The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations recommends that parliament adopt the government's draft law on agricultural census, reports LIHABiznesInform. \n \nAccording to the Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the draft law envisages creating legislative prerequisites for organizing and conducting agricultural censuses. It regulates relations of subjects of agricultural censuses, defines their rights and obligations, state guarantees regarding the protection of confidential information obtained in the process of conducting agricultural censuses, etc. \nThe main purpose of conducting an agricultural census is: \nobtaining summary data for analyzing the dynamics of the main indicators of agricultural activity of farms and ensuring the conduct of state statistical observations and corresponding calculations in the period between agricultural censuses; determining structural changes in agriculture for information support of management, forecasting socio-economic development, developing and implementing a balanced state policy in this sector, etc. \nThe general agricultural census is planned to be conducted, as a rule, once every ten years within the timeframes agreed with the conduct of the World Agricultural Censuses. In the period between general agricultural censuses, for a more in-depth study of individual phenomena and processes in the field of agriculture, thematic agricultural censuses are conducted. \nAccording to the draft, primary data obtained in the process of conducting an agricultural census is confidential information protected in accordance with the established procedure. Records relating directly to the respondent are not subject to dissemination without their consent and are used exclusively for statistical purposes in summarized depersonalized form. \nThe authors note that primary data of the agricultural census cannot be demanded by courts, prosecutor's offices, or other bodies for study and use as evidence during consideration of civil and criminal cases or for the purpose of use for making decisions regarding a specific respondent. \n \n \n