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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 205/2014 of 4 March 2014 laying down uniformed conditions for the implementation            of Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council on European demographic statistics, as regards            breakdowns of data, deadlines and data revisions (Text with EEA relevance)         

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# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 205/2014                     

# of 4 March 2014

# laying down uniformed conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 of the European Parliament and the                        Council on European demographic statistics, as regards breakdowns of data, deadlines and data revisions                     

# (Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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

Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 2013 on European                           demographic statistics(1), and in particular Article 3(4) thereof,                        

Whereas:

(1)Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 establishes a common legal framework for the development, production and dissemination of European                              statistics on population and vital events.

(2)In order to ensure that data on population and on vital events provided by Member States, as required by Regulation (EU) No                              1260/2013, are of high quality, comparable, consistent and in order to allow reliable Union-wide overviews to be drawn up,                              the data should be broken down.

(3)Data should be therefore provided to the Commission broken down by territorial units in accordance with Regulation (EC) No                              1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the establishment of a common classification of                              territorial units for statistics (NUTS)(2).

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

## Article 1U.K.Subject matter

This Regulation establishes uniform conditions for the breakdowns of data required by Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013, as well                     as for deadlines and for revisions of those data.                  

## Article 2U.K.Definitions

Definitions laid down in Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 shall apply. In addition, for the purpose of this Regulation, the following                     definitions shall also apply:                  

‘age’ at a given date (either reference time or date of the event) means the interval of time between the date of birth and                              the given date, expressed in completed years;                           

‘country of birth’ of an individual means the country of usual residence (in its current borders, if the information is available)                              of the individual’s mother at the time of the delivery, or, failing this, the country (in its current borders, if the information                              is available) in which the birth took place;                           

‘country of birth of the mother’ means the ‘country of birth’ of the mother;

‘citizenship’ means the particular legal bond between an individual and his or her State, acquired by birth or naturalisation,                              whether by declaration, choice, marriage or other means according to national legislation;                           

‘live-birth order’ means the numerical order of the live birth being recorded in relation to all previous live births of the                              mother;                           

‘month of occurrence’ means the calendar month of occurrence of the event;

‘year of birth’ means the calendar year of occurrence of the birth;

‘Member State’ means a country that is a member of the European Union at the end of the reference year.

## Article 3U.K.Breakdowns and statistical tables

The breakdowns of the data to be provided to the Commission (Eurostat) under Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 are set out in Annex                     I.                  

The statistical tables to be provided to the Commission (Eurostat) are set out in Annex II.

## Article 4U.K.Deadlines

1.Each year Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with provisional data on total population, total live births                        and total deaths at national level, as described in Annex II, point 1, within six months of the end of the reference year.                  

2.Each year Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with data at national and regional level as described in Annex                        II, point 2, and related standard reference metadata (in the metadata structure definition defined for the Euro SDMX Metadata                        Structure) for the reference year within 12 months of the end of the reference year.                  

3.Each year Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with provisional monthly data on total live births and total                        deaths, as described in Annex II, point 3, each covering at least the first six months of the reference year, by 30 November                        of the same reference year.                  

## Article 5U.K.Data revisions

1.Member States shall inform the Commission (Eurostat) of any planned revision of the data supplied under Article 4(2) no later                        than one week before the release of the revised data in the Member State concerned.                  

2.Member States shall provide any revised data to the Commission (Eurostat) no later than one week after the release of these                        data.                  

3.Member States shall ensure that any revised data provided to the Commission (Eurostat) is consistent with the whole set of                        data provided under Article 4(2).                  

## Article 6U.K.Entry into force

This 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.

Done at Brussels, 4 March 2014.

*For the Commission*                            

*The President*                            

José Manuel Barroso                            

## ANNEX IU.K.**BREAKDOWNS OF DATA**

The following breakdowns shall be used for the disaggregation of the statistical data requested under Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013.

The category ‘Unknown’ shall contain less than 5 % of the cases of the category ‘Total’ in the same distribution.

### 1.**Age**U.K.

The category ‘Unknown’ shall not be used. Cases where ‘Age’ is unknown shall be redistributed using best national estimates.

### 2.**Age of the mother**U.K.

### 3.**Country of birth**U.K.

### 4.**Country of birth of the mother**U.K.

### 5.**Country of citizenship**U.K.

A person with two or more citizenships shall be allocated to only one country of citizenship, to be determined in the following                     order of precedence:                  
          -  reporting country, or 
          -  if the person does not have the citizenship of the reporting country: other Member State, or 
          -  if the person does not have the citizenship of another Member State: other country outside the EU. 

In cases of dual citizenship where both countries are within the EU but neither is the reporting country, Member States shall                     determine which country of citizenship is to be allocated.                  

### 6.**Country of citizenship of the mother**U.K.

Technical specifications as for the topic ‘country of citizenship’.

### 7.**Geographical area**U.K.

The version of the NUTS classification or Statistical Regions used shall be the version in force at the end of the reference                     year.                  

### 8.**Live birth order (biological)**U.K.

In the case of multiple births, each live-born child shall be counted separately. The count does not include foetal deaths,                     and is irrespective of whether all live births were in wedlock or out-of-wedlock, or within current or previous legal unions,                     and regardless of whether the live-born children are alive or dead at the reference date or whether or not they are living                     with the mother.                  

### 9.**Month of occurrence**U.K.

### 10.**Sex**U.K.

The category ‘Unknown’ shall not be used. Cases where ‘Sex’ is unknown shall be redistributed using best national estimates.

### 11.**Year of birth**U.K.

The category ‘Unknown’ shall not be used. Cases where ‘Year of birth’ is unknown shall be redistributed using best national                     estimates.                  

### 12.**Year of birth of the mother**U.K.

## ANNEX IIU.K.**STATISTICAL TABLES**

### 1.**Data referred to in Article 4(1)**U.K.

### 2.**Data referred to in Article 4(2)**U.K.

### 3.**Data referred to in Article 4(3)**U.K.

1

OJ L 330, 10.12.2013, p. 39.                           

2

OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1.