Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1537 of 25 July 2023 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards statistics on the use of plant protection products to be transmitted for the reference year 2026 during the transitional regime 2025-2027 and as regards statistics on plant protection products placed on the market (Text with EEA relevance)

1 Member States shall provide data on the domain of statistics on plant protection products referred to in Article 5(1), point (e) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2379, in the form of aggregated datasets.

2 The statistics shall cover: (a) all the active substances as specified in points (i) and (ii) of this Article and contained in the plant protection products placed on the market within the meaning of Article 3, point 9 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council , including those placed on the market under a parallel trade permit as referred to in Article 52 of that Regulation: (i) the active substances listed in Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011; (ii) the active substances contained in plant protection products placed on the market under emergency situations referred to in Article 53 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, other than those referred to in point (i), and irrespective of their approval status; (b) the use of the active substances referred to in point (a) by professional users in agriculture.

3 The data shall be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) at national level.

1 The data contents of the datasets are specified in Annex I for the detailed topics: (1) Plant protection products placed on the market; (2) Use of plant protection products in agriculture.

2 For each dataset, Section I in Annex I specifies: (1) a description of the data contents; (2) the variables to be provided on organic production; (3) the deadlines for transmission of the data to the Commission (Eurostat); (4) the reference periods; (5) the measurement units.

3 For each dataset, Section II in Annex I specifies, where appropriate: (1) a description of the measurement units; (2) possible technical requirements related to the variables.

When data collections are carried out based on statistical samples, Member States shall ensure that the weighted results are representative for the statistical population within the relevant geographical unit. Where precision requirements are not applicable, for example due to sources other than statistical surveys, the quality of the statistics shall be ensured by other means so that they are representative of the scope that they describe, and they shall meet the quality criteria laid down in Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009.

The active substances referred to in Article 1(2) shall be reported using the classification set out in Annex II.

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

The provisions of this Regulation shall apply for the reference periods 2025-2027. The rules of the transitional regime set up in Article 14(1) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 for the period 2025-2027 shall apply only to data on the detailed topic of use of plant protection products in agriculture.

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.