Article 1 Subject matter
This Regulation establishes an integrated framework for aggregated European statistics relating to the input and output of agricultural activities, as well as the intermediate use of such output within agriculture and its collection and processing.
Article 2 Definitions
For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions of ‘agricultural holding’, ‘common land agricultural unit’, ‘livestock unit’ and ‘utilised agricultural area’, as laid down in Article 2, points (a), (b), (d) and (e), of Regulation (EU) 2018/1091, respectively, apply. In addition, the following definitions shall apply: (1) ‘agricultural activity’ means the economic activities undertaken in agriculture in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 21 ) falling within the scope of groups A.01.1, A.01.2, A.01.3, A.01.4, A.01.5 or within the scope of the ‘maintenance of agricultural land in good agricultural and environmental condition’ of group A.01.6 in the economic territory of the Union, either as its primary or secondary activity; regarding activities of class A.01.49, only the activities ‘Raising and breeding of semi-domesticated or other live animals’ with the exception of raising of insects, and ‘Bee-keeping and production of honey and beeswax’ are included; (2) ‘dairy enterprise’ means an enterprise or agricultural holding that purchases milk or, in certain cases, milk products, in order to transform them into milk products; it includes also enterprises that collect milk or cream in order to transfer it in whole or in part, without any processing, to other dairy enterprises; (3) ‘slaughterhouse’ means an officially registered and approved enterprise with permission to slaughter and dress animals, the meat of which is intended for human consumption; (4) ‘hatchery’ means an enterprise for incubating eggs, hatching and supplying chicks; (5) ‘observation unit’ means an identifiable entity about which data can be obtained; (6) ‘domain’ means one or several data sets that cover particular topics; (7) ‘topic’ means the content of the information to be collected about the observation units; each topic covers one or more detailed topics; (8) ‘detailed topic’ means the detailed content of the information to be collected about the observation units related to a topic; each detailed topic covers one or more variables; (9) ‘plant protection products’ means products, in the form in which they are supplied to the user, consisting of, or containing, active substances, as referred to in Article 2(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, safeners, as referred to in Article 2(3), point (a), of that Regulation or synergists, as referred to in Article 2(3), point (b), of that Regulation, and intended for one of the uses described in Article 2(1) of that Regulation; (10) ‘data set’ means one or several aggregated variables organised in a structured form; (11) ‘variable’ means a characteristic of an observation unit that may assume more than one of a set of values; (12) ‘pre-checked data’ means data verified by the Member States, based on agreed common validation rules, wherever available; (13) ‘ad hoc data’ means data that are of a particular interest for users at a specific point in time but that are not included in the regular data sets; (14) ‘administrative data’ means data generated by a non-statistical source, usually held by a public or private body, the main aim of which is not to provide statistics; (15) ‘metadata’ means information that is needed to use and interpret statistics and which describes data in a structured way; (16) ‘professional user’ means any person who uses plant protection products in the course of their professional activities, including operators, technicians, employers and self-employed persons, in the farming sector.
Article 3 Statistical population and observation units
1. The statistical population to be described shall consist of statistical units such as agricultural holdings, common land agricultural units, enterprises providing goods and services related to agricultural activities or buying or collecting products from agricultural activities, and enterprises processing those agricultural products, especially hatcheries, dairy enterprises and slaughterhouses. 2. The observation units to be represented in the statistical frame shall be the statistical units referred to in paragraph 1 and, depending on the statistics to be reported, the following: (a) land used for agricultural activity; (b) animals used for agricultural activity; (c) imports and exports of products from agricultural activities by non-agricultural enterprises; (d) transactions and flows of production factors, of goods and services to and from agricultural activities.
Article 4 Coverage requirements
1. The statistics shall be representative of the statistical population that they describe. 2. For the domain of animal production statistics as referred to in Article 5(1), point (a), the data shall cover 95 % of the livestock units of each Member State and the related activities or outputs. 3. For the domain of crop production statistics as referred to in Article 5(1), point (b), the data shall cover 95 % of the total utilised agricultural area, excluding kitchen gardens, of each Member State and the related production volumes. 4. For the topic of nutrients in fertilisers for agriculture referred to in Article 5(1), point (d)(i), of this Regulation, the data shall cover the fertilising products as defined in Article 2, point (1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1009 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 22 ) and 95 % of the total utilised agricultural area, excluding kitchen gardens, of each Member State and the related production volumes. 5. For the domain of statistics on plant protection products as referred to in Article 5(1), point (e), the coverage shall be as follows: (a) for the detailed topic of plant protection products placed on the market as referred to in the Annex to this Regulation, the data shall cover all plant protection products placed on the market as defined in Article 3, point 9, of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009; (b) for the detailed topic of use of plant protection products in agriculture as referred to in the Annex to this Regulation, the data shall cover at least 85 % of the use in an agricultural activity by professional users as defined in Article 3, point (1) of Directive 2009/128/EC, in each Member State. The data from each Member State shall relate to a list of crops containing a common part for all Member States. That common part, together with the permanent grasslands, shall cover at least 75 % of the total utilised agricultural area at Union level. As soon as Union legislation requiring professional users of plant protection products to transmit their records on the use of such products in electronic format to national competent authorities becomes applicable, the coverage of the use in an agricultural activity shall increase to 95 %, starting from the reference year following the date on which that Union legislation becomes applicable. 6. The Commission may adopt implementing acts to further specify the coverage requirements referred to in paragraphs 2 to 5 of this Article. In the event that those specifications are updated, the Commission shall take into account economic and technical trends. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 19(2) at least 12 months before the beginning of the relevant reference year.
Article 5 Regular data requirements
1. The statistics related to the input and output of agricultural activities shall cover the following domains and topics: (a) animal production statistics (i) livestock and meat, (ii) eggs and chicks, (iii) milk and milk products; (b) crop production statistics (i) crop area and production, (ii) crop balances, (iii) grasslands; (c) agricultural price statistics (i) agricultural price indices, (ii) absolute input prices, (iii) agricultural land prices and rents; (d) statistics on nutrients (i) nutrients in fertilisers for agriculture, (ii) nutrient balances; (e) statistics on plant protection products (i) plant protection products. 2. The detailed topics, their corresponding transmission frequencies and reference periods as well as their organic and regional dimensions shall be as set out in the Annex. 3. The data shall be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) in the form of aggregated data sets. 4. The data on organic production and products that comply with Regulation (EU) 2018/848 shall be integrated into the data sets. 5. Regional data shall be provided at NUTS 2 level as defined in Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003. By way of exception, those data may be provided only by NUTS 1 territorial units for Germany. 6. Where a variable has low or zero prevalence in a Member State, the values of that variable may be excluded from the transmitted data sets, if the Member State concerned has duly justified its exclusion to the Commission (Eurostat). 7. Relevant price information on agricultural input and output, including the characteristics and weights of the goods and services, shall be collected by Member States for compiling comparable price indices and for the variables necessary for the economic accounts for agriculture covered by Regulation (EC) No 138/2004. 8. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 17 amending, in order to add, delete or modify detailed topics, including their description, as set out in the Annex. When exercising its power to adopt delegated acts referred to in the first subparagraph, the Commission shall ensure that: (a) the delegated acts are duly justified and do not impose significant additional burden or costs on the Member States or on the respondents; (b) over a period of five consecutive years, not more than four detailed topics are amended, out of which not more than one is new; (c) feasibility studies as set out in Article 11 are launched, where necessary, and their results are duly taken into account. 9. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 17 amending the transmission frequencies, reference periods and the applicability of the dimensions of detailed topics as set out in the Annex. When exercising its power to adopt delegated acts referred to in the first subparagraph, the Commission shall ensure that: (a) the delegated acts are duly justified and do not impose significant additional burden or costs on the Member States or on the respondents; (b) feasibility studies as set out in Article 11 are launched, and their results are duly taken into account. 10. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts to define the data sets to be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat). Those implementing acts shall specify the following technical elements of the data to be provided, where appropriate: (a) the list of variables; (b) the description of variables, including: (i) the characteristics of the observation unit, (ii) the measurement unit for the characteristics of the observation unit, (iii) the organic and regional dimensions for the characteristics of the observation unit; a variable is counted as a combination of a characteristic of an observation unit with the corresponding measurement unit and one of its dimensions; (c) the observation units; (d) the precision requirements; (e) the methodological rules; (f) the deadlines for transmitting the data, taking into account the necessary time to produce national data complying with the quality criteria defined in Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 and the need to minimise the administrative burden and costs on the Member States and the respondents; the deadlines for transmitting the data shall not be modified before 1 January 2030. Where the Commission identifies the need to modify the deadlines for transmitting the data, it shall launch feasibility studies as set out in Article 11 of this Regulation and the results of those feasibility studies shall be duly taken into account. When modifying the deadlines for transmitting the data, those deadlines shall not be reduced by more than 20 % of the days which separate the end of the reference period from the deadline for transmitting the data as set out in the first implementing act adopted pursuant to this paragraph, unless the reduction of the deadline for transmitting the data is solely due to the introduction of an innovative approach or the use of new digital data sources, such as Earth observation or big data, available in all Member States. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 19(2) at least 12 months before the beginning of the relevant reference year. 11. Where the Commission has adopted a delegated act pursuant to paragraph 8 or 9, except a delegated act amending the organic dimension, the implementing act referred to in paragraph 10 may modify, replace or add a maximum of 90 variables in total over a period of five consecutive years. That maximum limit shall not, however, apply to variables related to the domain of statistics on plant protection products. 12. Member States shall transmit pre-checked data and related metadata using a technical format specified by the Commission (Eurostat) for each data set. The single entry point services shall be used to transmit the data to the Commission (Eurostat).
Article 6 Ad hoc data requirements
1. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 17, supplementing this Regulation by specifying the information to be provided by Member States on an ad hoc basis, where, within the scope of this Regulation, the collection of additional information is deemed necessary for the purpose of addressing additional statistical needs. Those delegated acts shall specify: (a) the topics and detailed topics related to the domains specified in Article 5 to be provided in the ad hoc data collection and the reasons for such additional statistical needs; (b) the reference periods. 2. When exercising the power to adopt delegated acts referred to in paragraph 1, the Commission shall justify the data needs, shall assess the feasibility of collecting the required data, using input from relevant experts, and shall ensure that no significant additional burden or costs are imposed on the Member States or on the respondents. 3. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts referred to in paragraph 1 starting from the reference year 2024 and with a minimum of two years between each ad hoc data collection, starting from the deadline for transmitting the data of the latest ad hoc data collection. 4. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts to provide: (a) a list of variables, not exceeding 50 variables; (b) the description of variables, including all of the following: (i) the characteristics of the observation unit, (ii) the measurement unit for the characteristics of the observation unit, (iii) the organic and regional dimensions for the characteristics of the observation unit; a variable is counted as a combination of a characteristic of an observation unit with the corresponding measurement unit and one of its dimensions; (c) the precision requirements; (d) the deadlines for transmitting the data; (e) the observation units; (f) the description of the reference period as set out in the delegated act referred to in paragraph 1. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 19(2) at least 12 months before the beginning of the relevant reference year.
Article 7 Transmission frequency of the data sets
1. The transmission frequency of the data sets shall be as set out in the Annex. The Commission may adopt implementing acts to further specify each transmission frequency. 2. A Member State may be exempted from sending specific data with the transmission frequencies set out in the Annex for predefined variables in the event that the impact of that Member State on the EU total of those variables is limited. The Commission may adopt implementing acts setting out the deadlines for transmitting the data and the transmission frequencies concerned, the variables and the relevant thresholds on the basis of which the first subparagraph may be applied. Those thresholds shall be set out in such a way that their application does not reduce the information on the expected EU total of the corresponding variable by more than 5 %. The thresholds shall be revised by the Commission (Eurostat) so that they correspond to the trends of EU totals. 3. For production statistics, a Member State may be exempted from transmissions of specific data for predefined variables in the event that the impact of the variable is limited in relation to the agricultural production at national or regional level. The Commission may adopt implementing acts setting out thresholds for those variables. 4. The implementing acts referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 19(2) at least 12 months before the beginning of the relevant reference year.
Article 8 Data sources and methods
1. For the purpose of obtaining statistics related to the input and output of agricultural activities, Member States shall use one or more of the following data sources and methods, provided that the data allow for the production of statistics that meet the quality requirements laid down in Article 10: (a) statistical surveys or other statistical data collection methods; (b) the administrative data sources specified in paragraph 2 of this Article; (c) other administrative data sources based on national law, other sources, methods or innovative approaches, such as digital tools and remote sensors. 2. As regards paragraph 1, point (b), of this Article, Member States may use any data from the following sources: (a) the integrated administration and control system established by Regulation (EU) 2021/2116 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 23 ) , the system for the identification and registration of bovine animals established by Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 24 ) , the system for the identification and registration of certain species of kept terrestrial animals required under Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 25 ) , the vineyard register established in accordance with Article 145 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 26 ) , the organic farming registers set up pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/848 or any other relevant administrative data of adequate quality for statistical purposes as described in Article 10(3) of this Regulation, defined in Union law; (b) the records kept in electronic format and referred to in Article 67 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009; or (c) any other relevant administrative data sources provided that such data allow for the production of statistics that meet the quality requirements laid down in Article 10 of this Regulation. 3. Member States which decide to use the sources, methods or innovative approaches referred to in paragraph 1, point (c), shall inform the Commission (Eurostat) during the year preceding the reference year during which the source, method or innovative approach will be used, and shall provide details concerning the quality of the data obtained. 4. National authorities responsible for complying with this Regulation shall have the right to access and use, promptly and free of charge, data, including individual data on enterprises and agricultural holdings in administrative records compiled on their national territory pursuant to Article 17a of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009. The national authorities and the owners of the administrative records shall establish the necessary cooperation mechanisms for such access. That access shall also be granted in cases where the competent authority has delegated tasks to be carried out on its behalf to private or semi-public bodies.
Article 9 Reference period
1. The information collected under this Regulation shall refer to a single reference period that is common to all Member States by means of a reference to the situation during a specified timeframe. 2. The reference period for each detailed topic shall be as specified in the Annex. The first reference periods shall begin in calendar year 2025. 3. For the topic of agriculture price indices referred to in Article 5(1), point (c)(i), Member States shall, every five years, rebase the indices using as base years the years ending with a 0 or a 5. 4. The Commission may adopt implementing acts to further specify the reference periods. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 19(2) at least 12 months before the beginning of the relevant reference period.
Article 10 Quality requirements and quality reporting
1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure the quality of the data and metadata transmitted. 2. Member States shall ensure that the data obtained using the sources and methods laid down in Article 8 give accurate estimates on the statistical population defined in Article 3 at national level, and, where required, at regional level. 3. For the purpose of this Regulation, the quality criteria defined in Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 shall apply. 4. The Commission (Eurostat) shall assess the quality of the data and metadata transmitted to it in a transparent and verifiable way. 5. For the purpose of paragraph 4, each Member State shall transmit to the Commission (Eurostat), for the first time by 30 June 2028, and every three years thereafter, quality reports describing the statistical processes for the data sets transmitted during the period, including in particular: (a) metadata describing the methodology used and how technical specifications were achieved by reference to those laid down by this Regulation; (b) information on compliance with the coverage requirements set out in Article 4, including their development and update. 6. By way of derogation from paragraph 5 of this Article, for the topic of agricultural price indices referred to in Article 5(1), point (c)(i), the quality reports shall be transmitted every five years together with the weights and rebased indices, as well as the corresponding separate methodological reports. The first transmission for the quality report on the topic of agricultural price indices shall not be before 31 December 2028. 7. The Commission may adopt implementing acts setting out the practical arrangements for the quality reports and their contents. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 19(2) and shall not impose a significant additional burden or costs on the Member States. 8. Member States shall, where necessary, inform the Commission (Eurostat) about any relevant information or changes with regard to the implementation of this Regulation that could significantly influence the quality of the transmitted data. 9. At the request of the Commission (Eurostat), Member States shall provide necessary additional clarification to evaluate the quality of the statistical data.
Article 11 Feasibility and pilot studies
1. In accordance with the objectives of this Regulation and where new regular data requirements or the need for major improvement in the current regular data requirements are identified, the Commission (Eurostat) may launch feasibility studies in order to evaluate, where necessary: (a) the availability and quality of appropriate new data sources; (b) the development and the implementation of new statistical techniques; (c) the financial impact and burden on respondents. 2. Within each particular feasibility study, the Commission (Eurostat) shall assess whether the new statistics can be produced by using the information available in the relevant administrative sources at Union level and shall enhance the use of existing data in accordance with Article 17a of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009. 3. Within a particular feasibility study, the Commission (Eurostat) may, where necessary, launch pilot studies, to be carried out by Member States. The objective of those pilot studies shall be to test the implementation of new requirements in Member States with different methods of statistical production by conducting that implementation on a smaller scale. 4. The Commission (Eurostat), in cooperation with experts from the Member States and the main users of the data sets, shall evaluate the results of the feasibility studies and, where applicable, of pilot studies, accompanied, where appropriate, by proposals for introducing new regular data requirements or improvements referred to in paragraph 1. Following that evaluation, the Commission shall prepare a report on the findings of the feasibility and pilot studies. Those reports shall be made public. 5. While preparing a delegated act referred to in Article 5(8) or (9), the Commission shall duly take into account the results of the feasibility and pilot studies, in particular the feasibility of implementation of new data requirements in all Member States.
Article 12 Dissemination of data
1. Without prejudice to Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 and in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 223/2009, the Commission (Eurostat) shall disseminate online and free of charge the data transmitted to it in accordance with Articles 5 and 6 of this Regulation. 2. The Commission (Eurostat) shall disseminate, in full respect of commercial and statistical confidentiality, aggregated statistics, falling within the scope of this Regulation, on veterinary medicinal products derived from data provided for in Article 55(2) and Article 57(2) of Regulation (EU) 2019/6.
Article 13 Union contribution
1. As regards the implementation of this Regulation, the Union shall provide grants from the Single Market Programme established by Regulation (EU) 2021/690 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 27 ) and in accordance with Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 28 ) to the NSIs and other national authorities referred to in Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 for: (a) covering the implementation costs of ad hoc data collections; (b) building the capacity for using administrative sources to compile statistics required by this Regulation; (c) carrying out sample surveys to collect data on the use of plant protection products in agriculture for the reference year 2026; (d) developing methodologies and innovative approaches to adapt data collection systems, including digitally-based solutions, to the requirements of this Regulation; (e) carrying out the feasibility and pilot studies referred to in Article 11; (f) covering the costs of developing and implementing methods to reduce the deadlines for transmitting the data. 2. The Union financial contribution under this Article shall not exceed 95 % of the eligible costs. 3. The amount of the Union financial contribution under this Article shall be established in accordance with the rules of the Single Market Programme as part of the annual budgetary procedure, subject to the availability of funding. The budgetary authority shall determine the appropriation available each year.
Article 14 Transitional regime for data on the detailed topic of use of plant protection products in agriculture
1. For the years 2025, 2026 and 2027, the following transitional rules shall apply for the detailed topic of use of plant protection products in agriculture as referred to in the Annex: (a) by way of derogation from Article 7(1) and Article 9(2), there shall be only one transmission of data for the reference year 2026; (b) by way of derogation from Article 4(5), point (b), the data shall cover a common list of crops for all Member States providing information on the use of plant protection products in support of the relevant Union policies; that common list of crops shall, together with the permanent grasslands, cover 75 % of the utilised agricultural area at Union level. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts further specifying the coverage requirements referred to in point (b) of the first subparagraph of this paragraph. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 19(2) at least 12 months before the beginning of the relevant reference year. 2. From the reference year 2028 onwards, in the absence of Union legislation requiring professional users of plant protection products to keep records on the use of such products in electronic format, that is applicable 12 months before the beginning of a reference year for which data are to be transmitted, the following applies: (a) by way of derogation from Article 7(1), the transmission frequency shall be every two years; (b) by way of derogation from Article 4(5), point (b), transitional rules referred to in paragraph 1, point (b), of this Article shall continue to apply.
Article 15 Protection of the financial interests of the Union
1. The Commission shall take appropriate measures to ensure that, when actions financed under this Regulation are implemented, the financial interests of the Union are protected by preventive measures against fraud, corruption and any other illegal activities, by effective checks and, if irregularities are detected, by the recovery of the amounts wrongly paid and, where appropriate, by effective, proportionate and dissuasive administrative and financial penalties. 2. The Commission or its representatives and the Court of Auditors shall have the power of audit, on the basis of documents and on-the-spot checks, over all grant beneficiaries, contractors and subcontractors who have received Union funds under this Regulation. 3. The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) may carry out investigations, including on-the-spot checks and inspections, in accordance with the provisions and procedures laid down in Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 29 ) and Council Regulation (Euratom, EC) No 2185/96 ( 30 ) with a view to establishing whether there has been fraud, corruption or any other illegal activity affecting the financial interests of the Union in connection with a grant agreement or grant decision or contract funded under this Regulation. 4. Without prejudice to paragraphs 1, 2 and 3, cooperation agreements with third countries and with international organisations, contracts, grant agreements and grant decisions resulting from the implementation of this Regulation shall contain provisions expressly empowering the Commission, the Court of Auditors and OLAF to conduct such audits and investigations, in accordance with their respective competences.
Article 16 Derogations
1. Where the application of this Regulation or of the implementing measures and delegated acts adopted pursuant to it necessitates major adaptations of a national statistical system of a Member State, the Commission may adopt implementing acts granting derogations to the Member State concerned for a maximum duration of three years. No derogation shall be granted from the transitional rules for the detailed topic of use of plant protection products in agriculture referred to in Article 14(1). The relevant Member State shall submit a duly reasoned request for such a derogation to the Commission within three months of the date of the entry into force of the act concerned, explaining what major adaptations of the national statistical system are needed and providing an estimated timeline for such adaptations. The impact of derogations granted under this Article on the comparability of Member States’ data or on the calculation of the required timely and representative European aggregates shall be kept to a minimum. The burden on respondents and Member States shall be taken into account by the Commission when granting the derogation. 2. The implementing acts referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 19(2).
Article 17 Exercise of the delegation
1. The power to adopt delegated acts is conferred on the Commission subject to the conditions laid down in this Article. 2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article 5(8) and (9) and Article 6(1) shall be conferred on the Commission for a period of five years from 27 December 2022. The Commission shall draw up a report in respect of the delegation of power not later than nine months before the end of the five-year period. The delegation of power shall be tacitly extended for periods of an identical duration, unless the European Parliament or the Council opposes such extension not later than three months before the end of each period. 3. The delegation of power referred to in Article 5(8) and (9) and Article 6(1) may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision to revoke shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect on the day following that of the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force. 4. Before adopting a delegated act, the Commission shall consult experts designated by each Member State in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making. 5. As soon as it adopts a delegated act, the Commission shall notify it simultaneously to the European Parliament and to the Council. 6. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 5(8) and (9) and Article 6(1) shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or by the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or of the Council.
Article 18 Reporting
By 31 December 2029 and every five years thereafter, the Commission shall submit a report on the implementation of this Regulation to the European Parliament and the Council.
Article 19 Committee procedure
1. The Commission shall be assisted by the European Statistical System Committee established by Regulation (EC) No 223/2009. That committee shall be a committee within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011. 2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.
Article 21 Repeal
1. Regulations (EC) No 1165/2008, (EC) No 543/2009 and (EC) No 1185/2009 and Directive 96/16/EC are repealed with effect from 1 January 2025 without prejudice to the obligations set out in those legal acts concerning the transmission of data and metadata, including quality reports, with regard to reference periods that fall, in whole or in part, before that date. 2. References to the repealed acts shall be construed as references to this Regulation.
Article 22 Entry into force
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union . It shall apply from 1 January 2025.