Under the provisions of Council Regulation 2017/1004, we are requesting the economic variables for the aquaculture sector detailed in Table 10 of the Commission Delegated Decision (EU) 2021/1167.
In particular, Income (gross total sales, operating subsidies, Subsidies on investments and other income), Operating costs (Wages and salaries of staff and value of unpaid labour, Energy costs livestock costs, feed costs, Repair and maintenance costs, Other operating costs), Capital costs ;(consumption of fixed capital), Investments in tangible assets (net purchase of assets), Financial position (Capital value and Gross debt), Financial results (Financial income and Financial expenses), Raw material weight (livestock and feed used), Weight of sales, Employment (Paid labour, unpaid labour, Total FTE, Number of hours worked by employees and unpaid labour) and Number of enterprises pertaining to the EU aquaculture sector. Turnover and volume of sales need to be detailed by species.
They are also invited to submit listed data following aquaculture segmentation.
Period
| opening: | legal deadline: | operational deadline: | database closure: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 August 2026 | 16 September 2026 | 23 September 2026 | 09 October 2026 |
Official communications
- official letter (not launched yet)
- data-handling procedure
- guidelines economic
- requested data
Important notes
- The upload tool accepts only Excel files with a specific format, as they are provided:
- do not change the headers (names and order of columns).
- do not change the sheet's name
- the file's name must start with the one provided, any string can be added after provided file name; for example: aqua_sales can become aqua_sales_2018 or aqua_sales_JRC but not JRC_aqua_sales.
- If you need to change or delete values in year X, you need to reupload all the valid values for year X. The system will substitute the new list with the old one for a given year. Changes are executed by year.
- If data is not available leave the cell empty; the 0 (zero) is used when the actual value is a zero.
- If the Segment "Total" is not provided then it will be automatically calculated as sum of all other segments uploaded for the same year.
Upload and check
| uploading: | checking: |
|---|---|
| upload tool (database storage, final data) | check the data (reloaded once a day during data call) |
Definitions
General definitions are available in the 'Definitions and Terminology' section. Of relevance are:
Data type
| template fields | mandatory | data type |
|---|---|---|
| achieved sample rate | no | number between 0 and 100 |
| comments | no | free text of not more than 500 characters, spaces count |
| population | no | positive integer |
| precision level | no | NR, NA, integer between 1 and 4, decimal between 0 and 1 |
| sample | no | integer bigger than 0 |
| sampling-strategy | no | predefined string: C, NSS, PSS, C_NSS, C_PSS, NSS_PSS, C_NSS_PSS |
| segments | yes | predefined string |
| species | yes | predefined string, if a specific species is missing in the list please contact the jrc-datasubmission ec [dot] europa [dot] eu (JRC) |
| value | yes | numeric with maximum 26 digits and 4 decimals |
| variable (unit) | yes | predefined string of the list, see table below |
| year | yes | integer between 2008 and the year of the data call minus one, (2023 and 2024 are mandatory) |
Note:
- please leave the cell empty when the data is not available; while use 0 (zero) when the actual value is a zero.
Variable list
| variable name | unit | template | comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumption of fixed capital | euro | economic | |
| Energy costs | euro | economic | |
| Financial income | euro | economic | |
| Financial expenditures | euro | economic | |
| Full-time equivalent FTE | number | economic | |
| Gross Debt | euro | economic | |
| Gross sales | euro | economic | |
| Gross sales per species | euro | sales | |
| Investments in tangible assets (net purchase of assets) | euro | economic | |
| Number of hours worked by employees and unpaid workers | hours | economic | optional |
| Number of enterprises less or equal than 5 employees | number | economic | |
| Number of enterprises between 6 and 10 employees | number | economic | |
| Number of enterprises more or equal than 11 employees | number | economic | |
| Operating subsidies | euro | economic | |
| Other income | euro | economic | |
| Other operating costs | euro | economic | |
| Paid labour | number | economic | |
| Personnel costs | euro | economic | |
| Raw material: Livestock costs | euro | economic | |
| Raw material: Feed costs | euro | economic | |
| Raw material weight: Livestock used | kilogram | economic | |
| Raw material weight: Fish feed used | kilogram | economic | |
| Repair and maintenance | euro | economic | |
| Subsidies on investments | euro | economic | |
| Unpaid labour | number | economic | |
| Value of assets | euro | economic | |
| Value of unpaid labour | euro | economic | |
| Weight sales | kilogram | economic | |
| Weight sales per species | kilogram | sales |
Note:
- upper-case or lower case or camel-case is all accepted by the system.
DCF (historical)
Under the provisions of Commission Decision 2010/93/EU, was requested the variables and number of enterprises pertaining to the EU aquaculture sector (Appendix X). Moreover, turnover and volume of sales need to be detailed by species. Member States are invited to submit the those data following the segmentation set out in the Appendix XI of the Commission Decision 2010/93/EU.