31977R0646

No L 81 / 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 30 . 3 . 77

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 646/ 77 of 29 March 1977 supplementing Regulation ( EEC) No 984/76 providing for a comparative test of data-collection methods for the establishment of a register of olive cultivation

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Article 1 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 154/75. COMMUNITIES, The results of this test shall be examined in accor­ dance with the same procedure as that referred to Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European in Article 1 .' Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2 . Article 1 (2) shall read : 154/75 of 21 January 1975 on the establishment of a '2. The texts referred to in paragraphs 1 and 1 register of olive cultivation in the Member States (a) shall be conducted in Italy in an area yet to be producing olive oil ('), and in particular Article 5 determined .' thereof, Whereas Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 984/76 of 3 . In Article 2 for 'the test referred to in Article 1 ' 29 April 1976 (2) provided for a comparative test of read ' the test referred to in Article 1 ( 1 )'. data-collection methods for the information referred 4. The following Article is added : to in Article 1 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 154/75 ; 'Article 2a Whereas the setting up of this olive oil register has considerable importance both from the point of view The test referred to in Article 1 ( la) shall include of the proper functioning of the market organization the operations necessary for conducting a collec­ and in order to improve agricultural statistics ; tion of the information referred to in Article 1 (2) Whereas in the light of present knowledge it is impos­ (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 154/75. sible precisely to define the technical problems raised by the collection of the information referred to in the Furthermore , this rest shall determine the time said Article 1 (2) (b) ; required for the execution of each of the opera­ tions concerned .' Whereas, in order to facilitate this second part of the register of olive cultivation, a test should be conducted 5 . Article 3 ( 1 ) shall read : of the relevant operations ; whereas additions should therefore be made to Regulation ( EEC) No 984/76 ; 'The amount for financing the tests referred to in Article 1 shall be deducted from the amount Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation obtained under the provisions of Article 3 ( 1 ) of are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ Regulation (EEC) No 154/75.' ment Committee for Oils and Fats, 6 . Article 4 ( 1 ) is amended to read as follows : HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 'The test operations referred to in Article 2 and 2 Article 1 (a) may be entrusted to third parties.'

Regulation (EEC) No 984/76 is hereby amended as follows : Article 2 1 . The following paragraph is added to Article 1 : This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day ' la. The Commission shall conduct a test regarding following its publication in the Official Journal of the collection of the information referred to in the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 29 March 1977 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

(') OJ No L 19 , 24 . 1 . 1975, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 1 13 , 30 . 4 . 1976 , p. 21