Organic farming (until 2015)

Statistics Estonia

Enterprise and Agricultural Statistics Department

Eve Valdvee

Leading Statistician-Methodologist

51 Tatari Str, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia

eve.valdvee [at] stat.ee

+372 625 9397

09/01/2015

09/01/2015

Organic utilised agricultural land, sown area of crops, fruit and berry plantations, number of livestock and poultry, production of field crops and livestock production in organic farming

Classification of Use of Agricultural Land

The data include all organic farmers.

Organic farming agricultural area – area under conversion period and fully converted to organic farming.

Conversion period – the period between the start of organic management and certification of crops and/or animal husbandry. Organic farming rules have to be applied but products cannot be marked as organic. After the conversion period starts fully converted period when products can be marked as organic.

Organic production – production from the fully converted areas and livestock.

Organic farmer

Organic farmers

FRAME

Organic farming register

Estonia as a whole

2013–...

Not applicable.

Agricultural land – ha

Livestock and poultry – heads

Colonies of bees – number

Production of field crops and livestock – ton

Milk – thousand liters

Year

DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACT

Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 of 28 June 2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91

Commission Regulation (EC) No 889/2008 of 5 September 2008 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products with regard to organic production, labelling and control

OTHER AGREEMENTS

Not available.

The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 34 and § 35 of the Official Statistics Act.

The treatment of confidential data is regulated by the Procedure for Protection of Data Collected and Processed by Statistics Estonia: http://www.stat.ee/dokumendid/19410.

Notifications about the dissemination of statistics are published in the release calendar, which is available on the website. On 1 October each year, the release times of the Statistical Database, news releases, main indicators by IMF SDDS and publications are announced in the release calendar (in case of publications – the release month).

http://www.stat.ee/release-calendar

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Year

Not published.

Not published.

Data are published under the heading „Economy/ Agriculture” in the Statistical Database in http://pub.stat.ee.

Not applicable.

Not published.

Data collection on organic farming statistics. Guidelines. Methodological notes

The description of the methodology is published in conjunction with the data in the Statistical Database.

To assure the quality of processes and products, Statistics Estonia applies the EFQM Excellence Model, EU Statistics Code of Practice and the ESS Quality Assurance Framework (QAF). Statistics Estonia is also guided by the requirements provided for in § 7. „Principles and quality criteria of producing official statistics” of the Official Statistics Act.

Statistics Estonia performs all statistical activities according to an international model (Generic Statistical Business Process Model – GSBPM). According to the GSBPM, the final phase of statistical activities is overall evaluation using information gathered in each phase or sub-process (this information includes, among other things, feedback from users, process metadata, system metrics and suggestions from employees). This information is used to prepare the evaluation report which outlines all the quality problems related to the specific statistical activity and serves as input for improvement actions.

Ministry of Agriculture

Agricultural Board

Users’ suggestions and information about taking them into account are available on the SE website http://www.stat.ee/tooplaan.

Since 1996 Statistics Estonia conducts reputation surveys and user surveys.

All results are available on the website http://www.stat.ee/user-surveys.

Data are complete and in compliance with the rules (regulations).

Data accuracy is guaranteed by the holder of the register of organic farming.

Not applicable.

Data accuracy is guaranteed by the holder of the register of organic farming.

The data are released 226 days upon the end of the reference year (T+226).

The data have been published at the time announced in the release calender.

The data are comparable with the data of other European Union Member States.

The data are comparable across the whole time series.

Data are closely related to other agricultural statistics.

The outputs of the statistical activity are coherent.

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The data revision policy and notification of corrections are described in the dissemination policy of Statistics Estonia http://www.stat.ee/dissemination-policy.

The published data may be revised if the methodology is modified, if errors are discovered, if new or better data become available.

SURVEY DATA

Not used.

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

Aggregate data on organic farming are received from the Organic Farming Register of the Agricultural Board.

DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES

Not used.

Year

Data are received in Excel format.

The data are compared with the data from previous periods.

The indicators to be published are calculated on the basis of the data collected by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Agricultural Board.

Not applicable.

Not available.