Report on the exercise of the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on the Commission under Regulation (EC) No 1165/2008 concerning livestock and meat statistics

Background and further information:

Regulation (EC) No 1165/2008 was amended by Regulation (EU) No 1350/2013 amending certain legislative acts in the field of agricultural and fishery statistics to align implementing powers with the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Article 19 of Regulation (EC) No 1165/2008 confers powers to adopt delegated acts on the Commission. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts concerning amendments to Annexes I, II, IV and V. These annexes provide the definitions and categories for statistics on livestock and slaughtering, and for meat production forecasts.

The power to adopt delegated acts is conferred for a period of five years at a time from 10 January 2014. This power is to be tacitly extended for periods of five years unless the European Parliament or the Council object. The Commission is obliged to draw up a report on the delegation of power not later than nine months before the end of the five-year period. This report fulfils this obligation.

There have been no changes to the definitions set out in Annexes I, II, IV and V of Regulation (EC) No 1165/2008 during the period in question. The changes in the technological and economic conditions were so minor that no amendment to the list of categories or adaptation of national and European statistical processes was necessary.