Hungarian Central Statistical Office

Sectoral Statistics Department

H-1024 Budapest Keleti K. u. 5-7.

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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.

XLVI of 2008 Act on the food chain and its official supervision

Only Hungarian version available:

https://net.jogtar.hu/jogszabaly?docid=a0800046.tv

national parliament

2008

All variables required under EU regulation are covered by national legislation

No divergence between national and EU regulation definitions

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.

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The entire territory of the country.

No

2011-2019

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

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Not applicable

Annual administrative data sources are on the marketed quantity of plant protection products. 

Annually.

Data are collected by the National Food Chain Safety Office based on EC regulation 1107/2009. According to the regulation  'Authorisation holders' shall provide the competent authorities of the Member States with all data relating to the volume of sales of plant protection products in accordance with Community legislation concerning statistics on plant protection products. Data collection is full-scale and obligatory. In 2019 number of data suppliers was: 52. Data were collected and processed at the Directorate of Plant Protection and Soil Conservation of National Food Chain Safety Office. Individual data were checked and corrected by the plant protection expert of the Office after the problems were clarified with data suppliers. Hungarian Central Statistical Office got the corrected data at national level.

Data on marketed quantity are compared to and cross-checked with data of previous years at product level by National Food Chain Safety Office.

Data compiled by National Food Chain Safety Office from authorization holders.

Computation of aggregates:

Data are collected by product. After the product level aggregation, we calculated the active substances content of them. We use special nomenclature to the conversion, which cover the each product active substances content. After the data transformation we aggregate data again. To calculate new hierarchical classes we use data processing program.

Conversion of unit:

Data are collected in kilogram

Imputation:

Data collection is full-scale and obligatory so there is no need to apply imputation in the data compilation process.

Weighting:

Data collection is full-scale and obligatory so there is no need to apply weighting in the data compilation process.

Outlier detection:

To detect outliers we compare data to the data series of the previous year at respondent level.

Input data from different sources:

No need to input data from different sources because data collection full-scale and obligatory.

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

Not available.

Data collection is obligatory and full-scale, individual data are checked by experts.

Principal users of pesticide statistics:

-Domestic users: Governmental Organizations (Ministry of Agriculture, Research Institute) , Agricultural Representations of interest

-Foreign users: Eurostat, FAO

The purpose of statistics is to get an overview of the structure of pesticides and the changes in their main tendencies. Statistics satisfies all user needs.

User satisfaction surveys have not filled yet, but we keep contact with our user regularly. Our administrative data sources are full-scope and cover all pesticide. The user needs get directly to us, so we have always been able to fulfill them. If there is a potential new need, we will examine how we could get it into our data collection.

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

100%

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Full scale

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

It is not relevant, as marketing of pesticides requires authorisation issued by the National Food Chain Safety Office.

Not applicable

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

Individual data are checked by experts. In case of errors data are corrected after a clarification with data suppliers.

It is not calculated as collection are obligatory.

It is not calculated.

It is not calculated.

It is not calculated.

Not relevant, as data collection is full scale.

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.

We have not apply planned revision. Usually our data final at the time of data transmission. We revised data only very special cases for example data provider call for correction request.

Not applicable

Not applicable

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.

Data published a year after the reference year.

not applicable

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.

In 2011 two data sources were used, while in 2012 only one data source was used. Therefore data of the two first years (2011-2012) are not fully comparable.

Data is comparable from 2012-2015 and from 2016 onwards, respectively. The data before 2015 did not reclassified yet. After the reclassification data will comparable since 2012.

4

Not applicable.

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

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

Not applicable.

No news release available

Hungarian Central Statistical Office also published the data on sales in regular (etc.Agricultural yearbook) and ad-hoc publications till 2017. Since 2018 no publication available.

Hungarian Central Statistical Office, 2011-2019; Quantity of active substances of pesticides placed on the market http://www.ksh.hu/stadat_files/mez/en/mez0045.html

Not available

Microdata are not accessible, because according to our methodology rules: data are collected by product (pesticide). After the product level aggregation, we calculated the active substances content of them. Active substances are not available at microdata level.

No other documents

There are no documentations on methodology available.

There are no documentations on methodology

Not requested.

Not requested.

Data collected by National Food Chain Safety Office based on EC regulation 1107/2009. Calculation of active substances, compilation of quality report made by Hungarian Central Statistical Office (HCSO) took approximately 10 man-days.

Act on Statistics XLVI. 1993 https://www.ksh.hu/docs/bemutatkozas/eng/act_no_XLVI_of_1993.pdf

REGULATION (EC) No 223/2009 on European Statistics https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2009/223/oj

Data reported at least 3 data providers are considered as public. Data of less than 3 data providers can not be published. Confidential data are flagged and can only be published as an aggregate.

Some quantities on active substances might be missing as a result, that certain plant protection products is authorized as soil improvers not pesticides. Therefore the authorization holder not obliged to provide data on the marketed quantity of them.