Article 1 
France is authorised to replace the survey of May of bovine animals provided for by Council Directive 93/24/EEC by using the system for the identification and registration of bovine animals as referred to in Title I of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 to obtain all the statistical data required to comply with the obligations arising out of the said Directive.
Article 2 
When the system referred to in Article 1 ceases to be operational or its contents no longer makes it possible to obtain reliable statistical information regarding all or certain categories of bovine animals, France shall return to a statistical survey system for the purpose of estimating the cattle population or the categories concerned.
Article 3 
This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.