Decision 2000/2298 - Decision 2298/2000/EC amending Council Decision 96/411/EC on improving Community agricultural statistics - Main contents

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Legal instrument	Decision
Number legal act	Decision 2000/2298
Original proposal	COM(1999)332
CELEX number i	32000D2298

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Decision No 2298/2000/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 September 2000 amending Council Decision 96/411/EC on improving Community agricultural statistics (Text with EEA relevance)

Official Journal L 263 , 18/10/2000 P. 0001 - 0002

Decision No 2298/2000/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council

of 28 September 2000

amending Council Decision 96/411/EC on improving Community agricultural statistics

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 285 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission(1),

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty(2),

Whereas:

• (1) 

  Council Decision 96/411/EC of 25 June 1996 on improving Community agricultural statistics(3), is designed to allow such statistics to respond more satisfactorily to the information needs arising from the reform of the common agricultural policy.

• (2) 

  The report by the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on progress in implementing Decision 96/411/EC makes a positive assessment of the application of that Decision.

• (3) 

  The process of adapting national statistical systems to the needs arising from the reform of the common agricultural policy has not yet been completed.

• (4) 

  Both the internal development of the common agricultural policy and the external context of enlargement to the East, and the opening of the new round of multilateral trade negotiations, call for improved identification of statistical needs and, where appropriate, for measures to complete the current regulatory framework laying down the scope of the statistical information on the common agricultural policy which Member States are obliged to make available to the Commission.

• (5) 

  Council Decision 1999/126/EC of 22 December 1998 on the Community statistical programme 1998 to 2002(4) recommends continuation of the actions to improve existing agricultural statistics and to plan future developments with a view to responding more satisfactorily to the needs of the common agricultural policy.

• (6) 

  The validity of Decision 96/411/EC needs to be extended.

• (7) 

  Certain provisions of Decision 96/411/EC need to be amended in the light of experience, so as, inter alia, to simplify their implementation.

• (8) 

  This Decision lays down, for the entire duration of the programme, a financial framework constituting the primary reference, within the meaning of point 33 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 between the European Parliament, the Council and Commission(5), for the budgetary authority during the annual budgetary procedure.

• (9) 

  The measures necessary for the implementation of Decision 96/411/EC should be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission(6).

• (10) 

  Current feasibility studies should be continued to determine whether it is technically possible to establish a database on aid paid by the EAGGF (Guarantee Section) and what resources would be required to do so,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 96/411/EC is hereby amended as follows:

• 1. 

  Article 2(a) shall be replaced by the following:

"(a) define the priority statistical fields, amongst those set out in Annex II, which may be the subject of actions at Member State level for the following year;"

• 2. 

  Article 3 shall be replaced by the following:

"Article 3

Application time-frame and procedure

The process of adapting Community agricultural statistics provided for in Article 1 shall be continued during the period 2000 to 2002. It shall be coordinated by the...

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