Communication from the EFTA Surveillance Authority concerning derogations by Norway from the provisions of the Act referred to at point 1 of Annex XXI to the EEA Agreement, Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 concerning structural business statistics, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 and amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90, as well as certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains
Date: 2008-05-15
Institutions: EFTA Surveillance Authority
Subjects: EFTA, EU statistics, Norway, derogation from EU law, economic statistics, statistical method

15.5.2008

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 118/33

Communication from the EFTA Surveillance Authority concerning derogations by Norway from
the provisions of the Act referred to at point 1 of Annex XXI to the EEA Agreement, Council
Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 concerning structural business statistics, as amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the
statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 and amending Council Regulation
(EEC) No 3037/90, as well as certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains

(2008/C 118/14)

Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 of 20 December 1996 concerning structural business statistics,
as adapted by way of Protocol 1 to the EEA Agreement and referred to at point 1 of Annex XXI thereto
(hereinafter ‘the Act’), established a common framework for the collection, compilation, transmission and
evaluation of Community statistics on the structure, activity, competitiveness and performance of businesses
in the European Economic Area. Article 11 of the Act provides that derogations from the provisions of the
Annexes thereto may be accepted during a transitional period.

Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 estab-
lishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 and amending Council Regulation
(EEC) No 3037/90 as well as certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains (hereinafter ‘Regulation
(EC) No 1893/2006’) has been incorporated into point 20c of Annex XXI to the EEA Agreement by EEA
Joint Committee Decision No 61/2007 (OJ L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1). Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006
amends the Act as to definitions of the variables laid down in the Annexes to the Act, which are described
in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006.

The EFTA Surveillance Authority is entrusted with the task of accepting derogations in accordance with
Article 12 of the Act as regards applications from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

Pursuant to Article 11 of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97, Norway applied for partial and complete
derogation from transfer of certain data contained in Annex 7 of the Act as amended by Annex II to
Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006.

The EFTA Surveillance Authority has granted the following derogations, in accordance with the opinion of
26 November 2007 of the EFTA Heads of National Statistical Institutes Assisting the EFTA Surveillance
Authority:

Annual enter-
prise statistics
broken down
2005 to 2007

Partial
derogation

None

48 610

48 640

Title

Annual enterprise statis-
tics broken down by
geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown of
turnover

Total investments broken
down into euro and
non-euro components

Annual enter-
prise statistics
2005 to 2007

Title

Complete, partial or no
derogation

Partial
derogation

Extra transmission period
needed

None

Missing variables

48 031

Regular pension payments

48 032

48 120

48 132

48 101

48 705

Pension payments of
lump sums

Investments in affiliated
enterprises and partici-
pating interests (PF)

Shares traded on a regu-
lated market specialised in
SMEs

Total investments in ‘the
sponsoring enterprise’

Number of deferred
members

Other points

None

None

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Annual enter-
prise statistics
on non-autono-
mous pension
funds
2005 to 2007

Title

Title

Annual enter-
prise statistics
broken down
2005 to 2007

Partial
derogation

None

Complete, partial or no
derogation

Complete
derogation

Extra transmission period
needed

None

Missing variables

11 150

Number of enterprises
with non-autonomous
pension funds

Annual enterprise statis-
tics broken down by
geographical breakdown

Other points

None

None