A single unit, both technically and economically, which has a single management and which conducts agricultural activity.

By reason of the introduction from 2010of gradual changes in the methodology of agricultural surveys, aimed primarily at adaptation to EU standards and taking into account the changes taking place in the Polish agruculture, as well as the wider use of administrative sources, a definition of agricultural holding has change. According to current definition, agricultural holdings do not includeholders of agricultural landnot conducting agricultural activity and the holders of agricultural land with an area of less than 1 ha conducting agricultural activity on a small scale.

• Regulation (EC) No 1166/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on farm structure surveys and the survey on agricultural production methods and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 571/88 (Text with EEA relevance)
  Place of publication: Dz. Urz. UE L 321 z 1.12.2008, str. 14—34