Norvegian Food Safety Authority

National Registrations Department

Mattilsynet, region Stor-Oslo, avdeling nasjonale godkjenninger, felles postmottak, postboks 383, 2381 Brumunddal, Norway

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.

Forskrift om plantevernmidler (regulation on plant protection products)

https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2015-05-06-455?q=plantevernmidler

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

2015

All variables required under EU regulation are covered by national legislation

No divergance

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

2011-2019

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

See sub-concepts below.

Not applicable

Importers register the amount of importet plant protection products into a database.

Annually.

Amount of plant protection products imported is reported by the importers. All importers of plant protection products are obliged to report the amount of imported plant protection products to the Norwegian Food Safety Authority, so that the correct environmental fee can be calculated. These import data are also used for statistical purposes. The importers report the amount of imported plant protection products in october for products imported between january and september and in january for products imported between october and december each year. The imported amounts are reported directly into the Norwegian plant protection products database.

All importers of plant protection products must be registered and we check that all importers have submitted their reports. Also, the data is compared with data from previous years.

The data on imported amount of product is converted to imported amount of active substans. The amount of imported active substance is dividet into the categories fungicides, insecticides, herbicides and other. Also the amount used for seed treatment and non-professional use is calculated. all values are converted to kg/year.

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

All importers of plant protection products are obliged to report the amount of imported plant protection products to the Norwegian Food Safety Authority. The importers of plant protection products report the amount of imported products every year.

The amount of all plant protection porducts imported to Norway must be reported. The importers of plant protection products report the amount of imported products every year.

Governmental organisations need the sales data to se how the amount of plant protection products change over time, to see if the goals for plant protection products use is obtained.

There are no measures of user satisfaction. No user satisfaction surveys or other user consultation is performed.

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.

All importers must report the amounts of imported plant protection products. Thus all imported plant protection products are included in the statistics.

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 applicable

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 applicable for pesticide sales statistics as the data stem from one source.

Importers report the imported plant protection products directly into the database. Also the imported amounts must be checked annually by a revisor.

 Not applicable, because all importers are obliged by law to report the amount of imported plant protection product.

 Not applicable, because all importers are obliged by law to report the amount of imported plant protection product.

 Not applicable, because all importers are obliged by law to report the amount of imported plant protection product.

The input values are double checked by a revisor and all further processing is done by a computerprogram. 

0%

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.

The importers adjust their reported sales annually after having a revisor checking their sales and comparing this with the reported sales. If the importers report a misstake in the previously reported data this is corrected when the statistics are done for the following year. Other than this no revision policy exist.

The importers adjust their reported sales annually after having a revisor checking their sales and comparing this with the reported sales.

There are very few and only minor adjustments done after the original data is reported. The size of the adjustments are usually less than 10 L or kg of pestisides yearly.

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.

For the EU data collections we should deliver according to the deadlines in EU.

The e-mail with informaton on the reporting was missplaced and thus the reporting was forgotten. The reporting will in the future be put in the schedule even without the e-mail from eurostat.

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.

Import data has been reported since 1949 (annually since 1966). Until 1985 some active substances were grouped in chemical groups, but from 1986 there are reports on all individual active substances. Reports have been created annually since 2001 comparing the amount of active substanses imported with previous years. 

19 years

The data is not compared with data from other sources.

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

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

The data is compared with data from previous years

No news release

No online database

Not applicable

Requests should be made via an electronic email to postmottak@mattilsynet.no. Everyone can make this request.

No other dissemination format

No documentation on methodology

No documentation on quality management

Not requested.

Not requested.

As this is a obligatory collection of data, no analysis for cost has been made. The process is continually improved, to make the process as little time consuming as possible.

Confidentiality is regulated by the Norwegian act relating to the right of access to documents held by public authorities and public undertakings, Offentleglova https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2006-05-19-16 - available in norwegian only.

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