PHARE and TF Missions: main findings Multi-Beneficiary Transition Fascility and Statistical Cooperation programme 2005

Countries involved Not yet visited TF Grant: ICON Hungary Slovenia Cyprus Latvia Poland Slovakia Lithuania Estonia Malta Phare: ASA Croatia Turkey Bulgaria Romania Not yet visited Multi-Beneficiary Transition Fascility and Statistical Cooperation programme 2005

Countries’ work programme First phase Croatia (ASA) Turkey (ASA) Cyprus (ICON) Second Phase Hungary (ICON) Slovenia (ICON) Latvia (ICON) Slovakia (ICON) Poland (ICON) Lithuania (ICON) Estonia (ICON) Malta Bulgaria (ASA) Romania (ASA) Multi-Beneficiary Transition Fascility and Statistical Cooperation programme 2005

Parties involved Statistical Office Ministry of Agriculture Ministry of Environment Ministry of Health Plant Protection Service Plant Protection Institute Plant Health Inspection State Inspection Basically identical Multi-Beneficiary Transition Fascility and Statistical Cooperation programme 2005

Sampling frame Farm Register FSS 2003, 2005 or 2007 IACS or other administrative register Multi-Beneficiary Transition Fascility and Statistical Cooperation programme 2005

Sample unit Selection unit is the farm Observation unit is mainly the plot or combination of plots with the same variety and/or treatment Aggregation on Farm level Multi-Beneficiary Transition Fascility and Statistical Cooperation programme 2005

Sample size Between 500-1000 Exception Slovenia (3000) and Romania (4000) Restricting factor: project budget Multi-Beneficiary Transition Fascility and Statistical Cooperation programme 2005

Sample stratification Between 4 (SI) and 158 (LV) Optimal precision (Neyman) for clustering the farms in (size) classes On a certain NUTS (II) level: Standard size classes: HU, SI, SK,LT Flexible size classes: LV, PL Multi-Beneficiary Transition Fascility and Statistical Cooperation programme 2005

Survey type Face to Face: by Advisors and/or Inspectors Postal E-mail (Internet) Phone Multi-Beneficiary Transition Fascility and Statistical Cooperation programme 2005

Fieldwork planning Phase I countries: Cyprus finished Turkey and Croatia in preparation stage Phase II countries: Hungary, Poland, Latvia: ready Romania: until 15 September Lithuania, Malta: on-going until end September Slovenia, Bulgaria: October 2007 Slovakia: ??? Estonia: ??? Multi-Beneficiary Transition Fascility and Statistical Cooperation programme 2005

Data processing and publication All countries developed/intend to develop a data entry application Most countries have a form of IT connection with PPP data base All data stored in electronic format All data processing, analysis and publication can be made standard Who can have all results ready at last workshop first half of December? Multi-Beneficiary Transition Fascility and Statistical Cooperation programme 2005

Objectives/Future plans Hungary: 1 survey every 2 years on all relevant crops ?? Slovenia: 1 survey every 2 years Latvia: 1 survey on all crops in the same year Poland: by national regulation 4 year programme for all relevant crops (21) Other countries: wait and see how Regulation will finally look like Multi-Beneficiary Transition Fascility and Statistical Cooperation programme 2005

PHARE and TF Missions: main findings End Multi-Beneficiary Transition Fascility and Statistical Cooperation programme 2005