Balance of production and consumption of cereal and cereal products

The balance of production and consumption of cereals and cereal products is used to develop agricultural policy, study and analyse market trends, and identify key relations and correlations among quantities produced, imported, used domestically, exported as well as stocks.

Statistics is compiled in line with the following classifications:

• Combined Nomenclature (CN);
• Statistical Classification of the Economic Activities in the European Communities (NACE Rev. 2).

The balance of production and consumption of cereals and cereal products is based on agricultural, processing, and trade data.

Economically active trader or agricultural holding engaged in production, processing, or trade of cereals.

Agricultural holdings growing cereals, enterprises trading and processing grain.

Latvia.

Since 2017.

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Calendar year.

• Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 November 2022 on statistics on agricultural input and output, amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008 and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1165/2008, (EC) No 543/2009 and (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Directive 96/16/EC.
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1225 specifying the arrangements for the data exchanges pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197, as regards the Member State of extra-Union export and the obligations of reporting units.
• The ESS Agreement on Crop Balance Data on Main Cereals and Oilseeds endorsed by the European Statistical System Committee on 22 September 2017.
• Cabinet Regulation No. 841 Procedures for the Gathering and Compiling Information Regarding the Prices and Trading Volumes of Agricultural Products in a Specific Reporting Period.

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Confidentiality of the information provided is protected by Statistics Law: 

Section 7. Competence of the Statistical Institution in Production of Official Statistics

• (2) The statistical institution shall:
• 8) ensure statistical confidentiality in accordance with the procedures laid down in this Law;

Section 17. Data Processing and Statistical Confidentiality

Section 19. Dissemination of Official Statistics

• (1) The statistical institution shall disseminate official statistics in a way that does not allow either directly or indirectly identify a private individual or a State institution in cases other than those laid down in Section 25 of this Law.
• (2) The statistical institution shall publish the official statistics which have been produced within the framework of the Official Statistics Programme in a publicly available form and by a predetermined deadline on the portal of official statistics. Until the moment of publication of official statistics this statistics shall not be published.

Data confidentiality in the Rural Support Service (RSS) is assured in accordance with the RSS information security policy. Employees of the RSS are prohibited from disclosing data and other restricted access information which has become known to them when performing service or work duties. The RSS takes all necessary measures to prevent unauthorised access to, misrepresentation or dissemination as well as accidental or unauthorised destruction of the data.

All official statistics is published according to the advance dissemination calendar, at 13:00 o’clock.

Advance dissemination calendar

Statistical release dates and times are pre-announced in the data dissemination calendar.

Data are published twice a year (preliminary and final results).

Not published on regular basis.

• Annual publication of the CSB "Agriculture of Latvia".

• Agricultural Annual Report of the Ministry of Agriculture "Agriculture and Rural Area of Latvia" (in Latvian).

Statistics database

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Eurostat database.

Eurostat Crop balances handbook.

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Quality management system of the RSS acquired ISO 9001 certification in 2011. Thus, RSS stakeholders can be sure that RSS activities and functions meet internationally recognised quality management standard and that the existing management system is maintained in full conformity with the certification requirements.

Information security management system of the RSS acquired ISO 27001 certification in 2014. The system is aimed at protecting information from being disclosed, misrepresented, or irretrievably lost, and ISO 27001 is an international standard that specifies information security management system requirements.

Quality of statistics is assessed in accordance with the existing requirements of external and internal regulatory enactments and in accordance with the established quality criteria.

Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European statistics states that European Statistics European statistics shall be developed, produced and disseminated on the basis of uniform standards and of harmonised methods. In this respect, the following quality criteria shall apply: relevance, accuracy, timeliness, punctuality, accessibility, clarity, comparability and coherence.

The Central Statistical Bureau (CSB), as the leading institution of the national statistical system, has set common general (institutional level) quality requirements for Latvian statistical institutions, applying the European Statistics Code of Practice. The European Statistics Code of Practice contains 16 principles.

The overall assessment of data quality is good.

The need for main crop product balance sheet calculation, methodology used as well as detail and timeliness thereof are laid down in the binding regulations and recommendations. The balance sheet is an important tool used to analyse and monitor market, make projections and decisions as well as develop methodology.

Comments on data quality may be sent to the e-mail address: pasts@lad.gov.lv

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T + 11 months.

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Eurostat publishes statistics on EU Memberstates: Agriculture / Agricultural production.

Since 2017. 

The foreign trade information regarding crop product production and consumption balances is converted into raw material (grain, rapeseed) equivalent based on the Combined Nomenclature codes and corresponding conversion factors. The balance data are coherent with agricultural, processing, and trade data.

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The total annual cost of all balances produced by the RSS and published on the official statistics portal equals to 1 840 euros or 140 man-hours.

Data are revised in case any discrepancies are found, e.g., methodological or classification changes occur or additional information is received.

There are no planned data revisions. The published data are revised in case additional or specified information is received.

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• Usable production is estimated based on the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) data on the volume produced in year N (CSB questionnaire Crop Production (2-LS) (available in Latvian).
• Human consumption and animal feed is estimated based on the CSB data (CSB questionnaire Crop Production (2-LS) (available in Latvian) and Questionnaire Regarding Grain (2) attached to the Cabinet Regulation No 841  Procedures for the Gathering and Compiling Information Regarding Prices and Trading Volumes of Agricultural Products in a Specific Reporting Period of 1 November 2011). Human consumption and crushing (for oil and biofuel production) is estimated based on the CSB information about the volume of oil and biodiesel produced in year N (CSB questionnaire Industrial Production and Industrial Services (1-rūpniecība) (available in Latvian)) and Questionnaire Regarding Grain (2) attached to the Cabinet Regulation No 841  Procedures for the Gathering and Compiling Information Regarding Prices and Trading Volumes of Agricultural Products in a Specific Reporting Period of 1 November 2011). Seed volume is estimated based on the CSB information on the areas of spring rape/turnip rape for the harvest of year N and information on the areas of winter rape/turnip rape for the harvest of year N+1 (CSB questionnaire Crop Production (2-LS)).
• Imports and exports are estimated based on the CSB information on the volume of imports in year N in breakdown by country (CSB questionnaires Report on Trade Between the Member States of the European Union (Arrivals–Intrastat–1A) and Report on Trade Between the Member States of the European Union (Arrivals–Intrastat–1B)) and CSB information on volume of exports in year N (CSB questionnaires Report on Trade Between the Member States of the European Union (Dispatches–Intrastat–2A) and Report on Trade Between Member States of the European Union (Dispatches–Intrastat–2B)).
• Stock is estimated based on the CSB information about the stock on agricultural holdings (CSB questionnaire Crop Production (2-LS) (available in Latvian) and CSB information on the stock in enterprises engaged in purchase of grain, pulses and rape (CSB questionnaire Report on Purchase of Grain, Pulses and Rape Seeds (1-iepirkums) (available in Latvian) and Questionnaire Regarding Grain (2) attached to the Cabinet Regulation No 841 Procedures for the Gathering and Compiling Information Regarding Prices and Trading Volumes of Agricultural Products in a Specific Reporting Period of 1 November 2011).
• Estimate produced by experts.

On annual basis.

The data are collected by the RSS itself by compiling information submitted via Questionnaire Regarding Grain (2) attached to the Cabinet Regulation No 841 Procedures for the Gathering and Compiling Information Regarding the Prices and Trading Volumes of Agricultural Products in a Specific Reporting Period of 1 November 2011 as well as using agricultural and foreign trade statistics compiled by the CSB.

Manual and automated validation is used. The data submitted by respondents are compared with the information submitted prior.

Cereal balance indicators are resulting from the estimates made based on the data in the above data sources and in compliance with the requirements of the Crop Balances Handbook developed by Eurostat.

The key terms related to the estimates are defined under Statistical presentation/ Statistical concepts and definitions.

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