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 Council Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 of 30 November 2009 setting up a network for the collection of accountancy data on the incomes and business operation of agricultural holdings in the European Union
Date: 2023-03-10
Institutions: Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission
Subjects: European Commission, agricultural holding, agricultural structure, data collection, delegated legislation, economic accounts for agriculture, economic analysis, farm accountancy data network, powers of the institutions (EU), transfer of competence

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   EUROPEAN COMMISSION  Brussels, 10.3.2023  COM(2023) 134 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 Council Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 of 30 November 2009 setting up a network for the collection of accountancy data on the incomes and business operation of agricultural holdings in the European Union  
 
 
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INTRODUCTION 

Council Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 (1) provides for the rules on the setting up of a 
network for the collection of accountancy data on the incomes and business operation of 
agricultural holdings in the European Union. 

Article 19a of that Regulation empowers the Commission to adopt delegated acts in order 
to specify the content of the additional reporting that Member States shall submit to the 
Commission  concerning  specific  aspects  such  as  the  list  of  FADN  divisions,  the  rules 
fixing thresholds and plans, the reference period for standard outputs, the type of farming 
and data collection. 

2.  LEGAL BASIS 

This  report  is  required  under  Article  19a  of  Council  Regulation  (EC)  No  1217/2009, 
which  provides  that  the  power  to  adopt  delegated  acts  is  conferred  on  the  Commission 
for a period of five years from 20 December 2013 and that the Commission is required to 
prepare a report in respect of the delegation of power. 

The first  report of the Commission pursuant to  Article 19a of Council Regulation  (EC) 
No  1217/2009  was  submitted  to  the  Council  and  to  the  European  Parliament  on  7 
February  2018 (2)  and  covered  the  period  from  2013  until  2017.  In  accordance  with 
Article 19a of Council Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009, the delegation of power has been 
tacitly extended for a five-year period. 

3.  EXERCISE OF THE DELEGATION 

This report covers the period 2018-2022. The Commission has adopted in this period one 
delegated act:  Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2497 (3)  which amended 
Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009.  

Council  Regulation  (EC)  No  1217/2009  empowers  the  Commission  to  adopt  delegated 
Regulations  laying  down  the  rules  related  to  the  data  for  the  determination  of  incomes 
and the business analysis of agricultural holdings, with the aim of ensuring a harmonized 
framework for the information to be reported by Member States. 

As provided by Article 3, Articles 5(1) and 5a(1), Article 5b(2) and (3) and Article 8(3) 
of that Regulation the delegated act should notably establish rules: 

–  for updating the list of FADN divisions, 

(1)   Council Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 of 30 November 2009 setting up a network for the collection of accountancy data on the 

incomes and business operation of agricultural holdings in the European Union (OJ L 328, 15.12.2009, p. 27). 

(2)   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 Council Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 of 30 November 2009 setting up a network 
for the collection of accountancy data on the incomes and business operation of agricultural holdings in the European Union, 
COM(2018)57 final. 

(3)   Commission  Delegated  Regulation  (EU)  2022/2497  of  12 October  2022  amending  Annex  I  to  Council  Regulation  (EC) 
No 1217/2009  as  regards  the  divisions  of  France  and  the  United  Kingdom  in  the  Union  Farm  Accountancy  Data  Network  
(OJ L 325, 20.12.2022, p. 13). 

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–  for fixing the threshold values delimiting the field of survey,  

–  for establishing plans for the selection of returning holdings,  

–  for  fixing  the  reference  period  for  the  standard  outputs,  and  for  determining  the 

general and principal types of farming, and  

–  for determining the main groups of accountancy data on farm returns to be collected 

as well as the general rules to be followed in this respect. 

3.1.  Delegation  of  powers  laid  down  in  Article  3  of  Regulation  (EC) 

No 1217/2009 on the list of FADN divisions per Member State 

The  FADN  divisions,  as  defined  by  Article  2  of  the  Council  Regulation  (EC)  No 
1217/2009, are the territories of a Member State, or any part thereof as delimited with a 
view to the selection of returning holdings. A list of such divisions is laid down in Annex 
I of that Regulation.  

Article  3  of  Council  Regulation  (EC)  No  1217/2009  ensures  that  the  list  of  FADN 
divisions  may  be  updated  following  a  request  by  a  Member  State  and  empowers  the 
Commission  to  adopt  delegated  acts,  in  accordance  with  Article  19a  of  the  mentioned 
Regulation, to amend the list in Annex I. 

In 2022, France requested to merge the FADN divisions Guadeloupe and Martinique into 
one  FADN  division:  Antilles  françaises.  In  addition,  following  the  withdrawal  of  the 
United Kingdom from the Union, FADN data are no longer collected in that country as 
of the 2021 accounting year.  

The  Commission  adopted  Delegated  Regulation  (EU)  2022/2497 (4)  amending  Annex  I 
with  respect  to  the  list  of  FADN  divisions  per  Member  State,  by  merging  the  French 
divisions  Guadeloupe  and  Martinique  into  one  uniform  FADN  division,  called  Antilles 
françaises, and by removing the United Kingdom from the list of FADN divisions.  

In Annex I, the list of FADN divisions concerning France was replaced by the following: 

‘France 

1. Île de France 
2. Champagne-Ardenne 
3. Picardie 
4. Haute-Normandie 
5. Centre 
6. Basse-Normandie 
7. Bourgogne 
8. Nord-Pas de Calais 

(4)   See footnote 3. 

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9. Lorraine 
10. Alsace 
11. Franche-Comté 
12. Pays de la Loire 
13. Bretagne 
14. Poitou-Charentes 
15. Aquitaine 
16. Midi-Pyrénées 
17. Limousin 
18. Rhône-Alpes 
19. Auvergne 
20. Languedoc-Roussillon 
21. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur 
22. Corse 
23. Antilles françaises 
24. La Réunion’. 

The  Commission  adopted  Delegated  Regulation  (EU)  2022/2497  on  12  October  2022 
and it entered into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official 
Journal  of  the  European  Union,  on  23  December  2022.  It  applied  from  the  accounting 
year 2023 for the Farm Accountancy Data Network. 

3.2.  Delegation  of  powers  laid  down  in  Article  5  of  Regulation  (EC)  No 
1217/2009 on the rules for fixing the threshold for the economic size 

Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1198/2014 (5) provides for rules for fixing the threshold 
for the economic  class.  No amendment  to  this  delegated act  took  place  over the period 
from 2018 until 2022. 

3.3.  Delegation  of  powers  laid  down  in  Article  5a  of  Regulation  (EC)  No 
1217/2009 on the rules to draw up a plan for the selection of returning 
holdings for each Member State 

Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1198/2014 (6) provides for rules for drawing the selection 
plan  for  each  Member  State.  No  amendment  to  this  delegated  act  took  place  over  the 
period from 2018 until 2022. 

(5)  Commission  Delegated  Regulation  (EU)  No  1198/2014  of  1  August  2014  supplementing  Council  Regulation  (EC)  No 
1217/2009  setting  up  a  network  for  the  collection  of  accountancy  data  on  the  incomes  and  business  operation  of  agricultural 
holdings in the European Union (OJ L 321, 7.11.2014, p. 2). 

(6)  See footnote 5. 

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3.4.  Delegation  of  powers  laid  down  in  Article  5b  of  Regulation  (EC)  No 
1217/2009  fixing  the  reference  period  for  the  standard  output  and 
concerning  the  determination  of  the  general  and  principal  types  of 
farming 

Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1198/2014 (7) provides for rules regarding the reference 
period for the standard output. No amendment to this delegated act took  place over the 
period from 2018 until 2022. 

3.5.  Delegation  of  powers  laid  down  in  Article  8  of  Regulation  (EC)  No 
1217/2009  concerning  the  determination  of  the  main  groups  of 
accountancy  data  to  be  collected  and  the  general  rules  for  data 
collection 

Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1198/2014 (8) sets main groups of accountancy data to be 
collected  in  the  farm  return.  No  amendment  to  this  delegated  act  took  place  over  the 
period from 2018 until 2022. 

4.  CONCLUSION 

The Commission has exercised its delegated powers in the period from 2018 until 2022 
correctly and invites the European Parliament and the Council to take note of this report. 

(7)  See footnote 5. 

(8)  See footnote 5. 

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