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)

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.

(1) The data contents of the datasets are specified in: (a) Annex I for topic (i), agricultural price indices, for the detailed topics (i) Early and achieved indices (ii) Weights and rebased indices (b) Annex II for topic (ii), absolute input prices, for the detailed topics (i) Fertilisers (ii) Feeding stuff (iii) Energy (c) Annex III for topic (iii), agricultural land prices and rents, for the detailed topics (i) Agricultural land prices (ii) Agricultural land rents. (2) For each dataset, section I specifies: (a) a description of the data contents (b) the variables to be provided at national and, where required, at regional level (c) the deadlines for transmission of the data to the Commission (Eurostat) (d) the reference periods. (3) For each dataset, section II specifies: (a) a description of the measurement units (b) technical requirements related to the variables.

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

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.

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

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.