16 / 20 Transition timetable by domain and country
When do economic accounts for agriculture move to NACE Rev 2.1?
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Economic accounts for agriculture are one of the domains Eurostat lists as having updated data transmission requirements for NACE Rev. 2.1, with changes set out in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/3102. No single application date for this domain was verified in the Eurostat and EUR-Lex pages consulted for this guide, and no date published as checked on 28 October 2026 is asserted for it here. The general range still applies: data transmission runs from 1 January 2025 to 1 January 2031 (FIXED range), depending on the statistical domain.
What are economic accounts for agriculture?
Economic accounts for agriculture are the accounts that describe agricultural production, intermediate consumption, value added and income for the agricultural industry, organised by economic activity. They are accounts, not a register of businesses, and they are compiled from surveys and administrative sources by the national statistical institutes and transmitted to Eurostat. The NACE breakdown in those accounts places agricultural activity in its section and divisions, and the move to NACE Rev. 2.1 changes the classification terms in which the accounts are transmitted. It does not change the farms, the holdings, or the production that the accounts describe. A reader who uses the accounts should therefore check the classification version in the dataset metadata before comparing a figure with an earlier year.
What does the Eurostat transition page actually state?
The Eurostat transition page states that, based on the correspondence table between NACE Rev. 2 and NACE Rev. 2.1, updated data transmission requirements have been developed, and statistics which currently use NACE Rev. 2 can be provided after the changeover to NACE Rev. 2.1. It then lists five groups: certain European business statistics, economic accounts for agriculture, balance of payments, international trade in services, and foreign direct investment, environmental economic accounts, and other statistical domains. For economic accounts for agriculture, it states that changes are set out in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/3102. That is the full extent of the statement verified here. The page does not, in the text consulted, give a single application date for this domain, and this guide does not supply one.
Why is a domain date not borrowed from another domain?
Borrowing a date would be the easiest error in this cluster. Short term business statistics have a published domain timetable, with NACE Rev. 2 until the end of 2027 (FIXED, as stated by Eurostat) and NACE Rev. 2.1 from 2028 (FIXED, as stated by Eurostat). That timetable belongs to that domain and to the instruments that govern it. Economic accounts for agriculture are governed by a different delegated regulation, with different reference periods and different production arrangements. A date that is fixed for one domain may be wrong for another, and a reader who applies it will misdate the series. The honest record for this domain is therefore a named instrument, a general range, and a statement that no domain date was verified.
| Point | Record for this domain |
|---|---|
| Domain | Economic accounts for agriculture |
| Instrument named by Eurostat | Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/3102 |
| General range | From 1 January 2025 to 1 January 2031 (FIXED range) |
| Domain application date | No date published as checked on 28 October 2026 |
The table keeps the instrument visible while keeping the missing date visible too. A future check that finds a published domain date should replace the last row, with the new date labelled FIXED and the source named.
How is a series in this domain checked in practice?
The check has four steps, and none of them needs a domain date in advance. First, open the Eurostat transition page and confirm the instrument named for the domain. Second, open the dataset metadata for the series in use and record the NACE version, the reference period, and any note about a break in series or a backcast. Third, open the correspondence table for any class that split or moved, and read the mapping type, which may be one to many rather than one to one. Fourth, open the explanatory note for the class, which states what the class includes and excludes. The sequence is the same for every domain. Only the instrument name and the version in the metadata change.
What does this domain timetable not decide?
A change in the transmission requirements for economic accounts for agriculture does not decide the classification of a specific holding or business, and it does not decide any question about subsidies, tax, or licensing. The EUR-Lex summary gives the limit: the legislation applies only to statistical purposes. The entry for a specific unit is confirmed with the national statistical institute or the business register that holds the record. The accounts describe the industry in aggregate. The register holds the entry for the unit.
Confirm the instrument on the Eurostat transition page, record the version and reference period from the dataset metadata, and confirm any single entry with the institute or register that holds it.