measures            1.    Member States shall bring into force the measures
necessary to comply with this Directive within two years           necessary to comply with this Directive by 1 January
of its notification. They shall forthwith inform the               1982. They shall forthwith inform the Commission
Commission thereof.                                                thereof.
2.    Member States shall communicate to the                       2.    unchanged
Commission the text of the provisions of national law
which they adopt in the field governed by this Directive.
(*) For complete text, see OJ No C 146 of 12 June 1979,
    page 5.
                                                   Article 6 unchanged
                                                   Annexes unchanged
              Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation N o 79/65/EEC setting up a network
              for the collection of accountancy data on the income and business operation of agricultural
                                        holding in the European Economic Community
                          (Presented by the Commission to the Council on 12 December 1980)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           network for the collection of accountancy data on the
                                                                   incomes and business operation of agricultural holdings
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              in the European Economic Community;
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43
thereof,
                                                                   Whereas, at a time when price movements are both rapid
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                 and divergent, accountancy data cannot be properly
                                                                   compared unless the relevant accounting periods are
Having regard to the opinion               of the   European       synchronized;
Parliament,
                                                                   Whereas, if improved comparability is to be achieved
Whereas Council Regulation No 79/65/EEC (*), as last               between the accounting results furnished by the data
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2910/73 (2), set up a               network and the results of national farm accounts, the
                                                                    calendar year must be chosen as common accounting
 (*) OJ No 109, 23. 6. 1965, p. 1859/65.                            period; whereas such a choice, which is consistent with
 (2) OJ No L 299, 23.10.1973, p. 1.                                 the practice followed by a large majority of returning
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holdings, will also have the advantages of rendering the          of the common agricultural policy; whereas, in this
accounting results available to the Commission in time            respect, the Annex to Regulation No 79/65/EEC should
 for the preparation of its annual proposals relating to the      be amended, using the 'regions de programme' as
 common agricultural policy;                                      divisions for France,
Whereas a certain amount of time is required to make
this alteration to the accounting period;
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas the field of survey of the data network must
comprise all the holdings of a certain economic size,
                                                                                             Article 1
irrespective of any outside work the operator may engage
in;
                                                                  Regulation No 79/65/EEC is hereby amended as
                                                                  follows:
Whereas, in order to obtain accounting results that are
sufficiently homogenous at Community level, the                    1. Article 2 (a) shall be replaced by the following:
returning holdings should be distributed among the
various divisions and the various categories of holdings               '(a) "Accounting year" means a period of 12
on the basis of a stratification of the field of survey based                months beginning on 1 January and ending on
on the Community typology of agricultural holdings as                        31 December. However, until 1 January 1985,
defined by Commission Decision 78/463/EEC (1);.                              the accounting year may begin at any time
                                                                             between 1 January and 1 July, to end between
                                                                             31 December and 30 June of the following
Whereas all the returning holdings studied in the                            year.'
Member States for the purposes of recording farm
incomes in order to provide guidelines for agricultural           2. Article 2 (b) shall be replaced by the following:
policies must belong to the Community data network
and the number of returning holdings must be increased                 '(b) "Category of holding" means a group of
accordingly; whereas it must be possible to vary the said                    agricultural holdings which belong to the same
number within certain limits according to developments                       categories as regards type of farming and
in the field of agriculture and the information required                     economic size as defined in the Community
for the common agricultural policy;                                          typology for agricultural holdings established
                                                                             by Commission Decision 78/463/EEC
Whereas holdings must be selected in accordance with
the rules laid down in the context of a selection plan            3. Article 4 shall be replaced by the following:
aimed at obtaining a representative accounting sample of
the field of survey;                                                  Article 4
                                                                      '1.     The field of survey referred to in Article 1(2)
Whereas, in view of experience gained, it is desirable that
                                                                       (a) shall cover the holdings having an economic size
 the main decisions concerning the selection of returning
                                                                      equal to or greater than a threshold expressed in
holdings, particularly the establisment of the selection
                                                                      European size units (ESU) as defined by Decision
 plan, should be adopted at national level; whereas,
                                                                      78/463/EEC.
consequently, it is at that level that a body should be
 made responsible for this task; whereas those Member
                                                                      2.      To qualify as a returning holding, an
 States which have several divisions should, however, be
                                                                      agricultural holding shall:
 free to maintain their regional committees;
                                                                      (a) have an economic size equal to or greater than a
Whereas the national liaison agency must play a key role
                                                                            threshold to be determined in accordance with
 in the management of the data network; whereas, to this
                                                                            paragraph 1;
 end, it should be entrusted with new tasks;
                                                                      (b) be farmed by a person willing and able to keep
Whereas experience shows that it is no longer desirable                     farm accounts and willing to allow the
to make provision for supplementary terms to be                             accountancy data from his holding to be made
included in the contract to be made between the Member                      available to the Commission;
State and the accountancy offices;
                                                                      (c) be representative, together with the other
                                                                           holdings and at the level of each division, of the
 Whereas the divisions of the data network must, as far as                 field of survey.
 possible, be identical with those used for the presentation
 of other regional data that are essential for the guidance           3.     The number of returning holdings shall be
                                                                      fifty thousand; however, the number may vary by
(!) OJ No L 148, 5. 6. 1978, p. 1.                                    up to ten per cent above or below that figure.
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    4.      Detailed rules for the implementation of this               (b) to compile and submit to the national
    Article, in particular the threshold for the economic                   committee for its approval and thereafter to
    size of holdings and the number of returning                            forward to the Commission:
    holdings per division, shall be adopted in
    accordance with the procedure laid down in Article                      — the plan for the selection of returning
     19.'                                                                        holdings; this plan shall be drawn up on the
                                                                                 basis of the most recent statistical data,
 4. Article 5 shall be replaced by the following:                                presented     in    accordance with      the
                                                                                 Community typology of agricultural
                                                                                 holdings,
                                                                            — the list of returning holdings,
    Article 5
                                                                            — the list of the accountancy offices willing
    '1.     Each Member State shall, within two months                           and able to complete farm returns in
    of the date of entry into force of this Regulation, set                      accordance with the terms of the contracts
    up a national committee for the data network,                                provided for in Articles 9 and 14;
    hereinafter called "national committee".                            (c) to muster the farm returns sent to it by the
                                                                            accountancy offices and to verify on the basis of
     2.     The national committee shall be responsible                     a common inspection programme that they
    for the selection of returning holdings. To this end,                   have been duly completed;
    its duties shall include approval of:
                                                                        (d) to forward, after verification, the duly
    (a) the plan for the selection of returning holdings                    completed farm returns to the Commission;
          specifying in particular the distribution of
          returning holdings per category of holding and                (e) to pass on to the national committee, regional
          the detailed rules for selecting the said returning               committees and accountancy offices the
          holdings,                                                         requests for information mentioned in Article
                                                                             16 and to forward the relevent answers to the
    (b) the list of the returning holdings,                                 Commission.
    (c) the list of the accountancy offices referred to in
                                                                        2.    Detailed rules for the implementation of this
          Article 6.
                                                                        Article shall be adopted in accordance with the
    3.      The Member States which have several                        procedure laid down in Article 19.'
    divisions may, for each of the divisions under their
    jurisdiction, set up a regional committee of the Data           6. The second subparagraph of Article 9 (2) is hereby
    Network hereinafter called "regional committee".                   repealed.
    The regional committee shall be responsible for
    cooperating with the liaison agency referred to in              7. The first indent of Article 16 (1) is hereby amended
                                                                        as follows:
    Article 6
    — in drawing up the list of returning holdings,                     '1.    The national committee, regional committees
                                                                        and accountancy offices shall, within their
    — in selecting the returning holdings.                              respective areas of responsibility, furnish the
                                                                        Commission with all information which the latter
    4.      Where necessary, detailed rules for the                     may request of them regarding the discharge of
    implementation of this Article shall be adopted                     their duties under this Regulation.'
    pursuant to the procedure laid down in Article 19.'
                                                                    8. Article 20 shall be replaced by the following:
 5. Article 6 shall be replaced by the following:
                                                                        '1.    The     Community       Committee    shall  be
                                                                        consulted:
    Article 6                                                           (a) for the purpose of verifying that the plans for
                                                                            the      selection    of     returning   holdings
     '1.     Each Member State shall appoint a liaison                      are in conformity with the provisions of
    agency whose duties shall be:                                           Article 4;
     (a) to inform the national committee, regional                     (b) for the purpose of analysing and evaluating the
          committees and accountancy offices as to the                       weighted annual results furnished by the data
          detailed implementing rules concerning them                        network, while having regard in particular to
          and to ensure that such rules are properly                         data deriving from other sources such as farm
          applied;                                                           statistics and national farm accounts.
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     2.     The Community Committee may examine any                          1.  Region He de France
     other matter raised by its Chairman, either on his                      2.  Champagne-Ardenne
     own initiative or ar the request of a representative                    3.  Picardie
     of a Member State.                                                      4.  Haute-Normandie
                                                                             5.  Centre
     It shall examine once a year, in October, the trend                     6.  Basse-Norm andie
     of farm incomes in the Community, referring in                          7.  Bourgogne
     particular to the up-dated results of the data                          8.  Nord-Pas de Calais
     network.                                                                9.  Lorraine
                                                                            10.  Alsace
     It shall be kept regularly informed of the working of                  11.  Franche Comte
     the data network.'                                                     12.  Pays de la Loire
                                                                            13.  Bretagne
                                                                            14.  Poitou-Charentes
 9. Article 22 (2) shall be replaced by the following:                      15.  Aquitaine
                                                                            16.  Midi-Pyrenees
     '2.    Costs in respect of the setting up and                          17.  Limousin
    operation of the national committee, regional                           18.  Rhone-Alpes
    committees and liaison agencies shall not be                            19.  Auvergne
     included in the Community budget.'                                     20.  Languedoc
                                                                            21.  Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
                                                                            22.  Corse
10. In Article 23, '1 January 1980' is hereby replaced                                    Article 2
     by '1 January 1990'.
                                                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1981. It
                                                                 shall apply with effect from the 1982 accounting year.
11. The ten divisions in the Annex concerning France
      are hereby replaced by the following twenty-two            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
      divisions:                                                 directly applicable in all Member States.
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