Balance of production and consumption of milk, meat, eggs and products thereof

The balance of production and consumption of livestock 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).

Agriculture (statistics covers agricultural, processing, and trade data).

Meat and meat product balances: economically active trader or agricultural holding engaged in production, processing, or trade of meat.

Milk and milk product balances: economically active trader or agricultural holding engaged in production, processing, or trade of milk.

Egg and egg product balances: economically active trader or agricultural holding engaged in production, processing, or trade of eggs.

Enterprises engaged in production, processing and trade of milk, meat and eggs.

Latvia.

Meat and meat product balances - comparable data are available since 2005.

Milk and milk product balances - comparable data are available since 2004.

Egg and egg product balances - comparable data are available since 2003.

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• Meat and meat product balances – thousand tonnes;
• Milk and milk product balances – thousand tonnes;
• Egg and egg product balances – million pieces.

Calendar year.

• Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 December 2003 on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community.
• 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.
• 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.

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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).

Currently news releases are not planned.

• 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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Order No 42 of the Ministry of Agriculture of 12 March 2012 on development of balances of production and consumption of agricultural products.

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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 milk, meat, egg and product thereof balance sheet calculation, methodology used as well as detail and timeliness thereof are laid down in the binding documentation. 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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Meat and meat product balances - comparable data are available since 2005.

Milk and milk product balances - comparable data are available since 2004.

Egg and egg product balances - comparable data are available since 2003.

The foreign trade information regarding livestock product production and consumption balances is converted into raw material (meat, milk, egg) 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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• Volume produced is estimated based on the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) data on the volume produced in year N.
• 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:
  Stock in meat and meat product balances is estimated based on the information in Questionnaire Regarding Meat (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;

      Stock in milk and milk product balances is estimated based on the Latvian Central Union of Dairy Farmers data;

      Stock in egg and egg product balances is estimated based on the information in Questionnaire Regarding Hen Eggs (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.

• Milk used for animal feed is estimated based on the data in CSB questionnaire Livestock Production (3-LS) (available in Latvian).
• Estimates made by experts.

CSB questionnaires (in Latvian) are available in the CSB website section Veidlapu katalogs.

On annual basis.

The data are collected by the RSS itself by compiling information submitted via questionnaires 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 as well as using agricultural and foreign trade statistics compiled by the CSB and information compiled by the Latvian Central Union of Dairy Farmers.

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

Milk, meat, egg and product thereof production and consumption balance indicators are resulting from the estimates made based on the data in the above data sources and in compliance with the Statistical Requirements Compendium developed by the European Commission in line with the Community statistics programme.

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

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