Regulation (EC) No 1166/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on farm structure surveys and the survey on agricultural production methods and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 571/88 (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2008-11-19
Institutions: Council of the European Union, European Parliament
Subjects: agricultural statistics, agricultural structure, area of holding, database, labour force, means of agricultural production

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REGULATION (EC) No 1166/2008 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

of 19 November 2008

on farm structure surveys and the survey on agricultural production methods and repealing Council
Regulation (EEC) No 571/88

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION,

(6)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Commu-
nity, and in particular Article 285(1) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251
of the Treaty (1),

Whereas:

(1) Council Regulation (EEC) No 571/88 of 29 February 1988
on the organisation of Community surveys on the structure
of agricultural holdings (2) provides for a programme of
Community surveys to provide statistics on the structure of
agricultural holdings up to 2007.

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

The programme of surveys on the structure of agricultural
holdings, carried out on a Community basis since 1966/67,
should be continued in order
to examine trends at
Community level. In the interests of clarity, Regulation
(EEC) No 571/88 should be replaced by this Regulation.

For
the purposes of updating the basic registers of
agricultural holdings and the other information required
for
the stratification of sample surveys, a census of
agricultural holdings in the Community is necessary at
least every ten years. The last census prior to the adoption
of this Regulation took place in 1999/2000.

There is a need to collect data on the implementation of
measures associated with rural development, as defined in
Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 of 20 September
2005 on support for rural development by the European
Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (3).

In its conclusions of 19 December 2006 on agri-
environmental indicators, the Council recognised the need
the
for comparable data on agricultural activities, at
appropriate geographical
level, and covering the whole
Community. The Council asked the Commission to under-
take the measures set out in the Commission Communica-
tion of 15 September 2006 (4) which include
the
production of statistical data, particularly regarding farm
management practices and the use of farm inputs.

(1) Opinion of the European Parliament of 21 May 2008 (not yet
published in the Official Journal) and Council Decision of 20 October
2008.

(2) OJ L 56, 2.3.1988, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 277, 21.10.2005, p. 1.
(4) Entitled ‘Development of agri-environmental indicators for monitor-
ing the integration of environmental concerns into the common
agricultural policy’.

There is a lack of statistical information on the different
agricultural production methods at the level of individual
holdings. Therefore there is a need for improvements to the
collection of
information on agricultural production
methods linked to structural information on agricultural
holdings, to provide additional statistics for the develop-
ment of agri-environmental policy and to improve the
quality of agri-environmental indicators.

(7) Comparable statistics from all Member States on the
structure of
in
agricultural holdings
determining the development of agricultural policy in the
Community. Therefore standard classifications and com-
mon definitions should be used insofar as possible for
survey characteristics.

important

are

(8)

The implementation of the farm structure survey in 2010
and the decennial population census in 2011 would place a
heavy burden on the statistical resources of Member States
if the periods of fieldwork for these two major surveys
overlapped. A derogation should therefore be provided for
in order to enable Member States to implement the farm
structure survey in 2009.

reliability,

relevance,

cost-effectiveness,

the provisions of

(9) Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 of 17 February 1997
on Community Statistics (5) constitutes
the reference
framework for
this Regulation in
particular as regards conformity to standards of imparti-
ality,
statistical
confidentiality and transparency. Council Regulation (Eura-
tom, EEC) No 1588/90 of 11 June 1990 on the
transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to
the European Communities (6)
the Statistical Office of
constitutes a reference framework for the transmission and
protection of confidential statistical data provided for under
this Regulation,
to ensure that no unlawful
disclosure and non-statistical use take place when Com-
munity statistics are produced and disseminated.

in order

(10) The use of

the agricultural holding's location by the
Commission should be limited to statistical analyses and
should exclude drawing samples and carrying out surveys.
The necessary protection of confidentiality of data should
be ensured, among other means, by limiting the precision

(5) OJ L 52, 22.2.1997, p. 1.
(6) OJ L 151, 15.6.1990, p. 1.

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of the location parameters and by appropriate aggregation
when publishing statistics.

proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Regulation
does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve
that objective.

(11) Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 (1) established the
in the

statistical classification of economic activities
Community.

(12)

In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the
European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003
on the establishment of a common classification of
territorial units for statistics (NUTS) (2), territorial units
should be defined in accordance with the NUTS classifica-
tion.

(13)

In order to reduce the burden of data collection for
respondents and Member States insofar as possible, the
possibility of using sample surveys and administrative
sources should be provided for.

(14)

(15)

In order to carry out the surveys, considerable funding will
be required from both the Member States and the
Commission over a number of years, a large proportion
of which will be used to meet the requirements of the
Community.

is recognised that

the requirements of

It
the satellite
recognition and identification of agricultural holdings
present significant methodological and technical difficulties
in many Member States.

(16) Provision should therefore be made for a Community
subsidy to assist this programme of surveys through the
European Agricultural Guarantee Fund under Council
Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 of 21 June 2005 on the
financing of the common agricultural policy (3).

(17) This Regulation establishes a financial envelope for the
entire duration of the programme which constitutes the
prime reference for the budgetary authority during the
annual budgetary procedure, within the meaning of
point 37 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May
2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and
the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound
financial management (4).

(18) Since

the objective of

this Regulation, namely the
systematic production of Community statistics on the
structure of agricultural holdings and on agricultural
production methods, cannot be sufficiently achieved by
the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scale
and effects of
this Regulation, be better achieved at
Community level, the Community may adopt measures in
accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, as set out in
Article 5 of the Treaty. In accordance with the principle of

(1) OJ L 293, 24.10.1990, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 209, 11.8.2005, p. 1.
(4) OJ C 139, 14.6.2006, p. 1.

(19) The measures necessary for the implementation of this
Regulation should be adopted in accordance with Council
Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the
procedures
implementing powers
the exercise of
conferred on the Commission (5).

for

(20)

In particular, the Commission should be empowered to
define the coefficients for the livestock units, to define the
characteristics and to adapt the Annexes to this Regulation.
Since those measures are of general scope and are designed
to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, by
supplementing it with new non-essential elements, they
must be adopted in accordance with the regulatory
procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5(a) of
Decision 1999/468/EC.

(21) The Standing Committee for Agricultural Statistics set up

by Council Decision 72/279/EEC (6) has been consulted,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

CHAPTER I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1

Subject matter

This Regulation establishes a framework for the production of
comparable Community statistics on the structure of agricultural
holdings and for a survey on agricultural production methods.

Article 2

Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions
shall apply:

(a)

(b)

‘agricultural holding’ or ‘holding’ means a single unit, both
technically and economically, which has a single manage-
ment and which undertakes agricultural activities listed in
Annex I within the economic territory of the European
Union, either as its primary or secondary activity;

‘livestock unit’ means a standard measurement unit that
allows the aggregation of the various categories of livestock
in order to enable them to be compared. Livestock units are
the
defined on the basis of
individual animal categories, for which the coefficients shall
be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure
with scrutiny referred to in Article 15(2);

the feed requirements of

(5) OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23.
(6) OJ L 179, 7.8.1972, p. 1.

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(c)

(d)

(e)

‘sample surveys’ means statistical surveys based on stratified
random sampling which are designed to provide represen-
tative statistics concerning agricultural holdings at regional
and national levels. The stratification shall include the size
and type of
the agricultural holding to ensure that
agricultural holdings of different sizes and types are
adequately represented;

‘region’ means the NUTS 2 territorial unit defined in
Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003;

‘location of the holding’ means the latitude and longitude
coordinates within an arc of 5 minutes that avoid the direct
identification of an individual holding. If a latitude and
longitude location contains only one agricultural holding,
then this holding shall be attributed to a neighbouring
location, which contains at least one other agricultural
holding.

Article 3

Coverage

1. The surveys specified in this Regulation shall cover:

(a)

(b)

agricultural holdings where the agricultural area utilised for
farming is one hectare or more;

agricultural holdings where the agricultural area utilised for
farming is less than one hectare, if those holdings produce a
certain proportion for sale or if
their production unit
exceeds certain physical thresholds.

2. However, Member States which use a survey threshold above
one hectare shall fix this threshold at a level that excludes only
the smallest agricultural holdings which together contribute 2 %
or less to the total utilised agricultural area excluding common
land and 2 % or less to the total number of farm livestock units.

In any case, all agricultural holdings reaching one of the

3.
physical thresholds specified in Annex II shall be covered.

sources

cultivation of
administrative
genetically modified crops and the specific rural development
measures referred to in Annex III.

associated with the

If a Member State decides to use an administrative source
2.
other than those specified in paragraph 1, the Member State shall
inform the Commission in advance and shall provide details
concerning the method to be used and the quality of the data
from this administrative source.

Article 5

Precision requirements

1. Member States conducting sample surveys shall ensure that
the weighted survey results are statistically representative of
agricultural holdings within each region and are designed to
meet the precision requirements set out in Annex IV.

In duly justified cases the Commission shall allow Member
2.
States exceptions to the precision requirements referred to in
paragraph 1 for specific regions.

CHAPTER II

STATISTICS ON THE STRUCTURE OF AGRICULTURAL
HOLDINGS

Article 6

Farm structure surveys

1.
In 2010, 2013 and 2016, Member States shall carry out
surveys on the structure of agricultural holdings, hereinafter
‘farm structure surveys’.

Article 4

Data sources

2. The farm structure survey in 2010 shall be carried out in the
form of a census. However, sample surveys may be used for the
characteristics concerning other gainful activities carried out by
the labour force, listed in Annex III Section V(ii).

1. Member States shall use information from the Integrated
Administration and Control System provided for in Regulation
(EC) No 1782/2003 (1), the System for the Identification and
Registration of Bovine Animals provided for in Regulation (EC)
No 1760/2000 (2) and the organic farming registers set up
pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 (3) provided this
information is of at least equal quality to information obtained
also use
from statistical

surveys. Member

States may

(1) Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003
establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the
common agricultural policy and establishing certain support
schemes for farmers (OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1).

(2) Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of
the Council of 17 July 2000 establishing a system for
the
identification and registration of bovine animals and regarding the
labelling of beef and beef products (OJ L 204, 11.8.2000, p. 1).
(3) Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 of 28 June 2007 on organic
production and labelling of organic products and repealing
Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 (OJ L 189, 20.7.2007, p. 1).

3. The farm structure surveys in 2013 and 2016 may be
carried out as sample surveys.

Article 7

Survey characteristics

1. Member States shall provide information on the character-
istics listed in Annex III.

2. The Commission may, in accordance with the regulatory
procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 15(2), amend the
list of characteristics set out in Annex III for the farm structure
surveys for 2013 and 2016.

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If a Member State determines that a characteristic has a low
3.
or zero prevalence, the characteristic may be excluded from the
data collection. That Member State shall inform the Commission
in the calendar year immediately preceding the survey year about
any characteristic excluded from the data collection.

4. The definitions of the characteristics shall be adopted in
accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred
to in Article 15(2).

Article 8

Reference periods

Article 10

Sampling frame

For the purposes of updating the sampling frame for the farm
structure surveys in 2013 and 2016, Member States shall
provide the national authorities responsible for farm structure
surveys with access to information on agricultural holdings
contained in administrative files compiled on their national
territory.

CHAPTER III

STATISTICS ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION METHODS

The reference periods for the farm structure surveys in the survey
years 2010, 2013 and 2016 shall be defined as follows:

Article 11

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

for land characteristics specified in Annex III, a period of
12 months ending on a reference day between 1 March and
31 October of the survey year;

livestock characteristics

specified in Annex III, a
for
reference day between 1 March and 31 December of the
survey year;

Survey on agricultural production methods

1. Member States shall carry out a survey on agricultural
production methods used by agricultural holdings. This survey
may be carried out as a sample survey.

2.
In duly justified cases, the Commission may allow a Member
State to carry out the sample survey using separate sub-samples.

for labour force characteristics specified in Annex III, a
period of 12 months ending on a reference day between
1 March and 31 October of the survey year;

3. Member States shall provide information on the character-
istics of the agricultural production methods listed in Annex V.

for rural development measures specified in Annex III, a
period of three years ending on 31 December of the survey
year.

For each holding surveyed, Member States shall also provide
4.
an estimation of the volume of water used for irrigation on the
holding (in cubic metres). The estimation may be produced by
means of a model.

Article 9

Transmission

1. Member States shall transmit to the Commission validated
survey data for the farm structure survey for 2010 by 31 March
2012.

For the farm structure surveys in the survey years 2013 and
2.
2016, Member States shall transmit validated survey data to the
Commission within 12 months of the end of the survey year.

3. Data relating to the rural development measures referred to
in Annex III, and based on administrative records, may be
transmitted to the Commission separately within 18 months of
the end of the survey year.

5. The Commission shall provide Member States with
methodological and other support in order to construct the
model referred to in paragraph 4. In addition, the Commission
shall promote the necessary cooperation and sharing of
experiences between Member States
to obtain
comparable results.

in order

If a Member State determines that a characteristic has a low
6.
or zero prevalence, the characteristic may be excluded from the
data collection. That Member State shall inform the Commission
in the calendar year immediately preceding the survey year about
any characteristic excluded from the data collection.

7. The definitions of the characteristics shall be adopted in
accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred
to in Article 15(2).

4. The farm structure survey data transmitted to the Commis-
sion shall be in electronic form and at the level of individual
agricultural holdings.

8. The reference period shall coincide with the reference
periods used for the characteristics of the farm structure survey
in 2010.

5. The Commission shall determine the format
transmission of the survey data.

for

the

6. The farm structure survey data shall not be used by the
Commission for drawing samples or for carrying out surveys.

9. The results of this survey shall be linked to the data obtained
from the farm structure survey in 2010 at the level of individual
agricultural holdings. The combined validated data set shall be
transmitted to the Commission in electronic form by 31 Decem-
ber 2012 at the latest.

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10. The Commission shall determine the format
transmission of the survey data.

for

the

— EUR 4 000 000 each for Italy, Poland and Romania; and

11. The data on agricultural production methods shall not be
used by the Commission for drawing samples or for carrying out
surveys.

CHAPTER IV

REPORTS, FINANCING AND IMPLEMENTING MEASURES

Article 12

Reports

shall be provided by
1. National methodological
Member States for the surveys covered by this Regulation,
describing:

reports

(a)

the organisation and methodology applied;

(b)

(c)

(d)

the levels of precision achieved for the sample surveys
referred to in this Regulation;

information on the quality of any administrative data
sources used; and

the inclusion and exclusion criteria applied to meet the
coverage requirements specified in Article 3.

2. The national methodological reports shall be submitted to
the Commission with the validated survey results, in accordance
with the deadlines specified in Article 9(1) and (2).

3.
In addition to the national methodological reports required
at the end of each survey, Member States shall provide the
Commission with any additional
information that may be
required concerning the organisation and methodology of the
survey.

Article 13

Community contribution

1. Member States shall receive a maximum financial contribu-
tion of 75 % from the Community towards the cost of carrying
out
to the
maximum amounts defined in paragraphs 3 and 4.

the surveys defined in this Regulation, subject

entry into force of

2. Upon the
the
Commission shall provide the necessary technical and advisory
assistance in respect of the satellite recognition of agricultural
holdings, to those Member States which submit applications.

this Regulation,

For the combined costs of the farm structure survey in 2010
3.
and the survey on agricultural production methods,
the
Community contribution shall be limited to the maximum
amounts specified below:

— EUR 50 000 each for Luxembourg and Malta;

— EUR 1 000 000 each for Austria, Ireland and Lithuania;

— EUR 2 000 000 each for Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary,

Portugal and the United Kingdom;

— EUR 3 000 000 each for Greece, Spain and France;

— EUR 300 000 each for all other Member States.

For the farm structure surveys in 2013 and 2016, the
4.
maximum amounts specified in paragraph 3 shall be reduced by
50 %.

5. The Community financial contribution is financed by the
European Agricultural Guarantee Fund under Article 3(2),
point (e) of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005.

Article 14

Financial framework

the implementation of

1. The financial envelope for
this
programme of surveys, including the appropriations necessary
the
for the management, maintenance and development of
database systems used within the Commission to process the
data supplied by Member States under the provisions of this
Regulation, shall be EUR 58 850 000 for the period 2008-2013.

2. The amount for the period 2014-2018 shall be fixed by the
budgetary and legislative authority on a proposal
from the
Commission on the basis of the new financial framework for the
period commencing in 2014.

3. The annual appropriations shall be authorised by the
budgetary authority within the limits of the financial framework.

Article 15

Committee

1. The Commission shall be
assisted by the Standing
Committee for Agricultural Statistics established by Decision
72/279/EEC.

2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to
(4) and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having
regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.

Article 16

Derogations

1. By way of derogation from Articles 6(1) and (2), 8, 9(1),
11(8) and (9), 13(3), Annex III and Annex IV, the references to
the year 2010 shall be replaced by references to the year 2009
for Greece, Spain and Portugal.

2. By way of derogation from Article 9(1), the reference to
31 March 2012 shall be replaced by:

(a)

31 March 2011 for Greece and Portugal;

(b) 30 June 2011 for Spain;

(c)

30 June 2012 for Italy and Romania.

3. By way of derogation from Article 11(9), the reference to
31 December 2012 shall be replaced by 31 December 2011 for
Greece, Spain and Portugal.

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Article 17

Repeal

Article 18

Entry into force

1. Regulation (EEC) No 571/88 shall be repealed.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

2. References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as
references to this Regulation.

It shall apply from 1 January 2009.

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

Done at Strasbourg, 19 November 2008.

For the European Parliament

The President

H.-G. PÖTTERING

For the Council

The President

J.-P. JOUYET

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List of agricultural activities referred to in the definition of an agricultural holding

ANNEX I

The following activities (which may be either primary or secondary activities) are based on the European Statistical
Classification of Economic Activities (NACE Rev. 2) for crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities
and are used to define an agricultural holding:

Description of activity

NACE Rev. 2 code

Additional notes on activities included or excluded when defining agricultural
activities

Growing of non-per-
ennial crops

Growing of perennial
crops

Plant propagation

01.1

01.2

01.3

Animal production

01.4

Mixed farming

01.5

Support activities to
agriculture and post-
harvest crop activities

01.6

Agricultural holdings which produce wine or olive oil
produced grapes or olives are included within the scope of
Regulation.

from self-
this

All activities classified under 01.49 of NACE Rev. 2 (Raising of other
animals) shall be excluded from the scope of this Regulation, except:
the raising and breeding of ostriches, emus and rabbits;
(i)
bee-keeping and production of honey and beeswax.
(ii)

In general, all holdings which carry out activities under 01.6 of NACE
Rev. 2 are excluded from the scope of this Regulation if they are
undertaken exclusively.
However, holdings exclusively maintaining agricultural
land in good
agricultural and environmental condition (under 01.61 of NACE Rev. 2)
are included in the scope of this Regulation.

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Thresholds for the farm structure surveys and the survey on agricultural production methods

ANNEX II

Characteristics

Utilised agricultural area

Arable land, kitchen gardens, permanent grassland, permanent
crops

Permanent outdoor crops

Fruit, berry, citrus and olive plantations, vineyards and nurseries

Fresh vegetables, melons and strawberries, which are outdoors
or under low (not accessible) protective cover

Other intensive production

Tobacco

Hops

Cotton

Crops under glass or other
(accessible) protective cover

Bovine animals

Pigs

Sheep

Goats

Poultry

Fresh vegetables, melons and strawberries

Flowers and ornamental plants (excluding nurseries)

All

All

Breeding sows

All

All

All

Threshold

5 ha

1 ha

0,5 ha

0,5 ha

0,5 ha

0,5 ha

0,1 ha

0,1 ha

10 Head

50 Head

10 Head

20 Head

20 Head

1 000 Head

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ANNEX III

List of farm structure survey characteristics

CHARACTERISTICS

UNITS/
CATEGORIES

I.

General characteristics

– Location of the holding

– – Latitude (within an arc of 5 minutes or less)

– – Longitude (within an arc of 5 minutes or less)

– Legal personality of the holding

Degrees: Minutes

Degrees: Minutes

– – Is the legal and economic responsibility of the holding assumed by:

– – – a natural person who is a sole holder, where the holding is independent?

– – – – If the answer to the previous question is ‘yes’, is this person (the

holder) also the manager?

– – – – – If this person is not the manager, is the manager a member

of the holder's family?

– – – – – If the manager is a member of the holder's family, is the

manager the spouse of the holder? (1)

– – – one or more natural persons who is/are a partner, where the holding is a

group holding?

– – – a legal person?

– Type of tenure (in relation to the holder) and farming system

– – Utilised agricultural area:

– – – For owner farming

– – – For tenant farming

– – – For share farming or other modes

– – Organic farming

– – – The total utilised agricultural area of the holding on which organic farming
production methods are applied and certified according to national or
European Community rules

– – – The total utilised agricultural area of the holding that is under conversion to
organic farming production methods to be certified according to national or
European Community rules

– – – Area of the holding on which organic farming production methods according
to national or European Community rules are either applied and certified or
under conversion to be certified:

– – – – Cereals for the production of grain (including seed)

– – – – Dried pulses and protein crops for the production of grain (including

seed and mixtures of cereals and pulses)

– – – – Potatoes (including early potatoes and seed potatoes)

– – – – Sugar beet (excluding seed)

– – – – Oil seed crops

– – – – Fresh vegetables, melons and strawberries

– – – – Pasture and meadow, excluding rough grazings

– – – – Fruit and berry plantations

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

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CHARACTERISTICS

UNITS/
CATEGORIES

– – – – Citrus plantations

– – – – Olive plantations

– – – – Vineyards

– – – – Other crops (fibre crops, etc.)

– – – Organic production methods applied to animal production and certified

according to national or European Community rules:

– – – – Bovine animals

– – – – Pigs

– – – – Sheep and goats

– – – – Poultry

– – – – Other animals

ha

ha

ha

ha

Head

Head

Head

Head

Yes/No

– – Destination of the holding's production:

– – – Household consumes more than 50 % of the value of the final production of

Yes/No

the holding

– – – Direct sale to final consumers represents more than 50 % of the total sales of

the holding (1)

Yes/No

II.

Land

– Arable land

– – Cereals for the production of grain (including seed):

– – – Common wheat and spelt

– – – Durum wheat

– – – Rye

– – – Barley

– – – Oats

– – – Grain maize

– – – Rice

– – – Other cereals for the production of grain

– – Dried pulses and protein crops for the production of grain (including seed and

mixtures of cereals and pulses)

– – – of which peas, field beans and sweet lupins

– – Potatoes (including early potatoes and seed potatoes)

– – Sugar beet (excluding seed)

– – Fodder roots and brassicas (excluding seed)

– – Industrial crops:

– – – Tobacco

– – – Hops

– – – Cotton

– – – Rape and turnip rape

– – – Sunflower

– – – Soya

– – – Linseed (oil flax)

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

ha

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CHARACTERISTICS

UNITS/
CATEGORIES

– – – Other oil seed crops

– – – Flax

– – – Hemp

– – – Other fibre crops

– – – Aromatic plants, medicinal and culinary plants

– – – Other industrial crops not mentioned elsewhere

– – Fresh vegetables, melons and strawberries of which:

– – – Outdoor or under low (not accessible) protective cover

– – – – Open field

– – – – Market gardening

– – – Under glass or other (accessible) protective cover

– – Flowers and ornamental plants (excluding nurseries):

– – – Outdoor or under low (not accessible) protective cover

– – – Under glass or other (accessible) protective cover

– – Plants harvested green:

– – – Temporary grass

– – – Other plants harvested green:

– – – – Green maize

– – – – Leguminous plants

– – – – Other plants harvested green not mentioned elsewhere

– – Arable land seed and seedlings

– – Other arable land crops

– – Fallow land without any subsidies

– – Fallow land subject to the payment of subsidies, with no economic use

– Kitchen gardens

– Permanent grassland

– – Pasture and meadow, excluding rough grazings

– – Rough grazings

– – Permanent grassland no longer used for production purposes and eligible for the

payment of subsidies

– Permanent crops

– – Fruit and berry plantations

– – – Fruit species, of which:

– – – – Fruit of temperate climate zones

– – – – Fruit of subtropical climate zones

– – – Berry species

– – – Nuts

– – Citrus plantations

– – Olive plantations

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CHARACTERISTICS

UNITS/
CATEGORIES

– – – Normally producing table olives

– – – Normally producing olives for oil production

– – Vineyards, of which normally producing:

– – – Quality wine

– – – Other wines

– – – Table grapes

– – – Raisins

– – Nurseries

– – Other permanent crops

– – – of which Christmas trees (1)

– – Permanent crops under glass

– Other land

– – Unutilised agricultural land

– – Wooded area

– – – of which short rotation coppices

– – Other land (land occupied by buildings, farmyards, tracks, ponds, quarries, infertile

land, rock, etc.)

– Mushrooms, irrigated area, energy crops and genetically modified crops

– – Mushrooms

– – Irrigated area

– – – Total irrigable area

– – – Total cultivated area irrigated at least once during the previous 12 months

– – Energy crops (for the production of biofuels or other renewable energy)

– – – of which on set-aside area

– – Genetically modified crops

III.

Livestock

– Equidae

– Bovine animals:

– – Bovine animals, under one year old, male and female

– – Bovine animals, one but less than two years old, male

– – Bovine animals, one but less than two years old, female

– – Male bovine animals, two years old and over

– – Heifers, two years old and over

– – Dairy cows

– – Other cows

– Sheep and goats:

– – Sheep (all ages)

– – – Breeding females

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CHARACTERISTICS

UNITS/
CATEGORIES

– – – Other sheep

– – Goats (all ages)

– – – Breeding females

– – – Other goats

– Pigs:

– – Piglets having a live weight of under 20 kilograms

– – Breeding sows weighing 50 kilograms and over

– – Other pigs

– Poultry:

– – Broilers

– – Laying hens

– – Other poultry:

– – – Turkeys (1)

– – – Ducks (1)

– – – Geese (1)

– – – Ostriches (1)

– – – Other poultry, not mentioned elsewhere (1)

– Rabbits, breeding females

– Bees

– Livestock not mentioned elsewhere

IV. machinery and equipment

IV. (i) Machinery (1)

– Belonging exclusively to the holding

– – Four-wheel tractors, track-laying tractors, tool carriers

– – Cultivators, hoeing machines, rotary hoes and motor mowers

– – Combine harvesters

– – Other fully mechanised harvesters

– Machinery used by several holdings

– – Four-wheel tractors, track-laying tractors, tool carriers

– – Cultivators, hoeing machines, rotary hoes and motor mowers

– – Combine harvesters

– – Other fully mechanised harvesters

IV. (ii) Equipment

– Equipment used for renewable energy production by type of energy source:

– – Wind

– – Biomass

– – – of which bio-methane

– – Solar

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Yes/No

Yes/No

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CHARACTERISTICS

– – Hydro-energy

– – Other types of renewable energy sources

V.

Labour force

V. (i) Farm work on the holding

– Holder

– – Gender

– – Age

– – The farm work on the holding (apart from housework)

– Manager

– – Gender

– – Age

UNITS/
CATEGORIES

Yes/No

Yes/No

Male/Female

Age bands (2)

AWU % band 1 (3)

Male/Female

Age bands

– – The farm work on the holding (apart from housework)

AWU % band 2 (4)

– Training of manager

– – Agricultural training of manager

Training codes (5)

– – Vocational training undertaken by manager during the last 12 months (6)

Yes/No

– Members of sole holder's family carrying out farm work for the holding: male

– – The farm work on the holding (apart from housework)

AWU % band 2

– Members of sole holder's family carrying out farm work for the holding: female

– – The farm work on the holding (apart from housework)

AWU % band 2

– Non-family labour regularly employed: male

– – The farm work on the holding (apart from housework)

AWU % band 2

– Non-family labour regularly employed: female

– – The farm work on the holding (apart from housework)

– Non-family labour employed on a non-regular basis: male and female

– Total number of equivalent full-time working days of farm work during the 12 months
preceding the day of the survey, not included under previous categories, undertaken on
the holding by persons not employed directly by the holding (e.g. contractors'
employees)

V. (ii) Other gainful activities (non-farm work on the holding and work outside the holding)

– Other gainful activities of the holder who is also the manager:

AWU % band 2

Full-time working
days

Full-time working
days

– – As his/her major occupation

– – As his/her subsidiary occupation

– – If other gainful activities are carried out

– – – Activities directly related to the holding

– – – Activities not directly related to the holding

– Other gainful activities of the spouse of the sole holder:

– – As his/her major occupation

– – As his/her subsidiary occupation

– – If other gainful activities are carried out

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

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CHARACTERISTICS

UNITS/
CATEGORIES

– – – Activities directly related to the holding

– – – Activities not directly related to the holding

– Other gainful activities of the other members of the sole holder's family:

– – As his/her major occupation

– – As his/her subsidiary occupation

– – If other gainful activities are carried out

– – – Activities directly related to the holding

– – – Activities not directly related to the holding

– Non-family labour force, employed directly on a regular basis and involved in other

gainful activities that are directly related to the holding

– – As his/her major occupation

– – As his/her subsidiary occupation

VI. Other gainful activities of the holding (directly related to the holding)

VI. (i) List of other gainful activities

– Tourism, accommodation and other leisure activities

– Handicraft

– Processing of farm products

– Production of renewable energy

– Wood processing (e.g. sawing)

– Aquaculture

– Contractual work (using production means of the holding)

– – Agricultural (for other holdings)

– – Non-agricultural

– Forestry

– Other

Yes/No

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VI. (ii) Importance of the other gainful activities directly related to the holding

– Percentage of the final output of the holding

Percentage bands (7)

VII. Support for rural development

– Holding benefited from one of the following rural development measures during the

last 3 years

– – Use of advisory services

– – Modernisation of agricultural holdings

– – Adding value to agricultural and forestry products

– – Meeting standards based on Community legislation

– – Participation of farmers in food quality schemes

– – Natura 2000 payments for agricultural area

– – Payments linked to the Water Framework Directive (8)

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

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CHARACTERISTICS

– – Agri-environment payments

– – – of which in the framework of organic farming

– – Animal welfare payments

– – Diversification into non-agricultural activities

– – Encouragement of tourism activities

UNITS/
CATEGORIES

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

(1) Not to be provided in 2010.
(2) Age bands: (From school leaving age-24 years), (25-34), (35-44), (45-54), (55-64), (65 and over).
(3) Annual Work Unit (AWU) percentage band 1: (0), (> 0-< 25), (≥ 25-< 50), (≥ 50-< 75), (≥ 75-< 100), (100).
(4) Annual Work Unit (AWU) percentage band 2: (> 0-< 25), (≥ 25-< 50), (≥ 50-< 75), (≥ 75-< 100), (100).
(5) Training codes: (only practical agricultural experience), (basic agricultural training), (full agricultural training).
(6) Not to be provided in 2013.
(7)
(8) Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community

Percentage bands: (≥ 0-≤ 10),.(> 10-≤ 50),.(> 50-< 100).

action in the field of water policy (OJ L 327, 22.12.2000, p. 1).

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ANNEX IV

PRECISION REQUIREMENTS

The sample surveys specified in this Regulation must be statistically representative at the level of NUTS 2 regions and for
national aggregations of less-favoured areas (1) in terms of the type and the size of the agricultural holdings, in line with
Commission Decision 85/377/EEC of 7 June 1985 establishing a Community typology for agricultural holdings (2). In
addition, specified levels of precision are required for the crop and livestock characteristics of the agricultural holdings.

These levels of precision are given in the precision tables below and apply to all NUTS 2 regions with at least 10 000
holdings. For a NUTS 2 region with fewer than 10 000 holdings, these levels of precision apply instead to the associated
NUTS 1 region, provided that the associated NUTS 1 region contains at least 1 000 holdings. For the survey on agricultural
production methods, the relevant crop and livestock characteristics will be available from the results of the farm structure
survey 2010.

Precision categories for the Farm Structure Surveys 2013 and 2016

Crop characteristics:

— Cereals for the production of grain (including seed), comprising common wheat and spelt, durum wheat, rye, barley,

oats, grain maize, rice and other cereals for the production of grain

— Dried pulses and protein crops for the production of grain (including seed and mixtures of cereals and pulses)

— Potatoes (including early potatoes and seed potatoes)

— Sugar beet (excluding seed)

— Oilseed crops comprising rape, turnip rape, sunflower, soya, linseed (oil flax) and other oil seed crops

— Fresh vegetables, melons and strawberries

— Flowers and ornamental plants (excluding nurseries)

— Plants harvested green

— Pasture and meadow, excluding rough grazing

— Fruit and berry plantations

— Citrus plantations

— Olive plantations

— Vineyards

Livestock characteristics:

— Dairy cows

— Other cows

— Other bovine animals

— Breeding sows

— Other pigs

— Sheep

— Goats

— Poultry

(1) Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 of 17 May 1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance

and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) (OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 80).

(2) OJ L 220, 17.8.1985, p. 1.

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Precision categories for sample surveys undertaken as part of the farm structure survey 2010 and the Survey on
agricultural production methods

Crop characteristics:

— Cereals for the production of grain (including seed), comprising common wheat and spelt, durum wheat, rye, barley,

oats, grain maize, rice and other cereals for the production of grain

— Potatoes (including early potatoes and seed potatoes) and sugar beet (excluding seed)

— Oilseed crops comprising rape, turnip rape, sunflower, soya, linseed (oil flax) and other oil seed crops

— Permanent outdoor crops comprising fruit, berry, citrus and olive plantations, vineyards, nurseries and other

permanent outdoor crops

— Fresh vegetables, melons, strawberries, flowers and ornamental plants (excluding nurseries)

— Temporary grass and permanent grassland

Livestock characteristics:

— Bovine animals (all ages)

— Sheep and goats (all ages)

— Pigs

— Poultry

Precision Table for NUTS 2 regions with at least 10 000 agricultural holdings

Farm structure surveys 2013 and 2016

Survey on agricultural production methods

Precision categories

Prevalence of the
characteristic in the
NUTS 2 region

Relative standard error

Crop characteristics of
the agricultural hold-
ing

7,5 % or more of the
utilised agricultural
area

Livestock characteris-
tics of the agricultural
holding

7,5 % or more of the
livestock units and
more than 5 % of
national share of
each category

< 5 %

< 5 %

Prevalence of the
characteristic in the
NUTS 2 region

10 % or more of the
utilised agricultural
area

10 % or more of the
livestock units and
more than 5 % of
national share of
each category

Relative standard error

< 10 %

< 10 %

Precision Table for NUTS 2 regions with fewer than 10 000 agricultural holdings

Farm structure surveys 2013 and 2016

Survey on agricultural production methods

Precision categories

Prevalence of the
characteristic in the
associated NUTS 1
region with at least
1 000 holdings

Crop characteristics of
the agricultural hold-
ing

7,5 % or more of the
utilised agricultural
area

Livestock characteris-
tics of the agricultural
holding

7,5 % or more of the
livestock units and
more than 5 % of
national share of
each category

Relative standard error

< 5 %

< 5 %

Prevalence of the
characteristic in the
associated NUTS 1
region with at least
1 000 holdings

10 % or more of the
utilised agricultural
area

10 % or more of the
livestock units and
more than 5 % of
national share of
each category

Relative standard error

< 10 %

< 10 %

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List of characteristics for the survey on agricultural production methods

ANNEX V

Characteristic

Units/categories

Conventional tillage (mouldboard plough or disc plough)

Tillage methods

Conservation tillage (low tillage)

Zero tillage (direct seeding)

Normal winter crop

Cover crop or intermediate crop

Soil cover in winter:

Soil conserva-
tion

Plant residues

Bare soil

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Crop rotation:

Share of arable area out of planned crop rotation

AA % band (1)

Landscape fea-
tures

Linear elements
maintained by
farmer during the
last 3 years, of
which:

Linear elements
established during
the last 3 years, of
which:

Hedges

Tree lines

Stonewalls

Hedges

Tree lines

Stonewalls

Area grazed during the last year

Grazing on the
holding

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

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Animal grazing

Common land graz-
ing:

Amount of time when animals are outdoors on pasture

Months per year

Total number of animals grazing on common land

Head

Amount of time when animals are grazing on common
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Months per year

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Characteristic

Units/categories

Stanchion-tied stable — with solid dung and liquid
manure

Stanchion-tied stable — with slurry

Cattle:

Loose housing — with solid dung and liquid manure

Loose housing — with slurry

Other

On partially slatted floors

On completely slatted floors

Animal housing

Pigs:

On straw beds (deep litter-loose housing)

Other

On straw beds (deep litter-loose housing)

Battery cage (all types)

Laying hens:

Battery cage with manure belt

Battery cage with deep pit

Battery cage with stilt house

Other

Total

With immediate incorporation

Total

Utilised agricultural
area on which solid/
farmyard manure is
applied

Utilised agricultural
area on which slurry
is applied

Manure applica-
tion

Places

Places

Places

Places

Places

Places

Places

Places

Places

Places

Places

Places

Places

Places

Places

UAA % band (2)

UAA % band (2)

UAA % band (2)

With immediate incorporation or injection

UAA % band (2)

Percentage of the total produced manure exported from the holding

Storage facilities for:

Manure storage
and treatment
facilities

Solid dung

Liquid manure

Slurry

Solid dung

Slurry tank

Lagoon

Are the storage
facilities covered?

Liquid manure

Slurry

Percentage
band (3)

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

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Characteristic

Units/categories

Irrigated area

Average irrigated area the last three years

Total

Cereals for the production of grain (including seed)
(excluding maize and rice)

Maize (grain and green)

Rice

Dried pulses and protein crops for the production of grain
(including seed and mixtures of cereals and pulses)

Potatoes (including early potatoes and seed potatoes)

Sugar beet (excluding seed)

Total cultivated area
irrigated at least once
during the previous
12 months

Rape and turnip rape

Sunflower

Fibre crops (flax, hemp, other fibre crops)

Fresh vegetables, melons and strawberries — open field

Irrigation

Temporary grass and permanent grassland

Other crops on arable land

Fruit and berry plantations

Citrus plantations

Olive plantations

Vineyards

Surface irrigation (flooding, furrows)

Irrigation methods
employed:

Sprinkler irrigation

Drop irrigation

On-farm ground water

Source of irrigation
water used on the
holding:

On-farm surface water (ponds or dams)

Off-farm surface water from lakes, rivers or watercourses

Off-farm water from common water supply networks

Other sources

(1) Arable area (AA) percentage band: (0), (> 0-< 25), (≥ 25-< 50), (≥ 50-< 75), (≥ 75).
(2) Utilised agricultural area (UAA) percentage band: (0), (> 0-< 25), (≥ 25-< 50), (≥ 50-< 75), (≥ 75).
(3)

Percentage band: (0), (> 0-< 25), (≥ 25-< 50), (≥ 50-< 75), (≥ 75).

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Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No

Yes/No