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1.1. Contact organisation | Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Organic Unit |
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1.5. Contact mail address | Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Johnstown Castle Estate Wexford Ireland |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 31/07/2023 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 31/07/2023 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 31/07/2023 |
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3.1. Data description | |||
The collected statistics for the country cover the following data:
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3.2. Classification system | |||
3.3. Coverage - sector | |||
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | |||
3.5. Statistical unit | |||
3.6. Statistical population | |||
3.7. Reference area | |||
Republic of Ireland |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | |||
Calendar year of 2022 |
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3.9. Base period | |||
Not applicable. |
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Calendar year 2022 |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
REGULATION (EU) 2017/625 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
Article 3
(5) ‘delegated body’ means a separate legal person to which the competent authorities have delegated certain official control tasks or certain tasks related to other official activities;
and
Article 27 states” the competent authority may delegate control tasks to a particular control body only if the conditions laid down in Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 are satisfied, and in particular where: (a) there is an accurate description of the tasks that the control body may carry out and of the conditions under which it may carry them out; (b) there is proof that the control body: (i) has the expertise, equipment and infrastructure required to carry out the tasks delegated to it; (iii) has a sufficient number of suitable qualified and experienced staff; and (iii) is impartial and free from any conflict of interest as regards the exercise of the tasks delegated to it; (c) the control body is accredited to the most recently notified version, by a publication in the C series of the Official Journal of the European Union, of European Standard EN 45011 or ISO Guide 65 (General requirements for bodies operating product certification systems), and is approved by the competent authorities; (d) the control body communicates the results of the controls carried out to the competent authority on a regular basis and whenever the competent authority so requests. If the results of the controls indicate non-compliance or point to the likelihood of non-compliance, the control body shall immediately inform the competent authority; (e) there is an effective coordination between the delegating competent authority and the control body. |
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
A Data Sharing agreement and Service level agreement are in place with both our Organic Control Bodies. |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
In accordance with Article 27 and 28 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 834/2007, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine has delegated control tasks to the Organic Control Bodies |
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
Not applicable |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
Data is publised by the Commission on the Eurostat webpage, however if a request is made to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine the data could be supplied.
Data will only be made available once the Commission has signed off same typically after the 30th of June of the following year.
No national release calendar is in place for organic production statistics. Information will be released on an adhoc basis where appropriate when it is requested |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
Not applicable |
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8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
Not applicable |
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Yearly |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
NA |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
Commission publishes statistics on the Eurostat Webpage, see below URL. Statistics are not published nationally, however information is available if requested. Annexes: Eurostat Webpage |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
There is no national online database |
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10.3.1. Data tables - consultations | |||
NA |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
Microdata is not disseminated |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
Commission publishes the data on Eurostat.
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, would disseminate data mostly through Parliamentary Questions, however most questions don't require the full set of data as an answer. |
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10.5.1. Metadata - consultations | |||
Once a year for Commision, Other queries throughout the year do not require the full set of data as an answer. |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
NA |
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10.6.1. Metadata completeness - rate | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
NA |
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11.1. Quality assurance | |||
Organic Control Bodies sign a Service Level Agreement in which they are required to be accredited to current ISO Standards (currently ISO 27001) A yearly audit is completed with each Organic Control Body, see below audit checklist
Annexes: Annual office checklist |
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
DAFM carry out an office audit on each approved OCB (annual inspection) as per commission regulation 2017/625 (Art 33) and Regulation 2018/848 (Art 40). During the annual inspection, the DAFM will verify the following: (a) the compliance with the control body’s standard control procedure as submitted by the control body to the competent authority in accordance with Article 40(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2018/848.; (b) that the control body has a sufficient number of suitably qualified, experienced and impartial staff, as well as the expertise, equipment and infrastructure required to perform official control tasks in accordance with Article 29(b) of Regulation (EC) No 2017/625 and that training concerning risks affecting the organic status of products has been implemented; (c) That the control body has and follows documented procedures and templates for: (i) The risk assessment procedure in accordance with Article 38 of Regulation (EC) No 2018/848 and Article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625. (ii) Preparing a risk-based sampling strategy, conducting sampling and laboratory analysis. (iii) Information exchange with other control bodies and with the competent authority. (iv) Initial, follow-up controls and effective monitoring of operators under their control; (v) The application and follow-up to the catalogue of measures to be applied in case of suspected or established non-compliance. (vi) Observing the requirements of the protection of personal data for the operators under its control as laid down by the Member States where that competent authority operates and in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC. (vii) That the Control Body works and is accredited in accordance with standard EN ISO/IEC 17020 ‘Requirements for the operation of various types of bodies performing inspection’ as required under Article 29 of Regulation (EC) No 2017/625 During this audit the inspector will randomly select several files for inspection. These files are checked to ensure the effectiveness of the OCB inspection. Any issue identified will be conveyed to the OCB for their appropriate attention. If a serious non-compliance is found that implicate the OCB, DAFM may suspend or withdraw the approval of the OCB, as provided for in Section 10 of the Service Agreements. The 2022 HQ audit finds that both OCB's operate to a satisfactory level as an approved OCB |
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
Commission uses the information to update Eurostat. Members of Parliament require certain aspects of the statistical information, depending on their speciality or area of concern. Memebers of the media have previously requested access to certain aspects of the statistcal informaiton again dependant on area of speciality. |
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
All feedback is welcome, however we do not send out offical surveys regarding statistics.
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12.3. Completeness | |||
All compulsory fields are completed |
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12.3.1. Data completeness - rate | |||
WE provide 100% of all information that is required within the Dataset |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
Transcribing error's - i.e data is correct however when being transcibed onto dataset a input error could be made by the organic control body. To reduce this bias we have instructed the organic control bodies to have a second check on the data returned to us. Department of Agriculture staff also compare data with the data provided under the same heading in the previous year. If there is a large difference we could ask the organic control bodies to reexamine the data provided. |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
NA |
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13.2.1. Sampling error - indicators | |||
NA |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
NA |
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13.3.1. Coverage error | |||
Na |
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13.3.1.1. Over-coverage - rate | |||
NA |
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13.3.1.2. Common units - proportion | |||
NA |
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13.3.2. Measurement error | |||
NA |
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13.3.3. Non response error | |||
NA |
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13.3.3.1. Unit non-response - rate | |||
NA |
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13.3.3.2. Item non-response - rate | |||
Na |
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13.3.4. Processing error | |||
Transcribing error's - i.e data is correct however when being transcibed onto dataset a input error could be made by the organic control body. To reduce this bias we have instructed the organic control bodies to have a second check on the data returned to us. Department of Agriculture staff also compare data with the data provided under the same heading in the previous year. If there is a large difference we could ask the organic control bodies to reexamine the data provided. |
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13.3.5. Model assumption error | |||
Not applicable. |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
See concepts below. |
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14.1.1. Time lag - first result | |||
6 months |
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14.1.2. Time lag - final result | |||
Normally 6 months but could be 7 months if queries arise |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
See concepts below. |
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14.2.1. Punctuality - delivery and publication | |||
Release is directed by the commission. The datasets are completed when required. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
Data is comparable |
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15.1.1. Asymmetry for mirror flow statistics - coefficient | |||
Not applicable. |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
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15.2.1. Length of comparable time series | |||
No break since 2009 for all of the below headings.
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
IFS data and annual crop statistics are sourced by using the same administrative sources as data for organic production statistics. |
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15.3.1. Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics | |||
Not applicable. |
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15.3.2. Coherence - National Accounts | |||
Not applicable. |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | |||
Statistics are consistent |
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One executive office salary .5 of a day per week over the year. We also require our Organic Control Bodies to provide some of the information, this is not within our remit and therefore we are unable to quantify same.
We are in the process of developing a new system, which should capiture the majority of information required for these returns. This will be used to help with the burden. |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
We do not make any alternation or amendments to data recieved from our Organic Control Bodies. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
We do not make any alternation or amendments to data recieved from our Organic Control Bodies. |
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17.2.1. Data revision - average size | |||
Not applicable. |
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18.1. Source data | |||
The data is complied by our Organic Control Bodies who collect the information. |
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
Annual |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
We use the Dataset provided by the commission. This is sent to the Organic Control Bodies for completion. Figures are compared to previous returns to ensure accuarcy. |
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18.4. Data validation | |||
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
We use the Dataset provided by the commission. This is sent to the Organic Control Bodies for completion. Figures are compared to previous returns to ensure accuarcy. |
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18.5.1. Imputation - rate | |||
No substitute values are used |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
NA |
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18.6.1. Seasonal adjustment | |||
Not applicable. |
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