1999/841/EC: Commission Decision of 24 November 1999 on the implementation of Council Decision 1999/297/EC establishing a Community statistical information infrastructure relating to the industry and markets of the audiovisual and related sectors (notified under document number C(1999) 3872) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1999-11-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, audiovisual industry, economic statistics, industrial statistics, information system

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 24 November 1999

on the implementation of Council Decision 1999/297/EC establishing a Community statistical
information infrastructure relating to the industry and markets of the audiovisual and related
sectors

(notified under document number C(1999) 3872)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(1999/841/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Decision 1999/297/EC of 26 April
1999 establishing a Community statistical information infra-
structure relating to the industry and markets of the audio-
visual and related sectors (1) and in particular Article 3 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Decision 1999/297/EC determined the individual statist-
ical actions necessary in order to establish a Community
information infrastructure relating to the
statistical
industry and markets of
the audiovisual and related
sectors;

It is necessary to adopt measures for the implementation
of individual statistical actions;

The measures provided for in this Decision are in
accordance with
Statistical
the
Programme Committee,

opinion

the

of

Article 1

The measures to implement individual actions referred to in
Article 2 of Decision 1999/297/EC are specified in the Annex
to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 24 November 1999.

For the Commission

Pedro SOLBES MIRA

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 117, 5.5.1999, p. 39.

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A. Measures to implement actions to be undertaken by the national authorities

ANNEX

Reference in
the Council Decision
1999/297/EC

Article 2(1)(a)

Article 2(1)(b)

Article 2(1)(c)

Description of the measure

Date scheduled for completing
the measure

1

2

3

4

each Member

State of priorities
Studies by
concerning national user needs for statistics. The
domains to be studied should be those in the Auvis
classification plan (1)

June 2000

Update of the existing inventory by each Member
State of national statistics and sources

December 2000

Optionally, development of the network of contacts
between the Member States and main data produ-
cers by means of workshops held in volunteer
Member States

Forwarding to Eurostat by each Member State
during 2000 of a questionnaire on audiovisual stat-
functions and products) already on
istics (firms,
hand or available from the competent national
authorities. The questionnaire, which is based on the
Auvis classification plan, will be sent to Member
States in the second quarter of the year 2000

September 2000

September 2000

(1) The Auvis classification plan covers the following markets:

— Audiovisual production market;
— Audiovisual distribution market;
— Cinema exhibition market;
— Video market;
— Television market;
— Sound recording production and publishing market;
— Consumer sound recordings market;
— Radio market;
— ‘Bouquets’ of programme services market;
— Cable operating market;
— Radio and TV signal market;
— Satellite (broadcasting) trnasmission market;
In addition, technological developments may require a ‘New media’ market category.

B. Measures to implement actions to be undertaken by Eurostat

Reference
in the Council Decision
1999/297/EC

Article 2(2)(a)

Description of the measure

Date scheduled
for completing the measure

1

2

3

Updating of
the chapter specific to audiovisual
services in the Eurostat Manual of Business Statistics

March 2000

Updating and publication, via the web, of
the
general methodological manual on audiovisual stat-
istics

December 2000

Methodological studies on specific topics selected
from within the following broad areas:

September 2001

— structural business statistics for enterprises of the

audiovisual and related sectors;

— statistics on selected sub-sectors such as film

production, TV and radio;

— selected topics such as internationl

trade in
servides of the audiovisual and related sectors,
international co-productions, new media

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Reference
in the Council Decision
1999/297/EC

Article 2(2)(b)

Article 2(2)(c)

Article 2(2)(d)

4

5

6

7

8

9

Description of the measure

Processing of the data received from the 1999 ques-
tionnaire to Member States, and making the results
available in Eurostat's dissemination database, and
via publications

Date scheduled
for completing the measure

December 1999

Participation in workshops held in volunteer
Member States for the development of the network
of contacts between the Member States and main
data producers

September 2000

Processing the data received from the 2000 ques-
tionnaire to Member States, and making the results
available in Eurostat's dissemination database, and
via publications

December 2000

Adaptation of an existing Eurostat computerised
system to receive, validate, transform and store stat-
istics gathered from Member States and international
organisations

June 2001

Comparison of
Member
harmonisation

existing

statistical

States with

a

view to

systems

in
improved

June 2001

Study of the priorities concerning needs for statistics
by the Commission's services

November 1999

10

Study of the priorities concerning needs for statistics
by international organisations working in the field

March 2000