L 291/28 Official Journal of the European Communities 13.11.1999 II (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 22 October 1999 amending Decision 85/377/EEC establishing a Community typology for agricultural holdings (notified under document number C(1999) 3414) (1999/725[EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, of observation must be representative in terms of the objectives of each of the analyses planned; Having r.egard to the Treaty establishing the European (3)  Council Regulation (EEC) No 571/88 (°), as last amended Community, by Commission Decision 98/377[EC (%), has been extended to provide for a series of surveys on the struc- ture of agricultural holdings from 1998 to 2007 and Having regard to Council Regulation No 79/65/EEC of 15 June lists the characteristics to be surveyed; 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 (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1256/97 (), and in particular Article 4 thereof, (4)  the structure and content of the list of survey character- istics for 1999/2000 Community basic survey have been amended, so that the characteristics in the new list differ from those recorded in the previous surveys and it is therefore necessary to adapt Decision 85/377EEC to the lists of survey characteristics laid down by Regulation Whereas: (EEC) No 571/88; ()  Commission Decision 85/377/EEC of 7 June 1985 (5)  a modification of the economic size classes of holdings establishing a Community typology for agricultural applied in the Community typology is appropriate to holdings (?), as last amended by Commission Decision show the development in the structure of agriculture 96/393/EC (%), is the basis for the classification of agri- within the Community; cultural holdings by economic size and type of farming both in the farm structure surveys and under the farm (6)  the measures provided for in this Decision are in accord- accountancy data network (FADN); whereas the ance with the opinions of the Community Committee Community typology is also the basis for calculating the for the farm accountancy data network and of the European size units (ESU) and the thresholds used to Standing Committee for agricultural statistics, delimit the field of observation and to draw up the plan for selecting the returning holdings included or to be included in the FADN; HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: (2)  the results of the farm structure surveys, classified by ESU and type of farming serve as a basis for defining the field of observation of the FADN, which serves as a basis Artide 1 for selecting and weighting the FADN farm sample; whereas the selection of returning holdings for the field Anneses 1l and Tl of Decision 85/377[EEC are amended as (") OJ 109, 23.6.1965, p. 1859. follows: () O] L 174, 2.7.1997, p. 7. () O] L 220, 17.8.1985, p. 1. () O L 56, 2.3.1988, p. 1. ) O] L 163, 2.7.1996, p. 45. () O] L 168, 13.6.1998, p. 29.