REPUBLIC OF CROATIA - CROATIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS. 

Spatial statistics Directorate/Agricultural, Production and Structural Statistics Department/Crop Production Statistics and Register of Agricultural Holdings Unit.

Branimirova 19,

10000 Zagreb,

Hrvatska/Croatia

See sub-concepts below.

The data set comprises the annual sales of active substances contained in plant protection products placed on the national market for one calendar year according to the Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 as amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/269 of 16 February 2017 as regards the list of active substances.

Republic of Croatia assumed the obligation to submit statistical data on pesticides according to Regulation (EC) 1185 / 2009 of the European Parliament and the Council on the day of accession to the EU on 1th July 2013. According of that the Republic of Croatia adopted the Act on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides 46/2022 which brings national action plan of the requirements and maintaining data collections and keeping records on the sale of pesticides.

Ordinance on establishing an action framework for achieving sustainable pesticide use (Official Gazette 142/2012)

Law on Sustainable Use of Pesticides (Official Gazette 46/22)

Ordinance on the conditions of distribution and sale of pesticides (Official Gazette 141/21)

• Pravilnik o uspostavi akcijskog okvira za postizanje održive uporabe pesticida (nn.hr).
• Zakon o održivoj uporabi pesticida (nn.hr).
• Pravilnik o uvjetima distribucije i prodaje pesticida (nn.hr).

Ministry of agriculture.

• 2012.
• 2022.
• 2021.

All the variables required under EU regulation are covered by national legislation.

There is no divergence between national definitions and those in the EU regulation.

The data are expressed in kilograms of active substances.

The classification of the active substances in plant protection products is annexed (Annex III) to Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/269 of 16 February 2017 amending Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning statistics on pesticides.

The active substances are classified according to chemical and functional similarity. Aggregation levels in descending order comprise: major groups, categories of products, chemical classes and active substances.

The statistics cover the wholesale and retail trade sector operating in placing plant protection products on the market.

All authorisation holders of plant protection products report the quantity of all active substances that are placed on the market nationally (incl. import and export data).

This data collection comprises pesticide sales data based on the term 'placing on the market' as defined in Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market. The scope of the Regulation covers plant protection products and their active substances as can be seen from the key terms of the act immediately below:

Plant protection products: products consisting of or containing active substances, safeners or synergists, and intended for one of the following uses:

• protecting plants or plant products against all harmful organisms or preventing the action of such organisms, unless the main purpose of these products is considered to be for reasons of hygiene rather than for the protection of plants or plant products;
• influencing the life processes of plants, such as substances influencing their growth, other than as a nutrient;
• preserving plant products, in so far as such substances or products are not subject to special Community provisions on preservatives;
• destroying undesired plants or parts of plants, except algae unless the products are applied on soil or water to protect plants;
• checking or preventing undesired growth of plants, except algae.

Active substances: substances or micro-organisms, including viruses, having general or specific action against harmful organisms or on plants, parts of plants or plant products.

Quantity: implies kilograms of the active substances sold.

Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishes a common framework for the systematic production of Community statistics on the placing on the market and agricultural use of those pesticides which are plant protection products as defined in Article 2 (a)(i). The statistics shall apply to the annual amounts of pesticides active substances placed on the market in accordance with Annex I and the quantity of active substances shall be aggregated according to the list in Annex III (as amended).

Enterprise placing plant protection products on the market; authorisation holder or holder of parallel trade permits.

All enterprises placing plant protection products on the market; authorisation holders and holders of parallel trade permits.

See sub-concepts below.

The entire territory of the country.

Not applicable.

2013 onwards.

Not applicable for pesticide sales statistics, because it is not based on an index number of time series.

See sub-concepts below.

Not applicable.

The Ministry of Agriculture collects data and information of sale of pesticides by Phytosanitary Information System (FIS).Data are collected annually and all active substances in pesticides sold in wholesale in Croatia are covered. 

Phytosanitary Information System (FIS) is a software application designed, developed and implemented with the aim of improving operational efficiency and establishing Information and Communications Technology (ICT) as a support system for all business processes, registers and databases necessary to perform daily tasks of employees of the Phytosanitary Policy Sector  in accordance with users’ needs, EU, international and national requirements and standards and is part of the information system of the Ministry of Agriculture in Croatia.

Annually.

Access granted upon a simple request.

The data are compared with the previosu years.

No additional operations are needed. The electronic system don't make any computation of aggregates or conversion of unit.

Not applicable for pesticide sales statistics, because the data collection is not based on time series.

Data quality is provided by the administrative data owner (The Service for Plant Protection Products within the Phytosanitary Policy Sector in the Food Quality and Phytosanitary Policy Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture), including also inspection service).

Data quality is provided by the administrative data owner (The Service for Plant Protection Products within the Phytosanitary Policy Sector in the Food Quality and Phytosanitary Policy Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture), including also inspection service.

The data quality for pesticides sales statistics is considered as good with sufficient accuracy and completeness.

Data users are state bodies and local governments, legal and natural persons.

There are requests for information on the micro level of national institutions and currently does not comply with such requirements.

There are no measuring customer satisfaction at the moment.

The data collection covers all active substances of plant protection products placed on the national market and the information of all authorisation holders.

100%.

See sub-concepts below.

Not relevant (administrative source).

Not applicable for pesticide sales statistics, because the data collection is not based on samples, but covers the whole statistical population of authorisation holders and plant protection products placed on the national market.

Not applicable for pesticide sales statistics, because the data collection is not based on samples, but covers the whole statistical population of authorisation holders and plant protection products placed on the national market.

Not relevant (administrative source).

Not relevant (administrative source).

Not relevant (administrative source).

Not applicable for pesticide sales statistics as the data stem from one source.

Not relevant (administrative source).

Not relevant (administrative source).

Not relevant (administrative source).

Not relevant (administrative source).

Not relevant (administrative source).

Not relevant (administrative source).

Not applicable for pesticide sales statistics, because the data collection is not based on estimations.

Not applicable for pesticide sales statistics, because the reported data on plant protection products covers the whole year.

Revision Policy of the Croatian Bureau of Statistics is based on the principles of the European Statistics Code of Practice. Revision Policy of the Croatian Bureau of Statistics distinguishes three types of revisions: regular revisions, major revisions and unscheduled revisions. Unplanned revisions of the pesticides may be carried out. In any case iti is necessary to clarify the reasons for a revision (mistake in data source or calcualtions or due to the unexpected changes in the methodology or data sources).

Croatian revision policy can be found at the following website.

Data revision is not planned so far.

Not available.

According to the Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009, the data is published by Eurostat 15 months after the end of the reference year and the national quality report 20 months after the end of the reference year.

Not applicable for pesticide sales statistics as the data and national quality reports are only published once in a final result.

• 15 months after the end of the reference period for the data;
• 20 months after the end of the reference period for the national quality report.

According to the Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009, data must be transmitted until 30 December of the year t+1, and national quality reports until 31 March of the year t+2.

All the data were delivered on time.

The 4 day delay happened by mistake.

Data are collected on a country level (NUTS 0). They are not comparable on a regional level. The geographical comparability between countries is evaluated by Eurostat.

Not applicable, because there are no mirror flows in pesticide sales statistics.

There have been no changes since 2013.

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Concerning the other domains the agri-environmental indicators (AEI) statitics is reconcilable with other domins (PRODCOM, trade statistics etc.).

Not applicable for pesticide sales statistics, because the data collection is annual.

Not applicable, because it is not related to national accounts.

Not available.

No news releases.

No publications.

Major groups, categories of products and chemical classes are published on the website of Croatian Bureau of statistics (CBS):Statistical databases →Agriculture, Hunting, Forestry and Fishing→Pesticide sale →Table 1 Pesticide Sales by Chemical Classes, in Kilograms, Republic of Croatia (Data available for 2013-2022).  

Not available.

The information is provided in the Ordinance on Conditions and Terms of Using Confidential Data for Scientific Purposes (Official Gazette, No. 5/2023) which defines in detail conditions, modalities and measures for protecting confidential information (research proposal submitted by independent researchers or research entities referred to in Article 2 of the Ordinance; access to confidential data on the basis of research proposals submitted and approved; confidential declaration has to be signed by any individual researcher using confidential data; special contract has to be concluded inter CBS and independent researcher or research entity; access to confidential data may be granted only for the period of the duration of the research project, max 5 years; obligations for taking all legal, administrative, technical and organisational safeguards of the confidential data for scientific purpose which have been granted; confidential data must be destroyed when the research project is finished; after expiry of the research project, the researchers or research entity are obliged to provide CBS with references to all reports that have been produced using the data; termination access to data etc.).

Each usage of confidential information is regulated through a specific contract with CBS, which strictly regulates this issue.

Not available.

The methodology is harmonized with the  EU directive on pesticides and Croatian law on sustainable use of pesticides. The short methodological notes is available within the online database.

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No available documentation on quality. The development of quality bases for the sale of pesticides is underway.

Not requested.

Not requested.

No data for cost till now.

According to Article 47 of the Official Statistics Act (Official Gazette, No 25/20), Croatian Bureau of statistics (CBS) has the right to use all administrative data sources free of charge while the holders of administrative data have to make this data available in accordance with the CBS request, free of charge.

Statistical data collected for pesticide sales, according to the Law on official statistics (NN, br. 25/20.) is confidential and its purpose is restricted exclusively to statistical usage.Authorized interviewers are obligated to respect these restrictions.The results will be published in a cumulative form which prevents displaying data on individuals.

Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.

The Republic of Croatia has protected the data at the level of the active substance according with (EC) Regulation 1185/2009 and Statistics Act of Croatia.

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