Article 05 08 01 — Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN)

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover the financing of the standard fees and the development of facilities for the collection, processing, analysis, publication and dissemination of farm accountancy data and analysis of results.

Legal basis

Regulation No 79/65/EEC of the Council of 15 June 1965 setting up a network for the collection of accountancy data on the incomes and business operation of agricultural holdings in the European Economic Community (OJ 109, 23.6.1965, p. 1859/65), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 660/2004 (OJ L 104, 8.4.2004, p. 97).

Article 05 08 02 — Surveys on the structure of agricultural holdings

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover contributions to financing statistical surveys needed to monitor structures in the European Union, including the Eurofarm database.

Legal basis

Council Regulation (EEC) No 571/88 of 29 February 1988 on the organisation of Community surveys on the structure of agricultural holdings between 1988 and 2007 (OJ L 56, 2.3.1988, p. 1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1928/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 406, 30.12.2006, p. 7).

Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council, presented by the Commission on …, on farm structure surveys and the survey on agricultural production methods repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 571/88 (COM(2007) …).

Article 05 08 03 — Restructuring of systems for agricultural surveys

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover:

• expenditure on the improvement of systems of agricultural statistics in the Community,

• subsidies, contractual expenditure and expenditure involving payments for services connected with the purchasing and the consulting of databases,

• subsidies, contractual expenditure and expenditure involving payments for services connected with agricultural sector modelling and short- and medium-term forecasts of market and agricultural structure trends, and with the dissemination of results,

• subsidies, contractual expenditure and expenditure involving payments for services connected with the implementation of operations for applying remote sensing, area sampling and agrometeorological models to agricultural statistics,

• subsidies, contractual expenditure and expenditure involving payments for services connected with the carrying out of economic analysis and development of indicators in the field of agriculture policy.

Legal basis

Tasks arising from the prerogatives of the Commission at the institutional level, under the terms of Article 49(6)(c) of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1), as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

Council Decision 96/411/EC of 25 June 1996 on improving Community agricultural statistics (OJ L 162, 1.7.1996, p. 14), as last amended by Decision No 787/2004/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 138, 30.4.2004, p. 12).

Decision No 1445/2000/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2000 on the application of aerial-survey and remote-sensing techniques to the agricultural statistics for 1999 to 2003 (OJ L 163, 4.7.2000, p. 1), as last amended by Decision No 786/2004/EC (OJ L 138, 30.4.2004, p. 7).

Proposal for a Council Decision, presented by the Commission on …., on improving Community agricultural statistics (COM(2007) …).

Proposal for a Council Regulation presented by the Commission on ….., on the actions to be undertaken by the Commission for the period 2008-2013, through remote-sensing applications put in place in the framework of the Common Agricultural Policy (COM(2007) …).

Article 05 08 06 — Enhancing public awareness of the common agricultural policy

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover the financing of these measures by the Community, as provided for in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 814/2000.

The measures may take the form of:

1. annual work programmes submitted, in particular, by farmers' or rural development organisations, consumers' associations and environmental protection associations,

2. specific measures submitted, in particular, by the public authorities of the Member States, the media and universities,

3. activities implemented at the Commission's initiative,

4. activities for the promotion of family farming.

Legal basis

Council Regulation (EC) No 814/2000 of 17 April 2000 on information measures relating to the common agricultural policy (OJ L 100, 20.4.2000, p. 7).

Article 05 08 08 — External study on the impact of Directive 2000/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council

Legal basis

Directive 2000/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 June 2000 relating to cocoa and chocolate products intended for human consumption (OJ L 197, 3.8.2000, p. 19).

Article 05 08 09 — European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) — Operational technical assistance

Remarks

This appropriation covers the expenditure in conformity with Article 5(a) to (d) of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005.

Legal basis

Council Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 of 21 June 2005 on the financing of the common agricultural policy (OJ L 209, 11.8.2005, p. 1), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 378/2007 (OJ L 95, 5.4.2007, p. 1).

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