Milk and milk products: statistical surveys

2003/0060(COD)
The Commission accepts all six amendments proposed by the European Parliament and will take them into account in its amended proposal. They aim to : - delete the words "or even local"; - delete the new recital 4 on the possibility of conducting the surveys among local production units; - replace Article 1(1) defining the survey units as local units for those Member States which do not obtain the agreement of the enterprises to lift confidentiality of the data; - abolish the collection of data on the quantities of the main milk products reused in the production chain and allows a choice to continue to be made between the two methods: an estimate of the protein content of fresh products (output) and the protein content of the products used (input), in order to assess the protein content of the main milk products; - simplify the reference to the methodological reports, with a view to avoiding redundancy; - replace the paragraph on the dissemination of confidential data.�