The Council of the EU, the European Parliament and the European Commission reached, on Thursday 2 June, a provisional compromise on the draft regulation on agricultural input and output statistics (see EUROPE B12962A14).
The common ground found, which still needs to be confirmed by the EU Council and the European Parliament, foresees that Member States will collect high quality harmonised data on agricultural production.
The statistical data, especially the data on the use of pesticides in...