Regulation (EC) No 1553/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 concerning Community statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2005-09-07
Institutions: Council of the European Union, European Parliament
Subjects: EU statistics, accession to the European Union, derogation from EU law, income, living conditions, statistical method

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REGULATION (EC) No 1553/2005 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

of 7 September 2005

amending Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 concerning Community statistics on income and living
conditions (EU-SILC)

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Com-
munity, and in particular Article 285 thereof,

Article 1

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 is hereby amended as follows:

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
251 of the Treaty (1),

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parlia-
ment and of the Council of 16 June 2003 concerning
Community statistics on income and living conditions
(EU-SILC) (2), establishes a common framework for the
systematic production of Community statistics on
income and living conditions, encompassing comparable
and timely cross-sectional and longitudinal data on
income and on the level and composition of poverty
and social exclusion at national and European levels.

As a result of the accession of new Member States to the
European Union on 1 May 2004, there is a need to
extend Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003, since
that Annex sets out
for each Member State the
minimum effective sample sizes required under the EU-
SILC scheme.

Furthermore, it appears that most of the new Member
States, and several of the existing Member States, need
additional time to adapt their systems to the harmonised
methods and definitions used to compile Community
statistics.

1. Article 4(2) shall be replaced by the following:

‘2.
By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the Czech
Republic, Germany, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary,
Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and the
United Kingdom may start the annual cross-sectional and
longitudinal data collection in 2005.

This authorisation is subject to the condition that those
Member States shall supply comparable data for the year
2004 for the cross-sectional common European Union indi-
cators which were adopted by the Council before 1 January
2003 in the context of the open method of coordination
and which can be derived on the basis of the EU-SILC
instrument.’;

2.

in Article 13, the following paragraphs shall be added:

‘4.
By way of derogation from paragraph 1, Estonia shall
receive a financial contribution from the Community
towards the cost of the work involved for the four years of
data collection from 2005.

The financing for the year 2007 is yet to be ensured

5.
by a future Community programme.’;

3. Annex II shall be replaced by the text set out in the Annex

to this Regulation.

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 should therefore be
amended accordingly,

Article 2

(1) Opinion of the European Parliament of 10 May 2005 (not yet
published in the Official Journal) and Council Decision of 12 July
2005.

(2) OJ L 165, 3.7.2003, p. 1.

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the 20th day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Union.

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Strasbourg, 7 September 2005.

For the European Parliament

The President

J. BORRELL FONTELLES

For the Council

The President

C. CLARKE

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX II

MINIMUM EFFECTIVE SAMPLE SIZES

EU Member States

Belgium

Czech Republic

Denmark

Germany

Estonia

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Cyprus

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Hungary

Malta

Netherlands

Austria

Poland

Portugal

Slovenia

Slovakia

Finland

Sweden

United Kingdom

Total for EU Member States

Iceland

Norway

Households

Persons aged 16 or over to be
interviewed

Cross-sectional

Longitudinal

Cross-sectional

Longitudinal

1

2

3

4

4 750

4 750

4 250

8 250

3 500

4 750

6 500

7 250

3 750

7 250

3 250

3 750

4 000

3 250

4 750

3 000

5 000

4 500

6 000

4 500

3 750

4 250

4 000

4 500

7 500

3 500

3 500

3 250

6 000

2 750

3 500

5 000

5 500

2 750

5 500

2 500

2 750

3 000

2 500

3 500

2 250

3 750

3 250

4 500

3 250

2 750

3 250

3 000

3 500

5 750

121 000

90 750

2 250

3 750

1 700

2 750

8 750

10 000

7 250

14 500

7 750

10 000

16 000

13 500

8 000

15 500

7 500

7 650

9 000

6 500

10 250

7 000

8 750

8 750

15 000

10 500

9 000

11 000

6 750

7 500

13 750

250 150

3 750

6 250

6 500

7 500

5 500

10 500

5 750

7 250

12 250

10 250

6 000

11 750

5 500

5 600

6 750

5 000

7 750

5 250

6 500

6 250

11 250

7 500

6 750

8 250

5 000

5 750

10 500

186 850

2 800

4 650

Total including Iceland and Norway

127 000

95 200

260 150

194 300

NB: The reference is to the effective sample size, which is the size required if the survey were based on simple random sampling (design
effect in relation to the “risk of poverty rate” variable = 1,0). The actual sample sizes will have to be larger to the extent that the
design effects exceed 1,0 and to compensate for all kinds of non-response. Furthermore, the sample size refers to the number of
valid households which are households for which, and for all members of which, all or nearly all the required information has been
obtained’