Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 December 2003 on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community (Text with EEA relevance)

• 7.11.The statistical approach (industry) ‘makes do’ with an observable unit even if that means deviating from the single activity. As with the 2008 SNA, the ESA 2010 prefers the statistical approach and advocates the local KAU for the compilation of national accounts by industry. They thus define the same unit for the industries whether those are covered at regional or national level.

• 7.12.Like the EAA, the REAA use the agricultural holding – ‘adapted’ in line with certain conventions to comply with the objectives in question – as the basic unit for the agricultural industry. There are two crucial reasons for that choice. On the one hand, the agricultural holding unit is the local KAU for agriculture (cf. 1.09 to 1.17), defined as that part of a KAU which refers to the local level. The local KAU is also the most appropriate unit for the agricultural industry, even if it includes non-agricultural secondary activities, which cannot be shown separately from the agricultural activities (cf. 1.15 and 1.16, 1.25 to 1.32).

• 7.13.Using the agricultural holding as the basic unit means including the non-agricultural secondary activities of those agricultural holdings in the REAA (cf. 7.12). Since the purpose of the EAA is to measure, describe and analyse the formation of income from agricultural economic activity, it excludes units that produce solely a leisure activity (e.g. kitchen gardens and private livestock rearing). In contrast, units engaged in subsistence farming are included in the EAA (cf. 1.24).

• 7.14.The agricultural holding is the reference unit for statistical surveys relating to agriculture, whether those are national or regional. That has the advantage that evaluations of output in quantity terms may be based directly on the statistical systems for measuring areas, yields, herd sizes, etc. The choice of the agricultural holding also makes for better accounting consistency.

4. Methods of compiling the REAA

• 7.15.The ESA (ESA 2010, 13.24 to 13.32) proposes two methods, applying to either industries or institutional sectors: the bottom-up and the top-down methods. The bottom-up method consists of collecting the data at the level of the units (local KAUs, institutional units) and then summing them to obtain the regional value for the different aggregates. The top-down method reconstructs the regional values by breaking down the national figure, using an indicator that reflects as closely as possible the regional distribution of the variable in question. Those two methods may also be combined in various ways, combinations which the ESA refers to as a mixture of bottom-up and top-down methods. However, collecting the same information more than once, thus creating redundancy in the data reporting, shall be avoided. Yet priority is given to the bottom-up method, although it is realised that in many cases a mixture of bottom-up and top-down methods is actually used. Details of the specific method and sources shall be set out in full transparency in the quality reports, indicating which regional data have been collected directly and which data are based on national data with regional breakdowns based on assumptions.

5. Concepts of residence and territory

• 7.16.Economic transactions of both enterprises and households may cross regional boundaries. Enterprises may also operate in more than one region, either at permanent sites or on a temporary basis, e.g. big farms may undertake work in different regions. Therefore, a clear principle is needed to help Member States to consistently allocate that interregional activity to a region.

• 7.17.The regional accounts of the industries are based on the criterion of residence of the production unit. Each industry at a regional level refers to the group of local KAUs of the same or similar principal economic activity, which have their centre of economic interest in that regional territory. More often than not, that centre of interest is associated with a specific long-term location in the region, like the institutional units to which the local KAUs belong.

• 7.18.However, the regional accounts have a number of distinct features. For certain activities, it is not always easy to define the region as a specific area. The relationship between the location of the head office and the physical location of the agricultural holding can create a problem, as factors of agricultural production may be managed by a head office in another region. For the REAA, it is important to split the two entities, and for that reason an agricultural holding must be assigned to the region where its factors of production are situated and not to the region where its headquarters are located. One head office may therefore give rise to several units within the meaning of the REAA, i.e. to as many units as there are regions of residence for local KAUs that are away from the region of the head office.

• 7.19.An alternative concept, which is generally not applied in the national and regional accounts, would be strictly territorial. That concept implies that activities are allocated to the territory where they actually take place, regardless of the residence of the units involved in the activity.

• 7.20.Though the residential approach takes precedence for the regional allocation of transactions of resident units, ESA 2010 provides for some limited scope for the application of the territorial approach (ESA 2010, 13.21). That occurs where notional units are created for land and buildings in the region or country in which the land or buildings are located.

• 7.21.In the hypothetical case, where units resident in a region only have activities within their regional territory, the residence concept coincides with the territory concept. That is also the case for the regional allocation based on notional units created for land and buildings and for unincorporated enterprises in other countries or in regions that are different from the region of residence of the owner.

6. Agricultural industry and characteristic units

• 7.22.The industry consists of all the local KAUs, which carry out an identical or similar economic activity (cf. 1.59). The agricultural industry, as described in the EAA, corresponds, in principle, to Division 01 in NACE Revision 2, with differences shown in 1.62 to 1.66. The scope of the REAA is defined on the basis of the list of characteristic activities drawn up for the EAA. There are some differences between the agricultural industry in the EAA, and thus in the REAA, and the industry established for the central framework of the national accounts (cf. 1.93).

B. TRANSACTIONS IN PRODUCTS

• 7.23.Valuing agricultural output poses a number of specific problems. The most important relate to seasonal products, livestock production and the timing of the entries in the accounts. The EAA methodology puts forward precise rules governing how the effects of the storage of seasonal products shall be taken into account, how the output of livestock shall be measured and how products on which work is in progress must be recorded. Those principles shall be complied with when the REAA are compiled. However, that does not rule out certain adaptations at regional level, for example for livestock production. It should be stressed that the total of the regional valuation must be identical with the EAA valuations.

1. Output

(a) Measurement of output

• 7.24.In the REAA, output of a region represents all products within the scope of EAA produced over the accounting period in that region by all the units of the agricultural industry, whether they are intended for marketing outside the industry, for sale to other agricultural holdings or, in certain cases, for use by the same agricultural holding. Consequently:

• (a) any agricultural product leaving an agricultural holding in the region shall be recorded as part of the output of the region, irrespective of its destination or the unit buying it;

• (b) certain agricultural products used as intermediate consumption by the same agricultural holding shall be included in the output of the region (cf. 2.056).

• 7.25.The production process of livestock generally takes several years. When livestock is valued, a distinction must be made between animals classified as fixed assets (breeding and draught animals, dairy cows, etc.) and those classified as stocks (animals intended mainly for meat). Thus, in order to avoid double counting, transactions involving the movement of animals between agricultural holdings (which are taken to be positive sales for the agricultural holdings selling the livestock and negative sales for the purchasing agricultural holdings), are dealt with as set out below:

• (a) transactions between agricultural holdings in the same region involving animals classified as fixed assets cancel each other out, apart from the transfer of ownership costs ([^E0056]); they are not entered as the agricultural holdings’ sales and are therefore not included in the output of the region in question;

• (b) animals classified as stock and which are the subject of a transaction between regions are treated as positive sales (along with exports) for the region of origin and animals bought from other regions as negative sales (along with imports) ([^E0057]);

• (c) when ownership transfer costs (transport, trade margins, etc.) relate to trade in animals classified as stock, they are deducted from output; that happens automatically when purchases from agricultural holdings in other regions are involved, since the costs are part of negative sales, whereas an adjustment must be made in sales, and thus in output, for trade in animals between agricultural holdings in the same region.

(b) Valuation of output

• 7.26.Output shall be valued at basic prices (cf. 2.082), i.e. including subsidies on products, less taxes on products. That method of calculation means that taxes and subsidies on products need to be broken down by region.

2. Intermediate consumption

(a) Definition

• 7.27.Intermediate consumption consists of the goods (other than fixed assets) and market services consumed during the production process to produce other goods (cf. 2.097 to 2.109).

• 7.28.When the REAA are compiled, intermediate consumption includes:

• (a) agricultural products purchased for consumption during the production process from other agricultural holdings (whether in the same region or in another region);

• (b) certain products used as intra-unit consumption and entered as output (cf. 2.054 to 2.058 and 7.24).

• 7.29.The particular case of FISIM is treated in regional accounts in the same way as in national accounts. If the estimation of stocks of loans and deposits is available by region, the bottom-up method can be used. However, usually estimates of stocks of loans and deposits are not available by region. Where that is the case, the allocation of FISIM to the user industry is made with a second-best method: regional gross output or gross value added by industry are used as distribution indicators (ESA 2010, 13.40).

(b) Valuation of intermediate consumption

• 7.30.All products and services used for intermediate consumption shall be valued at the purchaser price (excluding deductible VAT) (cf. 2.110 to 2.114).

3. Gross capital formation

• 7.31.Gross capital formation for agriculture is subdivided into:

• (a) GFCF;

• (b) changes in inventories.

(a) GFCF

• 7.32.There is fixed capital formation in agriculture whenever a holder acquires or produces fixed assets which are intended to be used for a period of more than 1 year as a means of production in the agricultural production process. The allocation criterion for the recording of GFCF refers to the user industries and not to the industry to which the legal owner belongs.

• 7.33.Fixed assets owned by a multiregional unit are allocated to the local KAUs where they are used. Fixed assets used under an operating lease are recorded in the region of the owner of the assets, and those used under a financial lease are recorded in the region of the user (ESA 2010, 13.33).

• 7.34.New assets being included in fixed capital are entered gross, i.e. without deducting the consumption of fixed capital. In addition, the consumption of fixed capital is generally calculated on those assets. Net capital formation is obtained by deducting the consumption of fixed assets from gross capital formation.

• 7.35.Production units can sell existing assets to each other, e.g. second-hand machinery. When assets move between industries and regions, the total price paid shall be included in the GFCF in one industry or region and the price received shall be deducted from GFCF in the other industry or region. Transaction costs of ownership of assets, such as legal fees on sales of land and existing buildings, are counted as additional GFCF by the acquirer, even if some of the costs are paid by the seller.

• 7.36.The GFCF for livestock of a region must be compiled in accordance with ESA 2010 (3.124 to 3.138) and 2.149 to 2.161 of this Annex. The GFCF for livestock is equivalent to the difference between livestock acquisitions over the year (natural growth and purchases outside the region including imports), including those resulting from own-account production, and livestock disposals (for slaughter, sales to other regions, including exports, or any other final use). When all the regions are aggregated, it is important to make sure that interregional flows cancel each other out (excluding ownership transfer costs) so that the sum of all the regional GFCFs is the same as the GFCF of the national agricultural accounts. When the bottom-up method is used, the following applies: sales of animals to agricultural holdings in other regions constitute negative GFCF whereas purchases from other regions are positive GFCF. For the calculation of GFCF for livestock of a region, the recommended indirect method may be used (cf. 2.156).

(b) Changes in inventories

• 7.37.Inventories comprise all the assets which are not part of fixed capital and which, at a given moment, are held temporarily by production units. A distinction is made between two types of inventories: input inventories and output inventories (cf. 2.171).

• 7.38.For animals classified as inventories, the trade to be taken into account in the calculation of changes in inventories includes sales to, and purchases from, other regions as well as imports and exports.

C. DISTRIBUTIVE TRANSACTIONS AND OTHER FLOWS

• 7.39.The practical difficulties of obtaining reliable regional information on distributive transactions in certain cases, in particular when units carry out activities in more than one region, or when the region is not always a clearly defined area in which certain activities are carried out, explain why the ESA covers the regional accounts of the agricultural industry only with respect to a few aggregates: value added, subsidies, taxes, compensation of employees, rents and other income, interest and GFCF.

1. General rules

• 7.40.The distributive transactions are recorded on an accrual basis, i.e. at the time an economic value, amount due or claim is created, transformed or cancelled or ceases to exist, and not when payment is actually made. That recording principle (based on rights and obligations) is applied to all flows, irrespective of whether they are monetary flows, or whether they occur between units or within a single unit.

• 7.41.However, when the date on which the claim (debt) is acquired cannot be determined precisely, the payment date or another acceptable approximation of the accrual basis may be used (cf. 3.007).

2. Value added

(a) General rules

• 7.42.Value added is the result of the production activity of an economy or of one of its industries during a given period, and it is the balancing item of the production account. It is the difference between the value of output and the value of intermediate consumption. It is a key item in measuring the productivity of an economy or industry (cf. 3.013) or a region or industry within a region.

(b) Valuation of value added

• 7.43.Value added may be entered gross (gross value added at basic prices) or net (net value added at basic prices), i.e. before or after the deduction of the consumption of fixed capital. In line with the method for valuing output (basic price) and intermediate consumption (purchaser prices), value added is measured at basic prices (cf. 3.013).

• 7.44.The use of basic prices means that the taxes on products and subsidies on products must be assigned to specific goods and services, which then have to be allocated among the regions.

• 7.45.By deducting other taxes on production from the value added at basic prices, and adding other subsidies on production, the value added at factor cost is obtained. Net value added at factor cost constitutes the income of the factors of production (cf. 3.014).

3. Consumption of fixed capital

• 7.46.In the REAA, goods and services which make up the agricultural holding’s fixed capital (such as plantations yielding repeat products, machinery and buildings, major improvements to land, software, costs of ownership transfer of non-produced assets) suffer wear and tear and obsolescence as means of production in the production process. Such wear and tear and obsolescence are measured as the consumption of fixed capital. Similar to the EAA, the consumption of fixed capital shall not be calculated for productive animals.

4. Subsidies

• 7.47.The REAA apply the same rules as the EAA: flows that are classified as operating subsidies in the EAA are classified in the same way in the REAA, a similar treatment applying for flows in the form of capital transfers.

5. Taxes

• 7.48.The REAA apply the same rules as the EAA: the different kind of taxes are classified in the same way in REAA as they are classified in EAA.

6. Compensation of employees

• 7.49.For producers, compensation of employees is allocated to the local KAUs where the people are employed. Where those data are not available, compensation of employees is allocated as a second best method, based on the hours worked. If neither compensation of employees nor hours worked are available, the number of employees by local KAU is used (cf. ESA 2010, 13.42).

7. Net operating surplus

• 7.50.Net operating surplus is obtained from net value added at basic prices by deducting the compensation of employees and other taxes on production and by adding other subsidies on production.

8. Interest, rents

• 7.51.The REAA apply the same rules as the EAA: flows that are classified as interest, rents in the EAA are classified in the same way in the REAA.

9. Agricultural entrepreneurial income: general calculation rules

• 7.52.Directly payable property income arising from agricultural activities and non-agricultural secondary activities, i.e. interest paid on loans taken out in connection with those activities, including for the purchase of agricultural land, and rents paid to landowners, is deducted from operating surplus (cf. 3.070 to 3.087).

D. A BRIEF LOOK AT IMPLEMENTATION

1. Introduction

• 7.53.This section aims to highlight some aspects of the methodology, in particular the choice of agricultural holding and the measure of output.

• 7.54.The agricultural holding is the reference unit for statistical surveys on agriculture, at both national and sub-national level. That is a major advantage for the REAA because it means that the valuation of output quantities can be based directly on statistical systems for measuring land areas, yields, herd sizes etc. Choosing the agricultural holding also has the advantage of enabling accounts to be more consistent. Output and costs relate, in fact, to identical sets of units, even if the extrapolation methods vary from one source to another. Lastly, choosing the agricultural holding, together with the concepts of characteristic activities and units, avoids having to make adjustments that might be contentious, as could be the case for kitchen gardens and private non-holder livestock rearing. That convention makes it easier to make comparisons between countries. Indeed, the link with statistical data in physical quantities, which are crucial for agriculture and guarantee that measurements of accounting entries will be consistent because adjustments or ‘extra-statistical’ corrections are thus restricted, obviously simplifies and improves the calculations. Those aspects are also consistent with the aim of giving priority to the bottom-up approach in the REAA.

2. Defining regional agriculture

• 7.55.For each region, the agricultural industry consists of all the agricultural holdings whose factors of production are located in the region. That principle, which is consistent with the concept of the residence of production units, may pose a few problems: agricultural statistics usually define the location of agricultural holdings according to their headquarters and not directly according to the location of the factors of production. Those two locations are not always the same and that phenomenon is likely to be more frequent as agricultural holdings get larger. When the REAA are compiled, therefore, some agricultural holdings shall be reclassified between regions and even, in some cases, split up. That is likely to be difficult in practice, in which case it may be preferable to keep the same location for the agricultural holdings as in the statistical surveys. That proposal, however, depends on two conditions: firstly, the method of defining the location must be identical for all the regions in the country and secondly, the accounting entries must all be valued from sources that use the same rules for defining the location of the agricultural holdings.

3. Measuring agricultural output

• 7.56.Agricultural output includes certain crop products that are used again by the same agricultural holding in the form of intermediate consumption; that concerns mainly products for animal feedingstuffs. For arable crops in particular, regional output may often be determined on the basis of the quantities harvested in each region, those then being given a value via prices. In that case, all output is valued, whether it is intended for marketing outside the industry, sale to other agricultural holdings or use by the same agricultural holding. The output of each region is thus obtained directly, in line with the concept adopted in the EAA and the REAA. The prices by which output forming intra-unit consumption is valued may also be based on regional data, corresponding to the prices at which output is marketed. However, the lack of regional price data poses a general problem when it comes to valuing output, both (regional) output which is marketed and output which forms intra-unit consumption. Thus the REAA valuation of products forming intra-unit consumption raises the same difficulties as the valuation of products that are marketed. Obviously, it is a different matter when the quantities cannot be valued at regional level. In that case, a top-down method based on national-level valuations is generally the only one that can be used ([^E0058]).

• 7.57.As regards animals, whether they are classified as inventories or fixed capital, the following elements shall be taken into account:

• — valuations at regional level of changes in inventories and in GFCF relating to animals, those two flows being components of the indirect method of calculating output;

• — valuations of trade in animals between regions, that trade being a component of the indirect method of calculating output;

• — the breakdown between regions of the import and export flows of animals;

• — the appropriate treatment of ownership transfer costs;

• — the method of adjusting the REAA against the EAA.

• 7.58.In certain cases, the indirect method of calculating animal output can be too difficult at regional level. In such cases, it is better to calculate output on the basis of a model using physical data and then adjust the values to those in the EAA.

4. Inseparable non-agricultural secondary activities

• 7.59.There are various ways of incorporating inseparable non-agricultural secondary activities into the REAA, depending on the type of activity. Some of those secondary activities are highly concentrated at regional level, for example agricultural product processing. In that case, output valuations of both quantities and prices can rely on local statistical data. For that output, the values in the EAA are de facto the same as those in the REAA. Other cases, however, may be more difficult. For example, there may be no regional source for some activities, especially if they are not concentrated in particular regions from the outset. For other activities, regional data are provided by statistical surveys or micro-economic accounts information (for example the farm accountancy data network (‘FADN’)) but there is no guarantee that those are regionally representative. Furthermore, data may be old with no sources available for reliable updating. Lastly, sometimes qualitative indicators are not available at regional level. In all those cases, the values of the EAA are the starting point for the REAA and the top-down method must often be used.

5. Intermediate consumption

• 7.60.Intermediate consumption in the REAA includes agricultural products used by agricultural holdings, whether those are directly traded between holders in the same region or different regions or change hands via intermediaries who may or may not become the owners of the products before they are resold. Moreover, some agricultural products of intra-unit consumption are also entered as intermediate consumption, essentially certain crops used as animal feed. Purchases of animals, even of animals that are imported, shall not be entered as intermediate consumption.

• 7.61.The first method of calculating the intermediate consumption of agricultural products at the regional level is to calculate the difference between the output of the REAA and that part of the output which is intended to leave the industry, on a product-by-product basis ([^E0059]). However, it is not a totally accurate representation of the intermediate consumption of agricultural products in each region, because while agricultural products intended for intermediate consumption by agricultural holdings in other regions are included, agricultural products which come from agricultural holdings in other regions are not included. Intermediate consumption must, therefore, be adjusted in line with the values in the EAA.

• 7.62.Another calculation method is also possible, using the FADN as a source of information. That source enables the intermediate consumption of agricultural products to be valued, irrespective of whether they come from sales by other agricultural holdings or from other sources such as imports. However, the FADN does not cover in exactly the same way the products that are used as intermediate consumption by the same agricultural holding, and thus corrections are necessary. Similarly, therefore, intermediate consumption must be adjusted in line with the values in the EAA.

ANNEX II

TRANSMISSION PROGRAMME OF DATA

For each of the output items (items 01 to 18, including sub-items), the value at basic prices as well as its components (value at producer prices, subsidies on products and taxes on products) shall be transmitted.

The data for production account and for gross fixed capital formation (‘GFCF’) shall be transmitted at both current prices and the prices of the previous year.

All values shall be expressed in millions of units of the national currency. Labour input shall be expressed in 1 000 annual work units.

The data for regional economic accounts for agriculture (‘REAA’) shall be provided at NUTS 2 level and transmitted at current prices only.

1. Production account

		Transmission concerning reference year n	Transmission concerning reference year n	Transmission concerning reference year n	Transmission concerning reference year n
		a	b	c	d
Item	List of variables	November year n (EAA estimates)	March year n+1 (EAA estimates)	September year n+1 (EAA data)	September year n+2 (REAA data)
01	CEREALS (including seeds)	X	X	X	X
01.1	Wheat and spelt	X	X	X	X
01.1/1	Soft wheat and spelt	—	—	X	X
01.1/2	Durum wheat	—	—	X	X
01.2	Rye and meslin	X	X	X	X
01.3	Barley	X	X	X	X
01.4	Oats and summer cereal mixtures	X	X	X	X
01.5	Grain maize	X	X	X	X
01.6	Rice	X	X	X	X
01.7	Other cereals	X	X	X	X
02	INDUSTRIAL CROPS	X	X	X	X
02.1	Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits (including seeds)	X	X	X	X
02.1/1	Rape and turnip rape seed	—	—	X	X
02.1/2	Sunflower	—	—	X	X
02.1/3	Soya	—	—	X	X
02.1/4	Other oleaginous products	—	—	X	X
02.2	Protein crops (including seeds)	X	X	X	X
02.3	Raw tobacco	X	X	X	X
02.4	Sugar beet	X	X	X	X
02.5	Other industrial crops	X	X	X	X
02.5/1	Fibre plants	—	—	X	—
02.5/2	Hops	—	—	X	—
02.5/3	Other industrial crops: others	—	—	X	—
03	FORAGE PLANTS	X	X	X	X
03.1	Fodder maize	—	—	X	X
03.2	Fodder root crops (including forage beet)	—	—	X	X
03.3	Other forage plants	—	—	X	X
04	VEGETABLES AND HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS	X	X	X	X
04.1	Fresh vegetables	X	X	X	X
04.1/1	Cauliflower	—	—	X	—
04.1/2	Tomatoes	—	—	X	—
04.1/3	Other fresh vegetables	—	—	X	—
04.2	Plants and flowers	X	X	X	X
04.2/1	Nursery plants	—	—	X	—
04.2/2	Ornamental plants and flowers (including Christmas trees)	—	—	X	—
04.2/3	Plantations	—	—	X	—
05	POTATOES (including seeds)	X	X	X	X
06	FRUITS	X	X	X	X
06.1	Fresh fruit	X	X	X	X
06.1/1	Dessert apples	—	—	X	—
06.1/2	Dessert pears	—	—	X	—
06.1/3	Peaches	—	—	X	—
06.1/4	Other fresh fruit	—	—	X	—
06.2	Citrus fruits	X	X	X	X
06.2/1	Sweet oranges	—	—	X	—
06.2/2	Mandarins	—	—	X	—
06.2/3	Lemons	—	—	X	—
06.2/4	Other citrus fruits	—	—	X	—
06.3	Tropical fruit	X	X	X	X
06.4	Grapes	X	X	X	X
06.4/1	Dessert grapes	—	—	X	—
06.4/2	Other grapes	—	—	X	—
06.5	Olives	X	X	X	X
06.5/1	Table olives	—	—	X	—
06.5/2	Other olives	—	—	X	—
07	WINE	X	X	X	X
07.1	Table wine	—	—	X	—
07.2	Quality wine	—	—	X	—
08	OLIVE OIL	X	X	X	X
09	OTHER CROP PRODUCTS	X	X	X	X
09.1	Vegetable materials used primarily for plaiting	—	—	X	—
09.2	Seeds	—	—	X	—
09.3	Other crop products: others	—	—	X	—
10	CROP OUTPUT (01 TO 09)	X	X	X	X
11	ANIMALS	X	X	X	X
11.1	Cattle	X	X	X	X
11.2	Pigs	X	X	X	X
11.3	Equines	X	X	X	X
11.4	Sheep and goats	X	X	X	X
11.5	Poultry	X	X	X	X
11.6	Other animals	X	X	X	X
12	ANIMAL PRODUCTS	X	X	X	X
12.1	Milk	X	X	X	X
12.2	Eggs	X	X	X	X
12.3	Other animal products	X	X	X	X
12.3/1	Raw wool	—	—	X	—
12.3/2	Silkworm cocoons	—	—	X	—
12.3/3	Other animal products: others	—	—	X	—
13	ANIMAL OUTPUT (11+12)	X	X	X	X
14	AGRICULTURAL GOODS OUTPUT (10+13)	X	X	X	X
15	AGRICULTURAL SERVICES OUTPUT	X	X	X	X
15.1	Agricultural services	—	—	X	—
15.2	Renting of milk quota	—	—	X	—
16	AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT (14+15)	X	X	X	X
17	NON-AGRICULTURAL SECONDARY ACTIVITIES (INSEPARABLE)	X	X	X	X
17.1	Processing of agricultural products	X	X	X	X
17.2	Other inseparable secondary activities (goods and services)	X	X	X	X
18	OUTPUT OF THE AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY (16+17)	X	X	X	X
19	TOTAL INTERMEDIATE CONSUMPTION	X	X	X	X
19.01	Seeds and planting inventory	X	X	X	X
19.02	Energy; lubricants	X	X	X	X
19.02/1	— electricity	—	—	X	—
19.02/2	— gas	—	—	X	—
19.02/3	— other fuels and propellants	—	—	X	—
19.02/4	— other	—	—	X	—
19.03	Fertilisers and soil improvers	X	X	X	X
19.04	Plant protection products and pesticides	X	X	X	X
19.05	Veterinary expenses	X	X	X	X
19.06	Animal feedingstuffs	X	X	X	X
19.06/1	— feedingstuffs supplied by other agricultural holdings	X	X	X	X
19.06/2	— feedingstuffs purchased from outside the agricultural industry	X	X	X	X
19.06/3	— feedingstuffs produced and consumed by the same agricultural holding	X	X	X	X
19.07	Maintenance of materials	X	X	X	X
19.08	Maintenance of buildings	X	X	X	X
19.09	Agricultural services	X	X	X	X
19.10	Financial intermediation services indirectly measured (FISIM)	X	X	X	X
19.11	Other goods and services	X	X	X	X
20	GROSS VALUE ADDED AT BASIC PRICES (18-19)	X	X	X	X
21	FIXED CAPITAL CONSUMPTION	X	X	X	X
21.1	Equipment	—	—	X	—
21.2	Buildings	—	—	X	—
21.3	Plantations	—	—	X	—
21.4	Others	—	—	X	—
22	NET VALUE ADDED AT BASIC PRICES (20-21)	X	X	X	X

2. Generation of income account

		Transmission concerning reference year n	Transmission concerning reference year n	Transmission concerning reference year n	Transmission concerning reference year n
		a	b	c	d
Item	List of variables	November year n (EAA estimates)	March year n+1 (EAA estimates)	September year n+1 (EAA data)	September year n+2 (REAA data)
23	COMPENSATION OF EMPLOYEES	X	X	X	X
24	OTHER TAXES ON PRODUCTION	X	X	X	X
25	OTHER SUBSIDIES ON PRODUCTION	X	X	X	X
26	FACTOR INCOME (22-24+25)	X	X	X	X
27	OPERATING SURPLUS / MIXED INCOME (22-23-24+25)	X	X	X	X

3. Entrepreneurial income account

		Transmission concerning reference year n	Transmission concerning reference year n	Transmission concerning reference year n	Transmission concerning reference year n
		a	b	c	d
Item	List of variables	November year n (EAA estimates)	March year n+1 (EAA estimates)	September year n+1 (EAA data)	September year n+2 (REAA data)
28	RENTS AND OTHER REAL ESTATE RENTAL CHARGES TO BE PAID	X	X	X	X
29	INTEREST PAYABLE	X	X	X	X
30	INTEREST RECEIVABLE	X	X	X	X
31	ENTREPRENEURIAL INCOME (27-28-29+30)	X	X	X	X

4. Elements of the capital account

		Transmission concerning reference year n	Transmission concerning reference year n	Transmission concerning reference year n	Transmission concerning reference year n
		a	b	c	d
Item	List of variables	November year n (EAA estimates)	March year n+1 (EAA estimates)	September year n+1 (EAA data)	September year n+2 (REAA data)
32	GFCF IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS	—	—	X	X
32.1	GFCF in plantations	—	—	X	—
32.2	GFCF in animals	—	—	X	—
33	GFCF IN NON-AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS	—	—	X	X
33.1	GFCF in materials	—	—	X	—
33.2	GFCF in buildings	—	—	X	—
33.3	Other GFCF	—	—	X	—
34	GFCF (EXCLUDING DEDUCTIBLE VAT) (32+33)	—	—	X	X
35	NET FIXED CAPITAL FORMATION (EXCLUDING DEDUCTIBLE VAT) (34-21)	—	—	X	X
36	CHANGES IN INVENTORIES	—	—	X	X
37	CAPITAL TRANSFERS	—	—	X	X
37.1	Investment grants	—	—	X	—
37.2	Other capital transfers	—	—	X	—

5. Agricultural labour input

		Transmission concerning reference year n	Transmission concerning reference year n	Transmission concerning reference year n
		a	b	c
Item	List of variables	November year n (EAA estimates)	March year n+1 (EAA estimates)	September year n+1 (EAA data)
38	TOTAL AGRICULTURAL LABOUR INPUT	X	X	X
38.1	Non-salaried agricultural labour input	X	X	X
38.2	Salaried agricultural labour input	X	X	X

[^E0001]: Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics and repealing Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1101/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities, Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on Community Statistics, and Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom establishing a Committee on the Statistical Programmes of the European Communities (OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p. 164).

[^E0002]: Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) (OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1).

[^E0003]: Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on the application of the provisions of the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters to Union institutions and bodies (OJ L 264, 25.9.2006, p. 13).

[^E0004]: European System of National and Regional Accounts — ESA 2010, Luxembourg 2013.

[^E0005]: System of National Accounts, 2008. Joint publication by the United Nations, European Commission, International Monetary Fund, OECD and World Bank.

[^E0006]: It should be pointed out that, although the ESA gives preeminence to local KAUs, the unit best suited to analyses of the production process is the unit of homogeneous production (UHP). This unit is used to analyse inputs and outputs, since it corresponds exactly to a type of activity. Institutional units are thus divided into as many UHPs as there are activities (other than ancillary). By grouping these UHPs it is possible to break down the economy into ‘pure’ (homogeneous) branches. A UHP cannot, as a rule, be directly observed. Therefore, the accounts of homogeneous branches cannot be compiled on the basis of groups of UHPs. The ESA describes a method for compiling these accounts. It involves attributing secondary production and the corresponding costs of activity branches to the appropriate homogeneous branches (ESA 2010, 2.153-2.156, 9.52 to 9.63).

[^E0007]: These are small units producing for own consumption, not for selling, carrying out agricultural activities without depending economically on these activities.

[^E0008]: Note however that some secondary activities are always considered separable from agricultural activity e.g. renting out of buildings or dwellings.

[^E0009]: ISIC Rev. 4: United Nations international standard industrial classification of all economic activities.

[^E0010]: See also the ‘Explanatory notes’: Eurostat: NACE Rev. 2, Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community, Theme 2, Series E, Luxembourg, 2007.

[^E0012]: The reason for this deviation from the general rule is that in these special cases a considerable part of the seed is obtained from the normal output of the corresponding cereal, oilseed, protein crop or potato harvest, whereas in other cases it is produced in specialised holdings.

[^E0013]: See the ‘Introductory guidelines’ to NACE Rev. 2: Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community, Theme 2, Series E, Luxembourg, 2007.

[^E0015]: A secondary product is a product which is technically linked to the production of other products. It may be exclusive when linked to other products of the same group but whose production is exclusive to this group, or ordinary when linked to other products, but whose production is not peculiar to one group.

[^E0016]: The equipment and machines belong to the cooperative, unlike with pools of machines, where they are generally the property of individual holdings.

[^E0017]: Cf. 2.029 to 2.031 for the time at which stocks are recorded.

[^E0018]: FAO (1996) System of economic accounts for food and agriculture, United Nations, Rome.

[^E0019]: Output for these animals is calculated by adding own-account produced fixed capital goods (= entries less disposals of assets) and sales (= disposals).

[^E0020]: When valuing trade, the costs involved in the transfer of ownership (trade margins and transport costs) are included in the value of the acquisition. In the case of trading between resident holdings, sales and purchases offset each other except for the transfer costs which are treated, in the calculation of output, as a ‘negative sale’.

[^E0021]: An identical treatment applies to other agricultural products having the character of stocks.

[^E0022]: This is generally the case if production is promoted, and in some cases only made possible, by this expenditure by the employer.

[^E0023]: Leasing differs from simple hiring in that the risks and advantages of ownership in leasing are transferred de facto, but not de jure, from the lessor to the lessee (the user of the asset). The ESA takes account of the economic situation of leasing by considering, for its recording, that the lessor provides a credit to the lessee which allows the latter to purchase a durable good and to become its de facto owner. Leasing is thus regarded as a special form of investment financing.

[^E0024]: As a direct consequence of this method, the costs associated with trade in ‘fixed assets’ livestock between units should be recorded under the GFCF of the acquirer.

[^E0025]: In this case, the activity of felling the plantation and selling the timber come under forestry activity.

[^E0026]: It should be noted that the cost of the grubbing service which may be invoiced by a grubbing company constitutes intermediate consumption of a service.

[^E0027]: The treatment of sales of livestock for slaughter (i.e. by abattoirs or the farmer, including all sales to non-agricultural units for economic uses other than slaughter) as disposals of fixed assets constitutes a simplification of the accounting procedure for recording the disposal of fixed assets whose economic use has changed. ‘Fixed asset’ livestock are in fact converted into stocks by recording a flow entitled ‘other change in volume’ (cf. 2.136) entered in the ‘other changes in volume of assets’ account. They are only sold in the form of stocks, the sale then constituting a withdrawal from stocks and not a disposal of assets.

[^E0028]: In as much as the sale and purchase occurred during the same accounting period. Otherwise, a disposal (for the period in which the sale occurred) and an acquisition (for the period in which the purchase occurred) are recorded.

[^E0029]: Including slaughterings for own final consumption or payment in kind.

[^E0030]: Trade in breeding livestock between farmers is not recorded in the accounts. This is also the case if the trading is carried out via agents (if the purchase and sale occurred in the same period). However, the cost of transfer of ownership (agents' services, trade margins, transport costs, etc) must be included in the value of the GFCF for livestock.

[^E0031]: The 2008 SNA (10.94), unlike the ESA 2010 (3.140), considers that consumption of fixed capital should be calculated for livestock.

[^E0032]: Any other method leading to equivalent results may be used.

[^E0033]: This deduction corresponds to the theoretical case where the imports of productive animals are recorded as GFCF. In practice all animals imported by the agricultural industry are treated as changes in stocks (cf. 2.205).

[^E0034]: Other changes in volume are generally understood to be stocks of goods destroyed in the wake of exceptional events (such as natural disasters). Current losses are included in withdrawals from stocks.

[^E0035]: Use is made of the breakdown of output into sales (and other uses) and stock changes.

[^E0036]: A similar result may be obtained by recording sales on a half-yearly basis and calculating the output of reference year n by adding together the sales of the second half of year n and those of the first half of year n + 1.

[^E0037]: This category must not include payments made primarily in the employer's interest. Such payments are part of intermediate consumption (cf. 2.108 (e)).

[^E0038]: Agricultural products provided to employees are output of the agricultural branch.

[^E0039]: Accommodation services are treated as a separable non-agricultural activity, with the result that they only appear as compensation of employees and in the form of a deduction from the operating surplus of the agricultural industry. If they were an inseparable non-agricultural activity, they would be recorded as a component of production and a form of compensation of employees.

[^E0040]: They correspond in particular to wages and salaries which employers continue to pay on a provisional basis to their employees in the event of illness, maternity, accidents at the workplace, invalidity or redundancy, in so far as the amounts concerned can be separately identified.

[^E0041]: Turnover is the most important taxable item. All EU Member States raise turnover tax in the form of VAT. The rates of this tax vary from one Member State to another and indeed within individual Member States. Generally speaking, agricultural products are subject to a lower rate of tax than the standard rate.

[^E0042]: The percentage rate may vary according to the type of product and channel of distribution.

[^E0043]: The variations between Member States in the VAT systems which they operate sometimes produce situations in which VAT paid by farmers on their purchases cannot be recovered or compensated for. Such VAT payments represent (i) non-deductible VAT, i.e. VAT paid on purchases which farmers, irrespective of the system to which they are subject, may not deduct from the VAT invoiced on sales and for which there is thus no compensation; (ii) and/or VAT other than that mentioned under (i), paid on purchases for which farmers subject to the flat-rate system are not fully compensated via the selling price or via reimbursement.

[^E0044]: Subsidies on agricultural products paid to agricultural producers include any subsidy in the form of a deficiency payment to holders (i.e. in cases where general government pays the producers of agricultural products the difference between the average market prices and the guarantee prices of agricultural products).

[^E0045]: An important example are subsidies paid to non-life insurance companies which enable these companies to charge lower (gross) premiums from the insurance policy holders (e.g. agricultural enterprises taking out insurance to cover risks such as damage by hail, frost etc.). As these subsidies are subsidies on products, the product being the insurance service, they are not recorded in the generation of income account of the policy holder (and thus not, in the above example, in the EAA). However, in as much as these subsidies reduce the costs of the insurance services (to the insurance policy holder), their effect is reflected in the production account (by a lower value of intermediate consumption, cf. 2.108(g)) of the insurance policy holder.

[^E0046]: However, when a grant serves the dual purpose of financing both the amortisation of the debt and the payment of interest on it, and when it is not possible to apportion it between the two elements, the whole of the grant is treated as an investment grant.

[^E0047]: Interest receivable corresponds to ‘Other accounts receivable’ (F.8) in the financial account.

[^E0048]: Note that rents received are not relevant to the EAA due to the use of the agricultural industry concept (cf. 1.44).

[^E0049]: The  ESA 2010 proposes that the full amount be recorded as rent on land if the value of the land is thought to be higher than that of the building, and as rent on buildings if the opposite is the case.

[^E0050]: Including a provision for losses of fixed capital goods as a result of accidental damage which can be insured against. The value of these provisions to be recorded is the value of the net premiums paid in respect of insured fixed capital goods.

[^E0052]: In order to take into account part-time and seasonal work, agricultural employment or changes therein are measured in AWUs (see Chapter IV for more details). A distinction is drawn between non-salaried and salaried AWUs, which together make up total AWUs.

[^E0053]: This measure of income corresponds to the former measure ‘net income from family agricultural activity’ for sole proprietorships.

[^E0054]: This does not preclude the possibility that there may be circumstances in which compilers may judge it preferable to eliminate the discrepancies in order to improve the overall consistency of the data.

[^E0055]: Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) (OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1).

[^E0056]: As long as the corresponding sales and purchases fall in the same accounting period.

[^E0057]: The purchase of an animal is never to be recorded as intermediate consumption (basically, it is an acquisition of work in progress, cf. 2.067) and the calculation of animal output can only be calculated indirectly, on the basis of the sales, the GFCF and the stock changes.

[^E0058]: According to the method used, the intra-unit consumption shall be adjusted to the EAA values.

[^E0059]: Imported agricultural products (except animals) are excluded.