1.A Community programme shall be defined in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 30(2), covering the essential information needed for scientific evaluations.
2.Each Member State shall draw up a national programme of collection and management of data. The programme shall describe both the collection of detailed data and the processing needed to produce aggregated data in accordance with the objectives set out in Article 5.
3.Each Member State shall include in its national programme the elements relating to it as foreseen under the Community programme drawn-up under paragraph 1.
4.Member States may apply to the Community for financial assistance for those parts of their national programmes that correspond to the elements of the Community programme with which they are concerned.