BAKGRUNN (fra kommisjonsforordningen)
 

(1) Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 establishes an integrated framework for the development, production and dissemination of European statistics related to agricultural inputs and outputs. In order to ensure that comparable data are produced by Member States and to achieve harmonisation within the agricultural statistics system, it is necessary to specify the technical elements of the statistics on agricultural inputs and outputs as regards animal production to be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat). 

(2) These elements consist of the list of variables, the descriptions of the variables, the observation units, the precision requirements to be applied, the methodological rules to be applied, and the deadlines for transmitting the data, where appropriate. 

(3) When setting up the data collection systems, Member States should favour options that minimise the number of confidential values in their data. 

(4) It is necessary to specify the variables for the regional and organic production as they are needed only for some variables. 

(5) The coverage of the data sets should be specified beyond the requirements in Article 4(2) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2379, where appropriate, to avoid inconsistencies between Member States. 

(6) The reference periods mentioned in Article 9(4) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 should be further specified to ensure comparability of the statistics between Member States. 

(7) Pursuant to Article 7(2) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2379, Member States can be exempted from providing specific data for predefined variables at certain deadlines if the impact of these Member States on the Union total of those variables is limited. This is the case if their production is below specific thresholds. It is necessary to specify those thresholds, the methodology used to set them up, the sources of data used in applying this methodology, and the data to which this exemption applies.

(8) Pursuant to Article 7(3) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2379, Member States can also be exempted from transmitting specific data for predefined variables where their impact in relation to the agricultural production at national or regional level is limited. It is necessary to specify reference threshold values for the variables subject to exemptions. 

(9) Quality requirements should be proportionate and ensure that the cost and burden of producing statistics stays reasonable. Therefore, while Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 requires that all statistics be representative of the statistical population of the relevant geographical area, only some of the required variables should be subject to further precision requirements in this Regulation. 

(10) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee as established by Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council.