Croatian Bureau of Statistics

Branimirova 19-21, Zagreb, Croatia

Spatial Statistics Directorate

Agricultural Production and Structural Statistics Department

Crop Production Statistics, Agricultural Structural Statistics and Register of Agricultural Holdings Unit

Branimirova 19-21, Zagreb, Croatia

Cvjeticanin Predrag, cvjeticaninp@dzs.hr

Miljan Natasa, miljann@dzs.hr

The collected statistics for the country cover the following data:

• Certified registered organic operators (referring to their main or secondary activity) (expressed in number of operators)
• Certified registered organic processors who manufacture organic products (as their main or secondary activity) (expressed in number of processors)
• Certified organic crop area (under conversion and fully converted) (expressed in hectares)
• Certified organic crop production from fully converted area (expressed in 1 000 kg)
• Certified organic livestock (expressed in heads of live animals)
• Production of certified organic products of animal origin (expressed in 1 000 kg of carcass weight and in thousand eggs)
• Production of certified organic milk products (Produced on farms or Processed on farms or by dairy enterprises) and Honey and products of bee-keeping (expressed in 1 000 kg of products obtained)
• Certified organic aquaculture sold by producers (expressed in 1 000 kg live weight)

See ESS Agreement on Organic Production Statistics

See Organic farming Metadata

See Organic farming Metadata

See Organic farming Metadata

See Organic farming Metadata

Republic of Croatia

2013 onwards

Not applicable.

• Certified registered organic operators (referring to their main or secondary activity) (expressed in number of operators)
• Certified registered organic processors who manufacture organic products (as their main or secondary activity) (expressed in number of processors)
• Certified organic crop area (under conversion and fully converted) (expressed in hectares)
• Certified organic crop production from fully converted area (expressed in 1 000 kg)
• Certified organic livestock (expressed in heads of live animals)
• Production of certified organic products of animal origin (expressed in 1 000 kg of carcass weight and in thousand eggs)
• Production of certified organic milk products (Produced on farms or Processed on farms or by dairy enterprises) and Honey and products of bee-keeping (expressed in 1 000 kg of products obtained)
• Certified organic aquaculture sold by producers (expressed in 1 000 kg live weight)

Calendar year

REGULATION (EU) 2018/848 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 30 May 2018 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 

Ordinance on the control system of ecological agriculture, Official Gazette No. 110/2022

Low on agriculture, Official Gazette No. 118/18

Data on organic agriculture are submitted to the Croatian Bureau of Statistics by control bodies under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Ordinance on the method of protection of statistical data, Class: 950-01/04-01/16, Registration number: 555-11-01-04-1, dated July 2, 2004.

Ordinance on access to confidential statistical data Notification, XXXVII no. 4 of July 18, 2013.

Ordinance on the conditions and manner of using confidential statistical data for scientific purposes, NN, no. 137/13.

Aggregated data for which there are reasons for confidentiality (due to a small number of units, rules of dominance or secondary confidentiality), in accordance with the Law on Official Statistics (Official Gazette, No. 25/20) and the Ordinance on the Method of Protection of Statistical Data of the State Bureau of Statistics, are treated and considered as confidential and  therefore not published.

The realase calendar provides an overview of the publications planned for the current year and until the end of May for the next year, depending on the completion of the processing of a particular statistical survey and the possibility of creating a particular type of publication. 
The calendar is publicly available.

https://podaci.dzs.hr/hr/

Data are published according to a predefined calendar and are available at the same time to all users on the Croatian Bureu of Statistics website.

Državni zavod za statistiku - Naslovna (gov.hr)

The data is published once a year and has been available on the Croatian Bureau of statistics website since June 30.

Data are published according to a realase calendar and are available at the same time to all users on the CBS website. 
The data is not published through a press release, but only through the PC-Axis database on the CBS website.
 Also, the data are available in the Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Croatia

Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Croatia.

The data is not published through a press release, but only through the PC-Axis database on the CBS website.
PX-Web - Odaberi tablicu (dzs.hr)

PX-Web - Odaberi tablicu (dzs.hr)

Not applicable.

The conditions under which certain users can have access to microdata are prescribed by the Ordinance on the conditions and manner of using confidential statistical data for scientific purposes.

Internal users: National accounts

External users: Eurostat, Ministry of Agriculture

Not applicable.

DRŽAVNI ZAVOD ZA STATISTIKU - REPUBLIKA HRVATSKA (dzs.hr)

Not applicable.

The data on quality are stored in database of quality information (DBQI), and the reports on quality are prepared on the bases of this information and will gradually be available on CBS Internet site.

The main tool for the systematic quality assessment and quality management is the database on quality information (DBBQI). The DBQI has in first stage the Basic analytical tool for comparative analyses of quality indicators and later will contain Advanced analytical tool for comparative analyses of quality indicators.

Not applicable

Targeted measurement of user satisfaction is not carried out.

Internal users are generally satisfied with the quality of the data.

No external user satisfaction feedback.

Targeted measurement of user satisfaction is not carried out.

Internal users are generally satisfied with the quality of the data.

No external user satisfaction feedback.

The data is sent in full compliance with the applicable European Commission Regulations.

According to Commission Regulation (EC) no. 2018/848, Member States submit to the Commission by June 30  of each year, data on organic production through a computer system that enables the electronic exchange of documents and data that the Commission (General Directorate for Agriculture and Rural Development) makes available for information, except for statistical purposes .

Not applicable.

Possible entry and calculation errors are controlled and corrected through the LRK.

Total sums are controlled with the sum of individual categories of crops, permanent crops, vegetables, livestock and poultry, as well as the logic of the average values ​​of livestock production.

The data cover all different types of operators involved in the organic sector (production, transformation, import, others.

Sampling error is not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

The entire population is covered, and it consists of entities registered as organic farmers.

Not applicable.

The data is administrative, no additional research is conducted.

Possible entry and calculation errors are controlled and corrected through the LRK.

Total sums are controlled with the sum of individual categories of crops, permanent crops, vegetables, livestock and poultry, as well as the logic of the average values ​​of livestock production.

Errors of non-response do not occur.

All statistical units responded to the questionnaire, or reported data.

All units participated and provided the requested data.

Possible entry and calculation errors are controlled and corrected through the LRK.

Total sums are controlled with the sum of individual categories of crops, permanent crops, vegetables, livestock and poultry, as well as the logic of the average values ​​of livestock production.

Not applicable.

See concepts below.

 Availability of data: 90 days for publication of final data from the date of availability.

 Availability of data: 90 days for publication of final data from the date of availability.

See concepts below.

Everything was published on time.

 Data are comparable at the NUTS 1 level for all variables. Area of ​​organic agricultural land by category in hectares HR NUTS 3 level.

Number of ecologically raised livestock by species, HR NUTS 3 level.

Not applicable.

Data series available since 2014.

There were no breaks in the time series.

The organic farming data is largely comparable to the Paying Agency for Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development  data used as a control when creating the final data.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

The data is administrative, so there are no costs.

Survey does not disseminate preliminary results and that's the reason why the regular data revision does not exist

Survey does not disseminate preliminary results and that's the reason why the regular data revision does not exist

Not applicable.

The data is administrative.

 Frequency of data collection is annually.

The data is collected by the Control Bodies that supervise registered organic entities.

The CBS sends the authorized Control Bodies a questionnaire in Excel, which after filling out is returned to the CBS for processing. The questionnaire consists of 18 separate tables, for each county separately, which include data on: type of registered activity of subjects (producer, processor, importer, exporter...), crops, vegetables, permanent plantations, livestock, certified products.

Comparison with previous time periods and data from Agency for Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development.

Imputation is not carried out because all entities that have registered any form of organic agriculture are included.

Imputation is not carried out because all entities that have registered any form of organic agriculture are included.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

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