31975R1103

No L 110 / 2 Official Journal of the European Communities 30 . 4 . 75

REGULATION ( EEC ) No 1103 / 75 OF THE COUNCIL of 28 April 1975 relating to the organization of a survey on the earnings of permanent workers employed in agriculture

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN Articlc 3 COMMUNITIES , The survey shall be carried out by means of random Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European sampling . Economic Community, and in particular Article 213 thereof ; In respect of those holdings appearing in the survey sample, employers shall supply the information Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by required for the survey in the manner set out the Commission ; hereafter .

Whereas, in order to carry out the tasks assigned to it Articlc 4 by the Treaty, and in particular those set out in Arti­ cles 2, 39 , 117 , 118 , 119 and 122 thereof, the Commis­ The survey shall consist in the collection for each sion needs to know the earnings situation and trends permanent worker, of all data relating to gross cash in the Member States ; earnings for September, October or November 1975, Whereas such statistical data as do exist within the the existence or absence of benefit in kind , the nature Member States on the earnings of agricultural workers of work performed , the basis on which earnings are do not at present permit valid comparisons to be calculated and the number of hours paid , as well as made, and hence it is necessary to conduct a specific sex, age and professional qualifications . Community survey based on uniform definitions and characteristics as was done in 1974, pursuant to Regu­ Articlc 5 lation ( EEC) No 677 / 74 ('); Information shall be gathered by the statistical offices Whereas the technical difficulties involved in a survey of the Member States . on earnings in agriculture make it necessary to restrict the survey at present to the earnings of permanent The Commission , with the collaboration of these workers in agriculture ; offices , shall determine the technical details of the survey and the arrangements for transmitting the Whereas it is possible and more economical to cany results to the Commission . out such a survey by random sampling only,

Articlc 6 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Individual items of information supplied for purposes of the survey shall be used for statistical purposes Articlc 1 only . It shall be prohibited to use the information for taxation purposes, or to communicate it to third The Commission shall undertake a survey of the parties . actual earnings of permanent workers employed in agriculture on the basis of the statistical data relating Member States shall take apppropriate measures to to September, October or November 1975 . prevent any infringement of :

(a ) the obligation to supply the information referred Articlc 2 to in Article 3 , (b) the obligation , under the first paragraph of this The survey shall cover all holdings which employ Article , to maintain secrecy as regards the informa­ permanent workers and which engage in activities as tion obtained . specified and defined under class 01 of the General Nomenclature of Economic Activities in the Euro­ pean Communities ( NACE), with the exception of Articlc 7 holdings whose activities are mainly or exclusively directed to creating and maintaining gardens and To cover the expenditure incurred in conducting the parks, to hunting or to activities ancillary to agricul­ survey, the Member States shall receive a global sum ture . proportionate to the number of holdings covered . This sum shall be charged against the European Communi­ (') OJ No L 83 , 2(S . 3 . 1974, p. 4 . ties' budget appropriations allocated for this purpose .

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

Done at Brussels , 28 April 1975 . For the Council

The President M. A. CLINTON