2004/761/EC: Commission Decision of 26 October 2004 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Directive 93/24/EEC as regards the statistical surveys on cattle population and production (notified under document number C(2004) 4091)Text with EEA relevance

1 For the purposes of Article 2(2) of Directive 93/24/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 93/24/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 bovines referred to in Articles 3(1), 10(2) and 12(2) of Directive 93/24/EEC are set out in Annex I of this Decision.

For the territorial subdivisions referred to in Article 6(1) of Directive 93/24/EEC, the Member States shall follow the level of the common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) defined in Annex II of this Decision. They do not need to compile results for regions in which the bovine population is less than 1 % of the national bovine population.

The herd size classes referred to in Article 8(1) of Directive 93/24/EEC are set out in Annex III of this Decision.

The carcass weight referred to in Article 10(1) of Directive 93/24/EEC is the weight of the slaughtered animal’s cold body after being skinned, bled and eviscerated, and after removal of the external genitalia, the limbs at the carpus and tarsus, the head, the tail, the kidneys and kidney fats, and the udder.

1 The list of Member States authorised to carry out the May/June or November/December surveys in selected regions, on the understanding that these surveys cover at least 70 % of the bovine population, is set out in point (a) of Annex IV to this Decision.

2 The list of Member States authorised to carry out the November/December survey only is set out in point (b) of Annex IV to this Decision.

3 The list of Member States authorised to use the regional breakdown for the final results of the May/June survey is set out in point (c) of Annex IV to this Decision.

4 The list of Member States authorised to use the breakdown by herd size classes for the results of the May/June survey is set out in point (d) of Annex IV to this Decision.

Decision 94/433/EC is repealed. References made to the repealed Decision shall be construed to be made to the present Decision.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.