Proposal for a regulation
Article 11
Article 11 Survey on agricultural production methods 1. Member States shall carry out a sample survey on agricultural production methods used by agricultural holdings. 2. In duly justified cases, the Commission may allow a Member State to carry out the sample survey using separate sub-samples. 3. Member States shall collect information on the characteristics of the agricultural production methods listed in Annex V. If a characteristic has a low or zero prevalence in a Member State, in duly justified cases the Commission may allow the Member State to exclude the characteristic from the survey. The volume of water used for irrigation per year may be calculated using statistical imputation. 4. The Commission determines the definitions of the characteristics. That measure, designed to amend non- essential elements of this Regulation, inter alia by supplementing and/or by deleting some non-essential elements, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 15(2). 5. The reference period shall coincide with the reference periods used for the characteristics of the farm structure survey in 2010. 6. The results of this survey shall be linked to the data obtained from the farm structure survey in 2010 at the level of individual agricultural holding. The combined validated data set shall be transmitted to the Commission in electronic form no later than 31 December 2012. 7. The Commission determines the format for the transmission of the survey data.deleted