agricultural holdingmeans a single unit, both technically and economically, that has a single management and that undertakes economic activities in agriculture in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 belonging to groups A.01.1, A.01.2, A.01.3, A.01.4, A.01.5 or to the ‘maintenance of agricultural land in good agricultural and environmental condition’ of group A.01.6 within the economic territory of the Union, either as its primary or secondary activity.
common land agricultural unitmeans an entity of land on which common rights apply and which is used by two or more agricultural holdings for agricultural production, but is not allocated amongst them;
detailed topicmeans the detailed content of the information to be collected about the statistical units related to a specific topic, each detailed topic covering a number of variables;
kitchen gardenmeans areas used for food production intended for one's own consumption;
livestock unitmeans a standard measurement unit that allows for the aggregation of the various categories of livestock in order for them to be compared;
modulemeans one or more data sets organised in order to cover topics;
reference yearmeans a calendar year to which the reference periods refer;
regionmeans the territorial unit of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), defined in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003;
topicmeans the content of the information to be collected about the statistical units, each topic covering a number of detailed topics;
UAAmeans the land area used for farming, including arable land, permanent grassland, permanent crops, and other utilised agricultural land;
variablemeans a characteristic of a unit being observed that may assume more than one of a set of values.