23.12. 81 Official ']oumal of the European Communities No L 367/31 COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 15 December 1981 amending Directive 76/625/EEC concerning the statistical surveys to be carried out by the Member States in order to determine the production potential of plantations of certain species of fruit trees (81/101S/EEC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, : Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European I ‘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 Parliament (2), Whereas Member States submit the results of the survey carried out - pursuant to  Directive 76/625/EEC (3), as last amended by the 1979 Act of Accession, by production area and not by the list of territories set out in the Annex to that Directive ; Whereas experience has shown that some Member States have encountered difficulties in meeting the final date mentioned in Articles 5 (1) and 6 (1) of the said Directive ; whereas provision should therefore be made for a longer period ; Whereas it is desirable that the annual estimates of areas of fruit trees cleared referred to in the said Article 5 (1) be broken down by variety ; Whereas, owing to special circumstances, it will not be possible for one Member State to collect data by density classes during the 1982 survey, and it is there- fore appropriate to grant this Member State a deroga- tion in respect of the 1982 survey; Whereas the financial responsibility of the Commu- nity must be defined with regard to expenditure incurred by Greece for the 1982 survey, HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE : Article 1 Directive 76/625/EEC is hereby amended as follows : 1. The following shall be added to Article 2 (1) point C: ‘ ‘However, the United Kingdom is not required to - determine the density of plantation when conducting the 1982 survey.’ (1) OJ No C 246, 26. 9. 1981, p. 3. (2) OJ No C 327, 14. 12. 1981, p. 79. () OJ No L 218, 11. 8. 1976, p. 10. 2. The second subparagraph of Article 4 (2) shall be deleted. 3. The first subpar:;graph- of Article § (1) shall ‘be replaced by the following : ‘Member States shall make annual estimates of the areas of fruit trees of the species referred to in Article 1 (1) cleared in their territory and shall notify the results of their estimates to the Commis- sion by 31 March of the following year at the latest. In so far as possible, these estimates must distin- guish between varieties.’ . 4. In the second subparagraph of Article 5 (1) the words ‘by 31 December at the latest’ shall be replaced by the words ‘by 31 March of the fol- lowing year at the latest’. 5. Article 6 (1) shall be replaced by the following: ‘1. Member States shall make annual estimates - of the areas of fruit trees of the species referred to in Article' 1 (1) planted in their territory and shall notify the results of their estimates to the Commis- sion by 31 March of the following year at the latest. In so far as possible, these estimates must distin- guish between varieties.’ ‘ 6. The following subparagraph shall be inserted in Article 10 (1), immediately after the list of Member _ States : ‘Contributions to the expenditure incurred by Greece on the 1982 survey shall be entered in the budget of the European Communities up to a maximum amount of 85000 ECU’ 7. The Annex shall be repealed. ) “Article 2 This Directive is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels_, 15 Deceﬁqber 1981. For the Council The President P. WALKER