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.

(2) It is necessary to specify the data requirements for producing statistics on agricultural inputs and outputs as regards agricultural prices in order to produce comparable data between Member States and to achieve harmonisation.

(3) Pursuant to Article 5(10) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2379, implementing acts defining data sets to be transmitted to the Commission are to specify technical elements of the data to be provided, where appropriate, such as the list of variables, the descriptions of the variables, the observation units, the methodological rules to be applied, and the deadlines for transmitting the data.

(4) It is necessary to specify the variables for which the regional dimension is required as they are needed only for some variables.

(5) The reference periods referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 should be further specified.

(6) In order to obtain reliable and comparable results from all Member States, a common methodological framework for the compilation of agricultural price statistics is required.