Commission Regulation (EC) No 1668/2003 of 1 September 2003 implementing Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 with regard to the technical format for the transmission of the structural business statistics and amending Commission Regulation No 2702/98 concerning the technical format for the transmission of structural business statistics
Date: 2003-09-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, branch of activity, company structure, competitiveness, data processing, data transmission

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1668/2003

of 1 September 2003

implementing Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 with regard to the technical format
for the transmission of the structural business statistics and amending Commission Regulation
No 2702/98 concerning the technical format for the transmission of structural business statistics

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Com-
munity,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/
97 of 20 December 1996 concerning structural business
statistics (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1667/
2003 (2), and in particular Article 12 (viii) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 established a com-
mon framework for the production of Community
statistics on the structure, activity, performance and
competitiveness of the banking and the pension fund
sector in the Community.

In order to facilitate the transmission of statistics on
environmental expenditure, the technical format pro-
vided for by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2702/98
of 17 December 1998 concerning the technical format
for the transmission of structural business statistics (3),
as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1614 /2002 (4),
should be adjusted. Regulation (EC) No 2702/98 defined
the technical format for the transmission of the structural
business statistics characteristics listed in the common
module and the detailed modules for industry, distribu-
tive trades and construction of Regulation (EC, Euratom)
No 58/97. It is necessary to amend this technical format
in order to take account of the addition of characteristics
on environmental expenditure as well as the addition of
the breakdown by environmental domains for some
characteristics of the detailed module on industry of
Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97.

It is necessary to specify the technical format for the
transmission of structural business statistics on credit
institutions and pension funds listed in Annexes 6 and
7 to Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 in order to
produce data comparable and harmonised between
to reduce the risk of errors in the
Member States,
transmission of data and to increase the speed with
which the data collected can be processed and made
available to users.
It is necessary to define another
technical format for the transmission of the character-
istics of the detailed modules on credit
institutions
and pension funds as the technical format defined in
Regulation (EC) No 2702/98 for the transmission of the
characteristics of the common module and the detailed
modules on industry, distributive trades and construc-
tion provides for a different breakdown of results.

(4)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Statistical Pro-
gramme Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2702/98 is amended in
accordance with Annex I to this Regulation.

Article 2

The technical format referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EC,
Euratom) No 58/97 for Annex 6 is defined in Annex II to this
Regulation.

Article 3

( 1) OJ L 14, 17.1.1997, p. 1.
( 2) See page 1 of this Official Journal.
( 3) OJ L 344, 18.2.1998, p. 102.
( 4) OJ L 244, 12.9.2002, p. 7.

The technical format referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EC,
Euratom) No 58/97 for Annex 7 is defined in Annex III to this
Regulation.

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Article 4

Article 5

Member States shall apply this format for the data concerning
the 2001 reference year and subsequent years, with the
exception of the data of Annex 7 for which this format shall
be applied for the data concerning the 2002 reference year
and subsequent years.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th 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, 1 September 2003.

For the Commission

Pedro SOLBES MIRA

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

The Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2702/98 is amended as follows:

1.

In the record structure described in paragraph 2 the following row is added

‘Breakdown by environmental
domains

A

4

Code for environmental domains (only used in industry)’

2.

The following series is added to the table in paragraph 3.1 The series type:

‘Environmental protection expenditure broken down by size classes

Series type

3.

The following series is renamed in table in paragraph 3.1. The series type

‘Environmental protection expenditure broken down by environmental domains

Series type

4.

The following variables are added to the table in paragraph 3.7. Variable

Variable

Code

2O’

Code

2B’

Code

‘Investment in equipment and plant linked to cleaner technology (“integrated technology”)

21 12 0

Total current expenditure on environmental protection

21 14 0’

5.

The following table is added:

‘3.14.

Breakdown by environmental domains

Breakdown of products/environmental domains

Protection of ambient air and climate

Wastewater management

Waste management

Other environmental protection activities

Code

ED01

ED02

ED03

ED09’

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ANNEX II

TECHNICAL FORMAT FOR STATISTICS ON CREDIT INSTITUTIONS

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 (the phenomenon it describes does not exist in the

country),

— 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 Size Class 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.

Data set structure

The data set shall consist of the following fields

Field

Type

Maximum
length

Values

1

Series

2

Year

3

Territorial unit

4

Economic activity

5 Measurement

6 Unit

7 Variable

A

A

A

A

A

A

A

2

4

6

4

3

4

5

6A, 6B, 6C, 6D, 6E, 6F, 6G, 6H. Alphanumeric code
of the series (see list below)

Year in four characters e.g. 2001

Corresponds to the country code for national series
or to the NUTS 99 code of the region for regional
series: NUTS 99 is the new nomenclature put in place
in December 1999

NACE rev. 1 code

Variable — type of measurement —

Unit

Variable code. The codes laid down in Annex 6 of the
SBS Regulation have 5 characters (see list below)

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Field

Type

Maximum
length

Values

8

Size class

A

4

Code for the size class (see list below)

of

parent

Code for the country of residence of the parent
enterprise (see list below)

or

Residence
enterprise

or

Category

9

Breakdown of products

10

Legal status or

Geographical breakdown

A

A

6

4

11 Data Value

A

12

12 Quality flag

13 Confidentiality flag

14 Dominance

A

A

N

1

1

3

Code for the category of credit institutions (see list
below)

Corresponds to the CPA code (see list below)

Code for the legal status of enterprise (see list below)

Code for the geographical breakdown of the partner
countries (see list below)

Numeric value of the data (negative values are pre-
ceded by a minus sign) expressed as a whole number
without decimal places. An ‘M’ should be used if the
data is not sent because it is missing

R: revised data, M: updated data, P: provisional data

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

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

15

Footnote

A

250

Free note on the data

NB: A = Alphanumeric, N = Numeric

3.

Description of the fields

3.1.

Series

Series type

Annual enterprise statistics

Annual enterprise statistics broken down by legal status

Code

6A

6B

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Series type

Annual enterprise statistics broken down according to the country of residence of the parent
enterprise

Annual enterprise statistics broken down by category of credit institutions

Annual enterprise statistics broken down by size class

Annual enterprise statistics broken down by product

Annual enterprise statistics by geographical breakdown

Annual regional statistics

Code

6C

6D

6E

6F

6G

6H

3.2.

Year

3.3.

Territorial unit

This code corresponds to the country for national series or to the region for the regional series (series 6H). It
is based on the NUTS 99 code. For regions, two characters are added to the two characters for the country
(see NUTS 99).

Country

Code

Belgium

Denmark

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

The Netherlands

Austria

Portugal

Finland

Sweden

The United Kingdom

Iceland

Liechtenstein

Norway

Switzerland

BE

DK

DE

GR

ES

FR

IE

IT

LU

NL

AT

PT

FI

SE

UK

IS

LI

NO

CH

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3.4.

Economic activity

Economic activity title — NACE rev. 1 —

Other monetary intermediation

Other credit granting

Measurement

Unit

3.5. Measurement

National currency

Euro

Number

3.6.

Unit

Unit

Thousands

Millions

Billions

3.7.

Variable

Structural data

Number of enterprises

Variable title

Code

Number of enterprises broken down by legal status

Number of enterprises broken down by residence of the parent enterprise

Number of enterprises broken down by size classes of the balance sheet total

Number of enterprises broken down by category of credit institutions

Number of local units

Total number of branches broken down by location in non-EEA countries

Total number of financial subsidiaries broken down by location in other countries

Accounting data: profit and loss account

Interest receivable and similar income

Interest receivable and similar income arising from fixed-income securities

Interest payable and similar charges

Code

6512

6522

Code

NC

EUR

NBR

Code

UNIT

1 000

MIO

BIO

11 11 0

11 11 1

11 11 4

11 11 6

11 11 7

11 21 0

11 41 0

11 51 0

42 11 0

42 11 1

42 12 0

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Interest payable and similar charges linked to debt securities in issue

Variable title

Income from securities

Income from shares and other variable-yield securities

Commissions receivable

Commissions payable

Net profit or net loss on financial operations

Other operating income

General administrative expenses

Other administrative expenses

Other operating charges

Value adjustments and value re-adjustments in respect of loans and advances and provisions
for contingent liabilities and for commitments

Other value adjustments and value re-adjustments

Profit or loss on ordinary activities

Extraordinary profit or loss

All taxes (tax on profit or loss on ordinary activities, tax on extraordinary profit or loss,
other taxes)

Profit or loss for the financial year

Production value

Value added at basic prices

Value added at factor cost

Total purchases of goods and services

Personnel costs

Gross investment in tangible goods

Accounting data: balance sheet

Loans and advances to customers

Amounts owed to customers

Total of capital and reserves

Balance sheet total

Balance sheet total broken down according to the residence of the parent enterprise

Balance sheet total broken down by legal status

Data by product

Interest receivable and similar income broken down by (sub)categories of the CPA

Interest payable and similar charges broken down by (sub)categories of the CPA

Commissions receivable broken down by (sub)categories of the CPA

Commissions payable broken down by (sub)categories of the CPA

Code

42 12 1

42 13 0

42 13 1

42 14 0

42 15 0

42 20 0

42 31 0

42 32 0

42 32 2

42 33 0

42 35 0

42 36 0

42 40 0

42 50 0

42 51 0

42 60 0

12 12 0

12 14 0

12 15 0

13 11 0

13 31 0

15 11 0

43 11 0

43 21 0

43 29 0

43 30 0

43 31 0

43 32 0

44 11 0

44 12 0

44 13 0

44 14 0

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Variable title

Data on internationalisation

Geographical breakdown of the total number of EEA branches

Geographical breakdown of interest receivable and similar income

Geographical breakdown of balance sheet total

Geographical breakdown of interest receivable and similar income via the freedom to
provide services business (in other EEA countries)

Geographical breakdown of interest receivable and similar income via branch business (in
non-EEA countries)

Geographical breakdown of interest receivable and similar income via the freedom to
provide services business (in non-EEA countries)

Data on employment

Number of persons employed

Number of persons employed broken down by category of credit institutions

Number of women employed

Number of employees

Number of female employees

Number of employees in full-time equivalent units

Residual data

Number of accounts broken down by (sub)categories of the CPA

Number of loans and advances to customers broken down by (sub)categories of the CPA

Number of automatic teller machines (ATM) owned by credit institutions

3.8.

Size class/Residence of parent enterprise/Category

Size class of balance sheet total

> EUR 99 999 Mio

EUR 10 000-99 999 Mio

EUR 1 000-9 999 Mio

EUR 100-999 Mio

< EUR 100 Mio

Country of residence of the parent enterprise

Parent enterprise situated in the home Member State

Parent enterprise situated in other countries

Category of credit institutions

Licensed banks

Specialised credit granting institutions

Other credit institutions

Code

45 11 0

45 21 0

45 22 0

45 31 0

45 41 0

45 42 0

16 11 0

16 11 1

16 11 2

16 13 0

16 13 6

16 14 0

47 11 0

47 12 0

47 13 0

Code

SC01

SC02

SC03

SC04

SC05

Code

RE01

RE02

Code

CA01

CA02

CA03

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3.9.

Breakdown of products

Products

Inter-industry deposit taking services

Standardised deposit taking services

Non-standardised deposit taking services

Inter-industry credit granting services

Consumer credit granting services

Mortgage credit granting services

Commercial credit granting services

Other credit granting services n.e.c.

Other monetary intermediation services n.e.c.

Financial leasing services

Inter-industry credit granting services

Consumer credit granting services

Mortgage credit granting services

Commercial credit granting services

Other credit granting services n.e.c.

Investment banking services

Other financial intermediation services n.e.c.

Security brokerage services

Fund management services

Other services auxiliary to financial intermediation n.e.c.

Brokerage services

Other services auxiliary to insurance and pension funding n.e.c.

3.10. Legal status/Geographical breakdown

Legal status

Incorporated enterprises limited by shares

Cooperative enterprises

Public-law enterprises

Branches of enterprises with head office in non-EEA countries

Countries and groups of countries

Others

Belgique/België

Danmark

Deutschland

Code

651211

651212

651213

651221

651222

651223

651224

651225

65123

6521

65221

65222

65223

65224

65225

65231

65232

67121

67122

6713

6721

6722

Code

LS01

LS02

LS03

LS04

LS05

Code

BEL

DNK

DEU

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Countries and groups of countries

Eλλαδα

España

France

Ireland

Italia

Luxembourg

Nederland

Österreich

Portugal

Suomi/Finland

Sverige

United Kingdom

Island

Liechtenstein

Norge

Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera

USA

Japan

In the Member State of head office

In other Member States

In other EEA countries

In other third countries (rest of the world)

3.11. Data value

Code

GRC

ESP

FRA

IRL

ITA

LUX

NLD

AUT

PRT

FIN

SWE

GBR

ISL

LIE

NOR

CHE

USA

JPN

MSHO

OMS

OEEA

THCO

Monetary data is expressed in millions of national currency units or in euro (for countries members of the
Euro-zone).

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 (the phenomenon it describes does not exist in

the country),

— 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 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’.

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3.12. Quality flag

Revised data

Updated data

Provisional data

Data type

Flag

R

M

P

Revised data refers to data which are sent for a second (or more) time and are corrections of data which has
been previously sent.

Updated data concerns data which was not previously available and was coded as missing in the data value
field (see 3.11 above) but has since become available.

The flag indicating provisional data should be used in order to indicate that it is likely that the data being
transmitted may be corrected.

3.13. Confidentiality flag

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 3.11 above) and to indicate
using a flag that the data is missing due to confidentiality.

Reason for confidentiality

Too few enterprises

One enterprise dominates the data

Two enterprises dominate the data

Confidential data due to secondary confidentiality

Flag

A

B

C

D

3.14. Dominance

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.

3.15. Footnote

Free note on the data with a maximal length of 250 characters.

4.

Electronic form

The data and metadata, supplied in conformance with this regulation shall be sent in electronic form from
Competent National Authorities to Eurostat. Transmission shall conform to an appropriate interchange
standard approved by the Statistical Programme Committee (SPC). Eurostat will make available detailed
documentation in relation to approved standard(s) and will supply guidelines on how to implement this
(these) standard(s) according to the requirements of this regulation.

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5.

Transitional arrangements

During a transitional period, the data may be sent as a flat file in ASCII format with each data set being one
record having the semi-colon ‘;’ as the field seperator and the the carriage return character (ASCII hexadecimal
code ‘0D’) and/or the linefeed character (ASCII hexadecimal code ‘0A’) as the record separator.

6.

Examples of records

Example 1:

1

2

3

4

5

Series

Year

Territorial Economic Measure-
activity

ment

Unit

6

Unit

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

Variable Size class/

Break-
Legal
status/
Residence down of
of parent products Geogra-
phical
enter-
break-
prise/
down
Category

Data
value

Quality Confiden- Domi-
nance
tiality
flag

flag

6A

2001

BE

6512

NBR

UNIT

11110

87

Belgium declares in the series 6A (Annual enterprise statistics) for the reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1
class 65.12: 87 enterprises. The data is non confidential.

6A; 2001; BE; 6512; NBR; UNIT; 11110; ; ; ; 87; ; ; ;

Example 2:

1

2

3

4

5

Series

Year

Territorial Economic Measure-
activity

ment

Unit

6

Unit

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

Variable Size class/

Legal
Break-
Residence down of
status/
of parent products Geogra-
phical
enter-
break-
prise/
down
Category

Data
value

Quality Confiden- Domi-
tiality
nance
flag

flag

6B

2001

DK

6512

NBR

UNIT

11111

LS02

25

Denmark declares in the serie 6B (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by legal status) for the reference
year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 65.12: 25 enterprises with the legal status: co-operative enterprises. The data
is non confidential.

6B; 2001; DK; 6512; NBR; UNIT; 11111; ; ; LS02; 25; ; ; ;

Example 3:

1

2

3

4

5

Series

Year

Territorial Economic Measure-
activity

ment

Unit

6

Unit

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

Variable Size class/

Break-
Legal
status/
Residence down of
of parent products Geogra-
phical
enter-
break-
prise/
down
Category

Data
value

Quality Confiden- Domi-
nance
tiality
flag

flag

6C

2001

PT

6512

EUR

MIO

43310

RE01

23567

P

A

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Portugal declares in the series 6C (Annual enterprise statistics broken down according to the country of
residence of the parent enterprise) for the reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 6512: a balance sheet
total of EUR 23 567 Mio for credit institutions which parent enterprise is situated in the home Member State.
The data is provisional as well as confidential because of too few enterprises.

6C; 2001; PT; 6512; EUR; MIO; 43310; RE01; ; ; 23567; P; A; ;

Example 4:

1

2

3

4

5

Series

Year

Territorial Economic Measure-
activity

ment

Unit

6

Unit

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

Variable Size class/

Legal
Break-
Residence down of
status/
of parent products Geogra-
phical
enter-
break-
prise/
down
Category

Data
value

Quality Confiden- Domi-
tiality
nance
flag

flag

6D

2001

ES

6512

NBR

UNIT

16111

CA01

130

Spain declares in the series 6D (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by category of credit institutions)
for the reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 65.12: 130 persons employed in the category of licensed
banks. The data is non confidential.

6D; 2001; ES; 6512; NBR; UNIT; 16111; CA01; ; ; 130; ; ; ;

Example 5:

1

2

3

4

5

Series

Year

Territorial Economic Measure-
activity

ment

Unit

6

Unit

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

Variable Size class/

Legal
Break-
Residence down of
status/
of parent products Geogra-
phical
enter-
break-
prise/
down
Category

Data
value

Quality Confiden- Domi-
tiality
nance
flag

flag

6E

2001

FI

6512

NBR

UNIT

11116

SC05

6

Finland declares in the series 6E (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by size class) for the reference
year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 65.12: 6 enterprises with a balance sheet total in the size class of less than
EUR 100 million. The data is non confidential.

6E; 2001; FI; 6512; NBR; UNIT; 11116; SC05; ; ; 6; ; ; ;

Example 6:

1

2

3

4

5

Series

Year

Territorial Economic Measure-
activity

ment

Unit

6

Unit

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

Variable Size class/

Break-
Legal
status/
Residence down of
of parent products Geogra-
phical
enter-
break-
prise/
down
Category

Data
value

Quality Confiden- Domi-
nance
tiality
flag

flag

6F

2001

UK

6512

NC

MIO

44130

651211

1489

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United Kingdom declares in the series 6F (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by product) for the
reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 65.12: commissions receivable of GBP 1 489 million in the product
class ‘Inter-industry deposit taking services’. The data is non confidential.

6F; 2001; UK; 6512; NC; MIO; 44130; ; 651211; ;1489; ; ; ;

Example 7:

1

2

3

4

5

Series

Year

Territorial Economic Measure-
activity

ment

Unit

6

Unit

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

Variable Size class/

Break-
Legal
status/
Residence down of
of parent products Geogra-
phical
enter-
break-
prise/
down
Category

Data
value

Quality Confiden- Domi-
nance
tiality
flag

flag

6G

2001

FR

6512

NBR

UNIT

11510

ESP

5

France declares in the series 6G (Annual enterprise statistics by geographical breakdown) for the reference
year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 65.12: 5 financial subsidiaries in Spain. The data is non confidential.

6G; 2001; FR; 6512; NBR; UNIT; 11510; ; ; ESP; 5; ; ; ;

Example 8:

1

2

3

4

5

Series

Year

Territorial Economic Measure-
activity

ment

Unit

6

Unit

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

Variable Size class/

Legal
Break-
Residence down of
status/
of parent products Geogra-
phical
enter-
break-
prise/
down
Category

Data
value

Quality Confiden- Domi-
tiality
nance
flag

flag

6H

2001

2IT51

6512

NBR

UNIT

11210

38

Italy declares in the series 6H (Annual regional statistics) for the reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1
class 65.12: 38 local units in the region ‘Toscana’ (IT51). The data is non confidential.

6H; 2001; IT51; 6512; NBR; UNIT; 11210; ; ; ; 38; ; ; ;

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ANNEX III

TECHNICAL FORMAT FOR STATISTICS ON PENSION FUNDS

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 (the phenomenon it describes does not exist in the
country),

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 Size Class 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.

Data set structure

The data set shall consist of the following fields

Field

Type

Maximum
length

Values

1

Series

2

Year

3

Territorial unit

4

Economic activity

5 Measurement

6 Unit

7 Variable

A

A

A

A

A

A

A

2

4

6

4

3

4

5

7A, 7B, 7C, 7D and 7E Alphanumeric code of the
series (see list below)

Year in four characters e.g. 2002

Corresponds to the country code for national series
or to the NUTS 99 code of the region for regional
series: NUTS 99 is the new nomenclature put in place
in December 1999

NACE rev. 1 code

Variable — type of measurement —

Unit

Variable code. The codes laid down in Annex 7 of the
SBS Regulation have 5 characters (see list below)

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Field

Type

Maximum
length

Values

8

Size class

9 Currency breakdown

A

A

4

Code for the size class (see list below)

6

Corresponds to currency (see list below)

10 Geographical breakdown

Code for the geographical breakdown of the partner
countries (see list below)

11 Data value

A

12

Numeric value of the data (negative values are pre-
ceded by a minus sign) expressed as a whole number
without decimal places. An ‘M’ should be used if the
data is not sent because it is missing

12 Quality flag

13 Confidentiality flag

14 Dominance

A

A

N

1

R: revised data, M: updated data, P: provisional data

1

3

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

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

15

Footnote

A

250

Free note on the data

NB: A = Alphanumeric, N = Numeric

3.

Description of the fields

3.1.

Series

Series type

Annual enterprise statistics

Annual enterprise statistics broken down by size classes

Annual enterprise statistics broken down by currencies

Annual enterprise statistics by geographical breakdown

Annual enterprise statistics on non-autonomous pension funds

Code

7A

7B

7C

7D

7E

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3.2.

Year

3.3.

Territorial unit

This code corresponds to the country for national series or to the region for the regional serie (serie 6H). It is
based on the NUTS 99 code. For regions, two characters are added to the two characters for the country (see
NUTS 99).

Country

Code

Belgium

Denmark

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

The Netherlands

Austria

Portugal

Finland

Sweden

The United Kingdom

Iceland

Liechtenstein

Norway

Switzerland

3.4.

Economic activity

Economic activity title — NACE rev. 1 —

Pension funding 6602

Non-autonomous pension funds: Total sections C-K

Non-autonomous pension funds: Section C: Mining and quarrying

Non-autonomous pension funds: Section D: Manufacturing

Non-autonomous pension funds: Section E: Electricity, gas and water supply

Non-autonomous pension funds: Section F: Construction

Non-autonomous pension funds: Section G: Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor
vehicles, motorcycles and personal and household goods

BE

DK

DE

GR

ES

FR

IE

IT

LU

NL

AT

PT

FI

SE

UK

IS

LI

NO

CH

Code

6602

CK

C

D

E

F

G

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Economic activity title — NACE rev. 1 —

Non-autonomous pension funds: Section H: Hotels and restaurants

Non-autonomous pension funds: Section I: Transport, storage and communication

Non-autonomous pension funds: Section J: Financial intermediation

Non-autonomous pension funds: Section K: Real estate, renting and business activities

3.5. Measurement

National currency

Euro

Number

3.6.

Unit

Unit

Thousands

Millions

Billions

3.7.

Variable

Measurement

Unit

Variable title

Number of enterprises

Number of enterprises broken down by size of investments

Number of enterprises broken down by size classes of members

Number of enterprises with non-autonomous pension funds

Number of pension schemes

Accounting data: profit and loss (income and expenditure) account

Turnover

Pension contributions receivable from members

Pension contributions receivable from employers

Incoming transfers

Other pension contributions

Code

H

I

J

K

Code

NC

EUR

NBR

Code

UNIT

1 000

MIO

BIO

Code

11 11 0

11 11 8

11 11 9

11 15 0

11 61 0

12 11 0

48 00 1

48 00 2

48 00 3

48 00 4

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Variable title

Pension contributions to defined benefits schemes

Pension contributions to defined contributions schemes

Pension contributions to hybrid schemes

Investment income (PF)

Capital gains and losses

Insurance claims receivable

Other income (PF)

Production value

Value added at basic prices

Value added at factor cost

Total expenditure on pensions

Regular pensions payments

Pension payments of lump sums

Outgoing transfers

Net change in technical provisions (reserves)

Insurance premiums payable

Total operational expenses

Total purchases of goods and services

Personnel costs

Gross investment in tangible goods

All taxes

Turnover of non-autonomous pension funds

Balance sheet data: assets

Land and buildings (PF)

Investments in affiliated enterprises and participating interests (PF)

Shares and other variable-yield securities

Shares traded on a regulated market

Shares traded on a regulated market specialised in SMEs

Non-publicly traded shares

Other variable yield securities

Units in undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities

Debt securities and other fixed-income securities

Debt securities and other fixed-income securities issued by public administrations

Other debt securities and other fixed income securities

Participation in investment pools (PF)

Code

48 00 5

48 00 6

48 00 7

48 01 0

48 01 1

48 02 1

48 02 2

12 12 0

12 14 0

12 15 0

48 03 0

48 03 1

48 03 2

48 03 3

48 04 0

48 05 0

48 06 0

13 11 0

13 31 0

15 11 0

48 07 0

48 08 0

48 11 0

48 12 0

48 13 0

48 13 1

48 13 2

48 13 3

48 13 4

48 14 0

48 15 0

48 15 1

48 15 2

48 16 0

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Variable title

Loans guaranteed by mortgages and other loans not covered elsewhere

Other investments

Total investments of pension funds

Total investments invested in ‘the sponsoring enterprise’

Total investments at market values

Other assets

Balance sheet data: liabilities

Capital and reserves

Net technical provisions (PF)

Other liabilities

Data on internationalisation

Geographical breakdown of turnover

Shares and other variable-yield securities broken down by location

Total investments broken down by location

Total investments broken down into euro and non-euro components

Data on employment

Number of persons employed

Residual data

Number of members

Number of members of defined benefits schemes

Number of members of defined contributions schemes

Number of members of hybrid schemes

Number of active members

Number of deferred members

Number of retired persons

Size class of investments

3.8.

Size classes

> EUR 5 000 Mio

EUR 2 501-5 000 Mio

EUR 501-2 500 Mio

EUR 50-500 Mio

< EUR 50 Mio

Code

48 17 0

48 18 0

48 10 0

48 10 1

48 10 4

48 20 0

48 30 0

48 40 0

48 50 0

48 61 0

48 62 0

48 63 0

48 64 0

16 11 0

48 70 0

48 70 1

48 70 2

48 70 3

48 70 4

48 70 5

48 70 6

Code

SC11

SC12

SC13

SC14

SC15

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Size classes of members (Unit)

Currency breakdown

Groups of countries

> 100 000 members

10 001-100 000 members

1 001-10 000 members

101-1 000 members

50-100 members

< 50 members

3.9.

Currency breakdown

Euro

Others

3.10. Geographical breakdown

Home country

Other EU countries

Other EEA countries

USA and Canada

Japan

Rest of the world

3.11. Data value

Code

SC21

SC22

SC23

SC24

SC25

SC26

Code

EURO

OTH

Code

HOME

OEU

OEEA

US–CA

JPN

THCO

Monetary data is expressed in millions of national currency units or in Euro (for countries members of the
Euro-zone).

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 (the phenomenon it describes does not exist in the
country),

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 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’.

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3.12. Quality flag

Revised data

Updated data

Provisional data

Data type

Flag

R

M

P

Revised data refers to data which are sent for a second (or more) time and are corrections of data which has
been previously sent.

Updated data concerns data which was not previously available and was coded as missing in the data value
field (see 3.11 above) but has since become available.

The flag indicating provisional data should be used in order to indicate that it is likely that the data being
transmitted may be corrected.

3.13. Confidentiality flag

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 3.11 above) and to indicate
using a flag that the data is missing due to confidentiality.

Reason for confidentiality

Too few enterprises

One enterprise dominates the data

Two enterprises dominate the data

Confidential data due to secondary confidentiality

Flag

A

B

C

D

3.14. Dominance

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.

3.15. Footnote

Free note on the data with a maximal length of 250 characters.

4.

Electronic form

The data and metadata, supplied in conformance with this regulation shall be sent in electronic form from
Competent National Authorities to Eurostat. Transmission shall conform to an appropriate interchange
standard approved by the Statistical Programme Committee (SPC). Eurostat will make available detailed
documentation in relation to approved standard(s) and will supply guidelines on how to implement this
(these) standard(s) according to the requirements of this regulation.

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5.

Transitional arrangements

During a transitional period, the data may be sent as a flat file in ASCII format with each data set being one
record having the semi-colon ‘;’ as the field seperator and the the carriage return character (ASCII hexadecimal
code ‘0D’) and/or the linefeed character (ASCII hexadecimal code ‘0A’) as the record separator.

6.

Examples of records

Example 1:

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

Series

Year

Territorial Economic Measure-
activity

ment

Unit

Unit

Variable

Size
classes

Currency Geogra-
phical
break-
break-
down
down

Data
value

Quality Confiden- Domi-
tiality
nance
flag

flag

Footnote

7A

2002

BE

6602

NBR

UNIT

11110

120

Belgium declares in the series 7A (Annual enterprise statistics) for the reference year 2002, in NACE rev. 1
class 66.02 120 autonomous pension funds enterprises. The data is non confidential.

7A; 2002; BE; 6602; NBR; UNIT; 11110; ; ; ; 120; ; ; ;

Example 2:

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

Series

Year

Territorial Economic Measure-
activity

ment

Unit

Unit

Variable

Size
classes

Currency Geogra-
phical
break-
break-
down
down

Data
value

Quality Confiden- Domi-
tiality
nance
flag

flag

Footnote

7B

2002

DK

6602

NBR

UNIT

11118

SC14

38

Denmark declares in the series 7B (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by size classes) for the reference
year 2002, in NACE rev. 1 class 66.02: 38 autonomous pension funds which investments fall between
EUR 50-500 million. The data is non confidential.

7B; 2002; DK; 6602; NBR; UNIT; 11118; SC14; ; ; 38; ; ; ;

Example 3:

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

Series

Year

Territorial Economic Measure-
activity

ment

Unit

Unit

Variable

Size
classes

Currency Geogra-
phical
break-
break-
down
down

Data
value

Quality Confiden- Domi-
tiality
nance
flag

flag

Footnote

7C

2002

PT

6602

EUR

MIO

48640

USD

1008

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Portugal declares in the series 7C (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by currencies) for the reference
year 2002, in NACE rev. 1 class 66.02: investments of EUR 1 008 million which are broken down by USD.
The data is non confidential.

7C; 2002; PT; 6602; EUR; MIO; 48640; ; USD; ; 1008; ; ; ;

Example 4:

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

Series

Year

Territorial Economic Measure-
activity

ment

Unit

Unit

Variable

Size
classes

Currency Geogra-
phical
break-
break-
down
down

Data
value

Quality Confiden- Domi-
nance
tiality
flag

flag

Footnote

7D

2002

FI

6602

EUR

MIO

48610

OEU

12548

Finland declares in the series 7D (Annual enterprise statistics by geographical breakdown) for the reference
year 2002, in NACE rev. 1 class 66.02: turnover of EUR 12 548 million which are declared in other EU
countries. The data is non confidential.

7D; 2002; FI; 6602; EUR; MIO; 48610; ; ; OEU; 12548; ; ; ;

Example 5:

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

Series

Year

Territorial Economic Measure-
activity

ment

Unit

Unit

Variable

Size
classes

Currency Geogra-
phical
break-
break-
down
down

Data
value

Quality Confiden- Domi-
nance
tiality
flag

flag

Footnote

7B

2002

ES

6602

NBR

UNIT

11119

SC21

M

Spain declares in the series 7B (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by size classes) for the reference
year 2002, in NACE rev. 1 class 66.02: missing data of number of enterprises which fall under the size class
> 100 000 members. This data is non confidential.

7B; 2002; ES; 6602; NBR; UNIT; 11119; SC21; ; ; M; ; ; ;

Example 6:

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

Series

Year

Territorial Economic Measure-
activity

ment

Unit

Unit

Variable

Size
classes

Currency Geogra-
phical
break-
break-
down
down

Data
value

Quality Confiden- Domi-
nance
tiality
flag

flag

Footnote

7E

2002

BE

H

NBR

UNIT

11150

35

Belgium declares in the series 7E (Annual enterprise statistics on non-autonomous pension funds) for the
reference year 2002, in NACE rev. 1 section H (Non-autonomous pension funds: Section H: Hotels and
restaurants): 35 enterprises with non-autonomous pension funds. This data is non confidential.

7A; 2002; BE; H; NBR; UNIT; 11150; ; ; ; 35; ; ; ;