LegalizeCommission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1542 of 30 July 2025 specifying the modalities, structure and assessment indicators for the quality reports to be transmitted pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to 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 (1), and in particular Article 3b(4) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 sets up the Economic Accounts for Agriculture in the European Union by providing for the methodology and the time limits for the transmission of the agricultural accounts.
(2) In accordance with Article 3b(3) of Regulation (EC) No 138/2004, Member States are to transmit a quality report to the Commission (Eurostat) for the first time by 31 December 2025 and every five years thereafter.
(3) There is a need to ensure common quality reporting standards for the exchange of quality-related data and metadata. This need can be fulfilled by specifying the modalities, structure and assessment indicators for the quality reports. The standards should contribute to the harmonisation of quality assurance and reporting.
(4) The Single Integrated Metadata Structure (SIMS) (2) was approved as a metadata standard by the European Statistical System Committee. The Commission invited Member States to ensure that their national statistical authorities apply the statistical concepts listed therein when compiling reference metadata and quality reports and when exchanging reference metadata and quality reports (3). The application of SIMS contributes to the harmonisation of quality assurance and reporting, thereby helping to meet the statistical quality requirements of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (4), which provides a mandatory reference framework for European statistics.
(5) The European Statistical System has a long-standing transmission standard as approved by the Statistical Programme Committee in 2006. The standard states that data and metadata for all statistical domains are to arrive at a common reception area in the Commission (Eurostat) so they can be automatically monitored, checked and delivered into the target production environment. That standard should be used for the reports transmitted under this Regulation.
(6) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Modalities
Each Member State shall transmit a quality report to the Commission (Eurostat) for the first time relating to the reference year 2023 and thereafter for each reference year ending in 8 and 3.
The quality reports shall be sent to the Commission (Eurostat) using the European Statistical System transmission standard.
Article 2
Structure
Each Member State shall submit a single quality report covering all the data of the Economic Accounts for Agriculture transmission programme as set out in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 138/2004.
The detailed structure and contents of the quality reports are set out in Annex I. Those reports shall also refer to and give reasons for any instances in which the appropriate quality standards have not been complied with or in which statistical concepts have not been correctly applied, or both.
Article 3
Assessment indicators
The quality of the data and metadata transmitted shall be assessed in relation to the set of quality and performance indicators set out in Annex II.
Article 4
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.
Done at Brussels, 30 July 2025.
For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN
(1) OJ L 33, 5.2.2004, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2004/138/oj.
(2) https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/quality/quality-monitoring/quality-reporting.
(3) Commission Recommendation (EU) 2023/397 of 17 February 2023 on reference metadata and quality reports for the European Statistical System, replacing Recommendation 2009/498/EC on reference metadata for the European Statistical System (OJ L 53, 21.2.2023, p. 104, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reco/2023/397/oj).
(4) 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, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2009/223/oj).
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