Legal provisions of COM(2003)158 - Amendment of Council Directive 96/16/EC on statistical surveys of milk and milk products

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Article 1

Council Directive 96/16/EC shall be amended as follows:

1. Article 4 shall be amended as follows:

(a) the following shall be added to paragraph 1(b):

"(iv) the protein content of the main milk products, based on the measuring or estimating method most likely to guarantee reliable data;

(v) the quantity of cows' milk produced by agricultural holdings on a regional basis (territorial unit NUTS 2) according to the most appropriate measuring or estimating method for guaranteeing the reliability of the data."

(b) paragraph 2 shall be deleted;

2. the last sentence of Article 5(2) shall be replaced by the following:"Member States shall notify the Commission annually of the methodological information relating to the information referred to in Article 4(1), using a standard questionnaire drawn up by the Commission in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 7.";

3. Article 6(3) shall be amended as follows:

(a) in point (b), the second indent shall be deleted;

(b) point (c) shall be replaced by the following:

"(c) in September of the year following the year of the reference date, the results referred to in point 2 of Article 1 and in points (b)(v) and (c) of Article 4(1)."

Article 2

Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 31 March 2004. They shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof.

When Member States adopt these measures, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such reference on the occasion of their official publication. The methods of making such reference shall be laid down by Member States.

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.