Commission Regulation (EU) No 68/2014 of 27 January 2014 amending Regulation (EU) No 141/2013 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work, as regards statistics based on the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) by reason of the accession of Croatia to the European Union  Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2014-01-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Croatia, EU statistics, accession to the European Union, occupational health, public health, sampling, statistical method








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Official Journal of the European Union


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            COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 68/2014
of 27 January 2014
         
amending Regulation (EU) No 141/2013 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work, as regards statistics based on the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) by reason of the accession of Croatia to the European Union
(Text with EEA relevance)


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work (1), and in particular Article 9(1) thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Annex II to Commission Regulation (EU) No 141/2013 (2) provides for the minimum effective sample size, calculated on the assumption of simple random sampling.












(2)


It is necessary to adapt Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 141/2013 to take into account the accession of Croatia.












(3)


Regulation (EU) No 141/2013 should therefore be amended accordingly.












(4)


The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 141/2013 is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.


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, 27 January 2014.


For the Commission


The President

José Manuel BARROSO
            





(1)  
            OJ L 354, 31.12.2008, p. 70.

(2)  Commission Regulation (EU) No 141/2013 of 19 February 2013 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work, as regards statistics based on the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) (OJ L 47, 20.2.2013, p. 20).




ANNEX




                     ‘ANNEX II

Final sample sizes to be achieved







 


Persons aged 15 or over to be interviewed





EU Member States



 




Belgium


6 500 




Bulgaria


5 920 




Czech Republic


6 510 




Denmark


5 350 




Germany


15 260 




Estonia


4 270 




Ireland


5 057 




Greece


6 667 




Spain


11 620 




France


13 110 




Croatia


5 000 




Italy


13 180 




Cyprus


4 095 




Latvia


4 555 




Lithuania


4 850 




Luxembourg


4 000 




Hungary


6 410 




Malta


3 975 




Netherlands


7 515 




Austria


6 050 




Poland


10 690 




Portugal


6 515 




Romania


8 420 




Slovenia


4 486 




Slovakia


5 370 




Finland


5 330 




Sweden


6 200 




United Kingdom


13 085 




Total of EU Member States


199 990 




Switzerland


5 900 




Iceland


3 940 




Norway


5 170 




Total including Switzerland, Iceland and Norway


215 000 ’