2006/209/EC: Commission Decision of  9 March 2006  granting derogations to bring Member States’ statistical systems into conformity with Regulation (EC) No 1161/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council  (notified under document number C(2006) 706)
Date: 2006-03-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, EU statistics, derogation from EU law, disclosure of information, economic statistics, national accounts

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Official Journal of the European Union

14.3.2006

COMMISSION DECISION

of 9 March 2006
granting derogations to bring Member States’ statistical systems into conformity with Regulation
(EC) No 1161/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council

(notified under document number C(2006) 706)

(Only the Czech, Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Greek, Hungarian, Maltese, Portuguese, Slovak,
Slovene, and Swedish texts are authentic)

(2006/209/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

the
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1161/2005 of
European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2005 on
the compilation of quarterly non-financial accounts by institu-
tional sector (1), and in particular Article 3(4) thereof,

Having regard to the requests made by the Czech Republic, the
Kingdom of Denmark, the Republic of Estonia, the Hellenic
Ireland, the Republic of Cyprus, the Grand Duchy
Republic,
of Luxembourg,
the Republic of
the Republic of Hungary,
Malta, the Portuguese Republic, the Republic of Slovenia, the
Slovak Republic,
the Kingdom of
the Republic of Finland,
Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 1161/2005 specifies the list of
quarterly data
transmitted from
3 January 2006 onwards.

that have

to be

Article 3(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1161/2005 provides
that derogations from that Regulation may be accepted
by the Commission if national statistical systems require
major adaptation. Such derogations are not to last more
than three years from the date of entry into force of the
Regulation.

A number of Member States authorities have asked, by
letter, to be granted derogations under Article 3(4) of
Regulation (EC) No 1161/2005.

It emerges from the information provided to Eurostat
the Member States’ requests for derogations are
that

due to the need for major adaptations
to national
statistical systems in order to comply in full with Regu-
lation (EC) No 1161/2005. The compilation of quarterly
non-financial accounts by institutional sector requires
additional data
the development of new
statistical tools, and the design and implementation of
a production system that is capable of meeting short
deadlines. The requested derogations should therefore
be granted,

sources,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Derogations are hereby granted to the Member States listed in
the Annex, under the conditions and subject to the limits set
out therein, in order to enable those Member States to bring
their respective national statistical systems into conformity with
Regulation (EC) No 1161/2005.

Article 2

the Republic of Cyprus,

This Decision is addressed to the Czech Republic, the Kingdom
of Denmark, the Republic of Estonia, the Hellenic Republic,
Ireland,
the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta,
the Portuguese Republic, the Republic of Slovenia, the Slovak
Republic, the Republic of Finland, the Kingdom of Sweden and
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Done at Brussels, 9 March 2006.

For the Commission

Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 191, 22.7.2005, p. 22.

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End of derogation

1 January 2008

1 April 2008

1 January 2007

11 August 2008

11 August 2008

ANNEX

Derogations from Regulation (EC) No 1161/2005 (1)

Member State

Variables

Czech Republic

All variables for sectors S13 and S2

Denmark

All variables

Estonia

Greece

Ireland

Cyprus

For sector S13: D41-resources, D4N-resources, D71, D72-resources, D7N
and K2-uses

All variables

All variables except for sectors S13 and S2

Back data for sector S13 over the [1999Q1-2003Q4] period

1 April 2008

For sector S2: D1, D2-resources, D21-resources, D29-resources, D3-uses,
D31-uses, D39-uses, D4, D41, D4N

1 October 2007

For sector S2: D5, D6, D61, D62, D7, D71, D72, D7N, D8, D9, D91-uses,
D9N, K2-uses, B9 and B12

11 August 2008

Luxembourg

For sector S2: D4, D41, D4N, D7, D71, D72, D7N, D8, D9, D9N and B12 1 April 2008

Hungary

Back data for sector S13 over the [1999Q1-2003Q4] period

1 January 2007

All variables for sector S2

Malta

All variables for sector S2

Portugal

Transmission limited to the following variables:
— For sector S1: D5-uses
— For sector S13: P5-uses, P5N-uses
— For sector S2: D1, D2-resources, D3-uses, D4, D5, D7, D9 and K2-uses
The above variables are transmitted at Q + 100 (calendar) days instead of
Q + 95 (calendar) days.

Slovenia

All variables for sectors S13 and S2

Slovakia

All variables for sectors S13 and S2

Finland

Sweden

United Kingdom

All variables

For sector S13: P31-uses, P32-uses, B7G
For sector S14_15: B7G

For sector S1N: D2-uses, D21-uses, D3-resources, D31-resources, B1G and
B1N
For sectors S11 and S12: D1-uses, D2-uses, D29-uses, D3-resources, D39-
resources, B1G and B1N
For sector S13: B1G and B1N
For
resources, B1G and B1N
For sector S2: D1-uses

sector S14_15: D1-uses, D2-uses, D29-uses, D3-resources, D39-

1 July 2008

1 January 2008

11 August 2008

1 January 2007

1 January 2008

1 April 2008

11 August 2008

1 July 2008

(1) Derogations listed in this table do not apply to variables that have to be transmitted under the ESA95 transmission programme (Annex
B to Council Regulation (EC) No 2223/96) and subsequent amendments; under Commission Regulation (EC) No 264/2000 or under
Regulation (EC) No 1221/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council.