Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1579 of 31 July 2023 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards agricultural price statistics (Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 November 2022 on statistics on agricultural input and output, amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008 and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1165/2008, (EC) No 543/2009 and (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Directive 96/16/EC (1), and in particular Articles 5(10) and 9(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 establishes an integrated framework for developing, producing and disseminating European statistics as regards agricultural inputs and outputs.

(2) It is necessary to specify the data requirements for producing statistics on agricultural inputs and outputs as regards agricultural prices in order to produce comparable data between Member States and to achieve harmonisation.

(3) Pursuant to Article 5(10) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2379, implementing acts defining data sets to be transmitted to the Commission are to specify technical elements of the data to be provided, where appropriate, such as the list of variables, the descriptions of the variables, the observation units, the methodological rules to be applied, and the deadlines for transmitting the data.

(4) It is necessary to specify the variables for which the regional dimension is required as it is needed only for some variables.

(5) The reference periods referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 should be further specified.

(6) In order to obtain reliable and comparable results from all Member States, a common methodological framework for the compilation of agricultural price statistics is required.

(7) Agricultural price indices are necessary baseline data for the economic accounts for agriculture as specified by Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2), and therefore, the observation units should fit in the scope of the latter Regulation.

(8) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee as 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

Data requirements

Member States shall provide data on the domain of agricultural price statistics referred to in Article 5(1), point (c) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 in the form of aggregated data sets. The data shall be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) at the required geographical level.

Article 2

Datasets

Article 3

Methodological specifications

The methodological specifications relating to each of the datasets in Annexes I, II and III are set out in Annex IV.

Article 4

Observation units

The observation units for statistics on the topics ‘Agricultural price indices’ and ‘Absolute input prices’ are agricultural industry units trading in goods and services or their counterparts in the transactions. The agricultural industry is composed of agricultural holdings, groups of producers producing wine and olive oil, and specialised units providing these enterprises with a combination of machines, material and labour to perform contract work.

The observation units for the topic ‘Agricultural land prices and rents’ are primarily persons or enterprises involved in the transactions of selling or renting land for agricultural use, including service providers.

Article 5

Descriptions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the descriptions of terms as set out in Annex V shall apply.

Article 6

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.

It shall apply from 1 January 2025.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 31 July 2023.

For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN

(1) OJ L 315, 7.12.2022, p. 1.

(2) 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 (OJ L 33, 5.2.2004, 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).