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.