Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia

Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting Statistics

Litostrojska cesta 54, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Data are conformed to the requirements of the REGULATION (EC) No 1185/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 25 November 2009 concerning statistics on pesticides

According to the article 16 of Plant Protection Products Act (ZFfS-1) pesticides products sold in wholesale on the domestic market are yearly reported to the Administration for Food Safety, Veterinary Sector and Plant Protection (UVHVVR). There quantities of active substances are calculated according to their shares in the products sold. The same article regulates the use of those data at the Statistical office of the Republic of Slovenia (SURS) to produce official statistics.  

Before 2011 data were taken over but published only aggregated at the level of major groups based on custom declaration (slight differences in classification).

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.

Plant Protection Products Act,

Decree on the implementation of Regulations (EC) and (EU) on placing plant protection products on the market

Annual Programme of Statistical Surveys for 2019 (valid from 1 January to 31 December 2019)

Plant Protection Products Act: http://pisrs.si/Pis.web/pregledPredpisa?id=ZAKO6355#FFS

Decree on the implementation of Regulations (EC) and (EU) on placing plant protection products on the market: http://www.pisrs.si/Pis.web/pregledPredpisa?id=URED6841#FFS

Annual Programme of Statistical Surveys for 2019; http://www.pisrs.si/Pis.web/pregledPredpisa?id=DRUG4559

UVHVVR (Administration for Food Safety, Veterinary Sector and Plant Protection): 

• Plant Protection Products Act: http://pisrs.si/Pis.web/pregledPredpisa?id=ZAKO6355#FFS
• Decree on the implementation of Regulations (EC) and (EU) on placing plant protection products on the market: http://www.pisrs.si/Pis.web/pregledPredpisa?id=URED6841#FFS

SURS(Statistical office of Slovenia):

• Annual Programme of Statistical Surveys for 2019; http://www.pisrs.si/Pis.web/pregledPredpisa?id=DRUG4559

Plant Protection Products Act: 2012

Decree on the implementation of Regulations (EC) and (EU) on placing plant protection products on the market: 2015

All variables covered.

None

The data are expressed in kilograms of active substances.

Annex III in the REGULATION (EC) No 1185/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 25 November 2009 concerning statistics on pesticides; CELEX number 32009R1185 with the list of active substances, chemical classes, categories of products and major groups is used.

 All active substances in pesticides sold in wholesale in Slovenia. Active substances in pesticides sold according to the the permits of plant protection products use in emergency situations are taken into account.

Sources and methods of data collection

The source of data are the administrative records on the plant protection products market of the Administration for Food Safety, Veterinary Sector and Plant Protection (UVHVVR). The UVHVVR provides to SURS data at the level of individual active substance in the frame of the survey Pesticide sale.

Definitions

The Regulation 1185/2009 deals with the pesticides which are plant protection products; however, it is expected that biocide products will become part of this regulation once the first evaluation of active substances in biocide products is available.

 Active substance is a substance in the plant protection product which is biologically active and serves to achieve the intention, while non-active substances help to formulate the plant protection product.

 Fungicides are products for the extermination of fungi provoking vegetal diseases, including bactericides for extermination of microbes.

 Herbicides are products for the extermination of weeds or undesirable plants in general.

 Insecticides are products for the extermination of insects, including acaricides for the extermination of mites.

 Molluscicides are products for the extermination of snails.

 Plant growth regulators are natural or synthetic chemicals that are sprayed or otherwise applied to a seed or plant in order to alter its characteristics.

 Other plant protection products include mineral and vegetal oils, soil sterilants, rodenticides for the extermination of rodents, disinfectants and all other plant protection products.

Active substance in pesticides sold in wholesale in Slovenia (including those sold according to the permits of plant protection products use in  emergency cases).

Active substance in pesticides sold in wholesale in Slovenia (including those sold according to the permits of plant protection products use in  emergency cases).

See sub-concepts below (2.7.1.).

The entire territory of the country.

Not applicable

2011-2019

Not applicable

Administrative data of the Administration for Food Safety, Veterinary Sector and Plant Protection are taken-over.

Not applicable

Data is collected from a single administrative source (UVHVVR).

UVHVVR collects this data according to Plant Protection Products Act (ZFfS-1) for purposes of monitoring wholesale quantities of active substances in plant protection products.

Data is reported by wholesale companies to UVHVVR and contains quantites (kg) of plant protection products sold to retailers within annual timeframe as main variables.   

yearly

Acquisition of data is done by UVHVVR by means of gathering sale reports of PPP (Plant protection products) sold from wholesalers. Data is then recalculated to show only the quantity of active substance. 

Wholesalers face €1500 - €5000 fine if they fail to report their data upon request.

Deadline for reports for previous reference year is 31 March.

Data are compared to the data of the previous year.

No additional operations are needed. All calculations are performed by UVHVVR.

UVHVVR extracts quantities of active substances from wholesalers reports and sorts them into chemical classes.

Few active substances are derived  from chemical compounds reported using coefficients to adjust the weight.

Data quality is provided by the administrative data owner and manager (Administration for Food Safety, Veterinary Sector and Plant Protection, UVHVVR), including also inspection service.

Data quality is provided by the administrative data owner and manager (Administration for Food Safety, Veterinary Sector and Plant Protection, UVHVVR), including also inspection service.

Data give a total coverage of what is sold in wholesale in SI in the related year (pesticides sold according to the  permits of plant protection products use in emergency situations are included). However, quantities that individual farmers bought abroad are not taken into account. The week point is that these data can not be disaggregated to lower territorial units as they don't allow any conclusion on where the retail and actual use occurs.

In general data on the amount of active substances sold are used for various analysis. Most often they are used as a proxi of active substances used in agriculture, like the European Environment Information and Observation Network (EIONET) indicator: Consuption of pesticides (http://kazalci.arso.gov.si/en/content/consumption-pesticides-2).

 Users of the pesticides statistic data are:

• internal statistical office users, specifically agricultural accounts, agricultural input price statistics;
• national government – Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food (Administration of the Republic of Slovenia for Food Safety, Veterinary Sector and Plant Protection), Ministry of Helth, Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning (Envirnonmental Agency);
• academia – universities, colleges, schools, research institutes, etc;
• media – newspapers, radio and TV stations, magazines, etc;
• general public;
• international organisations – FAO.

 Data collected are conform to all demands of the REGULATION (EC) No 1185/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 25 November 2009 concerning statistics on pesticides regarding pesticides sale and are published on the level of chemical classes.  Users on the other hand demand for:

-  spatial breakdown of data; data on pesticide sale are based on administrative data of  the Administration of the Republic of Slovenia for Food Safety, Veterinary Sector and Plant Protection upon the wholesale, so the precise location of sale to the final user can not be defined

- hierarchical breakdown, i.e data on the level of active substances; according to the ECONOMIC INTEREST ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS, DISTRIBUTORS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF PHYTOSFARMING MEANS, these data could be published with a 3 years delay, but not before the National Statistical Officie defines  the similar strategy for all protected data in all surveys.

In general data on the amount of active substances sold are used for various analysis. Most often they are used as a proxi of active substances used in agriculture. According to the  REGULATION (EC) No 1185/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 25 November 2009 concerning statistics on pesticides , Slovenia has 2 sets of data on pesticides use in agriculture (2014 and 2017) and they are published on the level of active substances. Still users relay on sale data because they are yearly data. 

No measures in place for this domain.

All variables foreseen by the Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 are covered.

100%

Exact value is guaranted by the obligation to report any sale in the country to the Administration for Food Safety, Veterinary Sector and Plant Protection.

Published data are final.

Data source is an administrative database - a good accuracy is expected. There is no other similar figure to compare with.

not relevant  (administrative database, full coverage)

not relevant  (administrative database, full coverage)

Administrative database - a full data check is expected.

No coverage error.

no over-coverage

no survey; only administrative data are used

Data are collected in a digital form from all authorisation holders.

Authorisation holders provide yearly the Administration for Food Safety, Veterinary Sector and Plant Protection with all data relating to the volume of sales of plant protection products. A check on the completness of authorisation holders is done.

All autorisation holders have to provide yearly data on sale, those situated abroad are included. A completness check is done and the non responders are requested to report.

There is no way to check if all sold products are reported. However all big discrepancies with the data reported a year before are checked with the reporting unit.

Administrative data base contains codes from the classification in the annex of the Regulation 269/2017 therefore no processing error occurs.

There is no imputation done.

Not applicable.

not applicable

Data are published as final. If any later correction occurs, the revised data in SI-STAT database  are notified in footnotes together with the previous figure. The revision of data is notified to users in a form of web notice.

In 2013 there was a revision of data for 1999, 2002, 2003 and 2004 in SI-STAT database due to changes in the administrative data source.

Slovenia does not have general revision policy on this data.

In SI-STAT database the revised data are notified together with the previous data in footnotes. The revision of data is notified to users in a form of web notice.

Revisions in data for 1999 and 2002 were in range of 1% and in range of 2% for data 2004. For 2003 data the averall revision was 26% (herbicides  14%, fungicides 91%, insecticides 9%  and  11%  for other pesticides).

Timeliness for yearly data is +9months (between the reference period and the publication). There are no delays on punctuality - data are on www.stat.si according to the list of publications announced in advance for the whole year.

List of publiactions is available on stat.si

+ 9months (between the end of reference period and the publication).

+ 9months (between the end of reference period and the publication).

+ 9months (between the end of reference period and the publication).

No delays

No delays

Data are on www.stat.si according to the list of publications announced in advance for the whole year. 

None

Unknown.

not known

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In Industrial production and sold production statistics the figures of sale of pesticides on level 2 (categories of products) show the quantity of domestic production sold either in SI or abroad and can therefore not be compared to the figures of pesticides sale in SI meaning pesticides sold in SI no matter of their origin.

only data on annual level are available

National Accounts take into account pesticides but are not represented separately in any figure.

No internal coherence.

A thousand tons of active substances in plant protection products sold in Slovenia in 2019

https://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/9050, available in Slovenian and English.

none

Data on pesticides sold by chemical class are published on the data portal →Environmental and natural resources→Agriculture, forestry and fishing →Production methods in agriculture →Pesticide sale (Data available for 2016-2020): https://pxweb.stat.si/SiStatData/pxweb/en/Data/-/1517200S.px/

not known

We consider as microdata figures on quantity of active substances sold in a reference year - they are not published but available on request.

Data inquiry website: https://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/Home/Contact

none

Methodological document can be found on the website  fo the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia: https://www.stat.si/statweb/File/DocSysFile/8055/15-305-ME.pdf

available only on Eurostat

100%

not known

Respondents are bound to send data on sale yearly to the Administration for Food Safety, Veterinary Sector and Plant Protection acconding to the article 67 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 - the same data are used for statistical puroposes. The production of pesticides sales statistics at the Statistical office of the Republic of Slovenia is estimated as 0,25man/year.

As Eurostat according to the REGULATION (EC) No 1185/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 25 November 2009 concerning statistics on pesticides; CELEX number 32009R1185 can not publish data on the level of active substances these data are not flagged as confidential. In case of data demand by other users SURS will have to consider each demand separately.

No data treatment is needed.

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