Legal provisions of COM(2024)255 - Economic accounts for agriculture in the Union (codification)

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dossier COM(2024)255 - Economic accounts for agriculture in the Union (codification).
document COM(2024)255 EN
date June 20, 2024

Contents

Article 1 - Subject matter

1. This Regulation  lays down rules for   sets up the economic accounts for agriculture  (EAA)  in the  Union  , by providing for:

(a)an EAA methodology (common standards, definitions, classifications and accounting rules), intended to be used for compiling accounts on comparable bases for the purposes of the  Union   Community, and for the transmission of data in accordance with Article 3;

(b)time limits for the transmission of the agricultural accounts compiled in accordance with the EAA methodology.

2. This Regulation shall not oblige any Member State to use the EAA methodology in compiling agricultural accounts for its own purposes.

Article 2 - Methodology

1. The EAA methodology referred to in Article 1(1), point (a), is set out in Annex I.


 1350/2013 Art. 1 and Annex .2(a) (adapted)

2. The Commission  is  empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 6  concerning the amendment of  the EAA methodology set out in Annex I. Those delegated acts shall be limited to specifying and improving the content of Annex I for the purpose of ensuring a harmonised interpretation or  for the purpose  of ensuring international comparability.

Those delegated acts shall be adopted only where they do not change the underlying concepts in Annex I, they do not require additional resources for producers within the European Statistical System for their implementation and they do not impose a significant additional burden on Member States or on the respondents.

The Commission shall duly justify the statistical actions provided for in those delegated acts, using, where appropriate, input from relevant experts based on a cost-effectiveness analysis, including an assessment of the burden on the respondents and of the production costs, as referred to in Article 14(3), point (c) of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009.


 138/2004

Article 3 - Transmission to the Commission

1. The Member States shall transmit to the Commission (Eurostat) the data set out in Annex II within the time limits specified for each table.


 2022/590 Art. 1.1 (adapted)

2. The first transmission of data for the regional economic accounts for agriculture (REAA) at NUTS 2 level within the meaning of Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council 12 shall take place by 30 September 2023.


 1350/2013 Art. 1 and Annex .2(b) (adapted)

3. The Commission  is  empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 6  concerning the amendment of  the list of variables for the provision of data set out in Annex II.

Those delegated acts shall not impose a significant additional burden on the Member States or on the respondents.

The Commission shall duly justify the statistical actions provided for in those delegated acts, using, where appropriate, input from relevant experts based on a cost-effectiveness analysis, including an assessment of the burden on the respondents and of the production costs, as referred to in Article 14(3), point (c), of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009.


 2022/590 Art. 1.2 (adapted)

Article 4 - Dissemination of statistics

Without prejudice to Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council 13 and Regulation (EC) No 223/2009, the Commission (Eurostat) shall disseminate the data transmitted to it in accordance with Article 3 of this Regulation online, free of charge.

Article 5 - Quality assessment

1. Member States shall take the measures necessary to ensure the quality of the data and metadata transmitted.

2. For the purpose of this Regulation, the quality criteria  laid down  in Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 shall apply to the data to be transmitted in accordance with Article 3 of this Regulation.

3. The Commission (Eurostat) shall assess the quality of the data transmitted. For that purpose, Member States shall transmit a quality report to the Commission (Eurostat), for the first time by 31 December 2025, and every 5 years thereafter, for the data sets transmitted during the reporting period.

4. In applying the quality criteria  laid down  in Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 to the data to be transmitted in accordance with Article 3 of this Regulation, the Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, define the modalities, structure and assessment indicators for the quality reports referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 7(2) of this Regulation. They shall not impose a significant additional burden or cost on the Member States.

5. Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) without delay with any relevant information or change with regard to the implementation of this Regulation that would, in any substantial way, influence the quality of the data transmitted.

6. Upon a duly justified request from the Commission (Eurostat), Member States shall, without delay, provide any additional clarification necessary to assess the quality of the statistical data.


 1350/2013 Art. 1 and Annex .2(c) (adapted)

Article 6 - Exercise of the delegation

1. The power to adopt delegated acts is conferred on the Commission subject to the conditions laid down in this Article.

2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article 2(2) and Article 3(3) shall be conferred on the Commission for a period of five years from 10 January 2014. The Commission shall draw up a report in respect of the delegation of power not later than nine months before the end of the five-year period. The delegation of power shall be tacitly extended for periods of an identical duration, unless the European Parliament or the Council opposes such extension not later than three months before the end of each period.

3. The delegation of power referred to in Article 2(2) and Article 3(3) may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision to revoke shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force.

 4. Before adopting a delegated act, the Commission shall consult experts designated by each Member State in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making. 

5. As soon as it adopts a delegated act, the Commission shall notify it simultaneously to the European Parliament and to the Council.

6. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 2(2) or Article 3(3) shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or by the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or of the Council.


 2022/590 Art. 1.3

Article 7 - Committee procedure

1. The Commission shall be assisted by the European Statistical System Committee established by Regulation (EC) No 223/2009. That committee shall be a committee within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011.

2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.

Article 8 - Derogations

1. Where the application of this Regulation would necessitate major adaptations in a national statistical system of a Member State as regards the implementation of Chapter VII of Annex I, and of the transmission programme of data for REAA as referred to in Annex II, the Commission may adopt implementing acts granting derogations to that Member State for a maximum duration of 2 years. The first date for transmission of the data for REAA shall, however, not in any event be later than 30 September 2025. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 7(2).

2. The Member State that decides to apply for a derogation referred to in paragraph 1 shall submit a duly reasoned request for such a derogation to the Commission by 21 August 2022.

3. The Union may provide financial contributions from the general budget of the Union to the national statistical institutes and other national authorities referred to in Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 in order to cover the implementation costs of this Regulation when the setting up of REAA necessitates major adaptations in the national statistical system of a Member State.



Article 9 - Repeal

Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 is repealed.

References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex IV.


 138/2004 (adapted)

Article 10 -  Entry into force 

This Regulation shall enter into force on the  twentieth  day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.