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United Kingdom

Commission Regulation (EC) No 800/2007

of 6 July 2007

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 (EEC) 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 Community^f1, and in particular Article 4(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82^f2 fixes per Member State the threshold of economic size of returning holdings falling within the field of survey of the farm accountancy data network.

(2)

Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82 fixes the number of returning holdings per division.

(3)

By reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania the threshold as well as the number of returning holdings for these two new Member States should be fixed.

(4)

In order to guarantee a more efficient representativeness of the Slovakian sample, the threshold as well as the number of returning holdings concerning Slovakia should be adapted.

(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:

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Footnotes

f1: OJ 109, 23.6.1965, p. 1859/65. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1791/2006 (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 28).
f2: OJ L 205, 13.7.1982, p. 5. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1860/2006 (OJ L 358, 16.12.2006, p. 31).