Communication from the EFTA Surveillance Authority concerning derogations by Norway from the provisions of the Act referred to at point 2 of Annex XXI to the EEA Agreement, Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics as regards definitions of variables, list of variables and frequency of data compilation, as implemented and amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1503/2006
Date: 2008-02-14
Institutions: EFTA Surveillance Authority
Subjects: EU statistics, European Economic Area, Norway, derogation from EU law, economic statistics, statistical method, statistics

C 40/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

14.2.2008

NOTICES CONCERNING THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA

EFTA SURVEILLANCE AUTHORITY

Communication from the EFTA Surveillance Authority concerning derogations by Norway from
the provisions of the Act referred to at point 2 of Annex XXI to the EEA Agreement, Council
Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics as regards definitions of variables, list
of variables and frequency of data compilation, as implemented and amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1503/2006

(2008/C 40/02)

Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 of 19 May 1998 concerning short-term statistics as regards definitions
of variables, list of variables and frequency of data compilation, as adapted by way of Protocol 1 to the EEA
Agreement and referred to at point 2 of Annex XXI thereto (hereinafter ‘the Act’), established a common
framework for the production of short-term Community statistics on the business cycle in the European
Economic Area. Article 13 of the Act provides that derogations from the provisions of the Annexes thereto
may be accepted during a transitional period.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1503/2006 of 28 September 2006 implementing and amending Council
Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics as regards definitions of variables, list of vari-
ables and frequency of data compilation (hereinafter ‘Regulation (EC) No 1503/2006’) has been incorporated
into point 2c of Annex XXI to the EEA Agreement by EEA Joint Committee Decision No 37/2007 (OJ L 281,
12.10.2006, p. 15). Regulation (EC) No 1503/2006 implements and amends the Act as to definitions of the
variables laid down in Annexes A to D to the Act, as well as their objectives, characteristics and ways of
calculation of the relevant indices, which are described in Annex I to the Regulation (EC) No 1503/2006.

The EFTA Surveillance Authority is entrusted with the task of accepting derogations in accordance with
Article 13 of the Act as regards applications from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

Norway has asked for derogations for first data delivery concerning variable D — 310 as introduced by
Regulation (EC) No 1503/2006.

The EFTA Surveillance Authority has granted the following derogations, in accordance with the opinion of
the EFTA Heads of National Statistical Institutes Assisting the EFTA Surveillance Authority:

Variable

Derogation subject

Data scope

End of the
transition period

First reference
period for the
new rules

First data delivery
according to the
new rules

NORWAY

D — 310

First data delivery

NACE 60.24

NACE 74.11, 74.7

NACE 64.2

NACE 61.1, 62.1

NACE 72

NACE 63.12

NACE 74.2

31.12.2006

31.3.2007

30.6.2007

30.9.2007

31.12.2007

31.3.2008

30.9.2008

NACE 74.12, 74.14

31.12.2008

NACE 63.11

NACE 64.11, 64.12

NACE 74.5

30.6.2009

30.9.2009

31.12.2009

NACE 74.3, 74.4, 74.6

30.9.2010

Q4/2004

Q1/2005

Q4/2005

Q1/2006

Q2/2006

Q3/2006

Q1/2007

Q1/2007

Q4/2007

Q1/2008

Q1/2008

Q1/2009

31.12.2006

31.3.2007

30.6.2007

30.9.2007

31.12.2007

31.3.2008

30.9.2008

31.12.2008

30.6.2009

30.9.2009

31.12.2009

30.9.2010