Regulation (EC) No 1372/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98 on the organisation of a labour force sample survey in the Community (Text with EEA relevance )
Date: 2007-10-23
Institutions: Council of the European Union, European Parliament
Subjects: EU Member State, Eurostat, exchange of information, pay, sample survey, working population

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REGULATION (EC) No 1372/2007 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

of 23 October 2007

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98 on the organisation of a labour force sample
survey in the Community

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EURO-
PEAN UNION,

behaviour, should be a standard element of this survey in
order to allow for a more complete analysis of labour
markets.

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Commu-
nity, and in particular Article 285(1) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

(5)

(6)

The Statistical Programme Committee, established by
Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom (2), has been con-
sulted in accordance with Article 3 of that Decision.

Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98 (3) should therefore be
amended accordingly,

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

Whereas:

HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In accordance with the Lisbon Strategy, and as confirmed
by the mid-term review of that strategy in 2005, Europe
must focus its policies further on growth and employment
in order to achieve the Lisbon goals.

Regulation (EC) No 577/98 is hereby amended as follows:

1)

in Article 4(1), point (l) shall be replaced by the following:

The development of the Community and the operation of
the internal market increase the need for comparable data
which allow the impact of the structure and distribution of
wages on the labour market to be assessed, particularly as
a means of analysing progress as regards economic and
social cohesion.

‘(l) wages from the main job;’

2) Article 6 shall be replaced by the following:

In order to carry out the tasks assigned to it, the Commis-
sion requires data on the ranking of wages by socio-
economic characteristics and also in relation to different
forms of paid employment, which are essential to analyse
and understand the labour market and the changes taking
place in the structure of the labour force. In this regard, the
advantages of having data on wages by deciles in relation
to other employment characteristics are widely recognised.

The Community Labour Force Survey is essentially the first
and most authoritative reference source for labour market
information in the European Union, and information on
wages, as a fundamental variable to explain labour market

(1) Opinion of the European Parliament of 10 July 2007 (not yet pub-
lished in the Official Journal) and Council Decision of 9 October 2007.

‘Article 6

Transmission of the results

Within twelve weeks of the end of the reference period, the
Member States shall forward to Eurostat the results of the
survey, without direct identifiers.

Where administrative data are used to supply data corre-
sponding to the survey characteristic “wages from the main
job”, that data may be forwarded to Eurostat within twenty-
one months of the end of the reference period.’

(2) OJ L 181, 28.6.1989, p. 47.
(3) OJ L 77, 14.3.1998, p. 3. Regulation as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 2257/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council
(OJ L 336, 23.12.2003, p. 6).

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

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This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Jour-
nal of the European Union.

Article 2

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

Done at Strasbourg, 23 October 2007.

For the European Parliament
The President
H.-G. PÖTTERING

For the Council
The President
M. LOBO ANTUNES