Commission Regulation (EC) No 912/2004 of 29 April 2004 implementing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 on the establishment of a Community survey of industrial production (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2004-04-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, Eurostat, industrial production, production statistics

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 912/2004

of 29 April 2004

implementing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 on the establishment of a Community survey
of industrial production

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

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

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 of 19
December 1991 on the establishment of a Community survey
of industrial production (1), and in particular Article 9 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 provides for measures for
adjustment to technical progress concerning collection
of data and processing of results to be laid down by the
Commission after consulting the Statistical Programme
Committee.

Technical progress and subsequent legislation, in particu-
lar acts relating to the European Business Statistical
System, call for adjustments to be made to the survey
coverage and characteristics.

These adjustments should improve coverage of the statis-
tics provided by the Member States without increasing
the burden on economic operators.

The statistical data compiled within the Community
system must be of satisfactory quality and comparable
from one Member State to another.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with
Statistical
Programme Committee set up by Council Decision 89/
382/EEC. Euratom (2),

opinion

the

the

of

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The survey population of the reference period shall be enter-
prises whose principal activity or one of its secondary activities
is listed in section C, D or E of the classification of economic
activities in the European Community (NACE Rev.1.1), set out
in Regulation (EC) No 29/2002 of 19 December 2001 (3),
amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 (4).

The observation unit shall be the enterprise as defined in
Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 (5) on the statistical units
for the observation and analysis of the production system in
the Community. Member States may collect data using another
statistical unit as observation unit as long as they transmit
Enterprise data to Eurostat.

Article 2

The obligation of the units of the survey population to supply
true and complete information if called upon by the Member
States referred to in Article 5(2) of the Council Regulation
(EEC) No 3924/91 is to be limited to the survey population's
observation units
listed in the
PRODCOM list.

that produce products

Article 3

The obligation of Member States to adopt survey methods
designed to facilitate the collection of data from units repre-
senting at least 90 % of national production per NACE class
referred to in Article 3(2) of the Council Regulation (EEC) No
3924/91 is to be implemented as Member States' adoption of
survey methods designed to enable the collection of data, repre-
senting at least 90 % of national production for each NACE
Rev.1.1 class of sections C, D and E.

Article 4

The field covered by the survey referred to in Article 1 of
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 is to be identified by
reference to the survey population and the observation unit.

Member States' exemption from data collection referred to in
Article 3(4) of the Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 is to
be clarified by reference to national production of a product.

(1) OJ L 374, 31.12.1991, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 181, 28.6.1989, p. 47.

(3) OJ L 6, 10.1.2002, p. 3.
(4) OJ L 293, 24.10.1990, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 76, 30.3.1993, p. 5.

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if total
Member States need not collect data on a product,
national production of that product is less than 1 % of the total
Community production of the product in the previous year.
Data on products not collected because of this exemption shall
be reported as zero. Member States are to provide the necessary
documentation.

Article 5

Article 6

In addition to the obligation to provide information at the
request of Eurostat as set out in Article 5(4) of Council Regu-
lation (EEC) No 3921/91Member States are also to provide
Eurostat with the necessary information about their survey
methods, samples and coverage for the purpose of documenta-
tion of compliance with the principles of the PRODCOM meth-
odology as laid down in the manual of PRODCOM metho-
dology.

The waiver of Member States' obligation to carry out
the
PRODCOM survey referred to in Article 5 (3) of the Council
Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 is to be extended to cases where
Member States are able to acquire the necessary data, using a
combination of different sources and methods.

Article 7

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, 29 April 2004.

For the Commission

Joaquin ALMUNIA

Member of the Commission