Commission Regulation (EC) No 912/2004 of 29 April 2004 implementing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 on the establishment of a Community survey of industrial production (Text with EEA relevance)
Modified by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 973/2007of 20 August 2007amending certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains implementing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2, 32007R0973, August 21, 2007
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197of 30 July 2020laying down technical specifications and arrangements pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European business statistics repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics(Text with EEA relevance), 32020R1197, August 18, 2020
Commission Regulation (EC) No 912/2004of 29 April 2004implementing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 on the establishment of a Community survey of industrial production(Text with EEA relevance)Article 1The field covered by the survey referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 is to be identified by reference to the survey population and the observation unit.The survey population of the reference period shall be enterprises whose principal activity or one of its secondary activities is listed in sections B or C of the classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE Rev. 2), set out in Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilOJ L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1..The observation unit shall be the enterprise as defined in Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 on the statistical units for the observation and analysis of the production system in the Community. Member States may collect data using another statistical unit as observation unit as long as they transmit enterprise data to Eurostat.Article 2The obligation of the units of the survey population to supply true and complete information if called upon by the Member States referred to in Article 5(2) of the Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 is to be limited to the survey population's observation units that produce products listed in the PRODCOM list.Article 3The obligation of Member States to adopt survey methods designed to facilitate the collection of data from units representing at least 90 % of national production per NACE class referred to in Article 3(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 is to be implemented as Member States’ adoption of survey methods designed to enable the collection of data, representing at least 90 % of national production for each NACE Rev. 2 class of sections B and C.Article 4Member States' exemption from data collection referred to in Article 3(4) of the Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 is to be clarified by reference to national production of a product.Member States need not collect data on a product, if total national production of that product is less than 1 % of the total Community production of the product in the previous year. Data on products not collected because of this exemption shall be reported as zero. Member States are to provide the necessary documentation.Article 5The waiver of Member States' obligation to carry out the PRODCOM survey referred to in Article 5 (3) of the Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 is to be extended to cases where Member States are able to acquire the necessary data, using a combination of different sources and methods.Article 6In addition to the obligation to provide information at the request of Eurostat as set out in Article 5(4) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3921/91Member States are also to provide Eurostat with the necessary information about their survey methods, samples and coverage for the purpose of documentation of compliance with the principles of the PRODCOM methodology as laid down in the manual of PRODCOM methodology.Article 7This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.