REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on exercising the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on the Commission pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts
Date: 2020-12-02
Institutions: European Commission, Eurostat
Subjects: EU statistics, data collection, economic statistics, energy policy, environmental protection, environmental statistics, national accounts

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   EUROPEAN COMMISSION  Brussels, 2.12.2020  COM(2020) 776 final  REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on exercising the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on the Commission pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts  
 
 
REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND 
THE COUNCIL 

on exercising the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on the Commission pursuant 
to 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  on  the  Commission  to  adopt  delegated  acts.  In  accordance  with 
Article 9(2) of that Regulation, the power to adopt delegated acts is conferred for a 
period of 5 years from 11 August 2011. These powers are to be tacitly extended for 
periods  of  5  years  unless  the  European  Parliament  or  the  Council  opposes  such  an 
extension.  

The Commission has to draw up a report on this delegation of power not later than 9 
months  before  the  end  of  the  five-year  period.  The  Commission  submitted  a  first 
report in November 20152. The delegation of power was automatically extended for 
another  5  years,  as  the  Parliament  and  the  Council  did  not  revoke  it  pursuant  to 
Article 9(3).  

This  is  the  second  report  on  the  Commission’s  exercising  of  the  power  to  adopt 
delegated acts conferred on it pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 on European 
environmental economic accounts. 

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COMMISSION’S  EXERCISING  OF  DELEGATED  POWERS  PURSUANT  TO  REGULATION 
(EU) NO 691/2011 

Since Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 entered into force, the Commission has adopted 
only Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1723.  

This  act  specifies  the  energy  products  referred  to  in  Section  3  of  Annex  VI  of 
Regulation  (EU)  No  691/2011.  This  delegated  act  was  specifically  envisaged  in 
Regulation  (EU)  No  538/2014  amending  Regulation  (EU)  No  691/20114.  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.  

1 OJ L 192, 22.7.2011, p. 1 
2  Report  on  the  exercise  of  the  power  to  adopt  delegated  acts  conferred  on  the  Commission  pursuant  to 

Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts, COM (2015)577 final. 

3 Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/172 of 24 November 2015 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 
691/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards specification of the energy products 
(OJ L 33, 10.2.2016, p. 3). 

4  Regulation  (EU)  No  538/2014  of  the  European  Parliament  and  of  the  Council  of  16  April  2014  amending 
Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts (OJ L 158, 27.5.2014, p. 
113). 

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Most  of  the  energy  products  needed  for  the  European  environmental  economic 
accounts  are  aggregations  of  the  list  of  energy  products  in  Regulation  (EC)  No 
1099/20085.  They  were  supplemented  with  other  categories  needed 
for 
environmental  accounts  but  not  established  in  energy  statistics,  namely  for  natural 
energy inputs and energy residuals.  

During the preparatory work for Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/172, 
appropriate  consultations  were  carried  out,  including  at  expert  level.  The  Eurostat 
the  Working  Group  on 
Working  Group  on  Environmental  Accounts  and 
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  were  duly 
informed. 

The Commission may need to use the powers stipulated in Article 3(3) and (4) in the 
near future to better reflect the data needs of current EU policies.  

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CONCLUSIONS 

The Commission  exercised its delegated powers  correctly  and invites the European 
Parliament and the Council to take note of this report. 

The  Commission  considers  that  it  should  continue  to  have  the  delegated  powers 
pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 691/2011, as it may need to adopt delegated acts in 
the future to reflect progress in statistical methodologies and adjust priorities to meet 
the new needs for environmental information. 

5 Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 on energy 

statistics (OJ L 304, 14.11.2008, p. 1). 

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