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 under Regulation (EC) No 543/2009 concerning crop statistics
Date: 2023-03-24
Institutions: European Commission, Eurostat
Subjects: EU statistics, European Commission, agricultural production, agricultural statistics, crop production, data collection, delegated legislation, powers of the institutions (EU), transfer of competence

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   EUROPEAN COMMISSION  Brussels, 24.3.2023  COM(2023) 164 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 under Regulation (EC) No 543/2009 concerning    crop statistics   
 
 
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BACKGROUND 

Regulation  (EC)  No 543/2009  of  18 June  2009  concerning  crop  statistics  and  repealing 
Council  Regulations  (EEC)  No 837/90  and  (EEC)  No 959/931  was  modified  by  Regulation 
(EU)  No 1350/2013  of  11 December  2013  amending  certain  legislative  acts  in  the  field  of 
agricultural  and  fishery  statistics2  to  align  implementing  powers  with  the  Treaty  on  the 
Functioning of the European Union. 

Article 8a  of  Regulation  (EC)  No 543/2009  confers  on  the  Commission  the  power  to  adopt 
delegated  acts.  According  to  Article 6  of  Regulation  (EC)  No 543/2009,  the  power  of 
delegation  can  be  used  to  amend  the  transmission  tables  set  out  in  the  Annex  to  the 
Regulation. 

Under  Article 8a(2),  the  power  to  adopt  delegated  acts  is  conferred  for  a  period  of  5  years 
from 10 January 2014. This power was tacitly renewed until 10 January 2024 in 20193. 

The Commission  is  obliged to  draw up  a report  on the delegation of power no later than  9 
months before the end of the 5-year period. This report fulfils that obligation. 

2. 

COMMISSION  EXERCISE  OF  DELEGATED  POWERS  UNDER  REGULATION  (EC) 
NO 543/2009 

Since  Regulation  (EC)  No 543/2009  entered  into  force,  the  Commission  has  only  adopted 
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/15574. Most of the updates were clarifications 
of  variable  and  aggregate  names.  Some  redundant  aggregates  were  also  dropped  from  the 
statistical tables. 

Regulation  (EC)  No 543/2009  will  be  repealed  by  Regulation  (EU)  2022/2379  of  the 
European  Parliament  and  of  the  Council  of  23 November  2022  on  statistics  on  agricultural 
input  and  output,  amending  Commission  Regulation  (EC)  No 617/2008  and  repealing 
Regulations (EC) No 1165/2008, (EC) No 543/2009 and (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European 
Parliament and of the Council and Council Directive 96/16/EC5 as of 1 January 2025. 

3. 

CONCLUSIONS 

The  Commission  has  exercised  the  power  to  adopt  delegated  acts  conferred  on  it  by 
Regulation (EC) No 543/2009. 

Furthermore,  the  Commission  does  not  envisage  exercising  the  delegated  powers  conferred 
on it, as Regulation (EC) No 543/2009 will be repealed by Regulation EU (No) 2022/2379 as 
of 1 January 2025. 

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OJ L 167, 29.6.2009, p. 1. 
OJ L 351, 21.12.2013, p. 1. 
COM(2018) 13 final. 
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52018DC0013&qid=1667901511304. 
OJ L 244, 19.9.2015, p. 11. 
OJ L 315, 7.12.2022, p. 1. 

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