| Category: | Economic statistics |
| Area: | Agriculture and fishing |
| Survey / data collection: | Organic production statistics |
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| Reference metadata |
| 1. Contact |
| 2. Metadata update |
| 3. Statistical presentation |
| 4. Unit of measure |
| 5. Reference period |
| 6. Institutional mandate |
| 7. Confidentiality |
| 8. Release policy |
| 9. Frequency of dissemination |
| 10. Accessibility and clarity |
| 11. Quality management |
| 12. Relevance |
| 13. Accuracy and reliability |
| 14. Timeliness and punctuality |
| 15. Coherence and Comparability |
| 17. Data revision |
| 18. Statistical processing |
| 19. Comment |
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| 1. Contact Vrh | |
| 1.1. Contact organization: | Statistical Office of Montenegro - MONSTAT |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: | Department of Agricultural Statistics |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: | IV Proleterske br 2 |
| 2. Metadata update Top | |
| 2.1. Metadata last certified: | 22 Nov 2024 |
| 2.2. Metadata last posted: | 25 December 2023 |
| 2.3. Metadata last update: | 22 Nov 2024 |
| 3. Statistical presentation Top | |
| 3.1. Data description: | The collected statistics cover the following data: -Certified registered organic operators (referring to their main or secondary activity) (expressed in number of operators), - Certified registered organic processors who manufacture organic products (as their main or secondary activity) (expressed in number of processors). - Certified organic crop area (under conversion and fully converted) (expressed in hectares), - Certified organic crop production from fully converted area (expressed in 1 000 kg), - Certified organic livestock (expressed in heads of live animals), - Production of certified organic products of animal origin (expressed in 1 000 kg of carcass weight and in thousand eggs), - Production of certified organic milk products (Produced on farms or Processed on farms or by dairy enterprises) and Honey and products of bee-keeping (expressed in 1 000 kg of products obtained), |
| 3.2. Classification system: | See ESS Agreement on Organic Production Statistics. Data are reported according to the type of operator: All operators - Agricultural producers - Agricultural producers w hich are also processors - Agricultural producers w hich are also importers - Agricultural producers ? others (n.e.c.) - Aquaculture producers - Producers of aquatic plants - Processors - Processors which are also importers - Processors ? other (n.e.c.) - Importers - Exporters - Other operators - Other operators ? traders - Other operators ? traders ? w holesalers - Other operators ? traders ? retailers - Other operators n.e.c. Those operators w hich conduct several activities are accounted for in each relevant category. |
| 3.3. Sector coverage: | A-Agriculture, forestry, and fishery The data cover all different types of operators involved in the organic sector (production, transformation, import, others). |
| 3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions: | Only operators certified follow ing 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 are considered to be organic. According to this Regulation, operator means ?the natural or legal persons responsible for ensuring that the requirements of this Regulation are met w ithin the organic business under their control?. Organic production means the use of production procedures in accordance with the rules established in this regulation, in all stages of production, preparation and distribution, EU Reg 834/2007. Organic production is the production of agricultural and other products based on the application of organic production methods in all stages of production, preparation and distribution, in accordance with the Law on Organic Production. Organic agriculture represents a system of sustainable agriculture, largely based on local resources, which maintains ecological balance and minimizes the negative impact of agriculture on the environment. It also implies coordinated production with the law and standards defined conditions with the control of the entire production cycle by the authorized organization for certification - Monteorganica. |
| 3.5. Statistical unit: | Operator certified organic. Administrative data source is the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Management (Directorate of Agriculture), which previously received the data from the certification body ?Monteorganica?, in accordance with the Law on Organic Production (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 56/2013). The data are in accordance with EU Regulation 834/2007, and EU Regulation 889/2008 as well as with the new ESS Agreement on organic production statistics, which was approved by the ESSC on February 12, 2020, and entered into force on January 1, 2022. |
| 3.6. Statistical population: | All operators involved in the organic sector. All organic producers which are present in the Register of Organic Production Entities under the competence of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Management, are covered by this survey. |
| 3.7. Reference area: | Montenegro |
| 3.8. Time coverage: | 2016 - 2022 |
| 3.9. Base period: | Not applicable. |
| 4. Unit of measure Top | |
| Number of operators, area in ha, production in tons, production in thousands of eggs | |
| 5. Reference period Top | |
| Calendar year | |
| 6. Institutional mandate Top | |
| 6.1. Legal acts and other agreements: | The Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12, 47/19) defines provisions for collection, processing, and dissemination of data. https://www.monstat.org/cg/page.php?id=4&pageid=4 . The Law provides to the Statistical Office legal powers to collect and access the data necessary for the implementation of Programme and Annual Plan. The Law gives a priority to the use of administrative data and right of access to individual data that are a result of survey of other official statistical producers. As an annex to legal provisions, Statistical Office has signed several memorandum on cooperation with administrative data providers.(agreement on cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management from June 2013). The new EU legislative framework (SAIO) is in the process of being established, so that in organic statistics the previous EU Reg 834/2007, which provides the legal basis for the annual collection of organic production statistics, is repealed. EU Reg 2018/848 of the European Parliament and the Council on organic production and labeling of organic products becomes applicable (it does not contain a legal basis for the collection of agricultural statistics). As a bridge between the previous and new legislation until the adoption of the SAIO regulation, the ESS Agreement on Organic Production Statistics, approved by the ESSC on February 12, 2020, entered into force on January 1, 2022. The agreement covers the annual collection of statistical data on organic production, previously established in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) no. 834/2007. The agreement will remain operational until the SAIO enters into force. The ESS agreement regulates the collection of organic agriculture statistics, which Monstat will also work on in 2024 for 2023, namely: - Organic farming operators - Organic livestock production - Organic plant production - Operators and producers of organic business (outside agriculture). |
| 6.2. Data sharing: | Administrative data source is the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Management (Directorate of Agriculture), which previously received the data from the certification body |
| 7. Confidentiality Top | |
| 7.1. Confidentiality - policy: | Articles 53-60 of the Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12, 47/19) provide a framework for protection, use, and transmission of confidential data. MONSTAT has produced two comprehensive rulebo |
| 7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment: | Provisions the Law on Official Statistics and System of Official Statistics shall refer to data provided by reporting units, but also to data collected from other sources for needs of official statistics from the moment of their delivery to official stati |
| 8. Release policy Top | |
| 8.1. Release calendar: | The Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12, 47/19) stipulates that official statistical producers prepare, update, and publish Statistical Release Calendar. It is published on the website of Statistical Office not later than 20 December for the next year, for all official statistical producers that includes date of releasing statistical data. Any change in date of releasing in the Calendar is published in advance in accordance with the Procedure on Unplanned Revisions. |
| 8.2. Release calendar - access: | http://www.monstat.org/cg/page.php?id=12&pageid=12 |
| 8.3. User access: | Based on the Statistical Release Calendar, users are informed in advance of the release dates on which the producers of official statistics have committed to publish statistics.General aim of official statistical producer is to meet the needs of users, and to make an access to statistical data to users in an understandable manner, simultaneously and under the same conditions. Statistical Office is obliged to produce and disseminate official statistics in objective, transparent and professional manner, so that all users are equally treated. |
| 9. Frequency of dissemination Top | |
| The data are published once a year and are available on the website of the Statistics Authority from June 30. The survey on organic production statistics was included for the first time as a regular for 2022 in the Annual Plan of Official Statistics ("Official Gazette of Montenegro", No. 2/2022 of 12 January 2022"), when the data for the year 2021. In March 2023, the Statistical Office published the final data for the series of data for the period 2016-2020, which were previously submitted to Eurostat as preliminary and protected. | |
| 10. Accessibility and clarity Top | |
| 10.1. News release: | Data are published according to a realase calendar and are available at the same time to all users on the official website on MONSTAT. The data is not published through a press release, but only through the Excel table on the official website. Also, the data are available in the Statistical Yearbook of the Statistical Office of Montenegro. |
| 10.2. Publications: | All publications published by the Statistical Office are available at the following link: https://www.monstat.org/cg/publikacije.php?id=100 |
| 10.3. Online database: | https://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1797&pageid=1797 |
| 10.4. Micro-data access: | The Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 018/12 and 047/19), Article 58. regulates rules under which external users can obtain an access to individual data for needs of research. No micro-data is disseminated. |
| 10.5. Other: | The required tables are prepared for the needs of Eurostat, while other users use the tables from the website in Monstat (table format from the website). |
| 10.6. Documentation on methodology: domain: | Instructions on the methodology for this survey can be found on our website at the following link: https://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1797&pageid=1797. In the statistical yearbook can find a short methodology on the basis of which data are produced. Data production is based on recommendations that are in line with EU Regulation 1165/2008, which regulates livestock breeding surveys. |
| 10.7. Quality documentation: | The Law on Official Statistics and the Official Statistical System ( Official Gazette of Montenegro No. 18/12 and 47/19) defines the commitment to quality, which ensures that producers of official statistics in Montenegro work and cooperate in accordance with international principles of quality of the statistical system. In accordance with the ESS Quality Declaration, Article 338 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, Regulations 759/2015 and 223/2009 and the European Statistics Code of Practice, the following documents are adopted: 1. Quality Strategy of the Statistical Office 2. Guide for the implementation of the Quality Strategy in the Statistical Office; 3. Implementation plan |
| 11. Quality management Top | |
| 11.1. Quality assurance: | The Quality Management System of the Statistical Office relies on the European Statistics Code of Practice and the principles of Total Quality Management (TQM), which symbolize a common framework for the quality of the European Statistical System. The Statistical Office has adopted the Quality Management Strategy, the Guidebook to the Implementation of the Quality Management Strategy, as well as the Plan for the Implementation of the Quality Policy. The 2020-2023 Quality Management Strategy is the second strategy which is prepared for the Montenegro official statistical system and it represents a strategic, development document in domain of quality in the statistical system of Montenegro. At regular meetings of the Working Group, where representatives of all institutions (statistics, ministry and control body) are included, quality assurance procedures are discussed. The Quality Management Strategy is available on web site https://www.monstat.org/cg/page.php?id=1513&pageid=1513 The quality of the data is assured in the following way: Monstat transmit all data about organic production, which in turn are verified by Eurostat. |
| 11.2. Quality assesment: | One of the criteria for checking quality data is through a comparative analysis of monthly data with the same month of the previous year, as well as with the previous month, as well as with the data from administrative source and the Monteorganica certification body |
| 12. Relevance Top | |
| 12.1. User needs: | International users: - Eurostat, - World Bank, - UN organizations, - International Monetary Fund National users: - Ministries and other public administration bodies, - Local government and other local government bodies. - Central bank, - Non-governmental organizations, - Students, - Researchers, - Media. |
| 12.2. User satisfaction: | The Statistical Office has adopted the Quality Management Strategy, the Guidebook to the Implementation of the Quality Management Strategy, as well as the Plan for the Implementation of the Quality Policy. In order to measure the degree to which fulfills obligations towards users and within the new quality policy, the Statistical Office conducted User satisfaction survey. The results of the survey are available on the Statistical Office website, link: http://monstat.org/uploads/files/2.%20Izvjestaj%20o%20zadovoljstvu%20korisnika%20ENG%20(Autosaved).pdf |
| 12.3. Completeness: | International and national requirements are met. Data on organic production are in line with the ESS Agreement . Montenegro deliver organic production data on a voluntary basis. For ME data are available only from 2016-onwards. |
| 13. Accuracy and reliability Top | |
| 13.1. Overall accuracy: | Administrative source, full coverage. Data is subject to common types of input error, processing error, and non-response. In addition, in the creation of these data, the data of the certification body Monteorganika (ST) were used, which are submitted to the competent authority - MoA in the form of an annual report. In order to provide the most accurate reporting and creation of data on organic production in Montenegro, it was agreed in the Working Group that in the coming period, in addition to the annual report with the associated tables of ST Monteorganika, an Excel table containing data created by the Directorate for Payments based on SIZEP will be used. a, supplemented with data from ST Monteorganika. Also, a table will be used to create data, which will be sent by the MoA to the control body, which is harmonized with Eurostat s tables. As well as the table that is in accordance with the Supplement of data by Monteorganica, it includes data that the Directorate does not have for payment, as well as data that are not in the records of ST, but were entered by the Directorate. This is information about: - areas smaller than 1000 m2, - areas that were not surveyed by the Directorate, - newly registered producers, - about the production registered by the directorate, which is not in the certification process at ST Monteorganika and others. |
| 13.2. Sampling error: | Not relevant. It is not applicable for organic statistics, because data collection is not based on samples, but covers the entire statistical population. |
| 13.3. Non-sampling error: | Not relevant |
| 14. Timeliness and punctuality Top | |
| 14.1. Timeliness: | Data publication deadline: until June 30, 2022 for the previous year |
| 14.2. Punctuality: | There is no time lag between the actual data submission and the target date. All data are published in accordance with the scheduled publication date. |
| 15. Coherence and Comparability Top | |
| 15.1. Comparability - geographical: | The data are fully comparable. This research is in accordance with the ESS Agreement on organic production statistics. |
| 15.2. Comparability over time: | Data from the organic production statistics are fully comparable over time and are available from 2017 to 2023 on the MONSTAT website in the Data section, link:https://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1797&pageid=1797 |
| 15.3. Coherence - cross domain: | Data from the agricultural census and related intermediate structure surveys or the annual crops statistics can be used for cross-checking purposes. A comparison of the two data sources regarding organic farming growth rate shows that both sources are broadly comparable when analysing the trend of the organic farming growth , no matter to differences in the published data. |
| 15.4. Coherence - internal: | Not applicable |
| 17. Data revision Top | |
| 17.1. Data revision - policy: | Statistical Office has adopted the revision policy and it is available on the website. http://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1411&pageid=1411 |
| 17.2. Data revision - practice: | Not relevant |
| 18. Statistical processing Top | |
| 18.1. Source data: | Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoA). The data is based on external administrative data sources. |
| 18.2. Frequency of data collection: | The periodicity of data collection is annual |
| 18.3. Data collection: | Administrative data source the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Management (Directorate of Agriculture), which previously received the data from the certification body ?Monteorganica?, in accordance with the Law on Organic Production (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 56/2013). |
| 18.6. Adjustment: | Not applicable for pesticide sales statistics, because the reported data on plant protection products covers the whole year. |
| 19. Comment Top | |
