Commission Regulation (EC) No 676/2006 of  2 May 2006  amending Regulation (EC) No 1980/2003 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning Community statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) as regards definitions and updated definitions   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-05-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Spain, disclosure of information, household income, living conditions

3.5.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 118/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 676/2006

of 2 May 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 1980/2003 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the
European Parliament and of the Council concerning Community statistics on income and living
conditions (EU-SILC) as regards definitions and updated definitions

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of
the
European Parliament and the Council of 16 June 2003
concerning Community
and living
statistics on income
(EU-SILC) (1), and in particular Article 15(2)(c)
conditions
thereof,

(3)

(4)

(5)

Furthermore, it appears that some new Member States in
the same way as some existing Member States, need
time to deliver all gross income data as
additional
specified
No
in
1980/2003 (3).

Commission

Regulation

(EC)

Regulation (EC) No 1980/2003 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with
Statistical
the
Programme Committee,

opinion

the

of

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

for

the

systematic

Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 establishes a common
framework
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.

production

As a result of the accession of new Member States to the
European Union on 1 May 2004, Regulation (EC) No
1177/2003 has been amended by Regulation (EC) No
1553/2005 of
the
European Parliament
Council (2),
in order to adapt the sample sizes and to
give time to new Member States to adapt their respective
systems to harmonised methods and definitions when
compiling Community statistics.

and

of

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The first subparagraph of paragraph 3 of Annex II to Regulation
(EC) No 1980/2003 is replaced by the following:

‘By way of derogation from paragraph 2, Greece, Spain,
France, Italy, Portugal, Poland and Latvia shall be authorised
not to deliver any gross income data as from the first year
of their operation. These countries shall, however, deliver
these data as soon as possible and in any case no later than
2007.’

Article 2

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, 2 May 2006.

For the Commission

Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 165, 3.7.2003, p. 1. Regulation amended by Regulation (EC)

No 1553/2005 (OJ L 255, 30.9.2005, p. 6).

(2) OJ L 255, 30.9.2005, p. 6.

(3) OJ L 298, 17.11.2003, p. 1.