L 329/14 Official Journal of the European Union 4.11.2004 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 26 October 2004 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Directive 93/25/EEC on the statistical surveys to be carried out on sheep and goat stocks (notified under document number C(2004) 4092) (Text with EEA relevance) (2004/747[EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Directive 93/25/EEC of 1 June 1993 on the statistical surveys to be carried out on sheep and goat stocks (1), and in particular Articles 2(2), 3(2) and (3), 7, and 13(3) thereof, Whereas: (1) Precise definitions are required in order to carry out the surveys provided for in Directive 93/25/EEC. This requires the definition of the agricultural holdings covered by the survey. The different categories for the breakdown of the survey results, and the herd size classes and the territorial subdivisions according to which the Member States draw up the survey results at regular intervals must also be precisely defined. A standard defi- nition of carcass weight is necessary for the drawing-up of slaughtering statistics. (2)  Because of the accession of the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia, it is necessary to make certain technical adaptations. (3)  Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and the Council (3) establishes a common clas- sification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) for the Member States; the regional levels previously defined for these must therefore be replaced by the new NUTS clas- sification. () OJ L 149, 21.6.1993, p. 10. Directive last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (O] L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1). () OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1. (4)  Commission Decision 2003/597/EC of 4 August 2003 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Directive 93/25/EEC as regards the statistical surveys on sheep and goat population and production (?) should be repealed. (5)  This Decision is in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Agricultural Statistics, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Article 1 1. For the purposes of Article 2(2) of Directive 93/25/EEC, ‘agricultural holding’ means any technical and economic unit under single management which produces agricultural products. 2. The survey referred to in Article 1(1) of Directive 93/25/EEC shall cover: (a) agricultural holdings with a utilised agricultural area of 1 ha or more; (b) agricultural holdings with a utilised agricultural area of less than 1 ha, if their production is to a certain extent intended for sale or if their production unit exceeds certain natural thresholds. 3. Member States wishing to apply a different survey threshold shall, however, undertake to determine that threshold in such a way that only the smallest holdings are excluded, and that together the holdings excluded account for 1% or less of the total standard gross margin, within the meaning of Commission Decision 85/377[EEC (%), of the Member State concerned. () O] L 203, 12.08.2003, p. 46. () OJ L 220, 17.8.1985, p. 1.