1.Each Member State shall produce statistics on the crops listed in the Annex and produced on the utilised agricultural area within its territory.
2.Statistics shall be representative of at least 95 % of the following areas:
total area under cultivation of crops from arable land (Table 1);
total harvested area of vegetables, melons and strawberries (Table 2);
total production area of permanent crops (Table 3);
utilised agricultural area (Table 4).
3.Variables with a low or zero prevalence in a Member State may be excluded from the statistics, provided that the Member State in question informs the Commission of all such crops and of the applicable threshold for low prevalence of each such crop by the end of the calendar year immediately preceding each of the reference periods.