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COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1035/76 of 30 April 1976 relating to the organization of a survey on the earnings of permanent workers employed in agriculture
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN Article 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 under the Treaty, and in particular those set out in Article 4 Articles 2, 39, 117, 118 , 119 and 122 thereof, the Commission needs to know the earnings situation and The survey shall consist in the collection for each trends in the Member States ; permanent worker of all data relating to gross cash Whereas such statistical data as do exist within the earnings for September, October, or November 1976, 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 job categories. Community survey based on uniform definitions and characteristics as was done in 1974 and 1975, pursuant to Regulations (EEC) No 677/74 (J ) and (EEC) No Article 5 1103/75 (2); 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 Whereas it is possible and more economical to carry survey and the arrangements for transmitting the results to the Commission . out such a survey by random sampling only,
Article 6 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Individual items of information supplied for purposes Article 1 of the survey may be used for statistical purposes only. It shall be prohibited to use the information for taxa The Commission shall undertake a survey of the tion purposes, or to communicate it to third parties. actual earnings of permanent workers employed in agriculture on the basis of the statistical data relating Member States shall take appropriate measures to to September, October or November 1976. avoid any infringement of : Article 2 (a) the obligation to supply the information referred to in Article 3, The survey shall cover all holdings which employ (b) the obligation, under the first paragraph of this permanent workers and and which engage in activities Article, to maintain secrecy as regards the informa as specified and defined under class 01 of the General tion obtained . Nomenclature of Economic Activities in the Euro pean Communities (NACE), with the exception of holdings whose activities are mainly or exclusively Article 7 directed to creating and maintaining gardens and parks, to hunting or to activities ancillary to agricul To cover the expenditure incurred in conducting the ture . survey, the Member States shall receive a global sum proportionate to the number of holdings covered. This (») OJ No L 83, 28 . 3 . 1974, p. 4. sum shall be charged against the European Communi (2) OJ No L 110, 30 . 4. 1975, p. 2. 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 Luxembourg, 30 April 1976. For the Council
The President B. BERG