COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 822/2010
of 17 September 2010
amending Regulation (EC) No 198/2006 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1552/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises, as regards the data to be collected, the sampling, precision and quality requirements
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1552/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises (1), and in particular Articles 7(3), 8(2) and 9(4) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Regulation (EC) No 1552/2005 establishes a common framework for the production of European statistics on vocational training in enterprises.
(2)
Commission Regulation (EC) No 198/2006 of 3 February 2006 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1552/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises (2) defines the specific data to be collected with respect to the training and non-training enterprises and to the different forms of vocational training, the sampling and precision requirements, the quality requirements for the data to be collected, the structure of the quality reports.
(3)
Following the entry into force of Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 (3), detailed NACE Rev.2 and size categories into which the results can be broken down should be adopted.
(4)
The Commission should define the specific data to be collected with respect to the training and non-training enterprises and to the different forms of vocational training.
(5)
Implementing measures concerning the quality requirements for the data to be collected and transmitted for European statistics on vocational training in enterprises, the structure of the quality reports and any measures necessary for assessing or improving the quality of the data should be adopted.
(6)
Regulation (EC) No 452/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2008 concerning the production and development of statistics on education and lifelong learning (4) defines a new statistical instrument on the participation of adults in lifelong learning.
(7)
In light of the information to be made available through Regulation (EC) No 452/2008 as well as of the need to improve the quality of the results on vocational training in enterprises and lower the statistical burden on enterprises, it is appropriate to modify the codification scheme, sampling, precision and quality requirements.
(8)
Regulation (EC) No 198/2006 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(9)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Annexes I, II, III and V to Regulation (EC) No 198/2006 are replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following 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, 17 September 2010.