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Data Collection Framework - DCF

EU Aquaculture sector

Data call on aquaculture for EU countries

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:
05 November 202504 December 202504 December 202504 December 2025

 

Templates

To be able to upload data you need to use files with a specific structure. The files can be downloaded from the list below:

(last update: 03.11.2025)

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.

Upload and check

uploading:checking:
upload tool
(database storage, final data)		check the data not available
(reloaded once a day during data call)

Definitions

General definitions are available in the 'Definitions and Terminology' section. Of relevance are:

Data type

template fieldsmandatorydata type
achieved sample ratenonumber between 0 and 100
commentsnofree text of not more than 500 characters, spaces count
populationnopositive integer
precision levelnoNR, NA, integer between 1 and 4, decimal between 0 and 1
samplenointeger bigger than 0
sampling-strategynopredefined string: C, NSS, PSS, C_NSS, C_PSS, NSS_PSS, C_NSS_PSS
segmentsyespredefined string
speciesyespredefined string
variable (unit)yesnumeric with maximum 26 digits and 4 decimals
yearyesinteger between 2008 and the year of the data call minus one, 2023 is mandatory

Note:
- please leave the cell empty when the data is not available; while use 0 (zero) when the actual value is a zero.
- 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.