Improving Community agricultural statistics

The European Parliament adopted the report by Mr Salvador JOVE PERES (GUE/NGL, E) on the proposal on improving Community agricultural statistics. The amendments to the proposal for a decision were mainly aimed at strengthening the administrative structure of the Member States responsible for collecting the agricultural statistics. The EP proposed in particular: - that the process of adapting the Community's agricultural statistics should begin during the 1996-1997 period; - that the action plan for agricultural statistics should be defined each year by the Commission in conjunction with Eurostat, the Standing Committee on Agricultural Statistics and the Statistical Programme Committee; - that the Community's contribution to the costs of adapting national systems should be limited to investment expenditure and should not exceed 50% of the total cost of each operation; - that the consequences of implementing the reform of the CAP should be examined, with a view to the enlargement of the European Union to include the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. �