Proposal for a Council Directive 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
C 110/8 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 21. 4. 1999 Proposal for a Council Directive 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 (1999/C 110/07) COM(1999) 78 final - 1999/0051(CNS) (Submitted by the Commission on 5 March 1999) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament, (1) Whereas Council Directive 76/625/EEC (1), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden, lays down the basic provisions for statistical surveys of the area of plantations of certain species of fruit trees in order to determine the potential and medium-term development of Community production; (2) Whereas Directive 76/625/EEC requires the Member States to provide the Commission every year with annual data on the clearing and new plantations of fruit trees, and requires the Commission to submit annual reports to the Council on that basis; (3) Whereas those data are not indispensable for determining of and medium-term development potential the Community production; (4) Whereas the collection and transmission of data on clearing and new plantations and the annual reports to be presented to the Council by the Commission should be made optional, HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE: Article 1 The following Article 8a is inserted in Directive 76/625/EEC: Article 8a The measures provided for in Articles 5 and 6, and the annual reports provided for in Article 8, shall be optional. í Article 2 This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. Article 3 This Directive is addressed to the Member States. (1) OJ L 218, 11. 8. 1976, p. 10