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COLLECTION RELIEE DES DOCUMENTS 'COM'
COM (77)685
Vol. 1977/0218
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COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
COM(77) 685 final Brussels, 19 December 1977
Annual report on the
estimated clearings and new plantations of certain , types of'fruit trees
(Submitted by the Commission to the European Parliament and the Counoil)
COM(77) 685 final
Explanatory Memorandum
1. Under Artiole 8 of Counoil Direotive 76/625/EEC &b amended by Article 1 of Council Direotive 77/l59/EECt the Commission must present to the European Parliament and the Council from 1 January 1977 annual reports on the estimated olearings and plantings of certain types of fruit trees (apples, pears, peaches and oranges).
2. The first report presented by the Commission refers to the estimates by Member States of the olearings and plantings during the 1975/76 season. It is based upon information due to be submitted to the Commission by 31 December 1976. Difficulties encountered in making these estimates delayed the notifications by oertain Member States to the Commission and henoe the presentation of this report.
3. The report indioates the extent and direction of estimated changes in the total
area under the four speoies of fruit treeB within individual Member States, and mentions, where particularly significant,changes in respeot of oertain major varieties. :
I. INTRODUCTION .
1, The Council Directive of 20 July 1976, 76/625/EEC* \ oonoerning the Btatistioal surveys to he oarried out by the Member States in order to determine the produotion potential of plantations of oertain speoies of fruit trees, as amended hy Counoil Direotive 77/159/EEC*^ of 14 February 1977, requires in Artiole 8 that the Commission shall submit to the European Parliament and the Council from
1 January 1977 annual reports on the subject of Artioles 5 and 6.
2. The Commission now submits to the European Parliament and the Council the first
which
annual report on these Artioles/oonoem the annual estimates to be made by Member States of the areas of fruit trees cleared and newly planted. This first report relates primarily to the 1975/76 season and inoludes information due to be notified to the Commission by 31 Deoember 1976, but in fact notified somewhat later by oertain countries which encountered difficulties in initiating these statistical returns.
II. OBJECTIVES
3* The objective of Artioles 5 ^d 6 of the Direotive is to provide the Commission with regular information on the ohanges in area whioh ooour in the intervals between the quinquennial surveys on plantations of oertain speoies of fruit trees (dessert applesf dessert pears, peaches end oranges). Suoh ohanges can effect the medium-term forecasts of produotion potential whioh are made by combining the survey data on the area under the four speoies with data on yield per heotare.
III. INFORMATION RECEIVED
4. The ,T7egetable Products” Working Party of the Agricultural Statistics Committee
of the Statistical Offioe of the European Communities in 1976 discussed and agreed upon a standard fora to be used by Member States to report their estimates of the areas of fruit orchard annually cleared and planted. The estimates are reporte< by speoies for each Member State (Tables 1 and 2) and ”as far as possible” by varieties.
5. The reports indicate a deoline of 5500 heotares in the 1975/6 season ir. the overal'
area of commercial fruit orohards whioh now total Borne 526 543 ha. Pears, pcaohes and apples are all reported to have decreased in area whilst alone the -under
oranges has increased slightly (Table 3). The deorease is greatest in pear orohards in absolute terms (-3660 ha), in relative terms in comparison with the area tinder
(1) O.J. N* L 218, 11.8.1976, p. 10
(2) O.J. N» L 48, 19.2.1977, p. 31
this species reported at the last survey (- 3,9 peroeat) and is reported in nearly all Member States. In peaoh orchards, the overall deoline (-1187 ha) represents about 1 per cent of the area reported at the last survey (in 1974) and is concentrated in Frenoe, whereas in Italy the area under peaohes has increased* In apple orchards, the small deoline reported overall (-735 ha) occurred principally in 1 Italy (-771 ha), Franoe (-365 ha) and Netherlands (-367 ha) but was partly offset by increases in Denmark (+ 378 ha) and B.R. Deutsohland (+ 305 ha).
\ 6, Information in respect of individual varieties of the various species is incomplete
since not all Member States found it possible to provide estimates of clearings
varieties.For the most important and plantings in euoh detail, especially for the less important/variety of apples
in the Community, Golden Delioious, there was a net fall of 323 ha., largely due to
1424 ha being cleared in Franoe where only 768 ha were planted. In Italy and
Belgium, however, plantings of this variety (421 and 83 ha respectively)
exoeeded olearings (140 and 31 ha). Clearings of Red Delicious apples in Franoe
and Italy exoeeded plantings by 330 ha. Clearings of Morgenduft or Imperatore
apples (525 ha) and Abbondansa apples (205 ha) were reported in Italy, without any
corresponding plantings. For pear orchards., the clearing of 2000 ha. of the
Passa Crassana variety in Italy represented nearly half of the total olearings
of pears in the Community (4128 ha)and almost two thirds of the pear-tree olearings
in Italy. No important varietal changes are reported in respeot of peaohes and
oranges; in all four species, incomplete data from Member States prevents full
tabular presentation.
7. The estimates of clearings and plantings during the 1975/76 season reoeived from Member States have been combined with those for previous years in order to adjust the areas reported at the most recent previous orohard fruit surveys and arrive at an estimate of the areas under cultivation at the end of the 1975/76 season (Table 4).
8. In the second annual report to be submitted by the Commission on annual estimates
of clearings and plantings, it will be necessary to take into acoount the statistics available in respeot of the 1976^7 olearings in application of Council Regulation (EEC) N* 794/76 of 6 April 1976/ It would be unrealistic not to assume that the commercial fruit orchard industry has also taken these measures into acoount and that in consequenoe, the clearings of certain varieties of apples and pears otherwise due for clearing in 1975/6 may have been postponed.
9. It is hoped that improved estimates of olearings and plantings will be available from Member States in future years to allow the total orchard area to be estimated more accurately in the intervals between the 5 yearly Coumurvi'V surveys (the results of the 1977 Community orohard fruit survey are due to be sent *0 the Commission in 1978).
1) O.J. N* L 93, 8.4.1976, p. 3
Table 3 t Net ohange in area under orchard fruit since last survey (new plantations minus olearings)
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| Country | Date of last survey 1 | Apples | Pears | Peaches | Oranges | ||||
| Total ohange since ' last " survey | of whicht 1975/76 | Total ohange since last survey | of whiohi 1975/76 | Total ohange since last survey | of whiohi 1975/76 | Total . ohange sinoe last survey | of whiohi 1975/76 | ||
| BR Deutschland | 1972 | + 702 | + 305 | - 75 | - 25 | - 3 | - 7 | - | - |
| Franoe | 1974/751) | - 365 | - 365 | - 222 | - 222 | - 1660 | - 1660 | - | - |
| Italia | 1974 | -1045 | - 771 | - 4715 | -3139 | + 972 | + 480 | ^ 307 | + 84 |
| Nederland . | 1974 | - 394 | - 367 | - 458 | - 278 | - | - | - | - |
| Belgique/Bel gie | 1972 | 4 1602) | + 101 | ♦ 382> | + 22 | - 51 | - | - | - |
| Luxembourg | 1973 | - | - | - ^ | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Kingdom | 1974 | - 845 . | - 6 | - 8 | + 7 | - | - | - | - |
| Ireland | 1973 | - 5 | - 10 | - | - | - | - | / - | |
| Danmark | 1974 | + 75 6 | + 378 | - 50 | - 25 | - | - | - | - |
| EUR-9 | -1036 | - 735 | - 5490 | -3660 | - 742 | - 1187 | + 307 | 4 84 |
1) 1971/72 for oranges
2) 1974/75 and 1975/76 only
Table 1 t Area end proportion of orchard fruit cleared in 1975/76 V country end epeoiei
| Country | Apples | Pears | Peaohes | Oranges | ||||
| ha | .* ■■ | ha | ha | ha | ||||
| BR Deutechland | 362 | 1.3 | 48 | 1*7 | 15 | 3,6 | — | |
| Franoe | 2373 | 4,2 | 715 | 3,2 | 3357 | 8,0 | ■ ' - | - |
| Italia | 1974 | 2,7 | 3327 | 6,2 | 2602 | 3,1 | 581 | 0,6 |
| Nederland | 1023 | 4,7 | 469 | 7,2 | - | mm | - | - |
| Belgique/Belgie | 65 | 0,8 | 10 | 0,3 | - | - | - | - |
| Luxembourg | - | - | . - | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Kingdom | 506 | 2,4 | 76 | 1,5 | - | - | - | . - |
| Ireland | 14 | 2,5 | mm | mm | - | - | - | - |
| Danmark | 222 | 3,1 | 25 | 2,9 | eat | - | - | - |
| EUR-9 | 6539 | 3,0 | 4670 | 4,9 | 5974 | 4,8 | 581 | 0,6 |
| Country | Apples | Pears | Peaohes | Oranges ' | ||||
| ha - | - | ha | % | ha | *. | ha | * ... | |
| BR Deutschland | 667 | 2,4 | 23 | 0,8 | 8 | 1,9 | - | mm |
| France | 2008 | 3,6 | 493 | 2,2 | 1697 | 4,0 | - | - |
| Italia | 1203 | 1,7 | 188 | 0,4 | 3082 | 3,7 | 665 | 0,7 |
| Nederland | 656 | 3,0 | 191 | 2,9 | - | - | - | - |
| Bel gique/Belgie | 166 | 2,0 | 32 | 0,9 | - | - | - | - |
| Luxembourg | - | - | - | . - | - | mm | - | - |
| United Kingdom | 500 | 2,4 | 83 | 1,6 | - | mm | - | - |
| Ireland | 4 | 0,7 | - | - | - | - | . - | - |
| Denmark | 600 | —fl»3 | ||||||
| EUR-9 | 5804 | 2,7 | 1010 | 1,1 | 4767 | 3,8 | 665 | 0,7 |
Table 4 * Estimated area under orohard fruit in 1975/76
(Area recorded at last survey adjusted by annual estimates of clearings and plantings)
ha
| Country | Apples | Pears | Peaches | Oranges | Total |
| ER Deutschland | 28 796 | 2 679 | 415 | - | 31 890 |
| France | 55 994- | 22 257 | 40 374 | 241 | 118.866 ' |
| Italia | 71 017 | 48 866 | 84 108 | 96 995 | 300 986 |
| Nederland | 21 529 | 6 029 | - | - | 27 558 |
| Belgique/Belgie | 8 561 | 3 591 | 25 | - | 12 177 |
| Luxembourg | 390 | 10 | - | - | 400 |
| United Kingdom | 20 141 | 5 128 | - | - | 25 269 |
| Ireland | 556 | 38 | - | - | 594 |
| Danmark | 7 979 | 824 | - | . - | 8 803 |
| EUR-9 | 214 963 | 89 422 | 124 922 | 97 236 | 526 543 |