1. A GLANCE AT THE POLISH FADN

2. 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 ( )

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

4. 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 Pomorze i Mazury

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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).

10. 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

11. 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”

12. 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”

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

14. 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

15. 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.

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

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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

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

23. 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.

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

25. The ways to ensure uniformity of the Polish FADN methodology
Portal dedicated to the Polish FADN (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)

26. Polish FADN website www.fadn.pl

27. Thank you for your attention ….