Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1264/2014 of 26 November 2014 amending Regulation (EU) No 408/2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning statistics on pesticides, as regards transmission format Text with EEA relevance

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1264/2014
• Articles: 3

Article 1

Commission Regulation (EU) No 408/2011 is amended as follows:

(1)

Articles 1 and 2 are replaced by the following:

‘Article 1

Member States shall transmit the statistical data on pesticides referred to in Annexes I and II to Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 using the SDMX data structure definitions. The data shall be provided to the Commission (Eurostat) through the single entry point services or the data shall be made available for retrieval by the Commission (Eurostat) by electronic means.

Article 2

The data structure for the transmission on the placing on the market of pesticides to the Commission (Eurostat) shall be as specified in Annex I.

The data structure for the transmission on the agricultural use of pesticides to the Commission (Eurostat) shall be as specified in Annex II.’

(2)

The Annex to Regulation (EU) No 408/2011 is amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

Statistical data structure on the placing on the market of pesticides

The following data structure shall be included in the transmission files:

Number

Field

Remarks

1

Country

e.g. France

2

Year

Reference year for the data (e.g. 2010)

3

Major group

Codes listed in Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009

4

Categories of products

5

Chemical class

6

Active substance

7

Observation value (the quantity sold)

in kilograms of substances.

8

For fields number 3, 4, 5 and 6, the confidentiality flag

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‘ANNEX II

Statistical data structure on the agricultural use of pesticides

The following data structure shall be included in the transmission files:

Number

Field

Remarks

1

Country

e.g. France

2

Year

Reference year for the data (e.g. 2010)

3

Crop

Breakdown by single crops

4

Active substance

Codes listed in Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009

5

Observation value: quantity of substance used on the crop

In kilograms of substances

6

Observation value: area of the crop treated with this substance

In hectares

7

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