Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 February 2008 establishing a common framework for business registers for statistical purposes and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 2186/93
Date: 2008-02-20
Institutions: Council of the European Union, European Parliament
Subjects: EU statistics, company structure, competitiveness, data collection, exchange of information, information system, statistical method, type of business

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REGULATION (EC) No 177/2008 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

of 20 February 2008

establishing a common framework for business registers for statistical purposes and repealing
Council Regulation (EEC) No 2186/93

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION,

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

activity, competitiveness and performance of businesses in
the Community. Business registers for statistical purposes
represent a basic element of such a common framework,
making it possible to organise and coordinate statistical
surveys by providing a harmonised sampling frame.

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

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

Whereas:

(4)

Business registers are one method by which to reconcile the
conflicting requirements for collating increased informa-
tion on enterprises on the one hand and lightening their
administrative burden on the other, in particular by using
existing information in administrative and legal
files,
especially in the case of micro, small- and medium-sized
enterprises, as defined in Commission Recommendation
2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 (6).

(1) Council Regulation (EEC) No 2186/93 (2) established a
common framework for setting up business registers for
statistical purposes with harmonised definitions, character-
istics, scope and updating procedures. In order to maintain
the development of business registers in a harmonised
framework a new regulation should be adopted.

(5) Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 of 17 February 1997
on Community Statistics (7) set the framework for establish-
ing a Community statistical programme and established a
common framework for statistical confidentiality.

(2) Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 on the statistical units
for the observation and analysis of the production system
in the Community (3) contains the definitions of
the
statistical unit to be used. The internal market requires
improved statistical comparability to meet Community
requirements.
improvement,
common definitions and descriptions should be adopted
for enterprises and other relevant statistical units to be
covered.

to achieve that

In order

(3) Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 of 20 Decem-
ber 1996 concerning structural business statistics (4) and
Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 of 19 May 1998
concerning short-term statistics (5) established a common
framework for the collection, compilation, transmission
and evaluation of Community statistics on the structure,

(1) Opinion of the European Parliament of 1 June 2006 (OJ C 298 E,
8.12.2006, p. 127), Council Common Position of 21 May 2007 (OJ
C 193 E, 21.8.2007, p. 1) and Position of the European Parliament
of 25 October 2007 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and
Council Decision of 21 January 2008.

(2) OJ L 196, 5.8.1993, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC)
No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ
L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1).

(3) OJ L 76, 30.3.1993, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1882/2003.

(4) OJ L 14, 17.1.1997, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council
(OJ L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(6)

(7)

(8)

The specific rules for processing data within the framework
of the Community statistical programme do not affect
Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the
Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of
individuals with regard to the processing of personal data
and on the free movement of such data (8).

Business registers for statistical purposes are the main
source for business demography, as they keep track of
business creations and closures as well as the structural
changes in the economy by concentration or de-concentra-
tion, brought about by operations
such as mergers,
takeovers, break ups, split offs and restructuring.

Business registers provide the basic information that is
required to meet a strong policy interest
in rural
development, not only as regards agriculture but also as
regards its increasing combination with other activities not
covered by product-based agricultural statistics.

(6) OJ L 124, 20.5.2003, p. 36.
(7) OJ L 52, 22.2.1997, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC)

No 1882/2003.

(5) OJ L 162, 5.6.1998, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(8) OJ L 281, 23.11.1995, p. 31. Directive as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1893/2006.

(EC) No 1882/2003.

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(9)

Public enterprises play an important role in the national
economies of the Member States. Commission Directive
80/723/EEC of 25 June 1980 on the transparency of
financial relations between Member States and public
undertakings (1) covers particular categories of public
undertaking. Public enterprises and public corporations
should therefore be identified in business registers and this
can be done by the institutional sector classification.

(10)

Information on links of control between legal units is
needed in order to define enterprise groups, delineate the
enterprises correctly, profile large and complex units and
study the level of concentration on particular markets.
Enterprise group information improves the quality of the
business registers and can be used to reduce the risk of
disclosure of confidential data. Certain financial data are
often more meaningful at
the group or
subgroup than at that of the individual enterprise; indeed,
they may be available only at the level of the group or
subgroup. Recording enterprise group data makes possible,
when necessary, surveys of the group rather than of the
group's enterprises, and this may reduce the response
burden significantly. In order to register enterprise groups,
business registers should be further harmonised.

the level of

(11)

Increasing economic globalisation challenges the current
production of several statistics. By recording data from
multinational enterprise groups, business registers form a
basic tool for the improvement of many statistics related to
globalisation:
international trade in goods and services,
balance of payments, foreign direct investment, foreign
affiliates, research, development and innovation, and the
international labour market. The majority of these statistics
cover the whole economy and thus require that business
registers cover all sectors of the economy.

(12) Pursuant to Article 3(2) of Council Regulation (Euratom,
EEC) No 1588/90 of 11 June 1990 on the transmission of
data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical
Office of the European Communities (2), national rules on
statistical confidentiality may not be invoked to prevent the
transmission of confidential statistical data to the Commu-
nity authority (Eurostat) where an act of Community law
provides for the transmission of such data.

and social security authorities, central banks, other public
institutions, and other data bases containing information
on cross-border transactions and positions, wherever such
data are necessary for
the production of Community
statistics.

(14) Regulation (EC) No 184/2005 of the European Parliament
and of the Council of 12 January 2005 on Community
international
statistics concerning balance of payments,
trade in services and foreign direct investment (3) estab-
lished a common framework for the compilation, transmis-
sion and evaluation of relevant Community statistics.

(15) The measures necessary for the implementation of this
Regulation should be adopted in accordance with Decision
1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures
for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the
Commission (4).

(16)

In particular, the Commission should be empowered to
decide on the coverage of the smallest enterprises and all-
resident enterprise groups, update the list, definitions and
continuity rules of the register characteristics in the Annex,
establish common quality standards as well as the content
and periodicity of the quality reports, and adopt the rules
for updating registers. Since those measures are of general
scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of
inter alia, by supplementing it with new
this Regulation,
non-essential elements, they must be adopted in accordance
with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in
Article 5a of Council Decision 1999/468/EC.

(17) Regulation (EEC) No 2186/93 should therefore be repealed.

(18) The Statistical Programme Committee established by
Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom (5) has been
consulted,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Purpose

(13)

In order to guarantee the fulfilment of the obligations laid
down in this Regulation, Member States'
institutions
responsible for the collection of the data may need access
to administrative data sources such as registers held by tax

This Regulation establishes a common framework for business
registers for statistical purposes in the Community.

(1) OJ L 195, 29.7.1980, p. 35. Directive as last amended by Directive

2005/81/EC (OJ L 312, 29.11.2005, p. 47).

(3) OJ L 35, 8.2.2005, p. 23. Regulation as amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 602/2006 (OJ L 106, 19.4.2006, p. 10).
(4) OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23. Decision as amended by Decision 2006/

(2) OJ L 151, 15.6.1990, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

512/EC (OJ L 200, 22.7.2006, p. 11).

(EC) No 1882/2003.

(5) OJ L 181, 28.6.1989, p. 47.

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Member States shall set up one or more harmonised registers for
statistical purposes, as a tool for the preparation and coordina-
tion of surveys, as a source of information for the statistical
analysis of the business population and its demography, for the
use of administrative data, and for
the identification and
construction of statistical units.

Article 2

Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions
apply:

(a)

‘enterprise’,

‘legal unit’,
‘local unit’ and ‘enterprise group’
shall be as defined in the Annex to Regulation (EEC)
No 696/93;

(b)

‘national authorities’ shall be as defined in Article 2 of
Regulation (EC) No 322/97;

(c)

(d)

(e)

‘statistical purposes’ shall be as described in Article 2(4) of
Regulation (EEC) No 1588/90;

‘multinational enterprise group’ shall mean an enterprise
group which has at least two enterprises or legal units
located in different countries;

‘truncated enterprise group’ shall mean the enterprises and
the legal units of a multinational enterprise group, which
are resident in the same country. It may comprise only one
unit, if the other units are non-resident. An enterprise may
be the truncated enterprise group or part thereof.

Article 3

Scope

1.
In accordance with the definitions given in Article 2 and
subject to the limitations specified in this Article, registers shall
be compiled of:

(a)

all enterprises carrying on economic activities contributing
to the gross domestic product (GDP), and their local units;

(b)

the legal units of which those enterprises consist;

(c)

truncated enterprise groups and multinational enterprise
groups; and

(d)

all-resident enterprise groups.

2. The requirement in paragraph 1 shall not, however, apply to
households insofar as the goods and services they produce are
for their own consumption, or involve the letting of own
property.

Local units not constituting separate legal entities (branches),
3.
which are dependent on foreign enterprises, and classified as
quasi-corporations in accordance with the European System of
Accounts 1995 set up by Council Regulation (EC) No 2223/96
of 25 June 1996 on the European system of national and
regional accounts in the Community (1) and the United Nation's
1993 System of National Accounts, shall be deemed to be
enterprises for the purposes of the business registers.

Enterprise groups can be identified through the links of
4.
control between their legal units. In order to delineate enterprise
groups,
in point 2.26 of
Annex A to Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 shall be used.

the definition of control set out

5. This Regulation shall apply only to units which, wholly or
partially, exercise an economic activity. Any activity comprising
the offer of goods and services on a given market shall be
In addition, non-market
regarded as an economic activity.
services contributing to the GDP, as well as direct and indirect
holdings of active legal units shall be regarded as economic
activities for the purposes of business registers. Economically
inactive legal units are part of an enterprise only in combination
with economically active legal units.

6. The measures designed to amend non-essential elements of
this Regulation concerning the extent to which enterprises with
less than half a person employed and all-resident enterprise
groups of no statistical importance to the Member States are to
be included in the registers, and the definition of units consistent
with those for agricultural
shall be decided in
accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred
to in Article 16(3).

statistics,

Article 4

Data sources

1. While complying with conditions as to quality referred to in
Article 6, Member States may collect the information required
under this Regulation using any sources that they consider
relevant. National authorities shall be authorised, within their
sphere of competence,
statistical purposes,
to collect,
information covered by this Regulation contained in adminis-
trative and legal files.

for

2. Where the required data cannot be collected at a reasonable
cost, national authorities may use statistical estimation proce-
dures, while respecting the need for accuracy and quality.

Article 5

Register characteristics

1. The units listed in the registers shall be characterised by an
identity number and the descriptive details specified in the
Annex.

(1) OJ L 310, 30.11.1996, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1932/2007 of the European Parliament and of
the Council (OJ L 324, 10.12.2007, p. 1).

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the list of
2. The measures concerning the updating of
characteristics and the definition of
the characteristics and
continuity rules, designed to amend non-essential elements of
this Regulation by supplementing it, shall be adopted in
accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred
to in Article 16(3).

Article 6

Quality standards and reports

Article 9

Transmission of reports

1. Member States shall carry out statistical analyses of the
the information to the Commission
registers and transmit
(Eurostat), following a format and a procedure defined by the
Commission in accordance with the regulatory procedure
referred to in Article 16(2).

1. Member States shall take all measures necessary to ensure
the quality of the business registers.

2. Member States shall transmit to the Commission (Eurostat),
at
information with regard to the
implementation of this Regulation in the Member States.

its request, any relevant

2. Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat), on
its request, with a report on the quality of the business registers
(hereinafter referred to as quality reports).

3. The measures relating to common quality standards as well
as the content and periodicity of the quality reports, designed to
amend non-essential elements of this Regulation by supplement-
ing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory
procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 16(3), and taking
into account the cost of compiling the data.

4. Member States shall inform the Commission (Eurostat) of
major methodological or other changes that would influence the
quality of the business registers as soon as they become known
and not later than six months after any such change enters into
force.

5. The Commission shall submit a report to the European
Parliament and the Council on the implementation of
this
Regulation, addressing in particular the cost of the statistical
system, the burden on business and the benefits.

Article 7

Recommendations manual

The Commission shall publish a business registers recommenda-
tions manual. The manual shall be updated in close cooperation
with the Member States.

Article 8

Time reference and periodicity

Entries onto and removals from the registers shall be

1.
updated at least annually.

2. The frequency of updating shall depend on the kind of unit,
the variable considered, the size of the unit and the source
generally used for the update.

3. The measures relating to the rules for updating, designed to
amend non-essential elements of this Regulation by supplement-
ing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory
procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 16(3).

4. Member States shall make annually a copy that reflects the
state of the registers at the end of the year and keep that copy for
at least 30 years for the purpose of analysis.

Article 10

Exchange of confidential data between Member States

The exchange of confidential data may take place, exclusively for
statistical purposes, between the appropriate national authorities
of different Member States,
in accordance with national
legislation, where the exchange is to ensure the quality of the
multinational enterprise group information in the European
Union. National central banks may be party to the exchange in
accordance with national legislation.

Article 11

Exchange of confidential data between the Commission
(Eurostat) and Member States

1. National authorities shall transmit data on multinational
enterprise groups and their constituent units, as defined in the
Annex, to the Commission (Eurostat), to provide information,
exclusively for statistical purposes, on multinational groups in
the European Union.

2.
In order to ensure a consistent record of data, exclusively for
statistical purposes, the Commission (Eurostat), shall transmit to
the appropriate national authorities of each Member State, data
on a multinational enterprise group, including its constituent
units, when at least one legal unit of the group is located in the
territory of that Member State.

3.
In order to ensure that the data transmitted under this
Article is used exclusively for statistical purposes, the format,
security and confidentiality measures, and procedure for the
transmission of data on individual units to the Commission
(Eurostat) and for the transmission of data on the multinational
enterprise groups to the appropriate national authorities shall be
adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to
in Article 16(2).

Article 12

Exchange of confidential data between the Commission
(Eurostat) and central banks

For

the purposes of

1.
the exchange of
confidential data may take place, exclusively for statistical
purposes, between the Commission (Eurostat) and national
central banks, and between the Commission (Eurostat) and the

this Regulation,

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European Central Bank, where the exchange is to ensure the
quality of multinational enterprise group information in the
European Union, and where the exchange is explicitly authorised
by the appropriate national authority.

provided for in Article 5, taking into account the principle
that the benefits of the updating must outweigh its cost and
the principle that the additional resources involved either
for Member States or for enterprises remain reasonable;

2.
In order to ensure that the data transmitted under this
Article is used exclusively for statistical purposes, the format,
security and confidentiality measures, and procedure for the
transmission of data on the multinational enterprise groups to
the national central banks and the European Central Bank shall
be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred
to in Article 16(2).

Article 13

Confidentiality and access to identifiable data

1. When the Commission (Eurostat), national authorities,
national central banks and the European Central Bank receive
confidential data pursuant to Articles 10, 11 and 12 they shall
treat that information confidentially in accordance with Regula-
tion (EC) No 322/97.

2.
For the purposes of this Regulation, and notwithstanding
Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 322/97, any transmission of
confidential data between national authorities and the Commis-
sion (Eurostat) may take place to the extent
such
transmission is necessary for
specific
Community statistics. Any further
transmission must be
explicitly authorised by the national authority that collected
the data.

the production of

that

(c)

the establishment of common quality standards, as well as
the content and periodicity of
the quality reports as
provided for in Article 6(3); and

(d)

the rules for updating registers, as provided for in Arti-
cle 8(3).

2. Measures, relating to the following shall be adopted in
accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in
Article 16(2):

(a)

(b)

(c)

the transmission of information arising from the statistical
analyses of registers, as provided for in Article 9;

the transmission of data on individual units for multi-
national
enterprise groups between the Commission
(Eurostat) and the Member States, as provided for in
Article 11; and

the transmission of multinational enterprise group data
between the Commission (Eurostat) and central banks, as
provided for in Article 12.

Article 16

Committee

Article 14

1. The Commission shall be assisted by the Statistical
Programme Committee.

Transition period and derogations

When business registers require a major overhaul, the Commis-
sion may grant a derogation at the request of a Member State for
a transitional period that shall not exceed 25 March 2010.

For agriculture, forestry and fishing, public administration and
defence, and compulsory social security, and for the additional
characteristics relating to enterprise groups, the Commission
may grant a derogation at the request of a Member State for a
transitional period that shall not exceed 25 March 2013.

2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 5 and 7
of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the
provisions of Article 8 thereof.

The period laid down in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC
shall be set at three months.

3. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to
(4) and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having
regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.

Article 15

Implementing measures

Article 17

Repeal

1. The following measures, designed to amend non-essential
elements of this Regulation, inter alia, by supplementing it, shall
be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with
scrutiny referred to in Article 16(3):

Regulation (EEC) No 2186/93 shall be repealed.

References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as being
made to this Regulation.

(a)

the coverage of the smallest enterprises and all-resident
enterprise groups, as provided for in Article 3(6);

Article 18

Entry into force

(b)

the updating of the list of register characteristics in the
their definitions and their continuity rules, as
Annex,

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, 20 February 2008.

For the European Parliament

The President

H.-G. PÖTTERING

For the Council

The President

J. LENARČIČ

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ANNEX

The business registers shall contain the following information by unit. The information does not have to be separately stored
for each unit, if it can be derived from (an)other unit(s).

Unmarked items are mandatory, items marked ‘conditional’ are mandatory if available in the Member State and items
marked ‘optional’ are recommended.

IDENTIFICATION
CHARACTERISTICS

1.1.

1.2a.

1.2b.

1.2c.

Optional

DEMOGRAPHIC
CHARACTERISTICS

ECONOMIC/ STRATIFICA-
TION CHARACTERISTICS

LINKS WITH OTHER
REGISTERS

1.3.

1.4.

1.5.

1.6.

1.7a.

1.7b.

Optional

1.

LEGAL UNIT

Identity number

Name

Address (including postcode) at the most detailed
level

Telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address, and
information to permit electronic collection of
data

Value Added Tax (VAT) registration number or,
failing that, other administrative identity number

Date of incorporation for legal persons or date of
official recognition as an economic operator for
natural persons

Date on which the legal unit ceased to be part of
an enterprise (as identified in 3.3)

Legal form

Reference to associated registers,
legal unit
information that can be used for
purposes

in which the
recorded and which contain
statistical

is

Reference to the register of
intra-Community
operators set up in accordance with Regulation
(EC) No 638/2004 (1), and Reference to customs
files or
to the register of extra-Community
operators

Reference to balance sheet data (for units required
to publish accounts), and Reference to the balance
of payments register or foreign direct investment
register, and Reference to the farm register

(1) Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on Community statistics relating to the

trading of goods between Member States (OJ L 102, 7.4.2004, p. 1).

Additional characteristics for legal units which are part of enterprises belonging to an enterprise group:

LINK WITH ENTERPRISE
GROUP

1.8.

1.9.

1.10.

Identity number of
the all-resident/truncated
enterprise group (4.1), to which the unit belongs

Date of association to the all-resident/truncated
group

Date of separation from the all-resident/truncated
group

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CONTROL OF UNITS

1.11a.

1.11b.

1.12a.

The resident control links can be recorded either
top-down (1.11a) or bottom-up (1.11b). Only the
first level of control, direct or indirect, is recorded
for each unit (the whole chain of control can be
obtained by combining these).

Identity number(s) of resident legal unit(s), which
are controlled by the legal unit

Identity number of the resident legal unit, which
controls the legal unit

Country(ies) of registration, and identity num-
ber(s) or name(s) and address(es) of the non-
resident legal unit(s), which are controlled by the
legal unit

1.12b.

Conditional

VAT number(s) of non-resident
which are controlled by the legal unit

legal unit(s),

1.13a.

Country of registration, and identity number or
name and address of the non-resident legal unit,
which controls the legal unit

1.13b.

Conditional

VAT number of the non-resident legal unit, which
controls the legal unit

OWNERSHIP OF UNITS

Conditional

1.14a.

Conditional

1.14b.

Conditional

1.15.

Conditional

1.16.

Conditional

The resident ownership can be recorded either
top-down (1.14a) or bottom-up (1.14b).
The recording of
the information and the
threshold used for the shareholding are subject
to the availability of
this information in the
administrative sources. The recommended thresh-
old is 10 % or more of direct ownership.

Identity number(s), and

(a)
(b) shares (%)
of resident legal unit(s) owned by the legal unit

Identity number(s), and

(a)
(b) shares (%)
of resident legal unit(s), which own(s) the legal
unit

(a) Country(ies) of registration, and
(b)

identity number(s) or, name(s), address(es),
and VAT number(s), and
shares (%)

(c)
of non-resident legal unit(s) owned by the legal
unit

(a) Country(ies) of registration, and
(b)

identity number(s) or, name(s), address(es),
and VAT number(s), and
shares (%)

(c)
of non-resident legal unit(s), which own(s) the
legal unit

IDENTIFICATION
CHARACTERISTICS

2.1.

2.2a.

2.2b.

2.

LOCAL UNIT

Identity number

Name

Address (including postcode) at the most detailed
level

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2.2c.

Optional

2.3.

2.4.

2.5.

2.6.

DEMOGRAPHIC
CHARACTERISTICS

ECONOMIC/ STRATIFICA-
TION CHARACTERISTICS

2.7.

Conditional

2.8.

Optional

Telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address, and
information to permit electronic collection of
data

Identity number of the enterprise (3.1), to which
the local unit belongs

Date of commencement of activities

Date of final cessation of activities

Principal activity code at NACE 4-digit level

Secondary activities, if any, at NACE 4-digit level;
this point concerns only local units which are the
subject of surveys

Activity carried out in the local unit constituting
an ancillary activity of the enterprise to which it
belongs (Yes/No)

2.9.

2.10a.

Number of persons employed

Number of employees

2.10b.

Optional

Number of employees in full-time equivalents

2.11.

Geographical location code

LINKS WITH OTHER
REGISTERS

2.12.

Conditional

Reference to associated registers,
in which the
local unit appears and which contain information
which can be used for statistical purposes (if such
associated registers exist)

3.

ENTERPRISE

IDENTIFICATION
CHARACTERISTICS

3.1.

3.2a.

Identity number

Name

3.2b.

Optional

Postal, e-mail and website addresses

3.3.

3.4.

3.5.

3.6.

DEMOGRAPHIC
CHARACTERISTICS

ECONOMIC/ STRATIFICA-
TION CHARACTERISTICS

Identity number(s) of the legal unit(s) of which
the enterprise consist(s)

Date of commencement of activities

Date of final cessation of activities

Principal activity code at NACE 4-digit level

3.7.

Conditional

Secondary activities, if any, at NACE 4-digit level;
this point concerns only enterprises which are the
subject of surveys

3.8.

3.9a.

Number of persons employed

Number of employees

3.9b.

Optional

Number of employees in full-time equivalents

3.10a.

Turnover save as provided in 3.10b

3.10b.

Optional

3.11.

Turnover for agriculture, hunting and forestry,
fishing, and public administration and defence,
compulsory social security, private households
with employed persons
and extra-territorial
organisations

Institutional sector and sub-sector according to
European System of Accounts

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Additional characteristics for enterprises belonging to an enterprise group:

LINK WITH ENTERPRISE
GROUP

3.12.

Identity number of the all-resident/truncated enterprise group (4.1), to which the
enterprise belongs

4.

ENTERPRISE GROUP

IDENTIFICATION
CHARACTERISTICS

4.1.

4.2a.

Identity number of
group

the all-resident/truncated

Name of the all-resident/truncated group

4.2b.

Optional

Postal, e-mail and website addresses of
resident/truncated head office

the

4.3.

Part conditional

4.4.

4.5.

4.6.

4.7.

DEMOGRAPHIC
CHARACTERISTICS

ECONOMIC/STRATIFICA-
TION CHARACTERISTICS

Identity number of
the all-resident/truncated
group head (equals the identity number of the
legal unit, which is the resident group head).
Conditional
if the controlling unit is a natural
person, who is not an economic operator,
recording is subject to the availability of
this
information in the administrative sources

Type of enterprise group:
1.
all-resident group;
2. domestically controlled truncated group;
foreign controlled truncated group
3.

Date of commencement of
truncated enterprise group

the all-resident/

Date of cessation of
enterprise group

the all-resident/truncated

Principal activity code of the all-resident/trun-
cated group at NACE 2-digit level

4.8.

Optional

Secondary activities of the all-resident/truncated
group at NACE 2-digit level

4.9.

Number of persons employed in the all-resident/
truncated group

4.10.

Optional

Consolidated turnover

Additional characteristics for multinational enterprise groups (types 2 and 3 in 4.4):

The recording of variables 4.11 and 4.12a is optional until the transmission of information on multinational groups, as
provided for in Article 11, has been established.

IDENTIFICATION
CHARACTERISTICS

4.11.

4.12a.

Identity number of the global group

Name of the global group

4.12b.

Optional

Country of registration, postal, e-mail and website
addresses of the global head office

4.13a.

Identity number of the global group head, if the
group head is
the identity
number of the legal unit, which is the group
head). If the global group head is non-resident, its
country of registration.

resident

(equals

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4.13b.

Optional

Global group head identity number or name and
address, if non-resident

ECONOMIC/STRATIFICA-
TION CHARACTERISTICS

4.14.

Optional

Number of persons employed globally

4.15.

Optional

Consolidated global turnover

4.16.

Optional

Country of global decision centre

4.17.

Optional

Countries where enterprises or local units are
located