31976R3003

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3003/76 of 10 December 1976 amending Regulation No 91 /66/EEC of 29 June 1966 as regards the number of returning holdings per division for the 1976 and 1977 accounting years

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN holdings per division for the 1977 accounting year COMMUNITIES, should be based solely on Member States' estimates of the number of holdings in the field of survey ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas the difficulties that have arisen in selecting 1976 returning holdings in Italy, mainly on account Having regard to Council Regulation No 79/65/EEC of the new regional distribution, have profoundly of 15 June 1965 setting up a network for the collec­ altered the selection plan for the 1976 accounting year tion of accountancy data on the incomes and business and, in order to facilitate the ongoing extension of the operation of agricultural holdings in the European data network, the regional distribution of returning Economic Community ('), as last amended by Regula­ holdings for the accounting year in question in that tion (EEC) No 2910/73 (2), and in particular Article 4 country should be adjusted accordingly ; (4) thereof, Whereas Article 3 of Commission Regulation No Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Community 91 /66/EEC of 29 June 1966 concerning the selection Committee for the Farm Accountancy Data Network, of returning holdings for the purpose of determining incomes of agricultural holdings (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 91 0/76 (4), lays down the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : number of returning holdings for each division ;

Whereas the total number of 13 600 returning hold­ Article 1 ings comprising the data network in 1974 must gradu­ ally be increased at the start of each of the four accounting years beginning during the period 1975 to Annex III to Regulation No 91 /66/EEC is hereby 1978 until it reaches the final figure of 28 000 ; replaced by the Annex hereto for the 1976 and 1977 accounting years which respectively begin during the Whereas the final distribution of the 28 000 returning periods between 1 January and 1 July 1976 and holdings among the divisions should be made on the between 1 January and 1 July 1977. basis of the results of the Community survey of the structure of agricultural holdings completed in Article 2 1975 / 76 in accordance with Council Directive 75/ 108 / EEC of 20 January 1 975 (5) ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas these results are not yet available and in the following its publication in the Official Journal of meantime the increase in the number of returning the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 10 December 1976 .

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS

Member of the Commission

(') OJ No 109 , 23 . 6 . 1965 , p . 1859 / 65 . (-) OJ No L 299 , 27 . 10 . 1973 , p. 1 . (') OJ No 121 , 4 . 7 . 1966 , p . 2249 / 66 . ( J ) OJ No L 105 , 22 . 4 . 1976 , p. 17 . (*) OJ No L 42, 15 . 2 . 1975 , p. 21 .

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ANNEX

Number of returning holdings by division

No of returning holdings Ref . No Name of Division Account ng years

1976 1977 (>)

GERMANY 010 Schleswig-Holstein 210 260 020 Niedersachsen 480 535 030 Nordrhein-Westfalen 380 435 040 Hessen 230 270 050 Rheinland-Pfalz 240 285 060 Baden-Wurttemberg 380 420 070 Bayern 780 855 080 Saarland 50 65 090 — — Hamburg 100 Bremen — — 110 Berlin — —

Total Germany 2 750 3 125

FRANCE 120 Nord, Picardie 240 220 130 Basse-Normandie , Haute-Normandie 189 216 140 Bretagne, pays de la Loire, Poitou-Charente 771 813 150 Centre, Region parisienne 275 264 160 Franche-Comte, Champagne, Bourgogne 410 354 170 Lorraine , Alsace 138 152 180 Limousin , Auvergne 274 290 190 Rhone-Alpes 223 256 200 Aquitaine, Midi-Pyrenees 532 571 210 Languedoc, Provence-Cote d'Azur-Corse 304 309

Total France 3 356 3 445

ITALY 221 Valle d' Aosta 30 35 222 Piemonte 800 940 230 Lombardia 380 580 241 Trentino 60 100 242 Alto Adige 60 100 243 Veneto 500 750 244 Friuli-Venezia Giulia 130 170 250 Liguria 100 350 260 Emilia-Romagna 340 650 270 Toscana 450 650 281 Marche 180 400 282 Umbria 150 300 291 Lazio 180 300 292 Abruzzo 280 400 301 Molise 140 160 302 Campania 420 700 303 Calabria 100 400 311 100 500 Puglia 312 Basilicata 100 200 320 Sicilia 250 550 330 Sardegna 300 370

Total Italy 5 050 8 605

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No of returning holdings Ref . No Name of Division Account ng years

1976 1977 (')

340 BELGIUM 680 780

350 LUXEMBOURG 85 110

360 NETHERLANDS 1 400 1 400

370 DENMARK 1 555 1 555

380 IRELAND 630 670

UNITED KINGDOM 390 Northern Ireland 200 200 400 Scotland 250 250 410 England, North Region 240 245 420 Wales 200 200 430 England, West Region 300 305 440 425 430 England, East Region

Total United Kingdom 1 615 1 630

(') The ' 1977 accounting year means all accounting years beginning in the period from 1 January to 1 July 1977.