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Summaries of EU Legislation

Statistics on the inputs and outputs of agricultural activities

SUMMARY OF:

Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 on statistics on agricultural input and output

WHAT IS THE AIM OF THE REGULATION?

It establishes a framework for aggregated European Union (EU) statistics on agricultural inputs and outputs – including the latter’s intermediate use in agriculture – and their collection and processing.

KEY POINTS

  • The statistics concern statistical units such as:
    • agricultural holdings1;
    • common land agricultural units2;
    • enterprises providing, buying, collecting or processing agricultural goods and services, including hatcheries, dairies and slaughterhouses;
    • transactions and flows of production factors, goods and services to and from agricultural activities.
  • The statistics cover:
    • animal production: livestock and meat; eggs and chicks; milk and milk products;
    • crop production: area and production; crop balances; grasslands;
    • agricultural prices: price indices; absolute input prices; agricultural land prices and rents;
    • nutrients: agricultural fertilisers; nutrient balances;
    • plant protection products.
  • The statistics must represent:
    • 95% of each EU Member State’s animal production and agricultural area used for crops or potentially treated with nutrients in fertilisers; and
    • initially 75%, later 85% and potentially 95% of the use of plant protection products in agricultural activity.

Member States:

  • may use the following to provide the necessary information:
    • statistical surveys or other statistical data collection methods,
    • administrative data specified in certain EU legislation,
    • other sources such as national administrative data, digital tools or remote sensors;
  • must ensure the quality of the data they transmit;
  • submit quality reports to Eurostat every 3 years, beginning on , on the processes used to provide their data.

Eurostat:

  • analyses, in a transparent and verifiable way, the quality of the data it receives;
  • may, when new data requirements or a need for major improvements are identified, launch feasibility studies to evaluate:
    • the availability and quality of new data sources,
    • the development and implementation of new statistical techniques,
    • the financial impact and burden on data suppliers;
  • disseminates the data it receives online and for free.

The European Commission:

  • may adopt delegated acts to amend the detailed topics of the domains covered or to fulfil ad hoc data needs;
  • shall adopt implementing acts to specify the data sets to be transmitted, including lists and descriptions of variables and precision requirements;
  • ensures the secondary legislation does not impose significant additional burden or costs on Member States;
  • takes appropriate measures to ensure EU funding is protected from fraud, corruption or other illegal activity;
  • reports by , and every 5 years thereafter, to the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on the regulation’s implementation.

The Annex sets out the transmission frequencies, reference periods, and the potential regional-level and organic farming dimensions, for all detailed topics of the data Member States have to transmit.

The EU covers up to 95% of the costs involved in meeting some of the requirements of the regulation with grants from the single market programme.

Transitional rules apply for plant protection products from 2025 to 2027 in order to increase coverage gradually.

The regulation:

FROM WHEN DOES THE REGULATION APPLY?

It applies from .

BACKGROUND

The regulation is part of a move to modernise European agricultural statistics. It improves knowledge of agricultural practices and production in the context of the common agricultural policy, the European Green Deal and the ‘farm to fork’ strategy.

Transparent, comprehensive and reliable statistics are essential to design, implement, monitor, evaluate and review EU agricultural policies and their impact on other policy areas.

KEY TERMS

  1. Agricultural holding. A single agricultural unit, technically, economically and managerially.
  2. Common land agricultural unit. Land where common rights apply and that is used by two or more agricultural holdings.

MAIN DOCUMENT

Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 of the European Parliament and of the Council of on statistics on agricultural input and output, amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008 and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1165/2008, (EC) No 543/2009 and (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Directive 96/16/EC (OJ L 315, , pp. 1–29).

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