Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 592/2013 of 21 June 2013 concerning the technical format for the transmission of European statistics on permanent crops pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 1337/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council Text with EEA relevance
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1337/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 concerning European statistics on permanent crops (1), and in particular Article 8(2) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Regulation (EU) No 1337/2011 constitutes the framework for the production of comparable European statistics on permanent crops.
(2) The data structure for the transmission of statistical data on fruit and olive plantations and the exchange standard should be specified.
(3) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Agricultural Statistics,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Member States shall send the statistical data on fruit and olive plantations referred to in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1337/2011, using the statistical data and metadata exchange (SDMX) standard. The data shall be provided to Eurostat through the single entry point to allow the Commission (Eurostat) to retrieve the data by electronic means.
Article 2
The data structure for sending statistical data on fruit and olive plantations to the Commission (Eurostat) shall be as specified in the Annex.
Article 3
The data shall be reported for all single compulsory variables and aggregates.
Article 4
The data shall be reported in hectares (ha).
Article 5
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 21 June 2013.
For the Commission The President José Manuel BARROSO
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