Article 1 Subject matter
The purpose of this Regulation is to establish a common legal framework for the systematic production of Community statistics on livestock and meat production in Member States, in particular: (a) statistics on bovine, pig, sheep and goat livestock; (b) slaughtering statistics on bovine animals, pigs, sheep, goats and poultry; and (c) production forecasts of beef, veal, pigmeat, sheepmeat and goatmeat.
Article 2 Definitions
For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply: 1. ‘agricultural holding’ means an agricultural holding as defined in Article 2(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1166/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on farm structure surveys and the survey on agricultural production methods ( 10 ) ; 2. ‘sample survey’ means a sample survey as defined in Article 2(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1166/2008; 3. the term ‘bovine animal’ means domestic animals of the species Bos taurus and Bubalus bubalis , including hybrids like Beefalo; 4. the term ‘pig’ means domestic animals of the species Sus scrofa domestica ; 5. the term ‘sheep’ means domestic animals of the species Ovis aries ; 6. the term ‘goat’ means domestic animals of the subspecies Capra aegagrus hircus ; 7. the term ‘poultry’ means domestic birds of the species Gallus gallus (chickens), Meleagris spp. (turkeys), Anas spp. and Cairina moschata (ducks) and Anser anser dom. (geese). Domestic birds of the species Coturnix spp. (quails), Phasianus spp . (pheasants), Numida meleagris dom. (guinea-fowl), Columbinae spp. (pigeons), and Struthio camelus (ostriches) are included. It excludes, however, birds raised in confinement for hunting purposes and not for meat production; 8. the term ‘slaughterhouse’ means an officially registered and approved establishment used for slaughtering and dressing animals whose meat is intended for human consumption. Other definitions for the purposes of the present Regulation are set out in Annex I.
Article 3 Coverage
1. Each Member State shall produce statistics on the number of bovine animals, pigs, sheep and goats held on agricultural holdings within its territory. 2. Member States conducting sample surveys shall cover sufficient agricultural holdings to account for at least 95 % of the entire population, as determined by the last survey on the structure of agricultural holdings.
Article 4 Frequency and reference period
1. The bovine livestock statistics shall be produced twice a year, with reference to a given day in May/June and a given day in November/December. Those Member States whose bovine-animal populations are below 1 500 000 head may produce these statistics only once a year, with reference to a given day in November/December. 2. The pig livestock statistics shall be produced twice a year, with reference to a given day in May/June and a given day in November/December. Those Member States whose pig populations are below 3 000 000 head may produce these statistics only once a year, with reference to a given day in November/December. 3. The sheep livestock statistics shall be produced once a year, with reference to a given day in November/December, by those Member States whose sheep populations are 500 000 head or above. 4. The goat livestock statistics shall be produced once a year, with reference to a given day in November/December, by those Member States whose goat populations are 500 000 head or above.
Article 5 Categories
The livestock statistics shall be produced for the categories set out in Annex II.
Article 6 Precision
1. Member States conducting sample surveys shall take all necessary steps to ensure that the extrapolated national survey results meet the precision requirements set out in Annex III. 2. A Member State which decides to use an administrative source shall inform the Commission in advance and shall provide details concerning the method to be used and the quality of the data from that administrative source. 3. A Member State which decides to use sources other than surveys shall ensure that information obtained from such sources is of at least equal quality to information obtained from statistical surveys.
Article 7 Transmission deadlines
1. Member States shall transmit to the Commission the provisional livestock statistics before: (a) 15 September of the same year for the May/June statistics; (b) 15 February of the following year for the November/December statistics. 2. Member States shall transmit to the Commission the definitive livestock statistics before: (a) 15 October of the same year for the May/June statistics; (b) 15 May of the following year for the November/December statistics.
Article 8 Regional statistics
The November/December statistics shall be broken down by NUTS 1 and NUTS 2 territorial units as defined in Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003. By way of exception they may be provided only by NUTS 1 territorial units for Germany and the United Kingdom. They are optional for territorial units having fewer than 75 000 bovine animals, 150 000 pigs, 100 000 sheep and 25 000 goats if these territorial units together constitute 5 % or less of the national population of the relevant animals.
Article 9 Coverage
Each Member State shall produce statistics relating to the number and carcass weight of bovine animals, pigs, sheep, goats and poultry slaughtered in slaughterhouses on its territory, whose meat is deemed fit for human consumption. It shall also supply estimates of the extent of slaughtering carried out other than in slaughterhouses, so that the statistics include all bovine animals, pigs, sheep and goats slaughtered on its territory.
Article 10 Frequency and reference period
1. The statistics on slaughtering in slaughterhouses shall be produced monthly by each Member State. The reference period shall be the calendar month. 2. The statistics on slaughtering carried out other than in slaughterhouses shall be produced annually by each Member State. The reference period shall be the calendar year.
Article 11 Categories
The statistics on slaughtering shall be produced for the categories set out in Annex IV.
Article 12 Transmission deadlines
Member States shall transmit to the Commission the statistics: (a) on slaughtering in slaughterhouses within 60 days following the reference period; (b) on slaughtering carried out other than in slaughterhouses before 30 June of the following year.
Article 13 Coverage
Member States shall use the statistics mentioned in Sections I and II, and other available information, to produce forecasts of their supply of bovine animals, pigs, sheep and goats. This supply shall be expressed as the gross indigenous production, which corresponds to the number of bovine animals, pigs, sheep and goats slaughtered plus the balance of intra-Community and external trade in these live animals
Article 14 Frequency and reference period
1. The forecasts for bovine animals shall be produced twice a year by each Member State. Member States whose bovine-animal populations are below 1 500 000 head may produce these forecasts only once a year. 2. The forecasts for pigs shall be produced twice a year by each Member State. Member States whose pig populations are below 3 000 000 head may produce these forecasts only once a year. 3. The forecasts for sheep shall be produced once a year by Member States whose sheep populations are 500 000 head or above. 4. The forecasts for goats shall be produced once a year by Member States whose goat populations are 500 000 head or above. 5. The forecasts shall cover: (a) three semesters for bovine animals and four quarters for pigs for Member States that produce forecasts twice a year; (b) four semesters for bovine animals and six quarters for pigs for Member States that produce forecasts once a year; (c) two semesters for sheep and goats.
Amendment rationale: EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 1. CONTEXT OF THE PROPOSAL The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) makes a distinction between (a) the powers delegated to the Commission to adopt non-legislative acts of general application to supplement or amend certain non-essential elements of the legislative act as laid down in Article 290(1) of the TFEU (delegated acts), and (b) the powers conferred upon the Commission to adopt uniform conditions for implementing legally binding Union acts as laid down in Article 291(2) of the TFEU (implementing acts). The Commission has committed itself[1], with regard to Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers[2], to reviewing legislative acts which currently contain references to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny in the light of the criteria laid down in the Treaty. The overall objective is by the end of Parliament's seventh term (June 2014), to remove all provisions referring to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny from all legislative instruments. The aim of this proposal is to modify nine legislative acts in the domain of agricultural and fishery statistics in order to align them with the new institutional context. For the sake of completeness, the list of instruments to be aligned is: (1) Council Directive 96/16/EC of 19 March 1996 on statistical surveys of milk and milk products[3]; (2) Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 December 2003 on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community[4]; (3) Regulation (EC) No 1921/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 on the submission of statistical data on landings of fishery products in Member States and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1382/91[5]; (4) Regulation (EC) No 762/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 on the submission by Member States of statistics on aquaculture and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 788/96[6]; (5) Regulation (EC) No 1165/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 concerning livestock and meat statistics and repealing Council Directives 93/23/EEC, 93/24/EEC and 93/25/EEC[7]; (6) Regulation (EC) No 216/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of nominal catch statistics by Member States fishing in certain areas other than those of the North Atlantic (recast)[8]; (7) Regulation (EC) No 217/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of catch and activity statistics by Member States fishing in the north-west Atlantic (recast)[9]; (8) Regulation (EC) No 218/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of nominal catch statistics by Member States fishing in the north-east Atlantic (recast)[10]; (9) Regulation (EC) No 543/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 concerning crop statistics and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 837/90 and (EEC) No 959/93[11]. 
Revised version (Article 14 ):
1. The forecasts for bovine animals shall be produced twice a year by each Member State. Member States whose bovine-animal populations are below 1 500 000 head may produce these forecasts only once a year. 2. The forecasts for pigs shall be produced twice a year by each Member State. Member States whose pig populations are below 3 000 000 head may produce these forecasts only once a year. 3. The forecasts for sheep shall be produced once a year by Member States whose sheep populations are 500 000 head or above. 4. The forecasts for goats shall be produced once a year by Member States whose goat populations are 500 000 head or above.
Article 15 Categories
The forecasts shall be produced for the categories set out in Annex V.
Article 16 Transmission deadlines
Member States shall transmit to the Commission the meat production forecasts: (a) before 15 February for forecasts for bovine animals from the beginning of the first semester of the current year to the end of the first semester of the following year, and before 15 September for forecasts from the beginning of the second semester of the current year to the end of the second semester of the following year for Member States that produce forecasts twice a year; (b) before 15 February for forecasts for bovine animals from the beginning of the first semester of the current year to the end of the second semester of the following year for Member States that produce forecasts once a year; (c) before 15 February for forecasts for pigs from the beginning of the first quarter to the end of the fourth quarter of the current year, and before 15 September for forecasts from the beginning of the third quarter of the current year to the end of the second quarter of the following year for Member States that produce forecasts twice a year; (d) before 15 February for forecasts for pigs from the beginning of the first quarter of the current year to the end of the second quarter of the following year for Member States that produce forecasts once a year; (e) before 15 February for forecasts for sheep and goats from the beginning of the first semester of the current year to the end of the second semester of the current year.
Article 17 Quality assessment and reports
1. For the purposes of this Regulation, the following quality assessment dimensions shall apply to the data to be transmitted: (a) ‘relevance’ shall refer to the degree to which statistics meet current and potential needs of the users; (b) ‘accuracy’ shall refer to the closeness of estimates to the unknown true values; (c) ‘timeliness’ shall refer to the time lag between the availability of the information and the event or phenomenon it describes; (d) ‘punctuality’ shall refer to the time lag between the date of the release of the data and the target date when it should have been delivered; (e) ‘accessibility’ and ‘clarity’ shall refer to the conditions and modalities by which users can obtain, use and interpret data; (f) ‘comparability’ shall refer to the measurement of the impact of differences in applied statistical concepts and measurement tools and procedures when statistics are compared between geographical areas, sectoral domains or over time; and (g) ‘coherence’ shall refer to the adequacy of the data to be reliably combined in different ways and for various uses. 2. Every three years, and for the first time by 1 July 2011, Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with a report on the quality of the data transmitted. 3. The quality reports shall describe: (a) the organisation of the surveys covered by this Regulation and the methodology applied; (b) the level of precision achieved for the sample surveys referred to in this Regulation; (c) the quality of sources other than surveys which are used; and (d) the quality of the forecasts referred to in this Regulation. 4. Member States shall inform the Commission of any methodological or other change which would have a considerable effect on the statistics. This shall be done not later than three months after such change enters into force. 5. The principle that additional costs and burdens remain within reasonable limits shall be taken into account.
Amendment rationale: EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 1. CONTEXT OF THE PROPOSAL The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) makes a distinction between (a) the powers delegated to the Commission to adopt non-legislative acts of general application to supplement or amend certain non-essential elements of the legislative act as laid down in Article 290(1) of the TFEU (delegated acts), and (b) the powers conferred upon the Commission to adopt uniform conditions for implementing legally binding Union acts as laid down in Article 291(2) of the TFEU (implementing acts). The Commission has committed itself[1], with regard to Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers[2], to reviewing legislative acts which currently contain references to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny in the light of the criteria laid down in the Treaty. The overall objective is by the end of Parliament's seventh term (June 2014), to remove all provisions referring to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny from all legislative instruments. The aim of this proposal is to modify nine legislative acts in the domain of agricultural and fishery statistics in order to align them with the new institutional context. For the sake of completeness, the list of instruments to be aligned is: (1) Council Directive 96/16/EC of 19 March 1996 on statistical surveys of milk and milk products[3]; (2) Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 December 2003 on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community[4]; (3) Regulation (EC) No 1921/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 on the submission of statistical data on landings of fishery products in Member States and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1382/91[5]; (4) Regulation (EC) No 762/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 on the submission by Member States of statistics on aquaculture and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 788/96[6]; (5) Regulation (EC) No 1165/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 concerning livestock and meat statistics and repealing Council Directives 93/23/EEC, 93/24/EEC and 93/25/EEC[7]; (6) Regulation (EC) No 216/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of nominal catch statistics by Member States fishing in certain areas other than those of the North Atlantic (recast)[8]; (7) Regulation (EC) No 217/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of catch and activity statistics by Member States fishing in the north-west Atlantic (recast)[9]; (8) Regulation (EC) No 218/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of nominal catch statistics by Member States fishing in the north-east Atlantic (recast)[10]; (9) Regulation (EC) No 543/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 concerning crop statistics and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 837/90 and (EEC) No 959/93[11]. 
Revised version (Article 17 ):
2. Every three years, and for the first time by 1 July 2011, Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with a report on the quality of the data transmitted. 4. Member States shall inform the Commission of any methodological or other change which would have a considerable effect on the statistics. This shall be done not later than three months after such change enters into force. 5. The principle that additional costs and burdens remain within reasonable limits shall be taken into account.
Article 18 Implementing measures
1. The measures designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, inter alia , by supplementing it, and which relate to modifications of Annexes I, II, IV and V, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 19(2). 2. The principle that the benefits of modifications must outweigh their costs, and the principle that additional costs and burdens remain within reasonable limits shall be taken into account.
Amendment rationale: EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 1. CONTEXT OF THE PROPOSAL The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) makes a distinction between (a) the powers delegated to the Commission to adopt non-legislative acts of general application to supplement or amend certain non-essential elements of the legislative act as laid down in Article 290(1) of the TFEU (delegated acts), and (b) the powers conferred upon the Commission to adopt uniform conditions for implementing legally binding Union acts as laid down in Article 291(2) of the TFEU (implementing acts). The Commission has committed itself[1], with regard to Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers[2], to reviewing legislative acts which currently contain references to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny in the light of the criteria laid down in the Treaty. The overall objective is by the end of Parliament's seventh term (June 2014), to remove all provisions referring to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny from all legislative instruments. The aim of this proposal is to modify nine legislative acts in the domain of agricultural and fishery statistics in order to align them with the new institutional context. For the sake of completeness, the list of instruments to be aligned is: (1) Council Directive 96/16/EC of 19 March 1996 on statistical surveys of milk and milk products[3]; (2) Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 December 2003 on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community[4]; (3) Regulation (EC) No 1921/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 on the submission of statistical data on landings of fishery products in Member States and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1382/91[5]; (4) Regulation (EC) No 762/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 on the submission by Member States of statistics on aquaculture and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 788/96[6]; (5) Regulation (EC) No 1165/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 concerning livestock and meat statistics and repealing Council Directives 93/23/EEC, 93/24/EEC and 93/25/EEC[7]; (6) Regulation (EC) No 216/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of nominal catch statistics by Member States fishing in certain areas other than those of the North Atlantic (recast)[8]; (7) Regulation (EC) No 217/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of catch and activity statistics by Member States fishing in the north-west Atlantic (recast)[9]; (8) Regulation (EC) No 218/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of nominal catch statistics by Member States fishing in the north-east Atlantic (recast)[10]; (9) Regulation (EC) No 543/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 concerning crop statistics and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 837/90 and (EEC) No 959/93[11]. 
Revised version (Article 18 Amendments to the Annexes):
The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts, in accordance with Article 19, concerning amendments to Annexes I, II, IV and V. Those delegated acts shall be adopted only where they are necessary in order to take account of economic and technical developments, they do not change the optional nature of the required information and they do not impose a significant additional burden on Member States or on the respondents. The Commission shall duly justify the statistical actions provided for in those delegated acts, using, where appropriate, input from relevant experts based on a cost-effectiveness analysis, including an assessment of the burden on the respondents and of the production costs, as referred to in point (c) of Article 14(3) of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 11 ).
Article 19 Committee procedure
1. The Commission shall be assisted by the Standing Committee for Agricultural Statistics. 2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4) and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.
Amendment rationale: EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 1. CONTEXT OF THE PROPOSAL The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) makes a distinction between (a) the powers delegated to the Commission to adopt non-legislative acts of general application to supplement or amend certain non-essential elements of the legislative act as laid down in Article 290(1) of the TFEU (delegated acts), and (b) the powers conferred upon the Commission to adopt uniform conditions for implementing legally binding Union acts as laid down in Article 291(2) of the TFEU (implementing acts). The Commission has committed itself[1], with regard to Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers[2], to reviewing legislative acts which currently contain references to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny in the light of the criteria laid down in the Treaty. The overall objective is by the end of Parliament's seventh term (June 2014), to remove all provisions referring to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny from all legislative instruments. The aim of this proposal is to modify nine legislative acts in the domain of agricultural and fishery statistics in order to align them with the new institutional context. For the sake of completeness, the list of instruments to be aligned is: (1) Council Directive 96/16/EC of 19 March 1996 on statistical surveys of milk and milk products[3]; (2) Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 December 2003 on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community[4]; (3) Regulation (EC) No 1921/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 on the submission of statistical data on landings of fishery products in Member States and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1382/91[5]; (4) Regulation (EC) No 762/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 on the submission by Member States of statistics on aquaculture and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 788/96[6]; (5) Regulation (EC) No 1165/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 concerning livestock and meat statistics and repealing Council Directives 93/23/EEC, 93/24/EEC and 93/25/EEC[7]; (6) Regulation (EC) No 216/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of nominal catch statistics by Member States fishing in certain areas other than those of the North Atlantic (recast)[8]; (7) Regulation (EC) No 217/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of catch and activity statistics by Member States fishing in the north-west Atlantic (recast)[9]; (8) Regulation (EC) No 218/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of nominal catch statistics by Member States fishing in the north-east Atlantic (recast)[10]; (9) Regulation (EC) No 543/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 concerning crop statistics and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 837/90 and (EEC) No 959/93[11]. 
Revised version (Article 19 Exercise of the delegation):
1. The power to adopt delegated acts is conferred on the Commission subject to the conditions laid down in this Article. 2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article 18 shall be conferred on the Commission for a period of five years from 10 January 2014. The Commission shall draw up a report in respect of the delegation of power not later than nine months before the end of the five-year period. The delegation of power shall be tacitly extended for periods of an identical duration, unless the European Parliament or the Council opposes such extension not later than three months before the end of each period. 3. The delegation of power referred to in Article 18 may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision to revoke shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force. 4. As soon as it adopts a delegated act, the Commission shall notify it simultaneously to the European Parliament and to the Council. 5. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 18 shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or by the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or of the Council.
Article 20 Derogation
1. Where the application of this Regulation to the national statistical system of a Member State necessitates major adaptations and is likely to cause significant practical problems, the Commission may grant a derogation from its application until 1 January 2010 or, in the case of statistics on sheep and goats, until 1 January 2011. 2. Such Member States shall inform the Commission thereof not later than 21 March 2009.
Article 21 Repeal
1. Without prejudice to paragraph 3 of this Article, Directives 93/23/EEC, 93/24/EEC and 93/25/EEC shall be repealed. 2. References to the repealed directives shall be construed as references to this Regulation. 3. By way of derogation from Article 22(2), a Member State having been granted a derogation in accordance with Article 20 shall continue to apply the provisions of Directives 93/23/EEC, 93/24/EEC and 93/25/EEC for the duration of the derogation period.
Article 22 Entry into force
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union . It shall apply from 1 January 2009.