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Commission Regulation (EC) No 2203/2004 of 21 December 2004 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82 concerning the selection of returning holdings for the purpose of determining incomes of agricultural holdings

EU Regulation No 2203/2004 · Adopted 21 December 2004 · Extends to United Kingdom

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Commission Regulation (EC) No 2203/2004

of 21 December 2004

amending Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82 concerning the selection of returning holdings for the purpose of determining incomes of agricultural holdings

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation No 79/65/EEC of 15 June 1965 setting up a network for the collection of accountancy data on the incomes and business operation of agricultural holdings in the European Economic Communityf1, and in particular Articles 4(4), and 6(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82f2 fixes the number of returning holdings per division. The number of returning holdings to be selected in each division may differ by up to 20 % in either direction provided that this does not entail a reduction in the total number of returning holdings per Member State.

(2)

As the financial management of such a measure is difficult, a limitation per Member State as to the total number of duly completed farm returns eligible for Community financing is introduced in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1915/83 of 13 July 1983 on certain detailed implementing rules concerning the keeping of accounts for the purpose of determining the incomes of agricultural holdingsf3. For reasons of clarity and coherence, this change should be reflected in Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82. Flexibility in the number of returning holdings per division should remain allowed, as long as the total number of the returning holdings of the Member State concerned is respected.

(3)

In view of the limitation per Member State of the total number of duly completed farm returns eligible for Community financing, the number of returning holdings laid down in Annex I for Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France and Luxembourg should be adjusted, to maintain the actual sample size.

(4)

The number of returning holdings per division in Sweden should be adjusted, due to changes in the borders between the divisions.

(5)

Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(6)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Community Committee for the Farm Accountancy Data Network,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

OJ 109, 23.6.1965, p. 1859/65. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 660/2004 (OJ L 104, 8.4.2004, p. 97).

f2

OJ L 205, 13.7.1982, p. 40. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 730/2004 (OJ L 113, 20.4.2004, p. 8).

f3

OJ L 190, 14.7.1983, p. 25. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1388/2004 (OJ L 255, 31.7.2004, p. 5).

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. Signature
  4. Annex Annex

1

Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82 is amended as follows:

  1. 1..

    Article 3 is replaced by the following:

    ‘Article 3

    The number of returning holdings per Member State as well as per division is laid down in Annex I.

    The number of returning holdings to be selected per division may differ from that laid down in Annex I by up to 20 % in either direction provided that the total number of the returning holdings of the Member State concerned is respected.’

  2. 2..

    Annex I is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from the 2005 accounting year.

Signature

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 21 December 2004.

For the Commission

Mariann Fischer Boel

Member of the Commission

Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82 is amended as follows:

  1. (a)

    the part concerning Belgium is replaced by the following:

    ‘

    BELGIUM
    341Vlaanderen720
    342Bruxelles-Brussel—
    343Wallonie480
    Total Belgium1 200

    ’

  2. (b)

    the part concerning Denmark is replaced by the following:

    ‘

    370DENMARK2 250

    ’

  3. (c)

    the part concerning Germany is replaced by the following:

    ‘

    GERMANY
    010Schleswig-Holstein450
    020Hamburg50
    030Niedersachsen980
    040Bremen—
    050Nordrhein-Westfalen790
    060Hessen440
    070Rheinland-Pfalz600
    080Baden-Württemberg740
    090Bayern1 150
    100Saarland80
    110Berlin—
    112Brandenburg240
    113Mecklenburg-Vorpommern180
    114Sachsen280
    115Sachsen-Anhalt190
    116Thüringen190
    Total Germany6 360

    ’

  4. (d)

    the part concerning France is replaced by the following:

    ‘

    FRANCE
    121Île-de-France170
    131Champagne-Ardenne400
    132Picardie300
    133Haute.Normandie160
    134Centre450
    135Basse-Normandie220
    136Bourgogne380
    141Nord-Pas-de-Calais310
    151Lorraine230
    152Alsace180
    153Franche-Comté230
    162Pays de la Loire490
    163Bretagne540
    164Poitou-Charentes360
    182Aquitaine500
    183Midi-Pyrénées480
    184Limousin200
    192Rhône-Alpes450
    193Auvergne360
    201Languedoc-Roussillon400
    203Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur360
    204Corse150
    Total France7 320

    ’

  5. (e)

    the part concerning Luxembourg is replaced by the following:

    ‘

    350LUXEMBOURG360

    ’

  6. (f)

    the part concerning Sweden is replaced by the following:

    ‘

    SWEDEN
    710Plains of Southern and Central Sweden680
    720Forest and mixed agricultural and forest areas of Southern and Central Sweden215
    730Areas of Northern Sweden105
    Total Sweden1 000

    ’