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document COM(2024)255
date June 20, 2024
 
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(1) Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council6 has been substantially amended several times7. In the interests of clarity and rationality, that Regulation should be codified.


🡻 138/2004 recital 1

(2) The monitoring and evaluation of the common agricultural policy requires comparable, up-to-date, and reliable information on the economic situation of agriculture, and more specifically on changes in agricultural income.


🡻 138/2004 recital 2

(3) Agricultural accounts are a basic tool for analysing the economic situation of a country's agriculture, provided that they are drawn up on the basis of a single set of principles. Agricultural accounts also make a valuable contribution to the calculation of the national accounts.


🡻 2022/590 recital 2 (adapted)

(4) ⌦ This ⌫ Regulation ⌦ should lay down rules for ⌫ the economic accounts for agriculture (EAA) in the Union by providing for the methodology and the time-limits for the transmission of the agricultural accounts. The EAA are satellite accounts of national accounts, as provided for by ⌦ the European System of Accounts 2010 ⌫8 (ESA 2010), with the purpose of obtaining results that are harmonised and comparable between the Member States, in order to draw up the accounts for the purposes of the Union.


🡻 2022/590 recital 3 (adapted)

(5) The regional economic accounts for agriculture (REAA) are a regional-level adaptation of the EAA. National figures alone cannot reveal the full and sometimes complex picture of what is happening at a more detailed level. Therefore, regional-level data help to increase the understanding of the diversity that exists between regions, complement information for the Union, the euro area and individual Member States, while responding to the increased need for statistics for accountability, and increase the level of harmonisation, efficiency and consistency regarding Union agricultural statistics.


🡻 2022/590 recital 4

(6) Statistics are no longer considered to be just one among many sources of information for policy-making purposes but instead play a central role in the decision-making process. Evidence-based decision-making requires statistics that meet high-quality criteria, as set out in Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council9, in accordance with the purposes they are serving.


🡻 2022/590 recital 7

(7) Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 provides the legal framework for European statistics and requires Member States to comply with the statistical principles and quality criteria set out in that Regulation. Quality reports are essential for assessing, improving and communicating on the quality of European statistics. The European Statistical System Committee has endorsed the single integrated metadata structure as the European Statistical System standard for quality reporting, thereby helping to satisfy, through uniform standards and harmonised methods, the statistical quality requirements laid down in Regulation (EC) No 223/2009, in particular those set out in Article 12(3) thereof. Resources should be used optimally, and the response burden should be minimised.


🡻 138/2004 recital 5 (adapted)

(8) Since the objective of ⌦ this Regulation ⌫, namely the ⌦ establishment ⌫ of common statistical standards which will allow the production of harmonised data, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States, ⌦ but ⌫ can ⌦ rather ⌫, by reason of the scale of the action, be better achieved at ⌦ Union ⌫ level, the ⌦ Union ⌫ may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty ⌦ on the European Union ⌫. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective.


🡻 1350/2013 recital 5 (adapted)

(9) In order to take account of economic and technical developments, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU should be delegated to the Commission in respect of amendments to Annexes I and II to ⌦ this ⌫ Regulation. ⌦ It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level, and that those consultations be conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making10. In particular, to ensure equal participation in the preparation of delegated acts, the European Parliament and the Council receive all documents at the same time as Member States' experts, and their experts systematically have access to meetings of Commission expert groups dealing with the preparation of delegated acts. ⌫


🡻 2022/590 recital 8

(10) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this Regulation, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission in respect of the arrangements for, and the content of, the quality reports. Implementing powers should also be conferred on the Commission in respect of possible derogations from REAA requirements. Those powers should be exercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council11,


🡻 138/2004 (adapted)