Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1417 of 13 March 2024 supplementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 setting up the Farm Sustainability Data Network with rules for annual income determination, holding sustainability analysis and access to data for research purposes, and repealing Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1198/2014

This Regulation lays down rules supplementing certain non-essential elements of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 for the purpose of an annual determination of incomes and the analysis of the sustainability of holdings by means of the Farm Sustainability Data Network (FSDN). Those rules relate to: (a) the threshold referred to in Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009; (b) the plan referred to in Article 5a(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009; (c) the reference period referred to in Article 5b(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009; (d) the types of farming referred to in Article 5b(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009; (e) the access to pseudonymised data referred to in Article 16(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009.

The threshold referred to in Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 shall ensure that the field of survey represents the largest possible share of agricultural output, agricultural area and farm labour, of holdings run with a market orientation.

The plan for the selection of returning holdings to be drawn up by each Member State as referred to in Article 5a(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009, shall include elements to ensure that a representative reporting sample of the field of survey is obtained. In particular, the plan shall, at least: (a) be based on the most recent statistical reference sources; (b) explain the procedure for stratifying the field of survey in accordance with the divisions listed in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 as well as in accordance with the types of farming and economic size classes as referred to in Article 5b(1) of that Regulation; (c) provide a breakdown of holdings in the field of survey by types of farming and economic size classes as referred to in Article 5b(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 which corresponds at least to the principal types; (d) indicate the statistical methods for determining the selection rate chosen for each stratum, the procedures for the selection of returning holdings, and the number of returning holdings to be selected for each of the strata adopted.

For the purposes of calculating standard outputs for the Union integrated farm statistics surveys for year N, as referred to in Article 5b(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009, the reference period consists of the five successive years from year N-5 to year N-1. The standard outputs shall be determined using average basic data calculated over the reference period laid down in the first paragraph and commonly referred to as ‘N-3 standard outputs’. These N-3 standard outputs shall be updated to take account of economic trends at least each time a Union integrated farm statistics survey is carried out.

The general and principal types of farming and the correspondence between them, referred to in Article 5b(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009, are specified in Annex I to this Regulation.

The rules and conditions for the Commission to grant access at Union level to pseudonymised data for research purposes referred to in Article 16(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 are set out in Annex II to this Regulation.

Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1198/2014 is repealed with effect from 1 January 2025. However, the Regulation referred to in the first paragraph shall continue to apply, for the FSDN to reporting years preceding the reporting year 2025 and, for the Union integrated farm statistics surveys, until the 2023 survey.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from the reporting year 2025 for the FSDN and for the Union integrated farm statistics surveys as of the 2026 survey.