No L 96/10 Official Journal of the European Communities 8. 4. 8] COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 940/81 of 7 April 1981 on the declaration of areas used for producing vegetative propagation material for vines THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 337/79 of § February 1979 on the common organiza- tion of the market in wine (!), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3456/80 (%), and in partigular Article 28 (4) thereof, Whereas Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No 337/79 provides that Member States shall keep a check, by annual surveys, on areas for the production of vegeta- tive propagation material for vines ; whereas that provi- sion was introduced at the same time as the system of statistical surveys replaced the wviticultural land register ; whereas detailed rules should be laid down in respect of these surveys and Commission Regula- tion (EEC) No 1894/68 (%) repealed ; Whereas, so that control on the production and marketing of vegetative propagation material for vines by Member States can be effectively organized, producers should make individual declarations as regards stock and cutting nurseries used to obtain vege- tative propagation material for vines; Whereas, in the interests of simplicity, the declara- tions already available to Member States through their own legislation should be used for checking on the production of vegetative propagation materials for vines ; Whereas declarations should be made according to the various categories of stock set out in Council Directive 68/193/EEC of 9 April 1968 on the marketing of material for the vegetative propagation of the vine (%), as last amended by Council Directive 78/692/EEC (%) ; Whereas, in order to check cutting nursery produc- tion, annual declarations are needed on the number of nursery cuttings and grafted cuttings planted ; Whereas an estimate of the percentage of successful nursery cuttings and grafted cuttings is useful for following the market in vegetative propagation material for vines; OJ No L 54, 5. 3. 1979, p. 1. O] No L 360, 31. 12. 1980, p. 18. O] No L 288, 28. 11. 1968, p. 10. O] No L 93, 17. 4. 1968, p. 15. O] No L 236, 26. 8. 1978, p. 13. Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage- ment Committee for Wine, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 1. Any natural or legal person, or association of such persons, who : {a) informs the competent authorities in accordance with Article 30b (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 337/79 by a written declaration : — of his intention to grub or replant a root stock nursery or to carry out a new planting of an authorized root stock nursery, or — that he has grubbed, replanted or carried out a new planting of a root stock nursery, shall state in the said declaration at least the parti- culars referred to in Article 2 (1); (b ~ cultivates or causes to be cultivated, on 1 July of the current year, a cutting nursery, for commercial purposes, shall advise the competent authorities thereof by a written declaration, stating at least the particulars referred to in Article 2 (2). 2. The cultivation of a nursery by any person or association of persons as referred to in paragraph | in order to cover the personal needs of the wine-growers and nurserymen shall be deemed to be cultivation for commercial purposes within the meaning of para- graph 1 (b). 3.  The production of vine plants in soil blocks, pots or other containers shall also be deemed to be cultivation of a nursery. 4. Member States may exempt the natural or legal persons or associations of persons referred to in para- graph 1 (b) from making declarations pusuant to that paragraph or to paragraphs 2 and 3, provided that they receive every year the particulars specified in those paragraphs by means of other written declarations made in pursuance of national provisions.