# Council Directive 96/16/EC of 19 March 1996 on statistical surveys of milk and milk products, Article 5

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. Without prejudice to the second subparagraph, the surveys referred to in Article 1 (1) shall be exhaustive in the case of dairies accounting for at least 95 % of the cow's milk collected by the Member State, with the balance being estimated on the basis of representative samples or other sources.
Member States may carry out the monthly surveys mentioned in Article 4 (1) (a) in the form of sample surveys. In that case the sampling error must not exceed 1 % of total national collection (with a confidence interval of 68 %).
2. Member States shall take all appropriate measures to obtain comprehensive and suficiently accurate results. They shall forward to the Commission in the form of a methodological report all information enabling the accuracy of the results transmitted to be assessed, in particular:
(a) the questionnaires used;
(b) the precautions taken to avoid double counting;
(c) the methods used for transposing the data obtained from the questionnaire to Community tables.
The methodological reports, the availability and reliability of data and any other matter related to the implementation of this Directive shall be examined once a year with the Member States. Member States shall notify the Commission annually of the methodological information relating to the information referred to in Article 4(1), using a standard questionnaire. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts drawing up those standard questionnaires. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 7(2).

---
Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1996/16/article/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1996-16/article-5
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.