Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1579

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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 November 2022 on statistics on agricultural input and output, amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008 and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1165/2008, (EC) No 543/2009 and (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Directive 96/16/EC^note, and in particular Articles 5(10) and 9(4) thereof,Whereas:

(1)Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 establishes an integrated framework for developing, producing and disseminating European statistics as regards agricultural inputs and outputs.

(2)It is necessary to specify the data requirements for producing statistics on agricultural inputs and outputs as regards agricultural prices in order to produce comparable data between Member States and to achieve harmonisation.

(3)Pursuant to Article 5(10) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2379, implementing acts defining data sets to be transmitted to the Commission are to specify technical elements of the data to be provided, where appropriate, such as the list of variables, the descriptions of the variables, the observation units, the methodological rules to be applied, and the deadlines for transmitting the data.

(4)It is necessary to specify the variables for which the regional dimension is required as it is needed only for some variables.

(5)The reference periods referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 should be further specified.

(6)In order to obtain reliable and comparable results from all Member States, a common methodological framework for the compilation of agricultural price statistics is required.

(7)Agricultural price indices are necessary baseline data for the economic accounts for agriculture as specified by Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council^note, and therefore, the observation units should fit in the scope of the latter Regulation.

(8)The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee as established by Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council^note,

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