Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1538 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 crop production statistics (Text with EEA relevance)

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

1 The data contents of the datasets are specified in: (1) Annex I for topic (i), crop area and production, for the detailed topics: (1) Arable crops and permanent grassland; (2) Horticulture excluding permanent crops; (3) Permanent crops; (2) Annex II for topic (ii), crop balances, for the detailed topics: (1) Cereal balances; (2) Oil seed balances; (3) Annex III for topic (iii), grasslands, for the detailed topic: (1) Management of grasslands.

2 For each dataset, Section I specifies: (1) a description of the data contents; (2) the variables to be provided at national and, where required, at regional level; (3) the variables to be provided on organic production; (4) the deadlines for transmission of the data to the Commission (Eurostat); (5) the reference periods.

3 For each dataset, Section II specifies, where appropriate: (1) a description of the measurement units; (2) technical requirements related to the variables; (3) thresholds for exemptions to data transmission deadlines.

When data collections are carried out based on statistical samples, Member States shall ensure that the weighted results are representative of the statistical population within the relevant geographical unit and are designed to meet the precision requirements set out in Annex IV. Where precision requirements are not applicable, for example due to sources other than statistical surveys, the quality of the statistics shall be ensured 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.

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

1 Member States may be exempted from certain regular data transmission deadlines in the event that the impact of that Member State on the Union total of those variables is limited.

2 Data transmission exemptions shall be granted for variables in datasets of the topic ‘crop area and production’ provided that their application does not reduce the information on the expected Union total of the corresponding variable by more than 5 %. The Commission (Eurostat) shall calculate reference threshold values for the production of each crop subject to exemptions. These reference threshold values shall be calculated based on a three-year average of statistical data on production volumes.

3 A Member State where the production of a crop has been lower than or equal to the reference threshold value for three successive years shall be exempted from transmitting data for all (sub)variables belonging to this crop for certain deadlines, as indicated in each Section II of the data sets in Annex I. The exemption shall be automatically revoked if the relevant production value of the Member State exceeds the reference threshold value for three successive years. Data transmission shall commence for the reference year following the third consecutive year in which the reference threshold value is exceeded. The exemption shall be automatically reinstated if the Member State’s production of the relevant crop is below or equal to the reference threshold for three successive years.

4 The reference threshold values are laid down in each Section II of Annex I. The Commission may amend any of these values if the average Union total stays lower than 90 % or higher than 110 % of the Union total used for calculating the reference threshold values for three successive years.

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.