Commission Regulation (EC) No 1670/2003
of 1 September 2003
implementing Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 with regard to the definitions of characteristics for structural business statistics and amending Regulation (EC) No 2700/98 concerning the definitions of characteristics for structural business statistics
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 of 20 December 1996 concerning structural business statistics(1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1669/2003(2), and in particular Article 12 (iii) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 established a common framework for the production of Community statistics on the structure, activity, performance and competitiveness of businesses in the Community.
(2) Commission Regulation (EC) No 2700/98 of 17 December 1998 concerning the definitions of characteristics for structural business statistics(3), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1614/2002(4), included the definitions of the structural business statistics characteristics listed in the common module and the detailed modules for industry, distributive trades and construction of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 concerning structural business statistics. Council Regulation (EC) No 2056/2002(5) introduced a new set of characteristics for credit institutions and pension funds as well as new characteristics on environmental expenditure, for which common definitions are necessary. Moreover, it is also necessary to amend existing definitions for the characteristics on number of enterprises, turnover, production value, value added at factor cost and total purchases of goods and services, as the definitions set out in Regulation (EC) No 2700/98 cannot be used for the calculation of the value of these characteristics for insurance services, credit institutions, pension funds and central banking activities.
(3) It is necessary to implement a set of definitions for structural business characteristics for the insurance services, credit institutions and pension funds in order to ensure that the statistical data provided to the Commission is comparable, harmonised and of good quality.
(4) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Statistical Programme Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
The definitions of the characteristics 12 12 0 and 12 15 0 of Regulation (EC) No 2700/98 necessary for the activities covered in the Annexes 5, 6 and 7 to Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 as well as for the activities of NACE rev. 1, class 65.11 are amended as set out in Annex I, sections 3 and 4 to this Regulation.
The definition of characteristic 11 11 0 for the activities covered in Annex 7, the definition of characteristic 12 11 0 for the activities covered in Annexes 5 and 7 and the definition of the characteristic 13 11 0 for the activities of Annexes 5 and 6 are amended as set out in Annex I, sections 1, 2 and 5 to this Regulation.
Article 2
The amended definition of the characteristic 21 11 0 of Regulation (EC) No 2700/98 and the definitions of characteristics 21 12 0 and 21 14 0 are specified in Annex II to this Regulation.
Article 3
The definitions of the characteristics listed in section 4 of Annex 6 to Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 are specified in Annex III to this Regulation.
Article 4
The definitions of the characteristics listed in section 4 of Annex 7 to Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 are specified in Annex IV to this Regulation.
Article 5
Member States shall apply the amendments of the definitions of the characteristics 12 12 0, 12 15 0 and 13 11 0 of section 4 of Annex 1 for the activities of NACE rev. 1 group 65.1 and for the credit institutions classified under NACE rev. 1, class 65.22 for the reference year 2001 and subsequent years.
For the activities of NACE rev. 1, class 66.02, Member States shall apply the definitions of the characteristics 11 11 0, 12 11 0, 12 12 0 and 12 15 0 for the reference year 2002 and subsequent reference years.
Member States shall apply the amended definition of the characteristic 21 11 0 and the definitions of characteristics 21 12 0 and 21 14 0 of section 4 of Annex 2 for the reference year 2001 and subsequent reference years.
Member States shall apply the definitions for the characteristics listed in section 4 of Annex 6 to Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 for the reference year 2001 and subsequent years.
They shall apply the definitions for the characteristics listed in section 4 of Annex 7 to Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 for the reference year 2002 and subsequent years.
Article 6
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th 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, 1 September 2003.