| Category: | Economic statistics |
| Area: | Agriculture and fishing |
| Survey / data collection: | Survey on turnover of pesticide |
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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 https://www.monstat.org/cg/index.php |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: | Department of Agricultural Statistics |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: | IV Proleterske 2, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro |
| 2. Metadata update Top | |
| 2.1. Metadata last certified: | 04. December 2024 |
| 2.2. Metadata last posted: | 25 December 2023 |
| 2.3. Metadata last update: | 04. December 2024 |
| 3. Statistical presentation Top | |
| 3.1. Data description: | The purpose of this survey is to collect the data on the quantity of pesticides placed on the market.The data set comprises the annual sales of active substances contained in plant protection products placed on the market from 2017 onwards, according to Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 as amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/269 of 16 February 2017 as regards the list of active substances. MONSTAT disseminates the highest aggregation level, also called major groups in the Harmonised classification of substances. They are the following: F - Fungicides and bactericides ; H - Herbicides, haulm destructors and moss killers; I - Insecticides and acaricides ; M - Molluscicides; PGR - Plant growth regulators; and ZR - Other plant protection products. Data extracted on this level will give the user the best representation of total pesticide sales. |
| 3.2. Classification system: | The classification of the active substances in plant protection products is annexed (Annex III) to Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/269 of 16 February 2017 amending Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning statistics on pesticides. The active substances are classified according to chemical and functional similarity. Aggregation levels in descending order comprise: major groups, categories of products, chemical classes and active substances. The geographical classification for country codes (ISO 3166) is applied. |
| 3.3. Sector coverage: | The statistics cover active substances in plant protection products placed on the market in the Montenegro. All active substances in pesticides sold in wholesale in Montenegro.The statistics cover the wholesale trade sector operating in placing plant protection products on the market. All subjects registered for import, i.e. wholesale trade in Plant Protection Products, which are required to keep records of purchased and sold Plant Protection Products in accordance with the Law on Plant Protection Products. |
| 3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions: | The active substances is a substance which including micro-organisms having general or specific action against harmful organisms or on plants, parts of plants or plant products. Fungicides are products for the repression of fungi provoking vegetal diseases, including bactericides for extermination of microbes. Herbicides are products for the repression of weeds or undesirable plants in general. Insecticides are products for the repression of insects, including acaricides for the extermination of mites. Other pesticides are products for other purposes, including molluscicides for the repression of snails, plant growth regulators, mineral and vegetal oils, soil sterilants, rodenticides for the repression of rodents, disinfectants and other plant protection products. |
| 3.5. Statistical unit: | The source of data are the administrative source (Directorate for Foodsafety, Veterinary and Phytosanitary Affairs) and they provide data to the MONSTAT (Active substance in pesticides sold in wholesale in Montenegro). The directorate for Foodsafety, Veterinary and Phytosanitary Affairs provides data at the level of business entrepreneurs or other legal entity ( subjects registered for import, i.e. wholesale trade in Plant Protection Products, which are required to keep records of purchased and sold Plant Protection Products, in accordance with the Law on Plant Protection Products). MONSTAT calculates the active substance. |
| 3.6. Statistical population: | All active substance which contained in pesticides or plant protection products on the market in Montenegro. All subjects registered for import, i.e. wholesale trade in Plant Protection Products, which are required to keep records of purchased and sold Plant Protection Products in accordance with the Law on Plant Protection Products. |
| 3.7. Reference area: | Montenegro. The data for pesticides sales collect for the national level. |
| 3.8. Time coverage: | 2017-2022 |
| 3.9. Base period: | Not applicable. |
| 4. Unit of measure Top | |
| 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 018/12 and 047/19) defines provisions for collection, processing and dissemination of data. 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. https://www.monstat.org/cg/page.php?id=4&pageid=4 As an annex to legal provisions, Statistical Office has signed several memoranda on cooperation with administrative data providers. (with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management in June 2013). -Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 concerning statistics on pesticides as amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2021/2010 of 17 November 2021 as regards the list of active substances. |
| 6.2. Data sharing: | Not applicable. |
| 7. Confidentiality Top | |
| 7.1. Confidentiality - policy: | - The privacy of data providers, the confidentiality of the information they provide and its use only for statistical purposes must be absolutely guaranteed the Law on Official Statistics and System of Official Statistics (Chapter XIII CONFIDENTIALITY AND |
| 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: | Final data are published annually as soon as it is processed and validated by Eurostat. Target date is end of March. The Statistical Release Calendar is the schedule of publishing the results of official statistics during one year. It is prepared by the Statistical Office in cooperation with the other producers of official statistics in accordance with Article 50 of the Law on Official Statistics and the Official Statistics System ("Official Gazette of Montenegro", No. 018/12 and 047/19).It is published on the website of the Statistical Office. |
| 8.2. Release calendar - access: | The Statistical Release Calendar is avaliable on the following link: https://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. 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. |
| 9. Frequency of dissemination Top | |
| The data is published once a year and has been available on the Montenegrin Statistical office website since December 30. The survey on pesticides sale is included for the first time as a regular survey for 2022 in the Annual Plan of Official Statistics (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 2/2022 of January 12, 2022) https://www.monstat.org/cg/page.php?id=9&pageid=9 . The Statistical Office published the final data for the data series for the period 2017-2022, which were previously submitted to Eurostat as preliminary and protected. Data for 2023 were submitted to Eurostat in December 2024. | |
| 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/cg/page.php?id=2063&pageid=2063 |
| 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: | The methodology for this research can be found on our website at the following link: https://www.monstat.org/uploads/files/poljoprivreda/pesticidi/Metodolo%C5%A1ko%20uputstvo-Promet%20pesticida.pdf Additional methodological explanations can be found in the Statistical Yearbook. http://www.monstat.org/cg/novosti.php?id=3905 |
| 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 http://www.monstat.org/cg/page.php?id=1513&pageid=1513 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 active substances and all aggregates, which in turn are verified by Eurostat. |
| 11.2. Quality assesment: | MONSTAT shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with reports on the quality of the data transmitted as referred to in Annex I. The Commission (Eurostat) shall assess the quality of data transmitted'''' (Article 4 (1)(2)). |
| 12. Relevance Top | |
| 12.1. User needs: | International users : - Eurostat; - FAO. National users: - Ministries and other public administration bodies; - Local government and other local government bodies; - Non-governmental organizations; - Students; - Researchers; - Media Pesticide sales statistics are also used to measure progress towards achieving the pesticide reduction targets under the Farm to Fork Strategy and Biodiversity Strategy. |
| 12.2. User satisfaction: | Internal users are generally satisfied with the quality of the data. No external user satisfaction feedback.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: | The data is sent in full compliance with the applicable European Commission Regulations. |
| 13. Accuracy and reliability Top | |
| 13.1. Overall accuracy: | The degree of accuracy is expected to be high. Exact value is guaranted by the obligation to report any sale in the country to the directorate for Foodsafety, Veterinary and Phytosanitary Affairs. Published data are final. |
| 13.2. Sampling error: | It is not applicable for pesticide sales statistics, because data collection is not based on samples, but covers the entire statistical population from subjects registered for import, i.e. wholesale trade in Plant Protection Products, which are required to keep records of purchased and sold Plant Protection Products in accordance with the Law on Plant Protection Products. |
| 13.3. Non-sampling error: | Not relevant (administrative source). |
| 14. Timeliness and punctuality Top | |
| 14.1. Timeliness: | According to the Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009, the data is published by Eurostat 15 months after the end of the reference year and the national quality report 20 months after the end of the reference year. |
| 14.2. Punctuality: | According to the Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009, data must be transmitted until 30 December of the year t+1, and national quality reports until 31 March of the year t+2. Everything was published on time. 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: | Montenegro is on all three levels (NUTS ). The data are collected and published on country level (NUTS 0). The data are comparable with other countries in the region and the EU because the questionnaire is harmonized. Geographical comparability is very good due to the Harmonised classification of substances in Annex III of Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009. |
| 15.2. Comparability over time: | Data from the pesticides sales 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/cg/page.php?id=2063&pageid=59 |
| 15.3. Coherence - cross domain: | No other comparable data are published on the country level. |
| 15.4. Coherence - internal: | Not available. |
| 17. Data revision Top | |
| 17.1. Data revision - policy: | In April 2023, the Statistical office of Montenegro- Monstat published the final data for the series of data for the period 2016-2020, which were previously submitted to Eurostat as preliminary and protected. The survey on pesticides sales was included for the first time as a regular for the year 2022 in the Annual Plan of Official Statistics ("Official Gazette of Montenegro", No. 2/2022 of 12.01.2022"), when data were published for the first time on Monstat website for 2021. Since then survey does not disseminate preliminary results and that''''s the reason why the regular data revision does not exist. |
| 17.2. Data revision - practice: | MONSTAT has on internal revision policy. https://www.monstat.org/cg/page.php?id=1493&pageid=1493 |
| 18. Statistical processing Top | |
| 18.1. Source data: | Administrative data |
| 18.2. Frequency of data collection: | Annually. |
| 18.3. Data collection: | Administrative data. The directorate for Foodsafety, Veterinary and Phytosanitary Affairs provides data from subjects registered for import, i.e. wholesale trade in Plant Protection Products, which are required to keep records of purchased and sold Plant Protection Products, in accordance with the Law on Plant Protection Products). MONSTAT calculates the active substance. |
| 18.6. Adjustment: | Not applicable for pesticide sales statistics, because the reported data on plant protection products covers the whole year. |
| 19. Comment Top | |
