REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on the exercise of the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on the Commission pursuant Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts
Date: 2015-11-23
Institutions: European Commission, Eurostat
Subjects: EU statistics, data collection, energy policy, environmental protection, environmental statistics, national accounts

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   EUROPEAN COMMISSION  Brussels, 23.11.2015  COM(2015) 577 final   REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on the exercise of the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on the Commission pursuant Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts  
 
 
REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND 
THE COUNCIL 

on the exercise of the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on the Commission 
pursuant Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts 

1. 

BACKGROUND 

Article  3(3)  and  (4)  of  Regulation  (EU)  No  691/2011  of  the  European  Parliament 
and of the Council of 6 July  2011 on European environmental economic accounts1 
confers  powers  to  adopt  delegated  acts  on  the  Commission.  According  to  Article 
9(2) of that Regulation, the power to adopt delegated acts is conferred for a period of 
five years from 11 August 2011. This power shall be tacitly extended for periods of 
five years unless the European Parliament or the Council opposes such extension. 

The  Commission  shall  draw  up  a  report  in  respect  of  the  delegation  of  power  not 
later than nine months before the end of the 5-year period. 

This brief report fulfils this obligation. 

2. 

COMMISSION EXERCISE OF DELEGATED POWERS PURSUANT REGULATION (EU) NO 
691/2011 

The Commission has not yet exercised the powers to adopt delegated acts conferred 
on  it  by  Regulation  (EU)  No  691/2011.  The  reasons  are the  following:  the  powers 
delegated in Article 3(3) date from 2011, but the first transmission of statistical data 
took  place  in  2013,  according  to  Regulation  (EU)  No  691/2011.  Since  2013  there 
was no need to  neither update nor provide guidance on the  information  referred in 
Article 3(3). 

As  regards  the  powers  delegated  in  Article  3(4),  these  powers  date  from  2014,  as 
they were conferred on by Regulation (EU) No 538/2014 amending Regulation (EU) 
No 691/2011. The Commission intends to use the powers stipulated in Article 3(4) 
to  adopt  a  delegated  act  specifying  the  energy  products  referred  to  in  Section  3  of 
Annex VI of Regulation (EU) No 691/2011. This act is in preparation and scheduled 
to  be  adopted  in  the  fourth  quarter  of  2015.  A  list  of  energy  products  for  the 
European environmental economic accounts is an essential element to determine the 
scope  of  these  statistics,  to  allow  comparability  of  data  across  countries  and  to 
ensure  the  internal  consistency  (balancing)  of  the  physical  energy  flow  accounts. 
Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 
October  2008  on  energy  statistics2  provides  a  list  of  energy  products  in  Annex  B, 
covering most of the energy products needed in physical energy flow accounts.  

1 OJ  L 192, 22.7.2011, p. 1. 

2 OJ L 304, 14.11.2008, p. 1. 

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Appropriate  consultations  are  being  carried  out  during  the  preparatory  work, 
including at expert level. The Working Group on Environmental Accounts and the 
Working  Group  on  Environment  Expenditure  Statistics  were  consulted  in  a  joint 
meeting  in  March  2015.  The  Directors  of  sectoral  and environmental  statistics  and 
accounts (DIMESA) were consulted in June 2015. 

Both the European Parliament and the Council have been duly informed and invited 
to participate in expert meetings. 

3. 

CONCLUSIONS 

No conclusion can be drawn yet as the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on 
the  Commission  pursuant 
to  Regulation  (EU)  No  691/2011  on  European 
environmental economic accounts has not been exercised. 

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