A GLANCE AT THE POLISH FADN

Legal basis of the Polish FADN An act of collecting and using accouning data from agricultura haoldings, from 29 November 2000 (O.J. No 3/2001 item 20 as amended) The act went into force on the day of accession to the EU (1.05.2004)

Breakdown of the Polish territory into four FADN regions (Commission Regulation (EU) No 1291/2009 of 18 December 2009)

The field of observation of the Polish FADN Farm threshold in the field of observation amounts to 4000 EUR of SO It equals to 9,9 ha of wheat or 3,8 heads of dairy cows in the FADN region 785 - Pomorze i Mazury

The Polish FADN farm sample The farm sample amounts to 12 100 holdings and is representative for 738 thousands market oriented holdings.

National Committee for FADN Polish FADN is supervised by the “National Committee for System of Collection and Use of Accounting Data from Farms” N.C. consists 9 members, representatives of 6 institutions: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development 3, Ministry of Finance 2, Ministry of Regional Development 1, Central Statistic Office-1, National Board of Agricultural Chambers 1, Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics-NRI 1

The Liaison Agency for FADN Institute for Agricultural and Food Economics-National Research Institute Unit responsible for FADN: Farm Accountancy Department. Department is organized with six sections, responsible for different tasks: Methodology and trainings, Organization of the farm data collection, Computer data base creation and management, Internet portal supply and management, Editing reports and training materials, Analysis and results dissemination

The main tasks of the Liaison Agency Coordination and executions of the Polish FADN: Drafting and reporting the selection plans to the National Committee; Contracting the farm data collection with Agricultural Advisory Centers (AAC) Reporting on implementation of the selection plans to the National Committee and to the EU; Data quality control; Farm data base management; Annually preparing sets of updated farm record books. Point of contact for the FADN services in the European Commission; Data transfer to EU with RICA 1; Participation in meetings of the EU Community Committee on FADN, Participation in meetings of the working groups on certain topics (last one concerns the farm typology).

Details on contracting procedures with MARD Signing an agreements on annual basis with Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Minister of Agriculture has a rights to provide a state funds reserved for Polish FADN

Contracting procedures with MARD Drafting budget for the Polish FADN: May of Year „n-1” Signing agreements with Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development: February – March: Year „n”

Contracting procedures with Agricultural Advisory Centers Annually signing two agreements for: Farm data collection in Year „n” Error free electronic file with FARM DATA SET and INDIVIDUAL FARM REPORT for farmer: Year „n-1”

Entrance to the headquarter of the Polish FADN (Farm Accountancy Department)

Secured territory of the headquarter of the Polish FADN Farm Accountancy Dept. territory is highly secured by electronic means in order to ensure the safety of the farm data

Labour force in Polish FADN 30 IAFE-NRI employees: 25 at headquaters in Warsaw and 5 auditors in different regions of Poland, working in following 6 sections: Methodology and training; Data collection; Database management; Analysis and publication of the results; Typology for agricultural holdings; Multimedia and communication. 1748 employees of the 16 Agricultural Advisory Centers 16 supervisors, 1732 advisors/data collectors working with farmers.

Polish individual holdings do not have any obligation to keep accountancy Accountancy in family farms is fully oriented on Polish FADN needs.

Key condition for successful data collection Convincing farmers to participate in the Polish FADN and gain their trust 17

Quality control procedures in the Polish FADN System is strongly oriented on error free data reflecting as close as possible to agricultural holding reality. Therefore quality control procedures are implemented on every level of farm data processing. 18

Key rule in the farm data quality control procedures Only data collectors are authorized to farms data corrections. That rule ensures uniformity of data bases on all levels of the Polish FADN structure. 19

Results’ tables, Farm Return, Standard Results Accountancy Office Source data: Advisor corrects the data or provides justification tests tests family farms legal entities Data, justifications Tests’ results and experts’ comments Liaison Agency (IAFE) Aggregated data: IAFE experts: - data analysis incl. identification of outliers analysis of tests results and justifications tests Results’ tables, Farm Return, Standard Results

Data flow & use: Results table Reports: Log books individual; Questionaire Results table Technical and economic parameters . The Farm Return Reports: individual; comparison; dynamic. Farm classification Standard Results European Commission

Data transfer (SQL off-line db): Log books (12 100 sets) Data collector 0001 kkkk nnnn Accounting office employee level (1800) Accounting office 001 nnn Accounting office level (16) IAFE-NRI database

Software used: Databases: Data collection: C++ (Polish FADN Application). Data processing & testing: Clipper (dozen of programs), in example: The Farm Return database computation, Standard Results database computation, tests; Variable Base (couple), in example: support in files preparing. Data analysis, data mining, tables preparation: Variable Base Analysis (dozen of programs), in example: wizard for SR tables preparation, support in preparation of publications. Databases: MS SQL; dBase.

Seven standard products of the Polish FADN Computer data base (constant sample of 7627 farms for the period 2005-2009), The Farm Return, Standard Results of the Polish farms, Individual farm report, Benchmarking report, Dynamic farm report, Technical and economic parameters.

The ways to ensure uniformity of the Polish FADN methodology Portal dedicated to the Polish FADN www.fadn.pl (information, documents and software dissemination, FAQ and e-earning). Since the first half of December 2004 over almost 650 thousand visits were recorded. Occasional trainings dedicated to specific subjects (as needed), Seminars and workshops. (latest: 9-th annual workshop/conference with 98 persons involved in the Polish FADN, held between 3-rd and 7-th October 2011 in Skorzęcin)

Polish FADN website www.fadn.pl

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