- absolute agricultural prices for compilation of API
means data covering:
- agricultural input
(or ‘means of agricultural production’) means goods and services necessary for producing agricultural products;
- agricultural input prices
means the prices paid by the agricultural producer, excluding reimbursable VAT and product subsidies, including all other product taxes, in exchange for the input delivered on the production site;
- agricultural land
means land that is used by agricultural holdings for agricultural production or that is temporarily out of production.
- agricultural land owner
means any owner of agricultural land, whether they undertake economic activity or not and if they do, whatever its economic activity is.
- agricultural land price
means the price paid for taking ownership of agricultural land for agricultural use, excluding deductible VAT, costs of transferring the ownership (lawyer’s fees, registration taxes, real estate taxes and other fees), entitlements related to the land, monetary compensation received by farmers for the sale/acquisition of agricultural area, the value of any building, and inheritance transfers, but including other taxes and levies.
- agricultural land rent
means the value agreed by an agricultural holding with a land owner for taking land in rent for agricultural use during one year, including related levies/taxes, and payments in kind (valuated at the current year’s price), and excluding entitlements related to the land, deductible VAT, rentals of buildings or dwellings situated on the land, and any other expenses related to other assets except the agricultural land (current maintenance expenditure on buildings, buildings insurance, depreciation of buildings, rents paid for the professional use of non-residential buildings etc.);
- agricultural price indices
(API) means the comparable price indices produced by each Member State for both agricultural products and agricultural inputs;
- agricultural producer
means agricultural holdings or other enterprises contributing to agricultural industry as defined by Regulation (EC) No 138/2004;
- agricultural products
means goods and services resulting from the agricultural activity of agricultural producers;
- agricultural products prices
means the prices received by the agricultural producer, excluding deductible VAT and subsidies, including product taxes or levies, in exchange for agricultural products delivered on the producer site;
- arable land
means land worked (ploughed or tilled) regularly, generally under a system of crop rotation;
- early estimate of the API
means API provided by Member States that are based on provisional or partial information and, if necessary, appropriate modelling, so that they can be provided earlier than otherwise required;
- irrigable arable land
means arable land area which could, if necessary, be irrigated in the reference year using the equipment and the quantity of water normally accessible;
- non-irrigable arable land
means arable land area which cannot be irrigated due to a lack of access to water for irrigation;
- permanent grassland
means land used permanently (for several consecutive years, normally 5 years or more) to grow herbaceous fodder, forage or energy purpose crops, through cultivation (sown) or naturally (self-seeded), and which is not included in the crop rotation on the agricultural holding.
- purchases values for absolute input prices
means the expenditure incurred by farmers in purchasing a given input product during a year.
- seasonality
means significant differences in prices and volumes among the four quarters that follow the same pattern every year.
- significant change in the production method
means a change in the data collection or compilation that is estimated to affect the annual or quarterly rate of change of a given index:
- volume
means the value divided by the price.