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dossier | COM(1977)372 - . |
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document | COM(1977)372 ![]() |
date | December 19, 1977 |
Contents
Article 1
Article 2
(b) 'agricultural area utilized for farming' shall mean the total area taken up by arable land, permanent pasture and meadow, land used for permanent crops and kitchen gardens.
2. The survey shall cover: (a) agricultural holdings where the agricultural area utilized for farming is one hectare or more; (1)OJ No C 6, 9.1.1978, p. 136. (2)OJ No L 366, 31.12.1976, p. 1. (3)OJ No L 179, 7.8.1972, p. 1.
(b) agricultural holdings where the agricultural area utilized for farming is less than one hectare, if they market a certain proportion of their products or if their standard gross production exceeds certain physical limits.
Article 3
Article 4
2. The area used for secondary successive crops shall be recorded separately from the area used for farming.
Article 5
Article 6
The results obtained by random sampling shall be extrapolated.
Article 7
Article 8
In drawing up the Community outline of tables in accordance with Article 7, the Commission may decide that certain tables are not applicable in certain Member States at district level.
2. With the exception of the Netherlands, the results of the survey shall be broken down by less-favoured agricultural areas, within the meaning of Article 3 of Directive 75/268/EEC (1), or by groups of such areas and broken down by other agricultural areas or by groups of such areas. The Commission and the Member States shall together decide on the groupings of less-favoured agricultural areas on the one hand and of other agricultural areas on the other.
Article 9
(b) submit the magnetic tapes referred to in (a) to the Statistical Office of the European Communities. They shall be submitted within 18 months at the latest of completion of the field work. Where all the results referred to in Article 8 cannot be submitted within the aforesaid period the Member States concerned and the Commission shall together fix a period, not exceeding 12 months, for the submission of the remaining tables.
Article 10
Article 11
Article 12
referred to as 'the Committee') by its chairman, either on his own initiative or at the request of the representative of a Member State.
2. The Commission representative shall submit to the Committee a draft of measures to be taken. The Committee shall give its opinion on that draft within a time limit set by the chairman having regard to the urgency of the matter. Opinions shall be delivered by a majority of 41 votes, the votes of the Member States being weighted as provided in Article 148 (2) of the Treaty. The chairman shall not vote.
3. The Commission shall adopt measures which shall take immediate effect. However, if these measures are not in accordance with the Committee's opinion, the Commission shall submit them forthwith to the Council ; in that event, the Commission may defer application of the measures it has adopted for not more than one month from the date of their submission to the Council.
The Council, acting by a qualified majority, may take a different decision within one month.
Article 13
2. The information collected by the Member States under the survey must be available in those Member States, as far as is technically possible, until the next general survey carried out under the FAO or at Community level.
3. Further tables may be added to the schedule referred to in Article 7 in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 12 ; in such cases the financial cost to the Member States shall be examined.
4. If the Commission undertakes further studies, the Member States shall as necessary and as far as possible provide the information requested by the Commission. This shall be done by joint agreement between the Commission and the Member State concerned, subject, in particular, to the necessary guarantee of statistical confidentiality.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.