Commission Decision
of 18 March 2005
amending Decision 97/80/EC on provisions for the implementation of Council Directive 96/16/EC on statistical surveys of milk and milk products
(notified under document number C(2005) 754)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2005/288/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 96/16/EC, of 19 March 1996 on statistical surveys of milk and milk products1, and in particular Article 5(2), and Article 6(1) thereof,
Whereas:
Article 5(2) of Directive 96/16/EC provides that Member States forward annually to the Commission methodological information compiled in the form of a standard questionnaire drawn up by the Commission.
Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS)2 lays down the legal framework for Community statistics broken down by territorial units; the new classification (NUTS) should therefore be used for transmitting data on the cows’ milk production by agricultural holdings on a regional basis.
In view of the growing economic importance of the protein content of milk, it is becoming increasingly necessary to have statistical information on the protein content of the main milk products.
Commission Decision 97/80/EC of 18 December 19963 laying down provisions for implementation of Council Directive 96/16/EC on statistical surveys of milk and milk products must be amended and supplemented;
The measures provided for in this decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Agricultural Statistics,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
Commission Decision 97/80/EC is amended as follows:
- 1.
In Annex II, tables H and I are added. These are set out in Annex I to this Decision.
- 2.
Annex III is replaced by Annex II to this Decision.
Article 2
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 18 March 2005.
For the Commission
Joaquín Almunia
Member of the Commission
ANNEX I
In Annex II of the Decision 97/80/EC, tables H and I are added:
TABLE HDairies’ activitiesProtein content of cows’ milk in the main milk products
Country: … Year: …
Code
Product
Quantity4(1 000 t)
Protein content (t)
1
2
1
Fresh products
11
Drinking milk
112
Whole milk
113
Semi-skimmed milk
114
Skimmed milk
12
Buttermilk
13
Cream
2
Manufactured products
21
Concentrated milk
221
Cream milk powder
222
Whole milk powder
223
Partially skimmed-milk powder
224
Skimmed-milk powder
225
Buttermilk powder
23
Butter and other yellow fat dairy products
2411
Cheese from cows' milk
25
Processed cheese
26
Casein and caseinates
27
Whey
Column 1: quantities produced in thousand tonnes over the period under consideration (year). Definition : See Annex II to Decision 97/80/EC, Table B, column 1.
TABLE IRegional data on production of cows' milk
Country: … Year: …
Region
NUTS 2 code
Annual production of cows’ milk(1 000 t)5
Country total
This covers all cows’ milk other than milk directly suckled by calves; it includes all milk obtained from milking (including colostrum) and fed to animals (e.g. in buckets or by other means).
ANNEX II
Annex III of the Decision 97/80/EC is replaced by the following Annex:
ANNEX III
