
Article 1 
Member States shall transmit the statistical data on the placing on the market of pesticides as described in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 using the statistical data and metadata exchange (SDMX) format. The data shall be transmitted or uploaded by electronic means to the single entry point for data at Eurostat.
Member States shall transmit the required data conforming to the technical specifications provided by the Commission (Eurostat).
Article 2 
The technical format for the transmission of data to the Commission (Eurostat) is described in the Annex.
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 27 April 2011.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
ANNEX

The following information shall be included in the transmission files:

Number Field Remarks
1 Country 3-alpha code (e.g. FRA)
2 Year e.g. 2010
3 Major group Codes listed in Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009, as last updated
4 Categories of products 
5 Chemical class 
6 Substance 
7 For field numbers 3, 4, 5 and 6, the quantity sold To be expressed in kilograms of substances
8 For field numbers 3, 4, 5 and 6, the confidentiality flag Yes/no