Activities of Benoît BITEAU related to 2021/0031(COD)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards regional economic accounts for agriculture
Amendments (3)
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and the Council17 sets up the economic accounts for agriculture (EAA) in the Union by providing for the methodology and the time limits for the transmission of the agricultural accounts. The economic accounts for agriculture are satellite accounts of national accounts, as defined by ESA 2010, with the purpose of obtaining results that are harmonised and comparable between the Member States in order to draw up the accounts for the purposes of the Union. In 2016, the European Court of Auditors published a special report on the Commission’s system for performance measurement in relation to farmers’ incomes. That report includes sound and relevant observations and recommendations regarding the economic accounts for agriculture and Regulation (EC) No 138/2004. _________________ 17Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 December 2003 on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community (OJ L 33, 5.2.2004, p. 1).
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Statistics are no longer considered to be just one among many sources of information for policymaking purposes but instead play a central role in the decision- making process. Evidence-based decision- making requires statistics that meet high- quality criteria, as set out in Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council18 , in accordance with the purposes they are serving. High-quality statistical data are a central tool for monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the CAP and the fulfilment of its specific objectives. The regional economic accounts for agriculture are also crucial for assessing accurately the contribution of the agricultural sector to the achievement of the European Green Deal, in particular the Farm to Fork Strategy. _________________ 18Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics and repealing Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1101/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities, Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on Community Statistics, and Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom establishing a Committee on the Statistical Programmes of the European Communities (OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p. 164).
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EC) No 138/2004
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3 a (new)
-1 Article 3a Dissemination of statistics 1.The data transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) in accordance with Article 3 shall be actively disseminated by the Commission (Eurostat) online, free of charge, excluding confidential data in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 read in conjunction with Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006. 2. The public shall be granted access to the data collected under this Regulation that have not been proactively published in application of paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 3, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001.