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Strategy for Agricultural Statistics for 2020 and Beyond

FSS item 17 – Crop item 4

Joint meeting of the WG's Structure of Agricultural Holdings (FSS) and

Crop Statistics13 October 2015

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• Eurostat suggested to the CPSA and got the endorsement that a strategy on agricultural statistics would be prepared with a view of a harmonised system for the next decade

• The ESSC approved the suggestion in May 2014

• A draft document was discussed and endorsed in DGAS June 2015

• A final document will be discussed in the ESSC meeting in November 2015

Background

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• Agriculture produces almost 100% of our daily food

• Agriculture covers over 45% of the EU land area• CAP accounts for roughly 40% of the EU budget• Agricultural exports and imports have a big

impact on EU trade volumes• The impact of agriculture on the environment is

very big, both positive and negative

Reminder: Why do we need agricultural statistics?

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• AGRI: CAP and Rural Development Programmes• ENV: Water Framework Directive, Integrated

Pollution and Prevention Control, Birds and Habitats Directives, Soil Thematic Strategy, etc.

• CLIMA: Climate change• SANTE: Food safety, plant protection, animal

health and animal welfare

Reminder:EU policies using agricultural statistics

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• Data users:DG CLIMA, DG ENV, JRC, DG REGIO, DG SANTEResearchers

• Farmers as respondents to the surveys• National Statistical Authorities

Reminder:Main stakeholders

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• producing statistics, which meet the users' needs efficiently

• produce more and better statistics without increasing the burden

• improving the coherence between domains• clarifying and streamlining the concepts and

definitions• improving the quality of agricultural statistics• integration between agricultural, forestry, land

use and environmental statistics

Strategy objectives

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Main data needs

Number, structure of farms and core variables of production

Production, area harvested and planted, yields

Producer prices (output and input, incl. land prices and rents)

Exports and imports

Stocks of core crops Number, production, producer prices of core livestock

Land cover and use Organic farmingAreas irrigated and quantity of water withdrawn for irrigation

Fertilizers in quantity and value

Pesticides in quantity and value Feed in quantity and valueAge and sex of farmers, family and workforce

Working time and OGA of farmers and their family members

Data on new greening elements in CAP

Geo-referenced information

Data on food supply chains Base data in time series, long-term trends etc.

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• Re-use existing administrative, statistical and other data

• Use ICT and other new technologies• A unique identifier for farms used in all statistics

and administrative registers• Always collect the GIS information• Common concepts and definitions across all

agricultural statistics• Better definition of coverage

Key principles

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• Agricultural statistics don't exist in vacuum, integration is a must

• Data are used in conjunction with other data, e.g. prices, production and trade for food security

• Agriculture, forestry statistics and land use/land cover statistics must be closely linked

• Business vs. Farm Register• Social aspects of food production

Integration

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1. No EU action on structural data of agriculture2. No change: prolongation of the FSS Regulation

(EC) No 1166/20083. Framework regulation on the whole sector of

agricultural statistics4. Two step integration of agricultural statistics

Options

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• Introduces stepwise two new legal frameworks: • Integrated Farm Statistics (IFS) to be in place before end

2018 to ensure the farm census 2020 • Statistics on Agricultural Input/Output (SAIO) to be

adopted and in place before 2022. • The definitions of agriculture, scope and holdings

will be the same in both regulations• Common code lists, terminology and definitions

will be created• EAA will not be part of the two legal frameworks

Way forward - Two-step integration of agricultural statistics

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• Allows incremental legislative integration and legislative flexibility

• Allows for integration of methodological developments

• New data needs can be easily integrated in the legal framework

• Opportunity for including new flexibility via e.g. system of satellite surveys designed to be more easily adapted to changing needs

Way forward – cont.

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• Framework regulations for essential elements, technical elements might be in delegated/implementing acts.

• Common scope must be integrated in both regulations

• Shared technical and methodological documentation on definitions and classifications

Way forward – cont.

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• IFS is on farm level, SAIO on aggregated level• IFS contains micro data, SAIO predefined tables• IFS contains core and module variables• IFS replaces FSS and permanent crop regulations

+ contains part of environmental data • SAIO replaces

• crop and animal production, • agri-environmental statistics (fertilisers, nutrient

balances, pesticides, etc.) • agricultural price statistics.

Framework Regulations

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• Consists of aggregated statistics• crop and animal production, • agri-environmental statistics (fertilisers, nutrient

balances, pesticides, etc.) • agricultural price statistics.

• Data are aggregated statistics with no micro data transmission to Eurostat.

• Deal with agricultural outputs and inputs• Data from farms, administrative sources,

intermediates, up- and downward chain, expert estimations

Framework Regulation for Statistics on Agricultural Input/Output (SAIO)

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Framework regulationsIFS SAIOFarm level (micro data) Aggregated dataCore and module variables Predefined tablesModules with various frequencies Specified deadlines per tableReplaces/contains: Replaces/contains:• FSS • Crop and livestock production

statistics• Permanent crop statistics • Agri-environmental statistics• Part of agri-environmental data • Agricultural price statisticsTo Council and EP end 2016 To Council and EP end 2018To be adopted 2018 To be adopted 2021

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• Better Regulation priority of new Commission, First Vice-President: tools to support decisions

• Evidence-based, logical 40-page report to analyse problems, objectives, impacts of possible policy options, incl. benefits and costs, burdens

• Scrutiny by independent board, no formality!• Greenlighted IA must accompany proposal ISC• More info: http://ec.europa.eu/smart-regulation/

Impact Assessment: Background

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• Strategy in Commission work programme 2016!• Tight timeline:

• Draft for next Steering Group Meeting 07/12/15• Regulatory Scrutiny Board Meeting ~March 2016• Final version for Strategy/IFS ISC ~mid-May 2016

Member State support for quantitative impact analysis could be needed on short notice; requests will be kept to minimum

Impact Assessment: Strategy IA

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Impact Assessment: Strategy IA

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Thank you very much for your attention!