Regulation (EU) 2018/1091 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 July 2018 on integrated farm statistics and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1166/2008 and (EU) No 1337/2011 (Text with EEA relevance.)

Article 1

Subject matter

This Regulation establishes a framework for European statistics at the level of agricultural holdings and provides for the integration of information on the structure with that on production methods, rural development measures, agro-environmental aspects and other related information.

Article 2

Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:

(a) ‘farm’ or ‘agricultural holding’ means a single unit, both technically and economically, that has a single management and that undertakes economic activities in agriculture in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 belonging to groups A.01.1, A.01.2, A.01.3, A.01.4, A.01.5 or to the ‘maintenance of agricultural land in good agricultural and environmental condition’ of group A.01.6 within the economic territory of the Union, either as its primary or secondary activity. Regarding activities of class A.01.49, only the activities ‘Raising and breeding of semi-domesticated or other live animals’ (with the exception of raising of insects) and ‘Bee-keeping and production of honey and beeswax’ are included;

(b) ‘common land agricultural unit’ means an entity of land on which common rights apply and which is used by two or more agricultural holdings for agricultural production, but is not allocated amongst them;

(c) ‘region’ means the territorial unit of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), defined in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003;

(d) ‘livestock unit’ means a standard measurement unit that allows for the aggregation of the various categories of livestock in order for them to be compared; the coefficients for establishing the livestock units for individual livestock categories are listed in Annex I;

(e) ‘utilised agricultural area’ or ‘UAA’ means the land area used for farming, including arable land, permanent grassland, permanent crops, and other utilised agricultural land;

(f) ‘reference year’ means a calendar year to which the reference periods refer;

(g) ‘kitchen garden’ means areas used for food production intended for one's own consumption;

(h) ‘module’ means one or more data sets organised in order to cover topics;

(i) ‘topic’ means the content of the information to be collected about the statistical units, each topic covering a number of detailed topics;

(j) ‘detailed topic’ means the detailed content of the information to be collected about the statistical units related to a specific topic, each detailed topic covering a number of variables;

(k) ‘variable’ means a characteristic of a unit being observed that may assume more than one of a set of values.

Article 3

Coverage

Article 4

Data sources and methods

For the purpose of obtaining the data referred to in this Regulation, Member States shall use one or more of the following sources or methods, provided that the information allows for the production of statistics that meet the quality requirements laid down in Article 11:

(a) statistical surveys;

(b) the administrative data sources specified in paragraph 2 of this Article;

(c) other sources, methods or innovative approaches.

Article 5

Core structural data

Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 17(2) not later than 28 February 2019 for the reference year 2020, not later than 31 December 2021 for the reference year 2023, and not later than 31 December 2024 for the reference year 2026.

Article 6

Frame extension

Article 7

Module data

Member States shall collect and provide the modules on the topics and detailed topics listed in Annex IV for the following reference years:

(a) ‘Labour force and other gainful activities’ module for 2020, 2023 and 2026;

(b) ‘Rural development’ module for 2020, 2023 and 2026;

(c) ‘Animal housing and manure management’ module for 2020 and 2026;

(d) ‘Irrigation’ module for 2023;

(e) ‘Soil management practices’ module for 2023;

(f) ‘Machinery and equipment’ module for 2023;

(g) ‘Orchard’ module for 2023;

(h) ‘Vineyard’ module for 2026.

Article 8

Technical specification concerning the module data

The Commission may adopt implementing acts specifying the following technical elements of the data to be provided for each module and the corresponding topic and detailed topic listed in Annex IV:

(a) the list of variables;

(b) the descriptions of variables.

Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 17(2) not later than 28 February 2019 for the reference year 2020, not later than 31 December 2021 for the reference year 2023 and not later than 31 December 2024 for the reference year 2026.

Article 9

Ad-hoc data

The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 16 supplementing the module data set out in Annex IV, if collection of additional information is deemed necessary. Those delegated acts shall specify:

(a) the topics and detailed topics to be provided in the ad-hoc module and the reasons for such additional statistical needs;

(b) the reference year.

The Commission may adopt implementing acts to provide:

(a) a list of variables not exceeding 20 variables to be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) and the corresponding measurement units;

(b) the descriptions of variables;

(c) the precision requirements;

(d) the reference periods;

(e) the transmission dates.

Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 17(2) not later than 12 months before the beginning of the reference year.

Article 10

Reference period

The collected information shall refer to a single reference year that is common to all Member States by referring to the situation during a specified timeframe or date as follows:

(a) For land variables, the use of the land shall refer to the reference year. In the case of successive crops from the same piece of land, the land use shall refer to a crop that is harvested during the reference year, regardless of when the crop in question is sown.

(b) For variables on irrigation and soil management practices, the reference period is a 12-month period ending within the reference year, to be established by each Member State with a view to covering the related production cycles.

(c) For variables on livestock, animal housing and manure management a common reference day within the reference year shall be established by each Member State. The variables on manure management shall refer to a 12-month period including that date.

(d) For variables on labour force, a 12-month reference period ending on a reference day within the reference year shall be established by each Member State.

(e) For variables on rural development measures implemented in the individual agricultural holdings, the reference period shall be the three-year period ending on 31 December of the reference year.

(f) For all other variables, a common reference day within the reference year shall be established by each Member State.

Article 11

Quality

For that purpose, Member States shall transmit a quality report describing the statistical process to the Commission (Eurostat), for each reference year covered by this Regulation, and in particular:

(a) metadata describing the methodology used and how technical specifications were achieved by reference to those laid down by this Regulation;

(b) information on compliance with the minimum requirements for the sampling frames used, including in developing and updating them, as laid down in this Regulation;

The Commission may adopt implementing acts setting out the practical arrangements for, and the contents of, the quality reports. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 17(2) and shall not impose significant additional burdens or costs on the Member States.

Article 12

Data and metadata transmission and deadlines

Article 13

Union contribution

For the implementation of this Regulation, the Union shall provide grants to the national statistical institutes and other national authorities referred to in Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009, for:

(a) developing or implementing data requirements, or both;

(b) developing methodologies for modernising statistical systems aiming at higher quality or lower costs and reducing the administrative burden for producing integrated farm statistics by using the sources and methods referred to in Article 4.

For the combined costs of the core data and module data collections for the reference years 2023 and 2026, the Union financial contribution shall be limited to the maximum amounts specified below:

(a) EUR 50 000 each for Luxembourg and Malta;

(b) EUR 1 000 000 each for Austria, Croatia, Ireland and Lithuania;

(c) EUR 2 000 000 each for Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary and Portugal;

(d) EUR 3 000 000 each for Greece, Spain and France;

(e) EUR 4 000 000 each for Italy, Poland and Romania;

(f) EUR 300 000 each for all other Member States.

Article 14

Financial envelope

Article 15

Protection of the financial interests of the Union

Article 16

Exercise of the delegation

Article 17

Committee procedure

Article 18

Report from the Commission

By 31 December 2024, the Commission shall, after consulting the ESSC, submit a report on the implementation and achievement of the objectives of this Regulation to the European Parliament and to the Council.

Article 19

Derogations

By way of derogation from Article 5, Article 6(1), points (a), (b) and (c) of Article 7(1), Article 8(2), Article 12(1), Article 13(4), Article 14(1) and Annex V, the references to the year 2020 shall be replaced by references to the year 2019, if necessary, for Greece and Portugal.

Article 20

Repeal

Article 21

Entry into force

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.

ANNEX I

Livestock unit coefficients

Type of animal	Characteristic of animal	Coefficient
Bovine animals	Less than 1 year old	0,400
1 to less than 2 years old	0,700
Male, 2 years old and over	1,000
Heifers, 2 years old and over	0,800
Dairy cows	1,000
Non-dairy cows	0,800
Sheep and goats	0,100
Pigs	Piglets, live weight of under 20 kg	0,027
Breeding sows, live weight 50 kg and over	0,500
Other pigs	0,300
Poultry	Broilers	0,007
Laying hens	0,014
Other poultry
Turkeys	0,030
Ducks	0,010
Geese	0,020
Ostriches	0,350
Other poultry fowls n.e.c.	0,001
Rabbits, breeding females	0,020

ANNEX II

Item	Threshold
UAA	5 ha
Arable land	2 ha
Potatoes	0,5 ha
Fresh vegetables and strawberries	0,5 ha
Aromatic, medicinal and culinary plants, flowers and ornamental plants, seeds and seedlings, nurseries	0,2 ha
Fruit trees, berries, nut trees, citrus fruit trees, other permanent crops excluding nurseries, vineyards and olive trees	0,3 ha
Vineyards	0,1 ha
Olive trees	0,3 ha
Greenhouses	100 m2
Cultivated mushrooms	100 m2
Livestock	1,7 livestock units
(1) The thresholds are applicable to the group of items as listed.

ANNEX III

Core structural data: Variables