M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Working Group for Chapter 18 – Statistics Bilateral screening: Chapter 18 PRESENTATION OF MONTENEGRO Luxembourg, June 2013

Topic4.04. Accounts in agriculture and prices Bilateral screening: Chapter 18 Luxembourg, June 2013 Natasa Vojinovic Statistician STATISTICS Chapter 18: M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 18: Statistics

Accounts in agriculture and prices Current situation: In the Agro-monetary statistics following surveys are conducted:  Monthly report on the purchase of agricultural products from individual producers  Monthly report on the sale of agricultural products from own production by agricultural enterprises and collective farms.  Monthly report on prices of agricultural products, raw materials, equipment for agricultural machinery work and services provided to agriculture.  Quarterly report on expenditures and agricultural production of farms(for national use) STATISTICS Chapter 18: M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 18: Statistics

Accounts in agriculture and prices Current situation :  IPA 2008 MULTI-BENEFICIARY PROGRAMME ON STATISTICAL COOPERATION- Pilot Project 7; Agro-Monetary Statistics In the framework of prices in agriculture harmonized is list if products, from From the available data for 2009 and 2010 in cooperation with Biotechnical faculty is set weighting scheme for cereals and potatoes, and we got the experimental calculation of aggregated Index for 2010, by quarter s. STATISTICS Chapter 18: M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 18: Statistics

Accounts in agriculture and prices Current situation:  IPA 2011 Multi-Beneficiary Programme on Statistical Cooperation-Pilot Project 8; Agro-Monetary Statistics Produced are elementary indices of output and input for 2011, 2012 and for first quarter of 2013, by products on monthly and quarterly basis. For obtaining of these indices is used, as base year 2011, because data for 2010 are not harmonized. STATISTICS Chapter 18: M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 18: Statistics

Accounts in agriculture and prices Legislative framework: Handbook for prices in agriculture from March on establishing detailed rules for monitoring of prices in agriculture (APS). Commission Regulation (EC) No. 138/2004 from 05. XII on establishing detailed rules for creation of economical accounts in agriculture (EAA). STATISTICS Chapter 18: M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 18: Statistics

Accounts in agriculture and prices Harmonization: The low level of harmonization The overall number of variables of output and input that are required is 4 212, number of variables that are relevant for Montenegro is The number of variables that are not collected currently is 453 (related to intermediate consumption, private consumption and private consumption on farm, in compliance with list of agricultural products). Accounts are not done. STATISTICS Chapter 18: M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 18: Statistics

Accounts in agriculture and prices The plans for future: With expert support following dynamics is possible: – continuation of work on harmonization of base year (2010) and production of weighting scheme in cooperation with Biotechnical faculty.; – calculation of economic accounts in agriculture (pilot – the production account); – calculation of price indices (pilot); – update of report on Accounts and prices in agriculture (Inventory-Pilot Project 8 ). STATISTICS Chapter 18: M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 18: Statistics

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