LegalizeCommission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1874 of 29 November 2018 on the data to be provided for 2020 under Regulation (EU) 2018/1091 of the European Parliament and of the Council on integrated farm statistics and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1166/2008 and (EU) No 1337/2011, as regards the list of variables and their description (Text with EEA relevance.)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2018/1091 of the European Parliament and of the Council on integrated farm statistics and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1166/2008 and (EU) No 1337/2011 (1), and in particular Article 5(4) and Article 8(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Regulation (EU) 2018/1091 provides both a framework for European statistics at the level of agricultural holdings and for the integration of information on their structure with information on production methods, rural development measures, agro-environmental aspects and other related information.
(2) Member States should collect data that correspond to the core, frame extension, and the topics and detailed topics within the modules, set out in Regulation (EU) 2018/1091.
(3) The overall number of variables for the core and the modules should not be over 300, in line with Article 8(2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1091.
(4) Significant additional cost resulting in disproportionate and unjustified burden should not be imposed on agricultural holdings and Member States, in line with Article 8(5) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1091.
(5) The measures in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
The description of the core structural data variables listed in Annex III to Regulation (EU) 2018/1091 shall be as set out in Annex I to this Regulation.
The list of the variables for topics and detailed topics within each module is set out in Annex II.
The descriptions of the variables to be used by the Member States for the topics and detailed topics within each module as listed in Annex II shall be as set out in Annex III.
Article 2
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, 29 November 2018.
For the Commission The President Jean-Claude JUNCKER