2005/685/EC: Commission Decision of 22 July 2005 granting derogations to certain Member States with respect to the statistics to be compiled for the reference years 2004 and 2006 pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1450/2004 (notified under document number C(2005) 2772)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2005-07-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Austria, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, derogation from EU law, disclosure of information, innovation, statistical method, technology

8.10.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 264/1

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(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 22 July 2005

granting derogations to certain Member States with respect to the statistics to be compiled for the
reference years 2004 and 2006 pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1450/2004

(notified under document number C(2005) 2772)

(Only the texts in Greek, French, Italian, Maltese and German are authentic)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2005/685/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1450/2004
of 13 August 2004 implementing Decision No 1608/2003/EC
of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the
production and development of Community statistics on
innovation (1), and in particular Section 8 of the Annex thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

and of
and

the European Parliament
production

the
development
statistics on innovation contains

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1450/2004 of 13
August 2004 implementing Decision No 1608/2003/EC
the Council
of
of
concerning
Community
the
reference framework of common standards, definitions
and classifications for compiling Community statistics on
innovation in order to obtain high quality statistical
results from Member states in accordance with these
standards, definitions and classifications.

Section 8 of the Annex to Commission Regulation (EC)
in so far as national
No 1450/2004 provides that,
statistical
the
adaptations,
require major
systems
Commission may grant derogations to Member States
with respect to the statistics compiled for the reference
year 2004. Additional derogations may be granted with
activities
respect
in
accordance to NACE Rev. 1.1 or
to the size class
breakdowns of
the statistics to be compiled for the
reference year 2006.

coverage of

economic

to the

(1) OJ L 267, 14.8.2004, p. 32.

(3)

(4)

Such derogations have been requested by the respective
authorities of Greece, France, Malta, Italy and Austria.

to

the

the
information
According
Commission (Eurostat), the requests from the Member
States concerned are due to the fact that they need to
make important changes to their statistical systems.

received

by

(5)

The requested derogations should therefore be granted,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Derogations are granted to Greece, France,
Austria, as laid down in the annex to this Decision.

Italy, Malta and

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Hellenic Republic, the French
Republic, the Italian Republic, the Republic of Malta and the
Austrian Republic.

Done at Brussels, 22 July 2005.

For the Commission

Joaquín ALMUNIA

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

GRANTED DEROGATIONS

Country

Greece

For the Community innovation statistics to be compiled for the reference year 2004: the transmission delay
mentioned in Section 6 of the Annex of the Commission Regulation (EC) No 1450/2004 shall be 20
months instead of 18 months

France

For the Community innovation statistics to be compiled for the reference year 2006: for all results except
those related to section D of NACE Rev. 1.1 and to the size class 10 – 49 employees

Italy

For the Community innovation statistics to be compiled for the reference year 2006: the results are not to
be broken down by economic activities in accordance to NACE Rev. 1.1 or by size class

Malta

For the Community innovation statistics to be compiled for the reference year 2004: no results are to be
transmitted

For the Community innovation statistics to be compiled for the reference year 2006: the results are not to
be broken down by economic activities in accordance to NACE Rev. 1.1 or by size class

Austria

For the Community innovation statistics to be compiled for the reference year 2004: the reference year shall
be 2005 instead of 2004