COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 887/2014
of 14 August 2014
concerning the technical format for the transmission of European statistics on vineyards pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 1337/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1337/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 concerning European statistics on permanent crops (1), and in particular Article 8(2) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Regulation (EU) No 1337/2011 sets the framework for producing comparable European statistics on permanent crops.
(2)
The data structure for the transmission of statistical data on vineyards and the exchange standard should be specified.
(3)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Agricultural Statistics,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Member States shall send the statistical data on vineyards referred to in Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 1337/2011 within the structure laid down in the SDMX data structure definitions. They shall either send the data to the European Commission (Eurostat) using the Single Entry Point services, or shall make the data available so that the European Commission (Eurostat) can retrieve the data using the Single Entry Point services.
Article 2
The data structure for sending statistical data on vineyards to the European Commission (Eurostat) shall be specified in the Annex.
Article 3
Data shall be provided for all single compulsory variables and all aggregates.
Article 4
Data shall be provided in hectares and in numbers of holdings.
Article 5
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 14 August 2014.