
Article 1 
Commission Regulation (EU) No 408/2011 is amended as follows:

((1)) Articles 1 and 2 are replaced by the following:
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Article 1 
Member States shall transmit the statistical data on pesticides referred to in Annexes I and II to Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 using the SDMX data structure definitions. The data shall be provided to the Commission (Eurostat) through the single entry point services or the data shall be made available for retrieval by the Commission (Eurostat) by electronic means.
Article 2 
The data structure for the transmission on the placing on the market of pesticides to the Commission (Eurostat) shall be as specified in Annex I.
The data structure for the transmission on the agricultural use of pesticides to the Commission (Eurostat) shall be as specified in Annex II.'
((2)) The Annex to Regulation (EU) No 408/2011 is amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of 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, 26 November 2014.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER
ANNEX


ANNEX I 
The following data structure shall be included in the transmission files:

Number Field Remarks
1 Country e.g. France
2 Year Reference year for the data (e.g. 2010)
3 Major group Codes listed in Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009
4 Categories of products 
5 Chemical class 
6 Active substance 
7 Observation value (the quantity sold) in kilograms of substances.
8 For fields number 3, 4, 5 and 6, the confidentiality flag Flag
ANNEX II 
The following data structure shall be included in the transmission files:

Number Field Remarks
1 Country e.g. France
2 Year Reference year for the data (e.g. 2010)
3 Crop Breakdown by single crops
4 Active substance Codes listed in Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009
5 Observation value: quantity of substance used on the crop In kilograms of substances
6 Observation value: area of the crop treated with this substance In hectares
7 Confidentiality flag Flag
