Community surveys on the structure of agricultural holdings (amend. regul. 571/88/EEC)

OBJECTIVE: collecting statistics permitting a monitoring over time of developments in agricultural structures for the purposes of Community policies (agricultural, regional, social, environmental, etc.), and to enable other statistical surveys to be carried out in the agricultural sector. SUBSTANCE: after amendment, Regulation (EEC) No 571/88 would be extended to cover the period 1998-2007, providing for Community surveys on agricultural structures, begun in 1988. Experience has shown that the survey programme and methodology of the Community structure surveys should remain unchanged wherever possible and should be adjusted in future surveys only in so far as this is necessary to take account of new developments in agriculture, in particular in farming techniques, and/or to take account of the new orientation of the common agricultural policy and the new information requirements of the EU and the Member States. �