Commission Regulation (EU) No 1291/2009 (repealed)Show full title

Article 1 U.K. Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:

(a)

‘holding’ means a farm business as defined in the context of the Community agricultural surveys and censuses;

(b)

‘typology’ means the Community typology for agricultural holdings established by Regulation (EC) No 1242/2008.

Article 2 U.K. Threshold for the economic size

For the accounting year 2010 (a period of 12 consecutive months beginning between 1 January 2010 and 1 July 2010) and for subsequent accounting years, the threshold of economic size as referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 shall be as follows:

— Belgium

:

EUR 25 000

— Bulgaria

:

EUR 2 000

— Czech Republic

:

EUR 8 000

— Denmark

:

EUR 15 000

— Germany

:

EUR 25 000

— Estonia

:

EUR 4 000

— Ireland

:

EUR 4 000

— Greece

:

EUR 4 000

— Spain

:

EUR 4 000

— France

:

EUR 25 000

— Italy

:

EUR 4 000

— Cyprus

:

EUR 4 000

— Latvia

:

EUR 4 000

— Lithuania

:

EUR 4 000

— Luxembourg

:

EUR 25 000

— Hungary

:

EUR 4 000

— Malta

:

EUR 4 000

— Netherlands

:

EUR 25 000

— Austria

:

EUR 8 000

— Poland

:

EUR 4 000

— Portugal

:

EUR 4 000

— Romania

:

EUR 2 000

— Slovenia

:

EUR 4 000

— Slovakia

:

EUR 15 000

— Finland

:

EUR 8 000

— Sweden

:

EUR 15 000

— United Kingdom (with the exception of Northern Ireland)

:

EUR 25 000

— United Kingdom (only Northern Ireland)

:

EUR 15 000.

Article 3 U.K. Number of returning holdings

The number of returning holdings per Member State as well as per division shall be as laid down in the Annex.

The number of returning holdings to be selected per division may differ from that laid down in the Annex by up to 20 % in either direction provided that the total number of the returning holdings of the Member State concerned is respected.

Article 4 U.K. Selection plan

The plan for the selection of returning holdings shall ensure the representativeness of the returning holdings as a whole.

It shall include:

(a)

the elements on which it is based, namely:

• particulars of the statistical reference sources,

• the procedures for stratifying the field of survey in accordance with the divisions listed in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009, the types of farming and economic size classes defined in the typology,

• the procedures for determining the selection rate chosen for each stratum,

• the procedures for the selection of returning holdings;

(b)

the breakdown of holdings in the field of survey by types of farming and economic size classes defined in the typology (corresponding at least to the principal types), and

(c)

the number of returning holdings to be selected for each of the strata adopted.

Article 5 U.K. Notification

Each year the Member States shall notify the selection plan referred to in Article 4 to the Commission not later than two months before the beginning of the accounting year to which it relates.

However, for the accounting year 2010 it shall be notified not later than one month before the beginning of the accounting year.

Notification shall be done electronically via the information systems made available to the competent authorities by the Commission or by the Member States.

The form and content of the information to be notified shall be in conformity with models made available to the Member States through the information systems. Those models and the methods to be used shall be adapted and updated after the Community Committee for the Farm Accountancy Data Network has been informed.

Data relating to notifications shall be entered and updated in the information systems under the responsibility of the competent authorities of the Member State, in accordance with the access rights granted by the authorities concerned.

Article 6 U.K. Repeal

Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82 is repealed with effect from 30 June 2010.

References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation.

Article 7 U.K. Entry into force and application

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from the accounting year 2010.

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

Done at Brussels, 18 December 2009.

For the Commission

The President

José Manuel Barroso