99/661/EC: Commission Decision of 9 September 1999 amending Decisions 79/491/EEC and 80/765/EEC laying down a code and standard rules for the transcription into a machine-readable form of the data of the basic surveys and the data relating to intermediate statistical surveys of areas under vines (notified under document number C(1999) 2703)

COMMISSION DECISION
of 9 September 1999
amending Decisions 79/491/EEC and 80/765/EEC laying down a code and standard rules for the transcription into a machine-readable form of the data of the basic surveys and the data relating to intermediate statistical surveys of areas under vines
(notified under document number C(1999) 2703)
(1999/661/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 357/79 of 5 February 1979 on statistical surveys of areas under vines(1), last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 2329/98(2), and in particular Article 4(2) and (4), Article 5(5) and (6) and Article 6(4) thereof,
(1) Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 357/79 provides that the Member States shall submit to the Commission the results of the basic and intermediate surveys of areas under vines by geographical unit in the form of a schedule of tables;
(2) Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 357/79 provides that those Member States which process the results of surveys of areas under vines electronically shall submit the results to the Commission in a machine-readable form;
(3) Whereas the Commission, in Decision 79/491/EEC(3) relating to the basic surveys and Decision 80/765/EEC(4) relating to the intermediate surveys has fixed and coded the geographical units into which the results of the surveys of areas under vines shall be broken down;
(4) Whereas, owing to certain changes in the geographical units within the Member States, it has proved necessary to replace Annex II of Decision 79/491/EEC and Annex II of Decision 80/765/EEC for the transmission by the Member States of the results of the basic and intermediate surveys of areas under vines;
(5) Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee for Agricultural Statistics,