1998R2702 — EN — 01.01.2007 — 004.001

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►B COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2702/98 of 17 December 1998 concerning the technical format for the transmission of structural business statistics (Text with EEA relevance) (OJ L 344, 18.12.1998, p.102)

Amended by:





Amended by:







NB: This consolidated version contains references to the European unit of accout and/or the ecu, which from 1 January 1999 should be understood as references to the euro — Council Regulation (EEC) No 3308/80 (OJ L 345, 20.12.1980, p. 1) and Coundil Regulation (EC) No 1103/97 (OJ L 162, 19.6.1997, p. 1).









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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2702/98

of 17 December 1998

concerning the technical format for the transmission of structural business statistics

(Text with EEA relevance)







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 ( 1 ) concerning structural business statistics, and in particular Article 12(viii) thereof, Whereas Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 established a common framework for the production of Community statistics on the structure, activity, competitiveness and performance of businesses in the Community; Whereas it is necessary to specify the technical format for the transmission of structural business statistics; Whereas the envisaged measures are in accordance with the opinion of the Statistical Programme Committee, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:







Article 1

The technical format referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 concerning structural business statistics is defined in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

Member States shall apply this format for the data concerning the 1996 reference year and subsequent years.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.









ANNEX

TECHNICAL FORMAT

1. The form of the data

The data is sent as a set of records of which a large part describes the characteristics of the data (country, year, economic activity, etc.). The data itself is a number which can be linked to flags and explanatory footnotes used for example to describe aggregations of NACE codes. Confidential data should be sent with the true value being recorded in the value field and a flag indicating the nature of the confidential data being added to the record.

In order to be precise about the nature of the data, it is necessary to distinguish the following special cases:

— data equal to zero (coded ‘0’): real values of zero only,

— confidential data (coded ‘x’): indicates data which the Member State does not transmit to Eurostat because the data is confidential,

— missing data (coded ‘m’): this is data which is currently missing but the Member State intends to supply when available,

— data not available: this is data which is not collected in a Member State. In this case the corresponding record is not sent.

By default, if an entire dimension (a variable, a NUTS code, a NACE code, etc.) is not collected then the corresponding records will not exist except for those which are missing because they form part of a regrouping of NACE codes. This is why it is important to distinguish data which is really missing by supplying a record (one per missing item) in which the data value is coded as ‘m’, and data which is really equal to zero by supplying the corresponding records in which the data value is set to 0.

2. Record structure

Records are made up of fields of variable length separated by semi-colons (;). The maximum expected length is shown in the table for information. In order from left to right they are:







Field Type Maximum length Values Series A 2 1A, 1B, 2C, 3A, 4A, 4B, etc. Alphanumeric code of the series (see list below) Year A 4 Year in four characters e.g. 1995 for 1995 Territorial unit A 6 Corresponds to the country code for national series or to the NUTS 95 code of the region for regional series. NUTS 95 is the new nomenclature put in place in June 1995 Size class A 2 Code for the size class (see list below) Economic activity A 4 NACE Rev 1 code: e.g. the manufacture of bicycles is coded 3542, the manufacture of furniture is 36.1, transport via railways is coded 601 Form of ownership or FATS identification A 2 A code distinguishing public and private enterprises (only used in industry and construction) or a code identifying the data collection method for foreign affiliates trade statistics — FATS — and the sort of FATS (only used in services) (see list below) Location of ownership — FATS A 2 Code for FATS corresponding to the country where ownership or control is located (only used in services) Variable A 5 Variable code. The codes laid down in the SBS Regulation have 5 characters (see list below) Data value A 12 Numeric value of the data (negative values are preceded by a minus sign) expressed as a whole number without decimal places. An ‘X’ should be used if the data is not sent to Eurostat because the data is confidential and an ‘M’ should be used if the data is not sent because it is missing Quality flag A 1 R: revised data, M: updated data, P: provisional data Confidentiality flag A 1 A, B, C, D: indicates that the data is confidential and the reason for that confidentiality (see list below). A blank space indicates non-confidential data Dominance N 3 A numeric value less than or equal to 100. This indicates the percentage dominance of one or two enterprises which dominate the data and make it confidential. The value is rounded to the nearest whole number: e.g. 90.3 becomes 90, 94.50 becomes 95. This field is blank for non-confidential data. This field is only used when the confidentiality flags B or C are used in the previous field Aggregation of NACE codes A 40 Label explaining that the data corresponds to an aggregation of several NACE codes. For example, 31.1 = 31.2 + 31.3 + 31.4 Breakdown of products A 6 Corresponds to CPA code (only used in distributive trades) Turnover size classes A 2 Codes for the turnover size classes (only used in distributive trades) (see list below) Sales area size classes A 2 Codes for the sales area size classes (only used in distributive trades) (see list below) Units of data values (optional) A 4 Optional field with codes for indicating if non-standard units have been used (see list below) ▼M2 Breakdown by environmental domains A 4 Code for environmental domains (only used in industry) ▼B NB: A = Alphanumeric, N = Numeric This format may be converted into a fixed format by using the maximum length of each field and right justifying the contents of each field preceded by blanks.

3. Description of the fields

3.1. The type of series







Series type Code Annual enterprise statistics (all sectors) 1A Annual enterprise statistics by size class (all sectors) 1B Annual regional statistics (all sectors) 1C Preliminary results (all sectors) 1D Sectoral pilot studies (sections M to O) 1E Pilot studies on characteristics (all sectors) 1F Pilot studies on foreign affiliates trade statistics (services) 1G Annual enterprise statistics (industry) 2A ▼M2 Environmental protection expenditure broken down by environmental domains 2B ▼M1 ————— ▼B Annual enterprise statistics by size class (industry) 2D Annual KAU statistics (industry) 2E Annual regional statistics (industry) 2F Multi-yearly employment statistics (industry) 2H Multi-yearly intangible investment and subcontracting statistics (industry) 2J Multi-yearly subcontracting statistics by size class (industry) 2K Multi-yearly statistics on the purchase of energy products (industry) 2L Preliminary results (industry) 2N ▼M2 Environmental protection expenditure broken down by size classes 2O ▼B Pilot studies on characteristics (industry) 2P Preliminary results (distributive trades) 3A Annual enterprise statistics (distributive trades) 3B Annual enterprise statistics by size class (distributive trades) 3C Multi-yearly enterprise statistics (distributive trades) 3D Annual regional statistics (distributive trades) 3E Multi-yearly regional statistics (distributive trades) 3F Annual enterprise statistics (construction) 4A ▼M1 ————— ▼B Annual enterprise statistics by size class (construction) 4D Annual KAU statistics (construction) 4E Annual regional statistics (construction) 4F Multi-yearly employment statistics (construction) 4H Multi-yearly intangible investment and subcontracting statistics (construction) 4J Multi-yearly subcontracting statistics by size class (construction) 4K Multi-yearly statistics on the purchase of energy products (construction) 4L Preliminary results (construction) 4N Pilot studies (construction) 4P

3.2. Territorial unit

This code corresponds to the country for national series or to the region for regional series (series 1C, 2F, 3E, 3F, 4F). It is based on the NUTS 95 code. For regions, two characters are added to the two characters for the country (see NUTS 95).

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Country Code Belgium BE Bulgaria BG Czech Republic CZ Denmark DK Germany DE Estonia EE Greece GR Spain ES France FR Ireland IE Italy IT Cyprus CY Latvia LV Lithuania LT Luxembourg LU Hungary HU Malta MT Netherlands NL Austria AT Poland PL Portugal PT Romania RO Slovenia SI Slovakia SK Finland FI Sweden SE United Kingdom UK Iceland IS Liechtenstein LI Norway NO Switzerland CH

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3.3. Size classes

Each size class corresponds to a code. Most series cover all size categories and hence code 30 is the most appropriate.

All codes from 01 up to 53 refer to the number of persons employed. Codes 80 to 85 refer to gross premiums written.







Employment size class Code 0 01 1—9 02 0—9 03 10—19 04 0—19 05 1—19 06 20—49 07 50—99 08 20—99 09 10—99 10 100—249 11 100—199 12 200—249 13 250—499 14 200—499 15 100—499 16 500—999 17 1 000—1 999 18 2 000—4 999 19 1 000—4 999 20 5 000 + 21 1 000 + 22 500 + 23 250 + 24 100 + 25 20 + 26 10 + 27 Total 30 0—2 40 1—2 41 3—9 42 3—19 43 200 + 44 1 45 2 46 3—4 47 5—9 48 1—49 49 10—49 50 2—4 51 50—249 52 1—4 53 ▼M1 2-9 54 ▼B







Size class by gross premiums written (million ECU) Code < 5 80 5—50 81 51—250 82 251—500 83 501—1 000 84 1 000 + 85

3.4. Economic activity

This field is used for the NACE Rev.1 heading. A number of standard aggregates are foreseen by the SBS Regulation and should be coded as follows.







Economic activity standard aggregates Code 55.1 + 55.2 55A 55.3 + 55.4 + 55.5 55B 60.21 + 60.22 + 60.23 602A 63.1 + 63.2 + 63.4 63A 71.1 + 71.2 71A 74.11 + 74.12 + 74.14 + 74.15 741A 74.2 + 74.3 74A

Non-standard aggregates should be indicated in the ‘Aggregation of NACE codes field’.

3.5. Form of ownership or FATS identification

This field is used either for breakdowns according to form of ownership (only used in industry and construction) or FATS identification (only used in services). There are no series that breakdown by both classifications.

The requirements concerning the breakdown of characteristics following the location of ownership or control (FATS) are part of Annex 1, section 10, paragraph 3 of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97. Thus data collection is subject to testing.

The data concern a breakdown of totals by the country or geographical region where ownership or control is located. Three pieces of information are required:

— the method used for the collection: ultimate beneficial owner or ‘first shot’ information,

— the kind of FATS: inward/resident FATS or outward FATS,

— the country where ownership or control is located or for outward FATS where, for example, turnover is generated or employment is located.

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Form of ownership (or FATS identification) Code FATS identification: ultimate beneficial owner (UBO) data on inward FATS 30 FATS identification: ‘First shot’ data on inward FATS 40 FATS identification: ultimate beneficial owner (UBO) data on outward FATS 50 FATS identification: ‘First shot’ data on outward FATS 60

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3.6. Location of ownership — FATS

Only used in services.

The codes to be used are those also used for balance of payments statistics (the same as the above codes in section 3.2). Country codes and other area codes (an incomplete list) are shown at the end of this format.

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3.7. Variable







Variable title Code Number of enterprises 11110 Number of births of enterprises 11120 Number of deaths of enterprises 11130 Number of local units 11210 Number of kind-of- activity units 11310 Turnover 12110 Production value 12120 Gross margin on goods for resale 12130 Value added at market prices 12141 Value added at factor cost 12150 Income from ordinary activities 12160 Gross operating surplus 12170 Financial surplus 12180 Gross ordinary surplus 12190 Profit or loss for the year 12200 Total purchases of goods and services 13110 Purchases of goods and services purchased for resale in the same conditions as received 13120 Other purchases of goods and services 13130 Payments for agency workers 13131 Change in stocks of goods and services 13210 Change in stocks of goods and services purchased for resale in the same condition as received 13211 Change in stocks of raw materials and consumables 13212 Change in stocks of finished products and work in progress manufactured by the unit 13213 Personnel costs 13310 Wages and salaries 13320 Social security costs 13330 Operating costs linked to buildings and equipment 13410 Payments for long-term rental and operational leasing of goods 13411 Cost of selling 13420 Other operating costs 13430 Turnover from intra-Community deliveries of goods and services 14110 Turnover from extra-Community exports of goods and services 14120 Turnover from non-domestic sales 14130 Turnover from domestic sales 14140 Intra-Community acquisitions of goods and services 14210 Extra-Community imports of goods and services 14220 Non-domestic purchases of goods and services 14230 Domestic purchases of goods and services 14240 Gross investment in tangible goods 15110 Gross investment in land 15120 Gross investment in buildings, structures, construction and alterations 15119 Gross investment in existing buildings and structures 15130 Gross investment in construction and alteration of buildings 15140 Gross investment in machinery and equipment 15150 Sales of tangible investment goods 15210 Net investment in tangible goods 15250 Value of tangible goods acquired through financial leasing 15310 Acquisitions of intangible fixed assets 15410 Gross investment in concessions, patents, licenses, trade marks and other similar rights 15420 Marketing expenditure 15430 Gross investment in software 15440 Investment in purchased software 15441 Investment in software produced by the unit 15442 Purchases of shares and participating interests 15610 Sales of shares and participating interests 15620 Net purchases of shares and participating interests 15650 Number of persons employed 16110 Number of unpaid persons employed 16120 Number of employees 16130 Number of part-time employees 16131 Number of homeworkers 16135 Number of employees in full-time equivalent units 16140 Number of hours worked by employees 16150 Number of enterprises having an association or cooperation agreement with other enterprises 17110 Information on forms of trading by enterprises 17310 Number of retail stores 17320 Category of sales space for retail stores engaged in retail trade 17330 Sales space 17331 Number of fixed market stands and/or stalls 17340 Turnover from agriculture, forestry, fishing and industrial activities 18100 Turnover from the principal activity at the NACE Rev.1 three-digit level 18110 Turnover from industrial activities 18120 — Turnover from industrial activities excluding construction 18121 — Turnover from construction 18122 Turnover from services activities 18150 Turnover from trading activities of purchase and resale and intermediary activities (agents) 18160 Breakdown of turnover by product (according to Section G of the CPA) 18210 — Turnover from building 18310 — Turnover from civil engineering 18320 Purchases of energy products (value) 20110 Purchases of solid fuels (in value) 20111 Purchases of petroleum products (in value) 20112 Purchases of natural and derived gas (in value) 20113 Purchases of renewable energy sources (in value) 20114 Purchases of heat (in value) 20115 Purchases of electricity (in value) 20116 Investment in equipment and plant for pollution control, and special anti-pollution accessories (mainly end of pipe equipment) 21110 ▼M2 Investment in equipment and plant linked to cleaner technology (integrated technology) 21120 Total current expenditure on environmental protection 21140 ▼M1 Total intra-mural R&D expenditure 22110 Total number of R&D personnel 22120 Payments to subcontractors 23110 Income from subcontracting 23120 Percentage share of turnover to resale traders: retail traders 25111 Percentage share of turnover to professional users (wholesalers, others) 25112 Percentage share of turnover to final consumers (retail trade activity) 25113 Percentage share of purchases from wholesalers, purchasing groups 25211 percentage share of purchases from producers 25212 Gross value added per person employed (labour productivity) 91110 Gross value added per unit labour cost (wage-adjusted labour productivity) 91120 Gross value added per employee 91130 Gross value added per employee FTE 91140 Gross value added per hour worked by employees 91150 Labour cost per employee (unit labour cost) 91210 Labour cost per employee FTE 91220 Labour cost per hour worked by employees 91230 Share of employers' social charges as a percentage of wages and salaries 91310 Gross operating surplus/turnover (gross operating rate) 92110 Turnover from non-domestic sales as a share of turnover 93110 Turnover from domestic sales as a share of turnover 93120 Non-domestic purchases as a share of total purchases 93210 Domestic purchases as a share of total purchases 93220 Share of principal activity in turnover (degree of specialisation) 94110 Share of value added in manufacturing total 94210 Share of value added in industry total 94220 Share of employment in manufacturing total 94310 Share of employment in industry total 94320 Ratio of stocks of finished products and work in progress to production value 94410 Share of R&D expenditure in value added 95110 Share of R&D employment in the number of persons employed 95120 Share of environmental protection investment in total tangible investment 95210 Share of environmental protection expenditure in total purchases of goods and services and labour cost 95220

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3.8. Data value

Monetary data is expressed in thousands of national currency units except for:

— Ireland: data is given in units (IEP),

— Spain, Greece and Italy: data is given in millions of national currency units.

In order to be precise about the nature of the data, it is necessary to distinguish the following cases:

— data equal to zero (coded ‘0’): real values of zero only,

— confidential data (coded ‘X’): indicates data which the Member State does not transmit to Eurostat because the data is confidential. A flag should also be used to indicate that the data is missing due to confidentiality (see 3.10 below),

— missing data (coded ‘m’): this is data which is currently missing but the Member State intends to supply when available,

— data not available: this is data, which is not collected in a Member State. In this case the corresponding record is not sent.

By default, if an entire dimension (a variable, a NUTS code, a NACE code, etc.) is not collected then the corresponding records will not exist excepts for those which are missing because they form part of a regrouping of NACE codes. This is why it is important to distinguish data which is really missing by supplying a record (one per missing item) in which the data value is coded as ‘m’.

3.9. Quality flag







Data type Code Revised data R Updated data M Provisional data P

Revised data refers to data which are sent for a second (or more) time and are corrections of data which have been previously sent. Updated data concerns data which was not previously available and was coded as missing in the data value field (see 3.8) but has since become available. The flag indicating provisional data should be used in order to indicate that it is likely that that the data being transmitted may be corrected.

3.10. Confidentiality

Member States are asked to clearly indicate confidential data using the flags listed below.

Countries which cannot send confidential data are asked to set the value to ‘x’ (see 3.8) and to indicate using a flag that the data is missing due to confidentiality.







Reason for confidentiality Flag Too few enterprises A One enterprise dominates the data B Two enterprises dominate the data C Confidential data due to secondary confidentiality D

3.11. Turnover size classes

The size classes below are measured in million ECU.







Turnover size class Code 0—1 01 1—2 02 2—4 03 4—5 04 5—10 05 10—20 06 20—50 07 50—200 08 200—1 000 09 1 000 + 10 2—5 11 200 + 12

3.12. Sales area size classes







Sales area size class Code less than 120 m2 01 120—399 m2 02 400—999 m2 03 1 000—2 499 m2 04 2 500—4 999 m2 05 5 000—9 999 m2 06 10 000 and more m2 07

3.13. Units of data values

This field is optional and allows Member States to specify which units have been used for the data values used in the data transmission. The correct implementation of section 3.8 makes it unnecessary to use this field.







Units Code Units UNIT Thousands 1000 Millions MIO National currency in units NC National currency in thousands KNC National currency in millions MNC Ecu in units ECU Ecu in thousands KECU Ecu in millions MECU Square metre m2 Index INDX % PCT

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3.14. Breakdown by environmental domains







Breakdown of products/environmental domains Code Protection of ambient air and climate ED01 Wastewater management ED02 Waste management ED03 Other environmental protection activities ED09

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4. Examples of records

Example 1: Aggregation of NACE-codes

Series 2A data for 1995 for Germany. The NACE code 231 contains the aggregation of codes 231 + 232 + 233 for variable 16 11 0: number of persons employed. It is not confidential.

2A;1995;DE;30;231;;;16110;2700;M;;;231 = 231 + 232 + 233;

Example 2: Confidential data: too few enterprises

Total wages and salaries (DEM 12 124 million) for the manufacture of iron and steel (NACE 271) in 1995 in the region of Fribourg (series C) is confidential because there are too few enterprises. This is revised data.

2C;1995;DE13;30;271;;;13320;12124000;R;A;;;

Example 3: Confidential data: dominance by one enterprise

The number of persons employed (2 700) in France in 1996 for enterprises of 250 to 499 employees for NACE 141 is confidential. One enterprise dominates the data and represents 92 % of employment. This is provisional data.

2D;1996;FR;14;141;;;16110;2700;P;B;92;;

Example 4: Size class data: sales area in retail trade

The turnover of the retail sale of foods (NACE Rev.1 52.2) in Luxembourg in 1996 for a sales space of 120 to 399 m2 was LUF 1 000 million. It is updated data.

3C;1996;LU;30;522;;;12110;1000000;M;;;;;;02

Example 5: Inward FATS in road freight transport

In 1995 the number of enterprises (code 11110) in the Netherlands in road freight transport owned or controlled by an enterprise in the USA, following the concept of ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO), is 4. The data is provisional. It concerns Annex 1 data and the specification on the data value is added.

1G;1995;NL;30;6024;30;US;11110;4;P;;;;UNIT

5. Type of magnetic media

In order to facilitate reading the data, the data must be supplied on 3,5″ diskette.

6. Other methods

Upon written request Eurostat can provide Member States with electronic questionnaires for the service sectors using Microsoft Excel. The request should be made well in advance of the planned date of data delivery.

INCOMPLETE EXAMPLE SET OF CODINGS FOR FAT STATISTICS







Name Code Albania AL Andorra AD Argentina AR Aruba AW Australia AU Austria AT Bahamas BS Belgium BE Bosnia and Herzegovina BA Brazil BR Bulgaria BG Canada CA Chile CL China CN Croatia HR Cyprus CY Czech Republic CZ Denmark DK Finland FI France FR Germany DE Greece GR Hong Kong HK Hungary HU Iceland IS India IN Indonesia ID Ireland IE Israel IL Italy IT Japan JP Korea, Republic of (South Korea) KR Latvia LV Liechtenstein LI Lithuania LT Luxembourg LU Netherlands NL Netherlands Antilles AN New Zealand NZ Norway NO Poland PL Portugal PT Republic of South Africa ZA Romania RO Russia RU Saudi Arabia SA Singapore SG Slovakia SK Slovenia SI Spain ES Sweden SE Switzerland CH Taiwan TW Turkey TR Ukraine UA United Kingdom UK United States of America US (1) Except for the United Kingdom for which the code ‘UK’ is to be used instead of GB.







Name Code Type Africa E4 GEO African ACP countries B6 ECO African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (Lomé Convention) B5 ECO America E7 GEO American Oceania F9 GEO Asia F2 GEO Asia-Pacific economic cooperation D1 ECO Asian NICs of the second wave of industrialisation C1 ECO Australia, Oceania and other territories F7 GEO Australian Oceania F8 GEO Baltic countries E3 GEO Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union A3 ECO Caribbean ACP countries B7 ECO Central American countries E9 GEO Central and South African countries E6 GEO Commonwealth of Independent States C6 ECO Core newly industrialised countries B9 ECO Countries from the Association of South-East Asian Nations B3 ECO Countries from Central and Eastern Europe A9 ECO Countries from Mashreq C8 ECO EUR12 (intra EUR12) A2 ECO EUR15 (intra EUR15) D2 ECO Europe E1 GEO European countries not EU or EFTA E2 GEO European Economic Area A6 ECO European Free Trade Association A5 ECO Extra EUR12 A4 ECO Extra EUR12 not allocated Z4 ECO Extra EUR15 D4 ECO Extra EUR15 not allocated Z8 ECO French Franc zone C5 ECO Gulf Arabian Countries F4 GEO Intra EUR12 not allocated Z2 ECO Intra EUR15 not allocated Z6 ECO Latin America B2 ECO Latin American NICs of the second wave of industrialisation C2 ECO Maghreb countries C7 ECO Mediterranean Basin countries C3 ECO Mercosur (Southern Cone Common Market) C9 ECO Near and Middle East countries F3 GEO New Zealand Oceania G1 GEO North African countries E5 GEO North American countries E8 GEO North American Free Trade Association B1 ECO OECD countries A8 ECO Offshore financial centres C4 ECO Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries B4 ECO Other Asian countries F6 GEO Other Near and Middle East countries F5 GEO Pacific ACP countries B8 ECO Polar regions G2 GEO South American countries F1 GEO World (all entities) A1 ECO World not allocated Z1 ECO