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dossier	COM(2007)245 - Farm structure surveys and the survey on agricultural production methods.
document	COM(2007)245
date	November 19, 2008

ANNEX I

List of agricultural activities referred to in the definition of an agricultural holding

The following activities (which may be either primary or secondary activities) are based on the European Statistical Classification of Economic Activities (NACE Rev. 2) for crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities and are used to define an agricultural holding:

Description of activity

NACE Rev. 2 code

Additional notes on activities included or excluded when defining agricultural activities

Growing of non-perennial crops

01.1

Growing of perennial crops

01.2

Agricultural holdings which produce wine or olive oil from self-produced grapes or olives are included within the scope of this Regulation.

Plant propagation

01.3

Animal production

01.4

All activities classified under 01.49 of NACE Rev. 2 (Raising of other animals) shall be excluded from the scope of this Regulation, except:

(i)	the raising and breeding of ostriches, emus and rabbits;

(ii)	bee-keeping and production of honey and beeswax.

Mixed farming

01.5

Support activities to agriculture and post-harvest crop activities

01.6

In general, all holdings which carry out activities under 01.6 of NACE Rev. 2 are excluded from the scope of this Regulation if they are undertaken exclusively.

However, holdings exclusively maintaining agricultural land in good agricultural and environmental condition (under 01.61 of NACE Rev. 2) are included in the scope of this Regulation.

ANNEX II

Thresholds for the farm structure surveys and the survey on agricultural production methods

Characteristics	Threshold
Utilised agricultural area	Arable land, kitchen gardens, permanent grassland, permanent crops	5 ha
Permanent outdoor crops	Fruit, berry, citrus and olive plantations, vineyards and nurseries	1 ha
Other intensive production	Fresh vegetables, melons and strawberries, which are outdoors or under low (not accessible) protective cover	0,5 ha
Tobacco	0,5 ha
Hops	0,5 ha
Cotton	0,5 ha
Crops under glass or other (accessible) protective cover	Fresh vegetables, melons and strawberries	0,1 ha
Flowers and ornamental plants (excluding nurseries)	0,1 ha
Bovine animals	All	10 Head
Pigs	All	50 Head
Breeding sows	10 Head
Sheep	All	20 Head
Goats	All	20 Head
Poultry	All	1 000 Head

ANNEX III

List of farm structure survey characteristics

CHARACTERISTICS

UNITS/CATEGORIES

I.

General characteristics

–	Location of the holding

– –	Latitude (within an arc of 5 minutes or less)

Degrees: Minutes

– –	Longitude (within an arc of 5 minutes or less)

Degrees: Minutes

–	Legal personality of the holding

– –	Is the legal and economic responsibility of the holding assumed by:

– – –

a natural person who is a sole holder, where the holding is independent?

Yes/No

– – – –

If the answer to the previous question is ‘yes’, is this person (the holder) also the manager?

Yes/No

– – – – –

If this person is not the manager, is the manager a member of the holder's family?

Yes/No

– – – – –

If the manager is a member of the holder's family, is the manager the spouse of the holder? (1)

Yes/No

– – –

one or more natural persons who is/are a partner, where the holding is a group holding?

Yes/No

– – –

a legal person?

Yes/No

–	Type of tenure (in relation to the holder) and farming system

– –	Utilised agricultural area:

– – –

For owner farming

– – –

For tenant farming

– – –

For share farming or other modes

– –	Organic farming

– – –

The total utilised agricultural area of the holding on which organic farming production methods are applied and certified according to national or European Community rules

– – –

The total utilised agricultural area of the holding that is under conversion to organic farming production methods to be certified according to national or European Community rules

– – –

Area of the holding on which organic farming production methods according to national or European Community rules are either applied and certified or under conversion to be certified:

– – – –

Cereals for the production of grain (including seed)

– – – –

Dried pulses and protein crops for the production of grain (including seed and mixtures of cereals and pulses)

– – – –

Potatoes (including early potatoes and seed potatoes)

– – – –

Sugar beet (excluding seed)

– – – –

Oil seed crops

– – – –

Fresh vegetables, melons and strawberries

– – – –

Pasture and meadow, excluding rough grazings

– – – –

Fruit and berry plantations

– – – –

Citrus plantations

– – – –

Olive plantations

– – – –

Vineyards

– – – –

Other crops (fibre crops, etc.)

– – –

Organic production methods applied to animal production and certified according to national or European Community rules:

– – – –

Bovine animals

Head

– – – –

Pigs

Head

– – – –

Sheep and goats

Head

– – – –

Poultry

Head

– – – –

Other animals

Yes/No

– –	Destination of the holding's production:

– – –

Household consumes more than 50 % of the value of the final production of the holding

Yes/No

– – –

Direct sale to final consumers represents more than 50 % of the total sales of the holding (1)

Yes/No

II.

Land

–	Arable land

– –	Cereals for the production of grain (including seed):

– – –

Common wheat and spelt

– – –

Durum wheat

– – –

Rye

– – –

Barley

– – –

Oats

– – –

Grain maize

– – –

Rice

– – –

Other cereals for the production of grain

– –	Dried pulses and protein crops for the production of grain (including seed and mixtures of cereals and pulses)

– – –

of which peas, field beans and sweet lupins

– –	Potatoes (including early potatoes and seed potatoes)

– –	Sugar beet (excluding seed)

– –	Fodder roots and brassicas (excluding seed)

– –	Industrial crops:

– – –

Tobacco

– – –

Hops

– – –

Cotton

– – –

Rape and turnip rape

– – –

Sunflower

– – –

Soya

– – –

Linseed (oil flax)

– – –

Other oil seed crops

– – –

Flax

– – –

Hemp

– – –

Other fibre crops

– – –

Aromatic plants, medicinal and culinary plants

– – –

Other industrial crops not mentioned elsewhere

– –	Fresh vegetables, melons and strawberries of which:

– – –

Outdoor or under low (not accessible) protective cover

– – – –

Open field

– – – –

Market gardening

– – –

Under glass or other (accessible) protective cover

– –	Flowers and ornamental plants (excluding nurseries):

– – –

Outdoor or under low (not accessible) protective cover

– – –

Under glass or other (accessible) protective cover

– –	Plants harvested green:

– – –

Temporary grass

– – –

Other plants harvested green:

– – – –

Green maize

– – – –

Leguminous plants

– – – –

Other plants harvested green not mentioned elsewhere

– –	Arable land seed and seedlings

– –	Other arable land crops

– –	Fallow land without any subsidies

– –	Fallow land subject to the payment of subsidies, with no economic use

–	Kitchen gardens

–	Permanent grassland

– –	Pasture and meadow, excluding rough grazings

– –	Rough grazings

– –	Permanent grassland no longer used for production purposes and eligible for the payment of subsidies

–	Permanent crops

– –	Fruit and berry plantations

– – –

Fruit species, of which:

– – – –

Fruit of temperate climate zones

– – – –

Fruit of subtropical climate zones

– – –

Berry species

– – –

Nuts

– –	Citrus plantations

– –	Olive plantations

– – –

Normally producing table olives

– – –

Normally producing olives for oil production

– –	Vineyards, of which normally producing:

– – –

Quality wine

– – –

Other wines

– – –

Table grapes

– – –

Raisins

– –

Nurseries

– –	Other permanent crops

– – –

of which Christmas trees (1)

– –	Permanent crops under glass

–	Other land

– –	Unutilised agricultural land

– –	Wooded area

– – –

of which short rotation coppices

– –	Other land (land occupied by buildings, farmyards, tracks, ponds, quarries, infertile land, rock, etc.)

–	Mushrooms, irrigated area, energy crops and genetically modified crops

– –

Mushrooms

– –	Irrigated area

– – –

Total irrigable area

– – –

Total cultivated area irrigated at least once during the previous 12 months

– –	Energy crops (for the production of biofuels or other renewable energy)

– – –

of which on set-aside area

– –	Genetically modified crops

III.

Livestock

–

Equidae

Head

–	Bovine animals:

– –	Bovine animals, under one year old, male and female

Head

– –	Bovine animals, one but less than two years old, male

Head

– –	Bovine animals, one but less than two years old, female

Head

– –	Male bovine animals, two years old and over

Head

– –	Heifers, two years old and over

Head

– –	Dairy cows

Head

– –	Other cows

Head

–	Sheep and goats:

– –	Sheep (all ages)

Head

– – –

Breeding females

Head

– – –

Other sheep

Head

– –	Goats (all ages)

Head

– – –

Breeding females

Head

– – –

Other goats

Head

–

Pigs:

– –	Piglets having a live weight of under 20 kilograms

Head

– –	Breeding sows weighing 50 kilograms and over

Head

– –	Other pigs

Head

–

Poultry:

– –

Broilers

Head

– –	Laying hens

Head

– –	Other poultry:

Head

– – –

Turkeys (1)

Head

– – –

Ducks (1)

Head

– – –

Geese (1)

Head

– – –

Ostriches (1)

Head

– – –

Other poultry, not mentioned elsewhere (1)

Head

–	Rabbits, breeding females

Head

–

Bees

Hives

–	Livestock not mentioned elsewhere

Yes/No

IV.

machinery and equipment

IV. (i)

Machinery (1)

–	Belonging exclusively to the holding

– –	Four-wheel tractors, track-laying tractors, tool carriers

Number

– –	Cultivators, hoeing machines, rotary hoes and motor mowers

Number

– –	Combine harvesters

Number

– –	Other fully mechanised harvesters

Number

–	Machinery used by several holdings

– –	Four-wheel tractors, track-laying tractors, tool carriers

Yes/No

– –	Cultivators, hoeing machines, rotary hoes and motor mowers

Yes/No

– –	Combine harvesters

Yes/No

– –	Other fully mechanised harvesters

Yes/No

IV. (ii)

Equipment

–	Equipment used for renewable energy production by type of energy source:

– –

Wind

Yes/No

– –

Biomass

Yes/No

– – –

of which bio-methane

Yes/No

– –

Solar

Yes/No

– –	Hydro-energy

Yes/No

– –	Other types of renewable energy sources

Yes/No

V.

Labour force

V. (i)

Farm work on the holding

–

Holder

– –

Gender

Male/Female

– –

Age

Age bands (2)

– –	The farm work on the holding (apart from housework)

AWU % band 1 (3)

–

Manager

– –

Gender

Male/Female

– –

Age

Age bands

– –	The farm work on the holding (apart from housework)

AWU % band 2 (4)

–	Training of manager

– –	Agricultural training of manager

Training codes (5)

– –	Vocational training undertaken by manager during the last 12 months (6)

Yes/No

–	Members of sole holder's family carrying out farm work for the holding: male

– –	The farm work on the holding (apart from housework)

AWU % band 2

–	Members of sole holder's family carrying out farm work for the holding: female

– –	The farm work on the holding (apart from housework)

AWU % band 2

–	Non-family labour regularly employed: male

– –	The farm work on the holding (apart from housework)

AWU % band 2

–	Non-family labour regularly employed: female

– –	The farm work on the holding (apart from housework)

AWU % band 2

–	Non-family labour employed on a non-regular basis: male and female

Full-time working days

–	Total number of equivalent full-time working days of farm work during the 12 months preceding the day of the survey, not included under previous categories, undertaken on the holding by persons not employed directly by the holding (e.g. contractors' employees)

Full-time working days

V. (ii)

Other gainful activities (non-farm work on the holding and work outside the holding)

–	Other gainful activities of the holder who is also the manager:

– –	As his/her major occupation

Yes/No

– –	As his/her subsidiary occupation

Yes/No

– –	If other gainful activities are carried out

– – –

Activities directly related to the holding

Yes/No

– – –

Activities not directly related to the holding

Yes/No

–	Other gainful activities of the spouse of the sole holder:

– –	As his/her major occupation

Yes/No

– –	As his/her subsidiary occupation

Yes/No

– –	If other gainful activities are carried out

– – –

Activities directly related to the holding

Yes/No

– – –

Activities not directly related to the holding

Yes/No

–	Other gainful activities of the other members of the sole holder's family:

– –	As his/her major occupation

Yes/No

– –	As his/her subsidiary occupation

Yes/No

– –	If other gainful activities are carried out

– – –

Activities directly related to the holding

Yes/No

– – –

Activities not directly related to the holding

Yes/No

–	Non-family labour force, employed directly on a regular basis and involved in other gainful activities that are directly related to the holding

– –	As his/her major occupation

Yes/No

– –	As his/her subsidiary occupation

Yes/No

VI.

Other gainful activities of the holding (directly related to the holding)

VI. (i)

List of other gainful activities

–	Tourism, accommodation and other leisure activities

Yes/No

–	Handicraft

Yes/No

–	Processing of farm products

Yes/No

–	Production of renewable energy

Yes/No

–	Wood processing (e.g. sawing)

Yes/No

–	Aquaculture

Yes/No

–	Contractual work (using production means of the holding)

– –	Agricultural (for other holdings)

Yes/No

– –	Non-agricultural

Yes/No

–

Forestry

Yes/No

–

Other

Yes/No

VI. (ii)

Importance of the other gainful activities directly related to the holding

–	Percentage of the final output of the holding

Percentage bands (7)

VII.

Support for rural development

–	Holding benefited from one of the following rural development measures during the last 3 years

– –	Use of advisory services

Yes/No

– –	Modernisation of agricultural holdings

Yes/No

– –	Adding value to agricultural and forestry products

Yes/No

– –	Meeting standards based on Community legislation

Yes/No

– –	Participation of farmers in food quality schemes

Yes/No

– –	Natura 2000 payments for agricultural area

Yes/No

– –	Payments linked to the Water Framework Directive (8)

Yes/No

– –	Agri-environment payments

Yes/No

– – –

of which in the framework of organic farming

Yes/No

– –	Animal welfare payments

Yes/No

– –	Diversification into non-agricultural activities

Yes/No

– –	Encouragement of tourism activities

Yes/No

(1) Not to be provided in 2010.

(2) Age bands: (From school leaving age-24 years), (25-34), (35-44), (45-54), (55-64), (65 and over).

(3) Annual Work Unit (AWU) percentage band 1: (0), (> 0-< 25), (≥ 25-< 50), (≥ 50-< 75), (≥ 75-< 100), (100).

(4) Annual Work Unit (AWU) percentage band 2: (> 0-< 25), (≥ 25-< 50), (≥ 50-< 75), (≥ 75-< 100), (100).

(5) Training codes: (only practical agricultural experience), (basic agricultural training), (full agricultural training).

(6) Not to be provided in 2013.

(7) Percentage bands: (≥ 0-≤ 10),.(> 10-≤ 50),.(> 50-< 100).

(8) Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy (OJ L 327, 22.12.2000, p. 1).

ANNEX IV

PRECISION REQUIREMENTS

The sample surveys specified in this Regulation must be statistically representative at the level of NUTS 2 regions and for national aggregations of less-favoured areas (1) in terms of the type and the size of the agricultural holdings, in line with Commission Decision 85/377/EEC of 7 June 1985 establishing a Community typology for agricultural holdings (2). In addition, specified levels of precision are required for the crop and livestock characteristics of the agricultural holdings.

These levels of precision are given in the precision tables below and apply to all NUTS 2 regions with at least 10 000 holdings. For a NUTS 2 region with fewer than 10 000 holdings, these levels of precision apply instead to the associated NUTS 1 region, provided that the associated NUTS 1 region contains at least 1 000 holdings. For the survey on agricultural production methods, the relevant crop and livestock characteristics will be available from the results of the farm structure survey 2010.

Precision categories for the Farm Structure Surveys 2013 and 2016

Crop characteristics:

—	Cereals for the production of grain (including seed), comprising common wheat and spelt, durum wheat, rye, barley, oats, grain maize, rice and other cereals for the production of grain

—	Dried pulses and protein crops for the production of grain (including seed and mixtures of cereals and pulses)

—	Potatoes (including early potatoes and seed potatoes)

—	Sugar beet (excluding seed)

—	Oilseed crops comprising rape, turnip rape, sunflower, soya, linseed (oil flax) and other oil seed crops

—	Fresh vegetables, melons and strawberries

—	Flowers and ornamental plants (excluding nurseries)

—	Plants harvested green

—	Pasture and meadow, excluding rough grazing

—	Fruit and berry plantations

—	Citrus plantations

—	Olive plantations

—

Vineyards

Livestock characteristics:

—	Dairy cows

—	Other cows

—	Other bovine animals

—	Breeding sows

—	Other pigs

—

Sheep

—

Goats

—

Poultry

Precision categories for sample surveys undertaken as part of the farm structure survey 2010 and the Survey on agricultural production methods

Crop characteristics:

—	Cereals for the production of grain (including seed), comprising common wheat and spelt, durum wheat, rye, barley, oats, grain maize, rice and other cereals for the production of grain

—	Potatoes (including early potatoes and seed potatoes) and sugar beet (excluding seed)

—	Oilseed crops comprising rape, turnip rape, sunflower, soya, linseed (oil flax) and other oil seed crops

—	Permanent outdoor crops comprising fruit, berry, citrus and olive plantations, vineyards, nurseries and other permanent outdoor crops

—	Fresh vegetables, melons, strawberries, flowers and ornamental plants (excluding nurseries)

—	Temporary grass and permanent grassland

Livestock characteristics:

—	Bovine animals (all ages)

—	Sheep and goats (all ages)

—

Pigs

—

Poultry

Precision Table for NUTS 2 regions with at least 10 000 agricultural holdings

Precision categories	Farm structure surveys 2013 and 2016	Survey on agricultural production methods
Prevalence of the characteristic in the NUTS 2 region	Relative standard error	Prevalence of the characteristic in the NUTS 2 region	Relative standard error
Crop characteristics of the agricultural holding	7,5 % or more of the utilised agricultural area	< 5 %	10 % or more of the utilised agricultural area	< 10 %
Livestock characteristics of the agricultural holding	7,5 % or more of the livestock units and more than 5 % of national share of each category	< 5 %	10 % or more of the livestock units and more than 5 % of national share of each category	< 10 %

Precision Table for NUTS 2 regions with fewer than 10 000 agricultural holdings

Precision categories	Farm structure surveys 2013 and 2016	Survey on agricultural production methods
Prevalence of the characteristic in the associated NUTS 1 region with at least 1 000 holdings	Relative standard error	Prevalence of the characteristic in the associated NUTS 1 region with at least 1 000 holdings	Relative standard error
Crop characteristics of the agricultural holding	7,5 % or more of the utilised agricultural area	< 5 %	10 % or more of the utilised agricultural area	< 10 %
Livestock characteristics of the agricultural holding	7,5 % or more of the livestock units and more than 5 % of national share of each category	< 5 %	10 % or more of the livestock units and more than 5 % of national share of each category	< 10 %

(1) Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 of 17 May 1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) (OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 80).

(2) OJ L 220, 17.8.1985, p. 1.

ANNEX V

List of characteristics for the survey on agricultural production methods

Characteristic	Units/categories
Tillage methods	Conventional tillage (mouldboard plough or disc plough)	ha
Conservation tillage (low tillage)	ha
Zero tillage (direct seeding)	ha
Soil conservation	Soil cover in winter:	Normal winter crop	ha
Cover crop or intermediate crop	ha
Plant residues	ha
Bare soil	ha
Crop rotation:	Share of arable area out of planned crop rotation	AA % band (1)
Landscape features	Linear elements maintained by farmer during the last 3 years, of which:	Hedges	Yes/No
Tree lines	Yes/No
Stonewalls	Yes/No
Linear elements established during the last 3 years, of which:	Hedges	Yes/No
Tree lines	Yes/No
Stonewalls	Yes/No
Animal grazing	Grazing on the holding	Area grazed during the last year	ha
Amount of time when animals are outdoors on pasture	Months per year
Common land grazing:	Total number of animals grazing on common land	Head
Amount of time when animals are grazing on common land	Months per year
Animal housing	Cattle:	Stanchion-tied stable — with solid dung and liquid manure	Places
Stanchion-tied stable — with slurry	Places
Loose housing — with solid dung and liquid manure	Places
Loose housing — with slurry	Places
Other	Places
Pigs:	On partially slatted floors	Places
On completely slatted floors	Places
On straw beds (deep litter-loose housing)	Places
Other	Places
Laying hens:	On straw beds (deep litter-loose housing)	Places
Battery cage (all types)	Places
	Battery cage with manure belt	Places
	Battery cage with deep pit	Places
	Battery cage with stilt house	Places
Other	Places
Manure application	Utilised agricultural area on which solid/farmyard manure is applied	Total	UAA % band (2)
With immediate incorporation	UAA % band (2)
Utilised agricultural area on which slurry is applied	Total	UAA % band (2)
With immediate incorporation or injection	UAA % band (2)
Percentage of the total produced manure exported from the holding	Percentage band (3)
Manure storage and treatment facilities	Storage facilities for:	Solid dung	Yes/No
Liquid manure	Yes/No
Slurry	Slurry tank	Yes/No
Lagoon	Yes/No
Are the storage facilities covered?	Solid dung	Yes/No
Liquid manure	Yes/No
Slurry	Yes/No
Irrigation	Irrigated area	Average irrigated area the last three years	ha
Total cultivated area irrigated at least once during the previous 12 months	Total	ha
Cereals for the production of grain (including seed) (excluding maize and rice)	ha
Maize (grain and green)	ha
Rice	ha
Dried pulses and protein crops for the production of grain (including seed and mixtures of cereals and pulses)	ha
Potatoes (including early potatoes and seed potatoes)	ha
Sugar beet (excluding seed)	ha
Rape and turnip rape	ha
Sunflower	ha
Fibre crops (flax, hemp, other fibre crops)	ha
Fresh vegetables, melons and strawberries — open field	ha
Temporary grass and permanent grassland	ha
Other crops on arable land	ha
Fruit and berry plantations	ha
Citrus plantations	ha
Olive plantations	ha
Vineyards	ha
Irrigation methods employed:	Surface irrigation (flooding, furrows)	Yes/No
Sprinkler irrigation	Yes/No
Drop irrigation	Yes/No
Source of irrigation water used on the holding:	On-farm ground water	Yes/No
On-farm surface water (ponds or dams)	Yes/No
Off-farm surface water from lakes, rivers or watercourses	Yes/No
Off-farm water from common water supply networks	Yes/No
Other sources	Yes/No

(1) Arable area (AA) percentage band: (0), (> 0-< 25), (≥ 25-< 50), (≥ 50-< 75), (≥ 75).

(2) Utilised agricultural area (UAA) percentage band: (0), (> 0-< 25), (≥ 25-< 50), (≥ 50-< 75), (≥ 75).

(3) Percentage band: (0), (> 0-< 25), (≥ 25-< 50), (≥ 50-< 75), (≥ 75).