Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 of 19 May 1998 concerning short-term statistics
Modified by
Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 29 September 2003adapting to Council Decision 1999/468/EC the provisions relating to committees which assist the Commission in the exercise of its implementing powers laid down in instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the EC Treaty, 303R1882, October 31, 2003
Regulation (EC) No1158/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 6 July 2005amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics, 305R1158, July 22, 2005
Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98of 19 May 1998concerning short-term statisticsTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 213 thereof,Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by the CommissionOJ C 267, 3. 9. 1997, p. 1.,Having regard to the opinion of the European ParliamentOpinion delivered on 20 February 1998 (OJ C 80, 16.3.1998).,Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social CommitteeOJ C 19, 21. 1. 1998, p. 125.,Having regard to the opinion of the European Monetary InstituteOpinion delivered on 11 September 1997 (not yet published in the Official Journal).,(1)Whereas Council Directive 72/211/EEC of 30 May 1972 concerning coordinated statistics on the business cycle in industry and small craft industriesOJ L 128, 3. 6. 1972, p. 28. and Council Directive 78/166/EEC of 13 February 1978 concerning coordinated statistics on the business cycle in building and civil engineeringOJ L 52, 23. 2. 1978, p. 17. which aimed to provide a body of coherent statistics, have not been able to take account of economic and technical changes;(2)Whereas the European Union has in the meantime made further progress towards integration; whereas new economic, competition, social, environmental and enterprise policies and guidelines call for initiatives and decisions based on valid statistics; whereas the information provided for under existing Community legislation or available in the various Member States is partly inadequate or insufficiently comparable to serve as a reliable basis for the work of the Communities;(3)Whereas the future European Central Bank needs rapid short term statistics in order to assess economic development in the Member States in the context of a single European monetary policy;(4)Whereas standardisation is required to meet Community needs for information concerning economic convergence;(5)Whereas it is necessary to have reliable and rapid statistics available in order to report on the economic development in each Member State of the Union within the framework of the economic policy of the Union;(6)Whereas businesses and their professional associations need such information in order to understand their markets and to know their activity and performance relative to their sector, at national and international level;(7)Whereas the compilation of national accounts according to Council Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 of 25 June 1996 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the CommunityOJ L 310, 30. 11. 1996, p. 1. requires the development of comparable, complete and reliable statistical sources;(8)Whereas by Decision 92/326/EECOJ L 179, 1. 7. 1992, p. 131. the Council adopted a two-year programme (1992 to 1993) for the development of European statistics on services; whereas this programme includes the compilation of harmonised statistics at national and regional levels, particularly for the distributive trades;(9)Whereas in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity the creation of common statistical norms that permit the production of harmonised statistics is an action which can only be undertaken efficiently at Community level and whereas they will be applied in each Member State under the authority of the bodies and institutions in charge of compiling official statistics;(10)Whereas the best method of ascertaining the business cycle consists of compiling statistics which conform to common methodological principles and with common definitions of characteristics; whereas it is only from coordinated compilation that harmonised statistics can be drawn up with reliability, speed, flexibility and the level of detail required to meet the needs of the Commission and of enterprises;(11)Whereas seasonal adjustment and the calculation of trend-cycle series for national data can best be carried out by the national statistical authorities; whereas the transmission to the Commission (Eurostat) of seasonally adjusted data and trend-cycle series will increase the coherence between data disseminated nationally and at an international level;(12)Whereas kind-of-activity units (KAU) correspond to one or more operational subdivisions of the enterprise; whereas for a KAU to be observable, the enterprise's information system must be capable of indicating or calculating for each KAU at least the value of production, intermediate consumption, manpower costs, the operating surplus and employment and gross fixed capital formation; whereas KAUs falling within a particular heading in the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE Rev.1) can produce products outside the homogeneous group, on account of secondary activities connected with them which cannot be separately identified from available accounting documents; whereas the enterprise and the KAU are identical when it proves impossible for an enterprise to indicate or calculate information on all of the variables listed in this recital for one or more operational subdivisions;(13)Whereas the statistical data compiled within the Community system must be of a satisfactory quality and this quality, as well as the burden it entails, must be comparable from one Member State to another, and whereas it is therefore necessary to establish jointly the criteria enabling these requirements to be met; whereas short-term statistics must be consistent with the results transmitted in accordance with Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 of 20 December 1996 concerning structural business statisticsOJ L 14, 17. 1. 1997, p. 1.;(14)Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 of 17 February 1997 on Community statisticsOJ L 52, 22. 2. 1997, p. 1. constitutes the reference framework for the provisions of this Regulation, in particular those which cover access to administrative data sources and statistical confidentiality;(15)Whereas it is necessary to simplify the administrative procedures for enterprises, particularly smaller enterprises, including the promotion of new technologies for data collection and compilation; whereas the use of existing administrative data for statistical purposes is one of the measures to decrease the burden on enterprise; whereas if a direct data collection from businesses is indispensable for compiling the statistics, the methods and techniques must ensure that the data are reliable and up to date, without giving rise for the parties concerned, in particular for small and medium sized businesses, to a burden out of proportion to the results which users of the said statistics can reasonably expect;(16)Whereas it is necessary to have a legal framework common to all business activities and domains of business statistics covering also the activities and domains for which statistics are not yet developed; whereas the scope of the statistics to be compiled can be defined by reference to Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 of 15 March 1993 on the statistical units for the observation and analysis of the production system in the CommunityOJ L 76, 30. 3. 1993, p. 1. and Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 of 9 October 1990 on the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE Rev.1)OJ L 293, 24. 10. 1990, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 761/93 (OJ L 83, 3. 4. 1993, p. 1).;(17)Whereas, in order to enable the rules for the collection and statistical processing of data and for processing and transmission of the variables to be clarified further, it is necessary to confer upon the Commission, assisted by the Statistical Programme Committee set up by Council Decision 89/382/EEC, EuratomOJ L 181, 28. 6. 1989, p. 47., the power to adopt measures for the application of this Regulation;(18)Whereas the Statistical Programme Committee has been consulted in accordance with Article 3 of Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom,HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: