Czech Statistical Office

Agricultural and Forestry, Industrial, Construction and Energy Statistics Department

Czech Statistical Office

Agricultural and Forestry, Industrial, Construction and Energy Statistics Department

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Praha 10

100 82 Czech Republic

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The data set of pesticide use statistics for the reference year 2019 (for period 2015-2019) comprises the quantity of each active substance (listed in Annex III of Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009, as amended) contained in plant protection products used on selected crops and the area treated with each active substance. The area treated is provided on the level of active substances because double counting could not be avoided in aggregations. The selection of crops is representative in terms of the crops cultivated and the substances used.

Data on agricultural pesticide use statistics have been collected in the Czech Republic for the purpose of monitoring the consumption of plant protection products in agriculture annually since 1998. The Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture (hereinafter referred to as the CISTA) is responsible for this issue. The CISTA is the administrative phytosanitary care authority with competence for the Czech Republic, established by Act No 147/2002 of the Czech Republic Collection of Laws (hereinafter referred as Coll.), on phytosanitary care and on amendments to certain related laws, as amended. The CISTA is subordinate to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic.

Since 2010, a single methodology has been used for pesticides use statistics. The source of data is a sample survey. The CISTA and the Czech Statistical Office (the CZSO) collaborate on the data collection and processing. The CISTA is responsible for the data collection and data dissemination; the CZSO is responsible for data processing.

2019

Act No. 326/2004 of the Czech Republic Coll., on phytosanitary care and on amendments to certain related laws, as amended.

https://www.psp.cz/sqw/sbirka.sqw?r=2004&cz=326

Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic

2004

The area treated is not covered by national legislation.

The classification used for pesticides corresponds to Annex III of Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 (http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2009/1185/2017-03-09) of the European Parliament and of the Council.
The classification system for crops derives from the Annual crop statistics Handbook 2019 (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/Annexes/apro_cp_esms_an1.pdf).

This data set covers the agricultural sector, particularly the agricultural use of pesticides on selected crops.

The selected crops cover 78% of utilized agricultural area excluding permanent grassland. The total amount of active substances used for selected crops represents 88% of the overall amount of active substances used in agriculture.

See the attached Excel file in the Annexes.

Information on the commercial non-agricultural use of pesticides in the Czech Republic are not available.

The data reported are the quantity of each active substances listed in Annex III of Regulation 1185/2009 contained in plant protection products used on a selected crop, expressed in kg. The area treated with each substance are expressed in hectares.

Agricultural holdings.

The statistical population includes agricultural holdings reaching the following thresholds: 10 ha of arable land or 5 ha of specialty crops (the sum of the area of vineyards, hop gardens and orchards), or 1 ha of vegetables. Agricultural holdings dealing with organic farming are excluded. All plant protection treatment on selected crop is reported.

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The entire territory of the country.

2010

Not applicable for Pesticide Use Statistics, because it is not based on an index number of time series.

See the attached Excel file in the Annexes.

See the attached Excel file in the Annexes.

Validation activities include: checking that the population coverage and response rates are as required; comparing the statistics with previous cycles; confronting the statistics against other relevant data; investigating inconsistencies in the statistics; performing micro and macro data editing; verifying the statistics against expectations, outlier detection.

Active substances are summed up into new variables, it means major groups, categories of products, and chemical classes, during data processing by the CZSO.

Other measuring units like litres or Colony Forming Units (CFU) are converted into kilograms automatically during the data collection by the CISTA.

There is no imputation. Non-response is very low because the agricultural holdings have an obligation to provide information about their usage of pesticides on legal basis.

Stratified sample survey is used; the stratification is based on size, location, and specialisation of agricultural holdings. Values obtained in the strata with the sampling rate under 100% are weighted using coefficients according to the percentage of selected units. Weight calibration is not used.

Outliers were tested using boxplots. No extreme observations that would affect the results were detected within the strata.

Only one data source is used for this data set.

Not applicable.

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The overall data quality meets standard quality criteria.

National users: the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Environment, the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, municipal offices, regional public health centres, administration of watercourses and other users. These institutions monitor impact of pesticides, in particular ones used in agriculture, on human health and environment.

Statistical data meet current needs of national users.

See sub-category below.

Not applicable for Pesticide Use Statistics because in this data collection, there is no target on the number of data. Member States are asked to collect data on representative crops without stipulating the number of crops.

The overall accuracy of the data meet standard quality criteria.

See the attached Excel file in the Annexes.

See sub-categories below.

See the attached Excel file in the Annexes.

See the attached Excel file in the Annexes.

See the attached Excel file in the Annexes.

See the attached Excel file in the Annexes.

Not applicable.

Seasonal adjustment is not applicable to pesticide use statistics since all plant protection treatments associated directly or indirectly with the crop during the reference period are reported.

Regular revisions in pesticide use statistics are not carried out. In 2019, an unplanned data revision was carried out.

The reason for the unplanned data revision was the correction of records of two active substances that were not used in 2019. Performed revision has a very low impact.

The overall consumption of active substances has decreased by 41 kg (total 3 597 279 kg).

The main reason for the data revision was the correction of detected errors at the level of data collection and data recording.

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6 months

12 months

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Data are collected on a country level (NUTS 0). Therefore, the data 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 Use Statistics.

Not applicable for Pesticide Use Statistics, because it is not based on time series.

Not applicable for Pesticide Use Statistics, because it is not based on time series.

Pesticide use statistics was compared with pesticide sales. 71% of the total amount of pesticides placed on the market was used on the selected crops. The comparison is only approximate. The stocks of pesticides at the beginning and at the end of the reference period are not taken into account. Not all users of pesticides are included.

Not applicable for Pesticide Use Statistics, because the data collection is based on a five-year period.

Not applicable, because it has no relevance for national accounts.

Only one data source is used for this data set.

No news release is published.

Pesticide use statistics on active substance level are published on the CISTA website every year. The title of the publication is Consumption of active substances contained in Plant Protection Products in agriculture.

http://eagri.cz/public/web/ukzuz/portal/pripravky-na-or/ucinne-latky-v-por-statistika-spotreba/spotreba-pripravku-na-or/spotreba-v-jednotlivych-letech/

On-line database is not available.

0

No micro-data is disseminated.

Methodological documents are not available.

Quality related documents are not available.

The costs associated with collection and production of pesticide use statistics are not available.

Reporting units may use on-line electronic records of use of plant protection products, which is linked to the LPIS (the Land Parcel Identification System). The software is provided free of charge by the Ministry of Agriculture.

No confidential data.

No confidential data. All pesticide use data are disseminated in the Czech Republic in accordance with the national legislation. Therefore, statistical confidentiality does not apply to this data set.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.