REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on the exercise of the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on the Commission pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 1337/2011 concerning European statistics on permanent crops
Date: 2021-06-15
Institutions: European Commission, Eurostat
Subjects: EU statistics, European Commission, agricultural statistics, data collection, delegated legislation, orchard, permanent crop, powers of the institutions (EU), vineyard

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   EUROPEAN COMMISSION  Brussels, 15.6.2021  COM(2021) 306 final  REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on the exercise of the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on the Commission pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 1337/2011 concerning European statistics on permanent crops  
 
 
REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND 
THE COUNCIL 

on the exercise of the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on the Commission 
pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 1337/2011 concerning European statistics on 
permanent crops 

1. 

INTRODUCTION 

Articles 4(3) and 13 of Regulation (EU) No 1337/2011 of the European Parliament and of the 
Council1 of 13 December 2011 confer on the Commission the power to adopt delegated acts. 

The  Commission  is  empowered  to  adopt  delegated  acts  in  accordance  with  Article  4(3)  to 
take into account economic and technical developments. The delegated acts may amend: 

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the breakdowns of species by groups, density classes and age classes set out in Annex 
I to the Regulation; and 
the  variables/characteristics,  size  classes,  degree  of  specialisation  and  vine  varieties 
set out in Annex II to the Regulation. 

However, the delegated acts may not change the optional nature of the information required. 

In exercising this power, the Commission must ensure that the delegated acts do not impose a 
significant additional administrative burden on the Member States and on the respondents. 

Moreover, in accordance with Article 13, the Commission is to assess whether it is necessary 
to produce all the data referred to in Article 4. Where the Commission considers that some of 
those  data  are  no  longer  required,  it  shall  be  empowered  to  adopt  delegated  acts  to  delete 
certain data from Annexes I and II to Regulation (EU) No 1337/2011. 

2. 

LEGAL BASIS 

Under Article 11(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1337/2011, the power to adopt delegated acts is 
conferred  for  a  period  of  five  years  from  31  December  2011.  The  period  ended  on  31 
December  2016.  This  power  can  be  tacitly  extended  for  periods  of  five  years  unless  the 
European Parliament or the Council objects. 

The  Commission  adopted  the  first  report  on  the  use  of  the  delegated  powers  on  22  March 
20162. The Commission reported that it had not used the powers delegated to it but concluded 
that  it  should  continue  to  have  the  delegated  powers  conferred  by  Regulation  (EU)  No 

1  Regulation  (EU)  No  1337/2011  of  the  European  Parliament  and  of  the  Council  of  13  December  2011 

concerning European statistics on permanent crops (OJ L 347, 30.12.2011, p. 7). 

2 Report from the Commission to  the European Parliament and the  Council on the  exercise of power to adopt 
delegated  acts  conferred  on  the  Commission  under  Regulation  (EU)  No  1337/2011  concerning  European 
statistics on permanent crops (COM (2016) 158 final). 

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1337/2011,  as  in  the  future  it  might  need  to  exercise  them.  The  delegation  of  powers  was 
tacitly extended for another 5-year period ending on 31 December 2021. 

The Commission must draw up a report on the delegation of power not later than nine months 
before the end of the five-year period. This report fulfils that obligation for the second time. 

3. 

EXERCISE OF THE DELEGATION 

The Commission has not yet exercised the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on it by 
Regulation (EU) No 1337/2011. 

Regulation overs the five-yearly collection of structural statistics on orchards and vineyards. 
The  latest  data  on  orchards  were  collected  in  2017  and  these  were  delivered  to  the 
Commission  (Eurostat)  at  the  end  of  September  2018.  The  latest  data  on  vineyards  were 
collected  in  2020,  and  are  to  be  delivered  to  the  Commission  (Eurostat)  by  the  end  of 
September 2021. 

As  part  of  the  modernisation  of  agricultural  statistics  under  the  Strategy  for  European 
Agricultural  Statistics,  Regulation  (EU)  2018/1091  of  the  European  Parliament  and  of  the 
Council3 was adopted in 2018. It covers integrated farm statistics. The orchard and vineyard 
data collections implemented under Regulation (EU) No 1337/2011 are to be integrated into 
integrated farm statistics as of 2023 for orchard data collection and as of 2026 for vineyard 
data collection. Regulation (EU) 2018/1091  repeals  Regulation  (EU) No  1337/2011  as  of 1 
January 2022. 

4. 

CONCLUSION 

The Commission has not yet exercised the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on it by 
Regulation (EU) No 1337/2011. 

In addition, the Commission does not envisage exercising the delegated powers conferred on 
it, as Regulation (EU) No 1337/2011 will be repealed by Regulation (EU) 2018/1091 as of 1 
January 2022. 

Furthermore,  no  more  data  collection  rounds  will  be  initiated  while  Regulation  (EU)  No 
1337/2011 is still in force. 

3 Regulation (EU) 2018/1091 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 July 2018 on integrated farm 
statistics (OJ L 200, 7.8.2018, p. 1). 

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