EUR-Lex - 31977D0122 - EN

Article 1

The sample of agricultural holdings shall be taken from the list of agricultural holdings for the general census of agriculture of 1970 and from the updated table of exceptional holdings.

Article 2

1. Non-exceptional holdings shall be stratified in each department: (a) according to technico-economic farm type or group of types;

(b) according to annual work units (AWU) into six strata:

less than 0 775 AWU, 0 775 to less than 1 775 AWU, 1 775 to less than 2 750 AWU, 2 750 to less than 5 AWU, 5 to less than 10 AWU and 10 AWU and above.

1. Exceptional holdings shall be the subject of exhaustive surveys. (1)OJ No L 42, 15.2.1975, p. 21.

Article 3

1. The sampling of non-exceptional holdings shall be systematic at a rate remaining constant within one stratum.

1. There shall be eight series of sampling ratios for each group of technico-economic types approximately in proportion to the size of the holdings, and one series of more flexible sampling ratios adaptable to those technico-economic types presenting an abnormal distribution of holdings by AWU strata.

Sampling ratios shall be between 1 and 1/40.

Article 4

This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.

Done at Brussels, 25 January 1977.

For the Commission

François-Xavier ORTOLI

Vice-President