EUROPEAN COMMISSION EUROSTAT Directorate E: Sectoral and regional statistics Unit E-1: Agriculture and fisheries Luxembourg, 3 January 2017 ESTAT/E.1 CW/PM DOC. ANI/WG/2017/1/06 Annex DOC. ANI/REF/2017/M/MILK/1 Meeting of the Working Group on Animal Production Statistics 28 February-1 March 2017 ANNEX HANDBOOK ON STATISTICS OF MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS ITEM 6 ON THE AGENDA LIMITED Document available on Circabc: https://circabc.europa.eu/w/browse/70efa81c-dae2-4bfa-bd2b-e816934055f5 Table of contents 0. VERSIONNING OF THE DOCUMENT ................................................................... 5 0.1. Acknowlegments ............................................................................................... 5 0.2. Versioning of the document .............................................................................. 5 1. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................... 6 1.1. Background ........................................................................................................ 6 1.2. Structure of the handbook ................................................................................. 6 1.3. Purpose of statistics on milk and milk products ................................................ 7 1.4. Legal basis ......................................................................................................... 9 1.5. Implementation: minimum and extended requirements .................................. 10 1.6. The set of statistical tables ............................................................................... 10 1.7. Main material flows of milk and milk products .............................................. 11 2. STATISTICS ON AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS (TABLE C AND I) ................ 13 2.1. Survey on statistics on milk and milk products on agricultural holdings ........ 13 2.2. Contrasted relevance amongst EU areas ......................................................... 14 2.3. Adapted survey ................................................................................................ 15 2.4. Filling in Table C ............................................................................................. 15 2.5. Filling in Table I .............................................................................................. 15 3. THE STATISTICS ON DAIRY ENTERPRISES (TABLES A, B, D TO G AND H) ..................................................................................................................... 15 3.1. Definition of the dairy enterprises ................................................................... 15 3.2. Main concepts used for the statistics on dairy enterprises .............................. 16 3.2.1. Used milk ........................................................................................... 16 3.2.2. Measurement of used materials or of fat and proteins....................... 17 3.2.3. Measured phenomena ........................................................................ 18 3.2.4. Reporting for the national dairy......................................................... 21 3.2.5. The national dairy – internal flows .................................................... 22 3.3. Cows’ milk collection by the national dairy: Table A and Table B ................ 24 3.3.1. Legal requirements ............................................................................ 24 3.3.2. Limits in usability .............................................................................. 25 3.4. The balance sheet for the national dairy: Tables B and H ............................... 26 3.5. Availabilities .................................................................................................... 26 3.6. Utilisations of milk by the national dairy ........................................................ 27 3.6.1. Description ........................................................................................ 27 3.6.2. Statistical differences and losses ....................................................... 27 3.7. Coherence of Table B with other statistics ...................................................... 28 3.8. Filling in Table A ............................................................................................ 29 3.9. Filling in Table B and H .................................................................................. 29 3.10. The statistics on structure of dairy enterprises (tables D to G) ....................... 30 ANNEX I INVENTORY OF WORKING DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT ................................................................................... 31 ANNEX II POLICY NEEDS ............................................................................... 35 1. NEEDS SERVED BY THE EU STATISTICS ON MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS .............................................................................................................. 35 2. LIST AND DEFINITION OF MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS ............................. 37 2 2.1. Products and definitions .................................................................................. 37 3. QUALITY OF THE COLLECTED DATA .............................................................. 38 3.1. Coverage .......................................................................................................... 38 3.2. Transmission deadlines ................................................................................... 39 3.3. Categories, Precision, Regional statistics ........................................................ 39 3.4. Completeness ................................................................................................... 39 3.5. Clarity .............................................................................................................. 39 4. ELEMENTS COLLECTED ...................................................................................... 40 4.1. Monthly statistics (Table A) ............................................................................ 40 4.2. Annual statistics on activity of dairies (Tables B and H) ................................ 41 4.3. Triennial statistics on the structure of dairy enterprises (Tables D to G5) ................................................................................................................... 41 4.4. Annual statistics on dairy agricultural holdings (Table C) .............................. 41 5. FREQUENCY AND TIMELINESS ......................................................................... 41 5.1. Frequency ........................................................................................................ 41 5.2. Timeliness ........................................................................................................ 42 6. CONFIDENTIALITY ............................................................................................... 42 6.1. Confidentiality charter ..................................................................................... 42 7. DATA CHECKS // ADDITIONAL CALCULATIONS .......................................... 43 7.1. Data validation ................................................................................................. 43 7.2. Data checks for consistency ............................................................................ 43 ANNEX III GLOSSARY ...................................................................................... 44 ANNEX IV LEGAL REFERENCES .................................................................... 45 1. EU LEGISLATION .................................................................................................. 45 2. NATIONAL LEGISLATION IMPLEMENTING DIRECTIVE 96/16/EC ............. 45 ANNEX V COHERENCE OF THE STATISTICAL TABLES .......................... 46 1. DESCRIPTION ......................................................................................................... 46 2. PARTICULAR STATISTICAL LINKS ................................................................... 47 2.1. Within the tables .............................................................................................. 47 2.2. Between the tables ........................................................................................... 48 2.3. With other statistics ......................................................................................... 48 2.4. Analyse of the content ..................................................................................... 49 2.5. Conclusion ....................................................................................................... 51 ANNEX VI DEFINITION OF THE STATISTICAL UNITS (DAIRY ENTERPRISES) AND OF DAIRY MATERIALS .................................................. 52 1. DEFINITION OF THE DAIRY ENTERPRISES ..................................................... 52 1.1. Legal definition ............................................................................................... 52 1.2. Direct interpretation ......................................................................................... 52 1.3. Revised interpretation ...................................................................................... 53 1.4. Extended interpretation ................................................................................... 53 1.5. Conclusion ....................................................................................................... 54 2. DAIRY MATERIALS .............................................................................................