LegalizeCommission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2286 of 16 December 2021 on the data to be provided for the reference year 2023 pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1091 of the European Parliament and of the Council on integrated farm statistics as regards the list of variables and their description and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 1200/2009 (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 of 18 July 2018 on integrated farm statistics and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1166/2008 and (EU) No 1337/2011 (1), and in particular Articles 5(4) and 8(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Regulation (EU) 2018/1091 provides for both a framework for European statistics on 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) For the reference year 2023, and pursuant to Article 5(4) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1091, the Commission should adopt an implementing act specifying the description of variables listed in Annex III of the Regulation referring to the core structural data variables.
(3) Pursuant to Article 8(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1091, the Commission should list and describe the variables to be collected for the reference year 2023 corresponding to the topics and detailed topics within the following modules indicated in Annex IV of the Regulation: ‘Labour force and other gainful activities’, ‘Rural development’, ‘Irrigation’, ‘Soil management practices’, ‘Machinery and equipment’ and ‘Orchard’.
(4) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1200/2009 (2) has become outdated since the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2018/1091, and for the sake of legal certainty should be repealed.
(5) The measures in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee, established by Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3),
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 to this Regulation.
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 to this Regulation shall be as set out in Annex III to this Regulation.
Article 2
Regulation (EC) No 1200/2009 is repealed.
Article 3
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, 16 December 2021.
For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN
(2) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1200/2009 of 30 November 2009 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1166/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on farm structure surveys and the survey on agricultural production methods, as regards livestock unit coefficients and definitions of the characteristics (OJ L 329, 15.12.2009, p. 1).
(3) 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).
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