Commission Regulation (EC) No 247/2003 of 10 February 2003 adopting the specification of the 2004 ad hoc module on work organisation and working time arrangements provided by Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98
Date: 2003-02-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, arrangement of working time, organisation of work, sample survey, statistical method, working population, working time

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 247/2003

of 10 February 2003

adopting the specification of the 2004 ad hoc module on work organisation and working time
arrangements provided by Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98 of 9
March 1998 on the organisation of a labour force sample
survey in the Community (1), as last amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2104/2002 (2), and in particular Article
4(2) thereof,

(3)

(4)

In order to evaluate adequately progress under the pillars
of the employment policy guidelines and in particular
under the third pillar on encouraging adaptability of
businesses and their employees, including with regard to
quality in work, comparable structural statistics are
needed by the Member States and the Commission (4).

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

opinion

the

of

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 246/2003 (3) adopting
the programme of ad hoc modules, covering the years
2004 to 2006,
force sample survey
includes an ad hoc module on work organisation and
working time arrangements.

to the labour

In accordance with Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No
577/98 the detailed list of information to be collected in
an ad hoc module shall be drawn at least 12 months
before the beginning of the reference period for that
module.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The detailed list of information to be collected in 2004 by the
ad hoc module, as laid down in the Annex, is hereby adopted.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh 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, 10 February 2003.

For the Commission

Pedro SOLBES MIRA

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 77, 14.3.1998, p. 3.
(2) OJ L 324, 29.11.2002, p. 14.
(3) See page 3 of this Official Journal.

(4) OJ L 60, 1.3.2002, p. 60.

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ANNEX

LABOUR FORCE SURVEY

Specification of the 2004 ad hoc module on work organisation and working time arrangements

1. Member States and regions concerned: all.

2. The data are collected only for the main job.

3. The variables will be coded as follows:

209

210

Column

Code

Description

Filter, remarks

Control over own work methods and schedule
(optional for Germany)

C26 = 1,2

1

2

3

0

9

Person can determine how to do the work

Person can determine when to do the work

Person can determine when and how to do the work

Person can not determine how or when to do the
work

Not applicable

Blank

No answer

Work for single customer
(optional for Germany)

C26 = 2 or C26 = 1
and C34_35 < 10

1

0

9

Works regularly for just one client or customer

Works regularly for one client or customer

Not applicable

Blank

No answer

211_212

Overtime hours in reference week

C26 = 3

...

99

Number of overtime hours

Not applicable

Blank

No answer

213_214

Paid overtime hours in the reference week

00

…

99

No paid overtime or no overtime

Number of paid overtime hours

Not applicable

Blank

No answer

C213_214 ≤
C211_212;

C213_214 = 00 if
C211_212 = 00

215

Shift work patterns

C204 = 1

1

2

3

4

6

9

Continuous shift work, usually four-shift system

Semi-continuous
system

shift work,

usually

three-shift

Two-shift system: double day-shift

Sometimes night, sometimes day-shift

Other type of shift

Not applicable

Blank

No answer

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Column

Code

Description

Filter, remarks

216

Variable working hours

C26 = 3

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

9

Fixed start and end of a working day

Staggered working hours, banded start/end

Working time banking with possibility only to take
hours off

Working time banking with possibility to take full
days off (besides taking hours off)

Start and end of working day varying by individual
agreement

Determines own work schedule (no formal bound-
aries)

Other

Not applicable

217

218

219

Blank

No answer

Annualised working hours
(optional for Germany)

C26=3 and C216 ≠ 6

1

0

9

Person has an annualised hours contract

Person has not an annualised hours contract

Not applicable

Blank

No answer

On-call work
(optional for Germany and Portugal)

C26 = 3 and
C204 ≠ 1

Person reports to work only when called

Other

Not applicable

1

0

9

Blank

No answer

Working time pattern of part-timers compared with full-
time

C46 = 2-8

1

2

3

4

5

6

9

Less hours per day

Half a day less per week

Less days per week

Less hours per day and less days per week

One week in two

Other

Not applicable

Blank

No answer

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Column

Code

Description

Filter, remarks

220

Possibility to work variable hours in the reference week
(optional for Germany, Italy, Finland, Sweden and United
Kingdom)

C24 = 1 and C26 = 3
and C58 ≠ 1 and
C216 = 1-4

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

9

[C216 = 3, 4] person has reduced her/his credit hours

[C216 ≠ 3,4] person has
(without the need to take holidays)

taken a few hours off

[C216 ≠ 4] person has taken half a day, one or more
days off

Person has reduced her/his credit hours balance or
has taken a few hours off and has also taken half a
day, one or more days off (on different days of the
week)

[C216 = 3, 4] person wanted to take credit hours but
could not do so (and has not taken holidays)

[C216 ≠ 3, 4] person wanted to take a few hours, half
a day, one or more days off but could not do so

Other (hours actually worked ≥ contractual,
etc.)

lay-off

Not applicable

Blank

No answer

Convenience of working time arrangements for personal life
situation
(optional for Germany)

C204 = 1 or
C218 = 1

1

2

0

9

Shift work is convenient for personal life situation

On-call work is convenient for personal life situation

Shift work or on-call work is not convenient for
personal life situation

Not applicable

Blank

No answer

Convenience of working time arrangements for personal life
situation
(optional for Germany)

C205, C206, C207,
C208 = 1,2 and
C204 = 3,9 and
C218 = 0,9

Work in the evening, at night or during weekend is
convenient for personal life situation

Work in the evening, at night or during weekend is
not convenient for personal life situation

Not applicable

1

3

9

Blank

No answer

Coding refers to
Commission Regula-
tion (EC) No 1575/
2000 (OJ L 181,
20.7.2000, p. 16)

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222

4. The variables on shift work, evening work, Saturday and Sunday work which appear as columns 204 to 208 in the
Annex to the Commission Regulation (EC) No 1575/2000 concerning the codification to be used for data transmis-
sion from 2001 onwards must be surveyed in 2004 for the same reference period as the ad hoc module referred to
in Article 1 of the present Regulation.

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5. The variable on shift work is to be coded as follows:

204

1

3

9

Blank

Shift work

Person works shifts

Person does no work shifts

Not applicable

No answer

C26 = 3