Council Regulation (EC) No 788/96 of 22 April 1996 on the submission by Member States of statistics on aquaculture production

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 788/96 of 22 April 1996 on the submission by Member States of statistics on aquaculture production
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (1),
Whereas aquaculture is a rapidly developing sector of the fishing industry with a potential for supplementing the limited supplies from traditional fisheries;
Whereas the production from aquaculture has to be monitored and, where necessary, controlled so as to ensure satisfactory marketing conditions;
Whereas the impact of aquaculture on regional development and on the environment results in an increasing demand for statistics to monitor the development of this sector;
Whereas the implementation of the Community's structural policy for fisheries also requires statistics on production in the aquacultural sector;
Whereas the objectives of the proposed action can be achieved only on the basis of a Community legal act which will permit the Commission to coordinate the necessary harmonization of the statistical information at Community level while the collection of aquaculture production statistics and the necessary infrastructure to increase and monitor the reliability of these statistics is first and foremost the responsibility of the Member States;
Whereas the specific method of drawing up the relevant Community statistics on aquaculture production, developed by using existing national statistics compiled to meet current national and international obligations, requires particularly close cooperation between the Commission and the Member States, in particular within the Standing Committee on Agricultural Statistics set up in Decision 72/279/EEC (2),