DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16096563
title: LAMASUS policy payments database at NUTS3

description: This dataset contains information on 20 FADN (Farm Accountancy Data Network) subsidy payment categories, expressed in €/ha, at the NUTS3 level for every second year over a 20-year period. It covers the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom.

The dataset is part of the LAMASUS project deliverable D3.2 “Database on EU Policies and Payments for Agriculture, Forest, and Other Land Use Management (LUM) Related Drivers”. The methodology for the spatial downscaling approach, which was applied to derive FADN subsidy payments, is explained within this documentation. The outcome is probabilities how likely farm information is allocated to very small regional units. These probabilities are then used to calculate probability weighted farm information from at least 15 observations at these regional units. This information has been aggregated to the NUTS3 level.

Since the regional units prior to aggregation to the NUTS3 level are already expressed as ratios (€/ha), the aggregation value is calculated as an average of these ratios. This is because the numerator (payments) and denominator (hectares) are not an outcome of the downscaling approach.

A detailed description and discussion of the spatial downscaling method will be provided in a scientific article to be submitted later this year.

The dataset consists of one file and it has the following columns:

1.       NUTS_ID: NUTS3 identification code

2.       year: years of observation – 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020

3.       Remaining columns are the FADN codes for subsidy payments – see table below

 






FADN code



Description





SE605



SE605 - Total subsidies - excluding on investments





SE610



SE610 - Total subsidies on crops





SE611



SE611 - Amounts paid to producers of cereals, oilseeds and protein crops (COP crops) and energy crops payments





SE612



SE612 - Amount of premiums received by COP producers obliged to set aside part of their land. Such land may, however, be used for certain non-food crops





SE613



SE613 - Other crops subsidies





SE615



SE615 - All farm subsidies on livestock and livestock products





SE616



SE616 - Subsidies dairying





SE617



SE617 - All farm subsidies received for cattle other than dairy cows in production, e.g. premiums for young male cattle, premiums for suckler cows, etc.





SE618



SE618 - Subsidies sheep & goats





SE619



SE619 - Other livestock subsidies





SE621



SE621 - Environmental subsidies





SE622



SE622 - LFA subsidies.





SE623



SE623 - Support to help farmers to adapt to standards, to use farm advisory services, to improve the quality of agricultural products, training, afforestation and ecological stability of forests. Including part of the measures of the article 69 of Regulation 1782/2003.





SE624



SE624 - Total support for rural development





SE625



SE625 - Subsidies on intermediate consumption





SE626



SE626 - Subsidies on external factors





SE630



SE630 - Single farm payment and single area payment scheme. Additional aid included





SE631



SE631 - Single Farm payment





SE632



SE632 - Scheme only for new Member States; not chosen by Malta and Slovenia.





SE640



SE640 - Amount resulting from the application of modulation to the first EUR 5000 or less of direct payments.





 

Empty cells must be treated as NA (not available).

 

Important note: The database of subsidy payments provided is subject to revision as data and methodologies continue to be refined and improved!

Current status of results: In the data processing used to generate the results, a variable was applied that became invalid from 2010 onwards. As a result, the current version of the database is not fully reliable and will be updated once the downscaling approach has been revised.