EN Official Journal of the European Union L 345/27

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2016/2304

of 19 December 2016

on the modalities, structure, periodicity and assessment indicators of the quality reports on data transmitted pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council

(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 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union (1), and in particular Article 4(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 sets up the European System of Accounts 2010 (the ‘ESA 2010’) which establishes a programme setting out the time limits by which Member States are to transmit to the Commission the accounts and tables to be compiled in accordance with the methodology set out in that Regulation.

(2) Pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 549/2013, the data covered by that Regulation is subject to the quality criteria set out in Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2). Member States are to provide the Commission with a report on the quality of the transmitted data on national and regional accounts.

(3) Temporary derogations were granted to Member States pursuant to the Commission Implementing Decision 2014/403/EU (3). Therefore, the content of the quality reports that the Commission requires Member States to submit should be adapted in accordance with those derogations. The requirement to provide quality reports should be phased in gradually by 2021 to allow Member States time to complete the major adaptations necessary for the introduction of ESA 2010 in the national statistical systems.

(4) In accordance with Article 4(3) of Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 and for the purposes of applying the quality criteria referred to in Article 4(1) of that Regulation, the modalities, structure, periodicity and assessment indicators of the quality reports to be provided by Member States should be defined by the Commission by means of implementing acts.

(5) As the information in the quality reports on national and regional accounts should be based on the European Statistical System standards on quality reporting published by the Commission (Eurostat), the Annex to this Regulation should be drawn up in line with those standards. Information about the ESA 2010 implementation already provided by Member States should be reused by the Commission and should not be requested in the quality reports.

(6) 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

The quality report on national and regional accounts referred to in Article 4(2) of Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 shall cover the data sent by Member States in accordance with the ESA 2010 transmission programme as laid down in Annex B to Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 in the year preceding the report.

Member States shall provide the quality report on an annual basis.

Article 2

The modalities, structure and assessment indicators of the quality reports on national and regional accounts referred to in Article 1 shall be those set out in the Annex.

Article 3

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, 19 December 2016. For the Commission The President Jean-Claude JUNCKER

(1) OJ L 174, 21.5.2013, p. 1.

(2) Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics (OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p. 164).

(3) Commission Implementing Decision 2014/403/EU of 26 June 2014 on granting derogations to Member States with respect to the transmission of statistics pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union (OJ L 195, 2.7.2014, p. 1).