Subject matter
The purpose of this Regulation is to establish a common legal framework for the systematic production of Community statistics on livestock and meat production in Member States, in particular:
(a)
statistics on bovine, pig, sheep and goat livestock;
(b)
slaughtering statistics on bovine animals, pigs, sheep, goats and poultry; and
(c)
production forecasts of beef, veal, pigmeat, sheepmeat and goatmeat.