29. 12. 81 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 373/5 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3719/81 of 21 December 1981 amending Regulation (EEC) No 357/79 on statistical surveys of areas under vines THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commis- sion (1), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia- ment (2), Whereas, pursuant to Article 22 of the 1979 Act of Accession, certain adjustments must be made to Council Regulation (EEC) No 357/79 of 5 February 1979 on statistical surveys of areas under vines (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1992/80 (), in accordance with the guidelines given in Annex II to that Act; Whereas Article 1 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 357/79 provides that the Member States concerned shall carry out every 10 years basic surveys on the area under vines and annually intermediate surveys ; whereas, as a result of difficulties which could not have been fore- seen, it was not possible to complete the first basic survey on the area under vines in one Member State within the prescribed period ; whereas it was therefore decided to grant an extension of the agreed period of one year to this Member State ; whereas this extension has proved insufficient because of further complica- tions of a legislative nature; whereas it is therefore advisable to allow this Member State to postpone for a further year the dates by which this survey must be completed and the results forwarded to the Commis- sion ; Whereas it is desirable that the Community should bear part of the expenditure incurred by Greece for the first basic survey conducted by this Member State, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 357/79 is hereby amended as follows : (") OJ No C 261, 13. 10. 1981, p. 6. (%) Opinion delivered on 16 December 1981 (not yet published in the Official Journal). () O] No L 54, 5. 3. 1979, p. 124, () OJ No L 195, 29. 7. 1980, p. 10. 1. In Article 1 (1), the second subparagraph shall be replaced by the following : ‘However, the first basic survey in Italy may be completed by 31 October 1982 and shall relate to the situation after grubbing and planting in the 1981/82 wine-growing year. The first intermediate survey in this Member State shall be carried out in 1984 and shall relate to changes during the two wine-growing years 1982/83 and 1983/84. 2. Article 1 (2) shall be replaced by the following: ‘2. The wine-growing year shall be that fixed on the basis of Article 5 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 337/79. 3. In Article 4 (3) the following shall be inserted after the first indent: ‘— in Greece : the wine-growing regions listed in the Annex hereto,’. 4. In Article S (4), the second subparagraph shall be replaced by the following : ‘However, Italy may submit this detailed descrip- tion before 30 June 1983’ 5. Article 6 (1) shall be replaced by the following : ‘1. The Member States concerned shall submit to the Commission for each wine-growing year the mean yield per hectare in terms of hectolitres per hectare of grape must or wine or in terms of decitonnes per hectare of grapes produced, with effect from the 1979/80 wine-growing year, and in the case of ltaly and Greece with effect from the 1982/83 wine-growing year, from the areas under vines of wine grape varieties, broken down into the yield classes referred to in paragraph 2. 6. Article 6 (5) shall be replaced by the following : ‘5. The Member States concerned shall commu- nicate to the Commission, for each wine-growing year and broken down by geographical units, esti- mates of the mean natural alcoholic strength expressed as % vol or in °Oechsle of the fresh grapes, grape musts or wines, produced from the