Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia

Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting Statistics

Litostrojska cesta 54, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

See sub-categories below.

The Plant Protection Products Act (national act) defines in Article 19 that all users of plant protection products which are sold in specialised shops are obliged to keep records of their use. The same article states that those records should be sent to the UVHVVR by request and can be delivered to SURS for statistical purposes.

Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 concerning statistics on pesticides requires from MS statistical data of the plant protection products consumed in agriculture once in a 5 year period. Second data set for Slovenia refer to the reference year 2017 (for the growing season Autumn 2016 - Autumn 2017). They are calculated from the sample of 7500 agricultural holding.

Reference year 2017 (for the growing season Autumn 2016 - Autumn 2017).

The Plant Protection Products Act;

the national Statistics Act and the programmes of statistical surveys are the fundamental legal basis for the operation of the statistical system. There are two kinds of programmes; medium-term and annual. They determine the main tasks of the producers of national statistics - in an individual year or a medium-term period. Programmes are adopted according to the prescribed procedure and published in the Official Journal of the Republic of Slovenia.

The Plant Protection Products Act: https://www.uradni-list.si/glasilo-uradni-list-rs/vsebina/2012-01-3287?sop=2012-01-3287

The national Statistics Act (http://www.pisrs.si/Pis.web/pregledPredpisa?id=ZAKO424) and the annual programme of statistical surveys for 2017 (http://www.pisrs.si/Pis.web/pregledPredpisa?id=DRUG4295).

The Plant Protection Products Act - responsible institution is UVHVVR (Administration for Food Safety, Veterinary Sector and Plant Protection).

The national Statistics Act and annual programmes of statistical surveys - responsible institution is SURS (Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia).

The Plant Protection Products Act: entry into force in 2007 and 2012 (changes).

The national Statistics Act (entry into force in 1995, changes in 2001) and the annual programme of statistical surveys for 2017 (entry into force in 2016, changes in 2017).

Legal obligation for respondends:

The Plant Protection Products Act: the Article 19 of this Act provides:
(1) The user of PPPs for professional use must ensure the traceability of each PPP from the purchase to the use of PPPs by keeping data on the use of PPPs.
(2) For each treatment separately, it must keep data on the use of PPPs, which contain at least the data referred to in Article 67 of Regulation 1107/2009 / EC.
(3) Data on the use of PPPs must be kept by the user of PPPs for professional use for at least three years from the date of purchase of PPPs or treatment.
(4) The user of PPP for professional use must submit the data referred to in the second paragraph of this Article to the Administration at its request.
(5) The Administration shall forward the data referred to in the preceding paragraph to the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia if it needs them for the purpose of collecting and processing statistical data on the use of PPPs.
(6) The Minister shall prescribe the more detailed content and manner of keeping data on the use of PPPs referred to in the second paragraph of this Article and the manner of transmitting data referred to in the preceding paragraph.

The classification used for pesticides corresponds to Annex III of Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
The classification system for crops derives from the Annual crop statistics Handbook 2019.

Active substances in PPP used in agriculture in Slovenia in growing season 2017.

Pesticides used on seeds are not taken into account. The justification is in the Annex of the previous quality report from 2014 (see the attached file in the annexes: "AEI_PESTQRS_5_SI_2014_0000 Annex underestimation of data").

See the attached Excel file in the Annexes: "ESQRS_ANNEX_PESTUSE_2015-2019_SI.xlsx"

Not relevant in particular survey.

Sources and methods of data collection

The source of data are the administrative records on the use of plant protection products market.  The Plant Protection Products Act defines in Article 19 that all users of plant protection products which are sold in specialised shops are obliged to keep records of their use. The same article states that those records should be sent to the Administration of the Republic of Slovenia for safety food, veterinary medicine and plant protection by request and can be delivered to SURS for statistical purposes.

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.

Agricultural holdings

Active agricultural holdings in Slovenia in 2017

See sub-categories below.

NUTS0 - Slovenia

Not relevant.

2014 and 2017

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: "ESQRS_ANNEX_PESTUSE_2015-2019_SI.xlsx"

5 year period.

See the attached Excel file in the Annexes: "ESQRS_ANNEX_PESTUSE_2015-2019_SI.xlsx"

Logical controls and corrections have been done for the treated area reported in comparison to the data from the Statistical Agricultural Holdings Register.

Logical controls have been done for the plant protection products doses used in comparison to the recommended dose.

Imputations have been done for the missing data on area or quantity.

Editing have been done for ucertain names of plant protection products used and for extreme doses used.

Quantites of active substances are calculated from their share in plant protection products used.

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

See sub-categories below.

Quality is assured with visual and digital checking, comparisson with data on subsidies, individual and systematic corrections, imputations. For statistical editing of data after the first basic controls, we use the metaSOP standard editing program. This allows us to transparently and transparently edit and record metadata. Both individual and system corrections are used in SOP procedures.

Data are derived from a sample of 7500 agricultural holding.

An underestimation comes at least from:

1) it is expected that some agricultural holdings did not report on the use of pesticides before seeding

2) due to unavailability of the information on the pesticides used for seed treatment, that part of the consumption is not considered.

Data are relevant; due to heterogenity of agricultural praxes, data do not achieve a good accuracy for all different crops.

No measures in place for this domain.

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.

In addition to the high sampling error for some less used active substances, the biggest uncertainty is caused by the not detailed name of plant protection products used. Data on quantities of plant protection products consumed is a minor problem.

See the attached Excel file in the Annexes: "ESQRS_ANNEX_PESTUSE_2015-2019_SI.xlsx"

See sub-categories below.

See the attached Excel file in the Annexes: "ESQRS_ANNEX_PESTUSE_2015-2019_SI.xlsx"

See the attached Excel file in the Annexes: "ESQRS_ANNEX_PESTUSE_2015-2019_SI.xlsx"

See the attached Excel file in the Annexes: "ESQRS_ANNEX_PESTUSE_2015-2019_SI.xlsx"

See the attached Excel file in the Annexes: "ESQRS_ANNEX_PESTUSE_2015-2019_SI.xlsx"

none

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.

The methodological explanation on data revision is available on the website

https://www.stat.si/dokument/5299/RevisionOfStatisticalDataMEgeneral.pdf

Only final data for 2017 survey are available.

no revision

no revision

no revision

Timeliness +9 months. Punctuality is 0 days - data are on www.stat.si  according to the list of publications announced in advance for the whole year.

See sub-categories below.

+ 15 months (between the end of the reference period and the publication).

+ 15 months (between the end of the reference period and the publication).

Not relevant.

See sub-categories below.

0 days

No delays.

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.

Data can not be directly compared to any other statistics.

Data can only be indirectly compared to the amount of active substances sold. Pesticides sale is calculated on the base of calendar year, while consumption is calculated on the base of growing year. Moreover, parallel import occurs, which is not taken into account in pesticides sale statistics.

Not applicable for pesticide use statistics, because the data collection is based on a five-year period.

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

Data are consistent.

First release

https://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/8014

No publications

No paper publication.

Data available online: https://pxweb.stat.si/SiStat/en/Podrocja/Index/85/agriculture-forestry-and-fishery (sub-topic: use of pesticides).

not known

Data available online: https://pxweb.stat.si/SiStat/en/Podrocja/Index/85/agriculture-forestry-and-fishery (sub-topic: use of pesticides).

We consider as microdata figures on quantity of active substances consumed in a reference year. They are published in the online database (see also 9.3).

https://pxweb.stat.si/SiStat/en/Podrocja/Index/85/agriculture-forestry-and-fishery

none

Documentation on methodology includes both a quality report and methodological explanations to the published data.

https://www.stat.si/statweb/File/DocSysFile/8736 and https://www.stat.si/StatWeb/File/DocSysFile/10444/SPK_KME_PEST_R_2017.pdf

Methodological explanations http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/Common/PrikaziDokument.ashx?IdDatoteke=8736

national metadata available (https://www.stat.si/StatWeb/File/DocSysFile/10444/SPK_KME_PEST_R_2017.pdf) and this one sent to Eurostat

complete

no consultations

https://www.stat.si/StatWeb/File/DocSysFile/10444/SPK_KME_PEST_R_2017.pdf (only in slovene)

Cost and burden for reporting units: the Plant Protection Products Act defines in Article 19 that all users of plant protection products which are sold in specialised shops are obliged to keep records of their use. The same article states that those records should be sent to the UVHVVR by request.

Cost and burden for statistical office: cca 3800 hours of work of the staff were needed for the survey plus cca 1200 hours of students work for data input.

See sub-categories below.

Statistical confidentiality policy https://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/FundamentalPrinciples/StatConf

see 11.2.1

Primary data protection is done on the basis of number of reporting units.

Secondary data protection is done for non-disclosure due to aggregates on different levels and due to different tables published.

As data on active substances themself are computed from quantities of plant protection products consumed and as they refer mainly to groups of crops, no further data protection was considered necessary.

Pesticides used on seeds are not taken into account. The justification is in the Annex of the previous quality report from 2014 (see the attached file in the annexes: "AEI_PESTQRS_5_SI_2014_0000 Annex underestimation of data").