# Commission Implementing Decision of 19 February 2013 granting derogations to certain Member States with respect to the transmission            of statistics pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics            on public health and health and safety at work, as regards statistics based on the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS)            (notified under document C(2013) 784) (Only the German, English, French, Dutch and Swedish texts are authentic) (Text with            EEA relevance) (2013/97/EU)         

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# Commission Implementing Decision

# of 19 February 2013

# granting derogations to certain Member States with respect to the transmission of statistics pursuant to Regulation (EC) No                        1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at                        work, as regards statistics based on the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS)                     

# (notified under document C(2013) 784)

# (Only the German, English, French, Dutch and Swedish texts are authentic)

# (Text with EEA relevance)

# (2013/97/EU)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on Community                           statistics on public health and health and safety at work(1), and in particular Article 9(2) thereof,                        

Having regard to the requests made by the Kingdom of Belgium, the French Republic, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Kingdom                           of Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,                        

Whereas:

(1)In accordance with Article 9(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008, the Commission may grant Member States derogations and transition                              periods, both to be based upon objective grounds.

(2)It emerges from the information provided to the Commission that the Member States’ requests for derogations are due to the                              need for major adaptations to national administrative and statistical systems in order to comply in full with Regulation (EC)                              No 1338/2008.

(3)Such derogations should be granted, at their request, to Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

(4)The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

# Article 1U.K.

Derogations as set out in the Annex are granted to the Member States listed therein.

# Article 2U.K.

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium, the French Republic, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Kingdom of                     Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.                  

Done at Brussels, 19 February 2013.

*For the Commission*                            

Algirdas Šemeta                            

*Member of the Commission*                            

## ANNEXU.K.**Derogations from Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008, as implemented by the Commission, concerning statistics based on the European                           Health Interview Survey (EHIS)**

Belgium, France and the Netherlands shall not deliver the variables specified in the following table:

Sweden and the United Kingdom: the reference population in Sweden and in the United Kingdom shall be individuals aged 16 and                     over living in private households residing in the territory of these Member States at the time of the data collection.                  

1

OJ L 354, 31.12.2008, p. 70.