2004/747/EC: Commission Decision of 26 October 2004 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Directive 93/25/EEC on the statistical surveys to be carried out on sheep and goat stocks (notified under document number C(2004) 4092)Text with EEA relevance

1 For the purposes of Article 2(2) of Directive 93/25/EEC, ‘agricultural holding’ means any technical and economic unit under single management which produces agricultural products.

2 The survey referred to in Article 1(1) of Directive 93/25/EEC shall cover: (a) agricultural holdings with a utilised agricultural area of 1 ha or more; (b) agricultural holdings with a utilised agricultural area of less than 1 ha, if their production is to a certain extent intended for sale or if their production unit exceeds certain natural thresholds.

3 Member States wishing to apply a different survey threshold shall, however, undertake to determine that threshold in such a way that only the smallest holdings are excluded, and that together the holdings excluded account for 1 % or less of the total standard gross margin, within the meaning of Commission Decision 85/377/EEC , of the Member State concerned.

The definitions of the categories of sheep and goat referred to in Article 3(1) and Article 13(2) of Directive 93/25/EEC are set out in Annex I to this Decision.

For the territorial subdivisions referred to in Article 7(1) of Directive 93/25/EEC the Member States shall follow the level of the common classification of Territorial Units for Statistics set out in Annex II to this Decision. They need not compile results for regions with herd populations of less than 1 % of the national population.

The herd size classes referred to in Article 10(1) of Directive 93/25/EEC are set out in Annex III to this Decision.

The carcass weight referred to in Article 13(1) of Directive 93/25/EEC is the weight of the slaughtered animal's cold body after having been bled, skinned and eviscerated, and after removal of the head (severed at the atlanto-occipital joint), of the feet (severed at the carpo-metacarpal or tarso-metatarsal joints), of the tail (severed between the sixth and seventh caudal vertebrae) and of the genital organs (including udder). Kidneys and kidney fats are included in the carcass.

Decision 2003/597/EC is repealed. References to the repealed Decision shall be construed as references to this Decision.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.