29.6.2009 Official Journal of the European Union L167/1 (Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is obligatory) REGULATIONS REGULATION (EC) No 543/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 18 June 2009 concerning crop statistics and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 837/90 and (EEC) No 959/93 (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EURO- (2) Statistics on crops are essential for management of the PEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Commu- nity, and in particular Article 285(1) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty (1), Whereas: (1) Council Regulation (EEC) No 837/90 of 26 March 1990 concerning statistical information to be supplied by the Member States on cereals production (2) and Council Regu- lation (EEC) No 959/93 of 5 April 1993 concerning statis- tical information to be supplied by Member States on crop products other than cereals (3) have been amended several times. Further amendments and simplifications now being necessary, these acts should, for reasons of clarity, and in accordance with the new approach to the simplification of Community legislation and better regulation (), be replaced by one single act. (") Opinion of the European Parliament of 19 February 2009 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and Council Decision of 8 June 2009. () OJ L 88, 3.4.1990, p. 1. () OJ L 98, 24.4.1993, p. 1. (*) Interinstitutional Agreement on better law-making (O] C 321, 31.12.2003, p. 1). Community markets. It is also considered essential that vegetable and permanent crop statistics be included in addition to statistics on cereals and remaining crops from arable land, currently governed by Community legislation. (3)  In order to ensure that the common agricultural policy is properly administered, the Commission requires that data on area, yield and production of crops are regularly provided. (4)  Regulation (EC) No 1166/2008 of the European Parlia- ment and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on farm structure surveys and the survey on agricultural production methods () provides for a programme of Community sur- veys for the provision of statistics on the structure of agri- cultural holdings up to 2016. (5)  Inaccordance with 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 terri- torial units for statistics (NUTS) (¢), all Member States’ sta- tistics transmitted to the Commission which are broken down by territorial units are to use the NUTS classification. Consequently, in order to establish comparable regional statistics, the territorial units should be defined in accor- dance with the NUTS classification. () OJ L 321, 1.12.2008, p. 14. () OJ L 154,21.6.2003, p. 1.