Report on the exercise of the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on the Commission under Regulation (EC) No 543/2009 concerning crop statistics

Background and further information:

Regulation (EC) No 543/2009 was modified 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 8a of Regulation (EC) No 543/2009 confers on the Commission the power to adopt delegated acts. According to Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 543/2009 the power of delegation can be used to amend the transmission tables set out in the Annex to the Regulation.

The power to adopt delegated acts is conferred for a period of five years 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.

The Commission’s periodic review of the collection of crop statistics data demonstrated that the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 543/2009 need an update to improve the clarity of concepts and data quality and to better respond to user needs, which were changed by the 2014 reform of the common agricultural policy. As a result, Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/1557 was adopted, updating the transmission tables of Regulation (EC) No 543/2009.