Statistics FEDIOL Statistics FEDIOL Statistics on EU production, imports, exports and consumption are available for the year 2008 and for the 1980-2008 period. Our statistics cover Oilseeds (tariff headings 1201 to 1207), Vegetable oils and fats (tariff headings 1507 to 1515) and Meals (tariff headings 2304 to 2306). The different tables give the EU total figures.

Sources

Most of the figures have been taken from reports supplied by members of FEDIOL. They have been complemented where necessary by figures taken from:

• statistics from the EUROSTAT (Statistical Office of the European Communities), Luxembourg
• annual statistics from OILWORLD, Ista Mielke GmbH, Hamburg
• statistics from FEFAC, Brussels
• statistics from COCERAL, Brussels
• statistics from COPA-COGECA, Brussels

Products covered

1. Oilseeds (tariff headings 1201 to 1207):

a.

Volumes processed for the production of oils and meals, with the exception of olives. This refers exclusively to seeds and fruits processed into oils and meals in Community plants.

b.

Production, imports, exports of oilseeds, with the exception of olives. For certain varieties, the figures given here, whether they concern production or trade, do not fully correspond to those mentioned under a. In fact, some of the seeds are also used for other purposes than their processing into oils and meals. Such is the case for flax seeds, sunflower seeds, rape seeds and soya beans which are used either for sowing or in food products or in animal feedstuffs.

2. Vegetable oils and fats (tariff headings 1507 to 1515):

• This includes crude and other than crude oils and fats with the exception of olive oil.
• Imports of vegetable oils and fats are classified according to whether they are used for edible or technical purposes, with oils for animal feedstuffs being regarded as technical. This distinction is based on the fact that the rates of the Common Customs Tariff vary according to whether the products are used for edible or technical purposes.
• In this respect, customs duties on oils and fats for technical purposes are usually only half those applied to products for edible purposes.
• Concerning the production of crude vegetable oils and fats it was not possible, however, to apply the distinction between edible and technical purposes.

The "consumption" of vegetable oils and fats is the result of the following:

production of crude oils + imports of crude and other than crude oils - exports of crude and other than crude oils with stocks not taken into account.

3. Meals (tariff headings 2304 to 2306, oil cakes and other residues resulting from the extraction of olive oil excluded):

Account has been taken of meals for animal feedstuffs only; castor meals, which are used for technical purposes - fertilizers in particular -, have not been included. Neither have meat meals, bone meals, blood meals,...

The meal "consumption" has been calculated by using the same criteria as for the vegetable oils and fats "consumption", i.e.:

production of crude oils + imports of crude and other than crude oils - exports of crude and other than crude oils with stocks not taken into account.

The compound feeds production, as the main outlet for meals, is given for information.

Years and areas covered

The tables related to year 2008 cover each EU member country and the EU as a whole. The historic tables for the EU as a whole and for each EU member country cover the years 1980, 1990 and 2000 to 2008.

As from year 2006, the statistics cover the following areas: Austria, Belgium, Denmark (except the Faroe Islands and Greenland), Germany (except the Island of Heligoland and the territory of Buesingen), Greece, Finland,(including the Âland Islands), France (including Monaco and the overseas departments of Guadeloupe, French-Guiana, Martinique and Réunion, except the overseas territories and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon and Mayotte), Ireland, Italy (excluding San Marino), Luxembourg, the Netherlands in Europe, Portugal, Spain (except Ceuta and Melilla), Sweden, the United Kingdom (Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man), the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, the Slovak Republic, Bulgaria and Romania.

Special Notes

1. Total EU exports and imports:

The figures relating to the exports and the imports of the EU as a whole do not include intra-Community trade.

It must be noted that:

• the exports from a particular country - whether they are seeds, oils or meals – can include products which have not been obtained in the exporting country ; The Netherlands, for example, may export soybean meals which have been previously imported from Belgium, Germany or even third countries such as the USA, Brazil,....
• the imports of a particular country from any other country can include products which do not originate in the exporting country; Belgium and the United Kingdom, for example, may import soybeans from the Netherlands which originate in the USA, Brazil, etc... and have merely passed through Rotterdam in transit.

2. Consumption sheets:

With regard to the EU consumption sheets, for oils and fats as well as for meals, they can be established in two different ways:

a.	by adding up the balances of each member state. The fact that intra-Community trade has been left out of the import and export figures should have no impact on the total EU figures since each import from a member state represents an export to another and vice-versa.
b.	by only taking into account the Community production and the extra-Community trade, i.e. imports from and exports to third countries.

The figures obtained by applying either method should be identical. However, there are some slight differences which are probably due to:

• delays in recording statistical figures. An export operation may be recorded in the exporting country (The Netherlands for example), whereas it has not yet been recorded in the importing country (Italy for example). This tends to happen most frequently in December/January.
• the fact also that the real country of destination is not always recorded when the export takes place because it may not be known at the time. As an example: a French rapeseed oil is exported to Rotterdam. It is recorded in France as being an export to The Netherlands, but in fact, it is only passing through Rotterdam on its way to a third country.

In these statistics, for oils and fats as well as for meals, we have followed the first method, namely the adding up of national balances.

N.B.

Due to the modification of the data collecting system of the intra-Community exchanges (setting up of the Single Market as from 1993), imports and exports figures may present some inaccuracies. For some countries these figures are provisory and have thus to be used with reserves.

0: less than 500 mt
no figures: figure unavailable

Due to individual rounding figures may not add up to the totals shown

For the EU as a whole, the tables and graphs cover the following area:
- up to and including 1972, EC at 6
- from 1973 included, EC at 9
- from 1986 included, EC/EU at 12
- from 1995 included, EU at 15
- from 2004 included, EU at 25
- from 2006 included, EU at 27