Form approved by Order No DĮ-201 of 6 November 2012 of the Director General of Statistics Lithuania
STATISTICAL QUESTIONNAIRE ON NON-AGRICULTURAL USE OF PLANT PROTECTION PRODUCTS IN 2012 NAU-01 (ONE-OFF) ______No ___ (Date of filling in) Interviews conducted by the specialists of the State Plant Service under the Ministry of Agriculture Interviewer’s code To be filled in: in March–May 2013.
Farm identification code To be interviewed: agricultural companies, Name enterprises, organisations, farmers’ and family farms using plant protection products for non-agricultural Surname purposes. Enterprise code in the register Before filling in the statistical questionnaire, please Main activity code (EVRK Rev. 2) read the instructions (see Annex 2). Enterprise name
Data confidentiality guaranteed. Municipality Ward Locality
Address Street
House Apart Please indicate data accurate to one decimal No ment place. No Phone No The form is available at http://www.stat.gov.lt
I. GENERAL INFORMATION (mark the answer with )
1. Did you use plant protection products 2. Did you use: (hereinafter referred to as “Products”) for non- Products for professional use agricultural purposes? (please indicate the specific area(s) of use): No (the questionnaire is not filled in) ______the enterprise workers Yes, work was done by Products for non-professional use Yes, the service was purchased from another (please indicate the specific area(s) of use): enterprise ______Please indicate: 3. Were meteorological conditions favourable for Enterprise code ______the proliferation of pests, diseases, weeds, etc.? Very favourable Enterprise name ______Moderately favourable 2
Unfavourable Did not use 4. Had you used Products for non-agricultural 7. General information on the user of Products purposes in the previous years (in 2011 and (mark all suitable answers): earlier)? The person responsible for the spraying of No (go to Question 6) Products has a certificate on the completion of Yes plant protection courses Product use records are kept ( please use the records when filling in the questionnaire) 5. What amount of Products was consumed, compared to the average consumption in the The equipment used for spraying (sprayers) previous year? has been checked – there is a valid certificate Smaller 8. What spraying equipment (sprayers) is used most often? The same Bigger Manual (hand- and back-held) 6. When spraying Products, did you use their Self-propelled mixes (i.e. when two or more mixed Products are Connected to vehicles (tractors etc.) sprayed simultaneously) and how often? Installed in trains, aircraft, etc. Often Other Rarely
II. TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Data on Product use for non-agricultural purposes in 2012 For commercial purposes For non-commercial purposes
Product use Precise name of the Area treated Amount of the Product Purpose of Product use date Product with the consumed application area Product (ha) (against which Norm Amount main pests, (kg, l) (kg, l/ha; kg, diseases or l/t) weeds) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 3
Comments
Please indicate how long it took you to prepare statistical data and fill in the hr min. questionnaire
Thank you for participation in the statistical survey.
Enterprise manager, farmer, owner or authorised person (Signature) (Name, surname)
(Name and surname of the person who filled in the questionnaire) (Phone No) (Email)
Contact: Darius Baškys, tel. (8 5) 273 1459, 8 679 57 996, fax (8 5) 275 2128, email [email protected] Statistical questionnaire on non-agricultural use of plant protection products in 2012 NAU-01 (one-off) Annex 1
INFORMATION ABOUT THE STATISTICAL SURVEY ON NON-AGRICULTURAL USE OF PLANT PROTECTION PRODUCTS IN 2012 (STATISTICAL QUESTIONNAIRE NAU-01 (ONE-OFF))
Law on Statistics of the Republic of Lithuania (Official Gazette, 1993, No 54-1048; LEGAL BASIS FOR THE 1999, No 114-3299); STATISTICAL SURVEY Regulation (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, 2009, p. 164). Agreement No 40701.2011.003.2011.556/STAT-129 (2011) of 27 December 2011 on the pilot project on estimating non-agricultural use of pesticides between the European Commission, represented by the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat), and Statistics Lithuania.
TYPE, COVERAGE AND A statistical exhaustive survey on enterprises and a statistical sample survey on OBJECTIVE OF THE farmers’ and family farms. STATISTICAL SURVEY The questionnaire is filled in by enterprises and farmers’ and family farms using plant protection products (hereinafter referred to as “Products”) for non-agricultural purposes. Survey period – calendar year. Objective of the statistical survey – to find out what and how many Products were used for non-agricultural purposes and what was the scope (areas) of their use. TIME AND PLACE OF Statistical information and a project report are submitted to Eurostat. THE PUBLICATION OF STATISTICAL INFORMATION OBLIGATION TO SUBMIT Article 14(2) of the Law on Statistics of the Republic of Lithuania establishes that legal STATISTICAL DATA persons and enterprises, agencies and organisations having no legal personality must provide statistical data free of charge for the implementation of the Official Statistics Work Programme.
Article 14(3) of the Law on Statistics of the Republic of Lithuania establishes that natural persons must provide data where this is provided for by laws or the Official Statistics Work Programme. STATISTICAL DATA Article 15(2) of the Law on Statistics of the Republic of Lithuania establishes that CONFIDENTIALITY where the respondent about whom or whose activity results primary statistical data have been collected may be directly or indirectly identified on the basis of official statistical data, such official statistical data shall be confidential and protected in the manner prescribed by laws. BREACH OF THE Article 17 of the Law on Statistics of the Republic of Lithuania establishes that natural STATISTICAL DATA persons, heads of enterprises, agencies or organisations and other persons PROVISION PROCEDURE responsible for the preparation and provision of official statistical data who have violated the requirements of this Law and other legal acts relating to statistics shall be held liable in accordance with the procedure set forth by laws of the Republic of Lithuania.
Article 1732 of the Code of Administrative Violations of the Republic of Lithuania (Official Gazette, 1992, No 21-610; 2000, No 54-1557) establishes the following:
The non-submission of statistical data according to an established procedure to 5 institutions and agencies managing official statistics, or the submission of false statistical data to such institutions and agencies, shall incur penalty in the amount from LTL 500 to 1000.
The same activity undertaken by a person who has already been imposed an administrative punishment for the violations established in par. 1 of this article incurs penalty in the amount from LTL 3000 to 6000. The non-submission of documents verifying the statistical data submitted to the civil servants of institutions and agencies managing official statistics or the concealment of such documents, as well as the non-fulfilment of the legal requirements of such civil servants, incurs penalty for officials in the amount from LTL 500 to 1000. 6
Statistical questionnaire on non-agricultural use of plant protection products in 2012 NAU-01 (one-off) Annex 2
INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO FILL IN THE STATISTICAL QUESTIONNAIRE ON NON-AGRICULTURAL USE OF PLANT PROTECTION PRODUCTS IN 2012 NAU-01 (ONE-OFF)
1. The statistical questionnaire on non-agricultural use of plant protection products in 2012 NAU-01 (one-off) (hereinafter referred to as “Questionnaire”) shall be filled in by enterprises, institutions, organisations, agricultural companies and sampled farmers’ and family farms up to 1 ha using plant protection products (hereinafter referred to as “Products”) for non-agricultural purposes. 2. Main activity refers to the activity from which the respondent receives the largest income or which takes the major part of respondent’s working time. 3. Non-agricultural use of Products refers to cases when Products are used in growing forest and ornamental plants (trees, bushes, flowers, etc.), in residential and commercial, sports, recreational, research (education), health care and improvement and other private and public areas, railway, road, air- and seaport, electricity, gas and other infrastructure areas, and on sampled farmers’ and family farms up to 1 ha. 4. Areas of non-agricultural use of Products: 4.1 – forestry (growing of firewood or construction timber); 4.2 – growing of ornamental plants (trees, bushes, flowers, etc.); 4.3 – maintenance of areas built up with residential buildings (environmental management and landscaping); 4.4 – maintenance of areas built up with commercial buildings (offices, factories, shops, etc.) (environmental management and landscaping); 4.5 – maintenance of sampled farmers’ and family farms up to 1 ha (gardens, kitchen gardens, greenhouses, areas under ornamental plants, etc.); 4.6 – maintenance of sports areas (stadiums, golf courses, etc.); 4.7 – maintenance of recreational areas (parks, botanical gardens, etc.); 4.8 – maintenance of areas built up with research (education) institutions; 4.9 – maintenance of areas built up with health care and improvement establishments; 4.10 – maintenance of areas built up with railway, road, air- and seaport, electricity, gas and other infrastructure; 4.11 – other (if this answer is marked, the area that has not been mentioned must be indicated). 5. Product use for commercial purposes refers to the use of Products by legal persons (enterprises, institutions, organisations, agricultural companies) aiming to benefit from it financially or in another way (i.e. by growing forest and ornamental plants (trees, bushes, flowers, etc.)). Product use for non-commercial purposes refers to the use of Products by natural persons (farmers’ and family farms up to 1 ha) the purpose of which is other than the production of commodities for sale. 6. Amount of the Product consumed refers to the amount of the product or the sum of the amounts of several products. 6.1. Norm refers to the recommended amount of the Product per 1 ha of the area to be treated. 6.2. Amount refers to the amount of the Product actually consumed in the area treated. 7. Area treated with the Product refers to the area where Products were used one or more times in the same calendar year. 8. Spraying equipment (sprayer) refers to a machine or device with a working width of more than 3 m for professional use used to spray Product solutions onto fields and/or plants. Sprayers may be self- propelled, attached to vehicles (tractors etc.), including those used with sowing machines, installed in trains and aircraft.