Council Directive 81/1060/EEC of 14 December 1981 derogating in favour of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from Directive 73/403/EEC on the synchronization of general population censuses

COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 14 December 1981 derogating in favour of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from Directive 73/403/EEC on the synchronization of general population censuses (81/1060/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 213 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Directive 73/403/EEC (1) provides that Member States shall conduct a general population census on a date between 1 March and 31 May 1981;
Whereas serious difficulties, which could not have been foreseen when the Directive was adopted, have arisen ; whereas they have not enabled the census operations to be carried out in the Kingdom of the Netherlands between the said dates;
Whereas the information required by the Commission can, to a large extent, be acquired partly from current demographic statistics and partly on a sample basis,