Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3548/85 of 16 December 1985 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82 concerning the selection of returning holdings for the purpose of determining incomes of agricultural holdings

COMMISSION  REGULATION (EEC) No 3548/85
of 16 December 1985
amending Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82 concerning the selection of returning holdings for the purpose of determining incomes of agricultural holdings
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal and in particular Article 396 thereof,
Whereas Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82 (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3122/85 (2), fixes the threshold for the economic size of returning holdings applicable as from the 1982 accounting year; whereas this threshold was fixed in European size units (ESU); whereas the ESU was defined in Annex III to Commission Decision 78/463/EEC (3); whereas this definition of the ESU was adapted by Commission Decision 85/377/EEC (4) in order to take into account agro-economic developments; whereas this new definition is applicable as from 1985; whereas the thresholds of economic size to be applied with effect from the 1986 accounting year should therefore be adapted in the light of the new definition of the ESU;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (3) of the Treaty of Accession, the institutions of the Community may adopt before accession the measures referred to in Article 396 of the Act, such measures entering into force subject to and on the date of the entry into force of that Treaty;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Community Committee for the Farm Accountancy Data Network,