REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on the implementation of Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European demographic statistics
Date: 2024-07-30
Institutions: European Commission, Eurostat
Subjects: EU Member State, EU statistics, European Statistical System, births, data collection, mortality, population dynamics, population statistics, statistical method

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   EUROPEAN COMMISSION  Brussels, 30.7.2024  COM(2024) 326 final  REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on the implementation of Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European demographic statistics        
 
 
1.  INTRODUCTION 
Regulation  (EU)  No  1260/2013 (1)  (‘the  Regulation’)  establishes  a  common  legal 
framework for the development, production and dissemination of European statistics on 
population and vital events. 

Member  States  had  previously  submitted  such  statistics  voluntarily  for  a  number  of 
years. However, as these were based on varying demographic definitions, concepts and 
methods, the resulting statistics were of notably reduced comparability, consistency and 
timeliness.  The  common  framework  was  intended  to  meet  the  need  for  high-quality 
demographic  statistics  at  national  and  regional  level  that  are  fundamental  for  a  wide 
range  of  institutional  and  policy  needs.  For  instance,  these  statistics  are  needed  to 
calculate population projections that inform the EU’s long-term economic and budgetary 
projections and are used as a denominator for many ‘per capita’ policy indicators. 

This  is  the  second  report  required  under  Article  11  of  the  Regulation,  and  covers  the 
period 2019-2023 (2). It is structured as follows:  

•  Section 2 gives an overview of the statistics covered by the Regulation;  
•  Section 3 describes how the quality criteria established for European statistics are 

monitored regularly; 

•  Section 4 summarises recent evaluation findings; 
•  Section 5 outlines the ongoing legislative initiative to modernise European 

statistics on population and housing, including statistics under the Regulation. 

2.  STATISTICS COVERED BY THE REGULATION 

Under  the  Regulation,  Member  States  transmit  statistics  to  the  Commission  (Eurostat) 
on: 

• 
• 

the usually resident population (3) by age, sex and region of residence; 
live births by sex, month of occurrence, live birth order, mother’s age, mother’s 
year  of  birth,  mother’s  country  of  birth,  mother’s  country  of  citizenship  and 
mother’s region of residence; 

•  deaths by age, sex, year of birth, region of residence, country of birth, country of 

citizenship and month of occurrence; and 
total usually resident population for qualified majority voting in the Council. 

• 

Except for the last point, some flexibility is allowed on the implementation of the usual 
residence definition – Member States can provide statistics based on ‘legal or registered 
residence’ where the criteria for usual residence cannot be established. 

(1)  Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 2013 

on European demographic statistics (Text with EEA relevance) (OJ L 330, 10.12.2013, p. 39). 

(2)  First report published as COM (2018) 843. 

(3)  ‘Usual  residence’  is  defined  in  Article  2(d)  of  the  Regulation  as  the  place  where  a  person  normally 
spends  the  daily  period  of  rest  over  a  continuous  period  of  at  least  12  months.  Where  the 
circumstances for usual residence cannot be established, it can be taken to mean the place of legal or 
registered residence, except for the purposes of qualified majority voting in the Council. 

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Pursuant  to  Article  3(4)  of  the  Regulation,  the  Commission  adopted  Implementing 
Regulation (EU) No 205/2014 (4). It lays down uniform conditions for data breakdowns, 
transmission  deadlines  and  revisions.  As  a  result,  Member  States  also  transmit  to  the 
Commission (Eurostat): 

•  provisional annual statistics on total population, total live births and total deaths 

at national level within 6 months of the end of each reference year; and 

•  provisional monthly statistics on total live births and total deaths for at least the 

first 6 months of the reference year by 30 November of that year. 

In  addition  to  these  mandatory  statistics,  Member  States  currently  transmit  various 
statistics  voluntarily,  e.g.  on  deaths  by  week  of  occurrence;  on  deaths  by  age,  sex  and 
educational  attainment;  on  marriages  and  divorces  by  various  characteristics.  Some  of 
these  voluntary  statistics  are  needed  to  calculate  demographic  indicators,  e.g.  life 
expectancy by educational attainment. 

3.  REGULAR MONITORING OF STATISTICAL QUALITY 

This section describes the monitoring of the implementation of the Regulation based on 
standard  quality  criteria  in  line  with  Article 12  of  Regulation  (EC)  No  223/2009  on 
European  statistics (5)  and  the  European  Statistics  Code  of  Practice (6).  Member  States 
have to ensure the quality of the statistics and provide quality metadata and reports to the 
Commission  (Eurostat).  Eurostat  reviews  these  quality  assessments  and  publishes  the 
statistics  as  well  as  analytical  articles  on  its  website.  Eurostat  and  the  Member  States 
work together to follow up on outstanding issues. Specific points are discussed in annual 
meetings  of the expert group on population  statistics, where all  EU and EFTA national 
statistical institutes are represented. 

3.1.  Relevance 
The Commission has given great relevance to demography (7). Demographic statistics are 
used to prepare regular reports, policy proposals, implementation reports required under 
EU legislation, and policy analysis. For example, the Commission’s reports on economic, 
social and territorial cohesion (8) and on the impact of demographic change in a changing 

(4)  Commission  Implementing  Regulation  (EU)  No  205/2014  of  4  March  2014  laying  down  uniformed 
conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 of the European Parliament and 
the  Council  on  European  demographic  statistics,  as  regards  breakdowns  of  data,  deadlines  and  data 
revisions (Text with EEA relevance) (OJ L 65, 5.3.2014, p. 10). 

(5)  Regulation  (EC)  No 223/2009  of  the  European  Parliament  and  of  the  Council of  11  March 2009  on 
European statistics and repealing Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1101/2008 of the European Parliament 
and  of  the  Council  on  the  transmission  of  data  subject  to  statistical  confidentiality  to  the  Statistical 
Office  of the European Communities, Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on Community Statistics, 
and Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom establishing a Committee on the Statistical Programmes 
of the European Communities (OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p. 164). 

(6)   http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-manuals-and-guidelines/-/KS-32-11-955 

(7)  https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/new-push-european-

democracy/impact-demographic-change-europe_en 

(8)   http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/information/cohesion-report/ (available only in English). 

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environment (9) use statistics produced under the Regulation. In 2021, Eurostat released 
the  ‘Demography  of  Europe’  interactive  publication,  which  has  been  updated  yearly, 
showing  the  development,  change  and  ageing  of  the  EU  population (10).  One  direct 
application  of  the  statistics  produced  under  the  Regulation  is  in  the  field  of  Eurostat’s 
3-yearly  demographic  population  projections (11).  These  show  how  population  size  and 
structure  could  change  if  certain  assumptions  on  fertility,  mortality  and  migration 
remained  valid.  These  projections  are  also  used  for  the  Ageing  report (12)  to  assess  the 
long-term  economic  and  budgetary  impact  of  population  ageing.  In  addition  to  these 
long-term population projections, Eurostat published for the first time short-term updates 
of  the  projections  in  September  2022,  complementing  the  data  offer.  Furthermore,  the 
total  usually  resident  population  counts  per  Member  State  are  used  as  weights  for 
qualified majority voting in the Council. 

Of all the statistics disseminated by Eurostat, statistics relating to population are among 
those  consulted  most.  Since  2015 (13),  yearly  population  stock (14)  and  population 
changes (15)  at  national  level  have  been  consistently  among  the  most  popular  social 
statistics  tables  and  in  the  top  five  most  viewed  Eurostat  tables.  Since  mid-2016,  the 
‘Demography,  population  stock  and  balance’  section (16)  on  Eurostat’s  website  has 
consistently been among the top five thematic sections in terms of user visits. 

3.2.  Accuracy 

Compared  with  the  previous  report  from  2018,  no  substantial  improvements  have  been 
made  to  accuracy.  Eurostat  is  aware  that  the  same  specific  accuracy  issues  keep 
occurring on under-coverage (when people do not register their  place of residence) and 
over-coverage  (e.g.  when  people  do  not  deregister,  as  there  is  often  no  obligation  or 
incentive to do so) (17). Moreover, metadata reported by Member States on the accuracy 

(9)  https://commission.europa.eu/system/files/2023-01/Demography_report_2022_0.pdf (available only in 

English). 

(10)  Latest  edition  is  available  at  https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/interactive-publications/demography-

2023 (available only in English). 

(11)  The  latest  EUROPOP2023  population  projections  were  released  by  Eurostat  on  30  March  2023: 
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Population_projections_in_the_EU 
(available only in English). 

(12)  https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/publications/2024-ageing-report-underlying-assumptions-and-

projection-methodologies_en (available only in English). 

(13)  This  covers  all  dissemination  under  the  Regulation,  as  the  data  collected  under  Article  3  were  first 

disseminated in the first quarter of 2015. 

(14)  ‘Population  on  1  January’  –  online  data  code  tps00001  (available  only  in  English,  French  and 

German). 

(15)  ‘Population  change  –  demographic  balance  and  crude  rates  at  national  level’  –  online  data  code 

demo_gind (available only in English, French and German). 

(16)  https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/population-demography/demography-population-stock-balance 

(available only in English, French and German). 

(17) The most recent quality report reiterates persistent difficulties due to incomplete (de-)registrations and 
in  covering  people  staying  in  the  country  irregularly,  without  estimating  the  quantitative  impact  on 
coverage accuracy. 

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of  estimating  the  usually  resident  population  for  qualified  majority  voting  are  still 
insufficient for a detailed assessment. 

In  this  context,  Eurostat  continues  to  promote  the  use  of  ‘mirror  flows’  reported  by 
partner Member States to resolve coverage errors due to failure to register and deregister. 
The  exchange  of  aggregate  mirror  flow  data  takes  place  between  national  statistical 
institutes  that  find  this  a  useful  addition  to  their  national  statistical  process.  This  helps 
them to improve and evaluate the quality of their data. 

3.3.  Timeliness and punctuality 

The  main  deadline  for  supplying  the  bulk  of  the  demographic  statistics  to  the 
Commission (Eurostat) is 12 months after the end of the reference year; three small data 
sets  are  to  be  transmitted  within  6,  8  and  11  months  of  the  end  of  the  reference  year. 
Since the start of data collection under the Regulation, there have been no notable issues 
of  delayed  data  transmissions  by  Member  States.  There  has  therefore  been  no  change 
compared to the 2018 report (18). 

3.4.  Accessibility and clarity 
Member  States’  data  and  EU  aggregates  are  freely  available  on  Eurostat’s  website (19). 
Users  can  access  European  demographic  statistics (20)  under  ‘Selected  datasets’, 
‘Detailed  datasets’  and  via  regularly  updated  articles  on  a  wide  range  of  population-
related subjects (21). During the year, data releases are accompanied by widely distributed 
news  items  and  Statistics  Explained  articles  with  more  information  on  statistics  on 
demography,  their  trends  and  their  interpretation (22).  However,  a  lack  of  sufficiently 
clear  and  comparable  national  metadata  information,  including  quantitative  quality 
indicators,  makes  it  hard  even  for  experienced  users  to  assess  and  compare  Member 
States’ data quality. 

3.5.  Comparability and coherence 

The  flexible,  non-harmonised  application  of  the  concept  of  usual  residence  is  still  the 
most serious  issue  for comparability and coherence.  For instance, some  Member States 
do  not  include  certain  population  groups  (e.g.  asylum  seekers,  irregular  migrants  or 
nomads)  or  do  not  apply  the  12-month  criterion  to  population  stocks  and  vital  events, 
often  because  the  statistics  are  taken  directly  from  administrative  registers  and  are 
therefore  dependent  on  national  administrative  criteria  for  registering  people  and  vital 

(18)  For instance, according to the most recent quality report, almost all Member States transmitted all their 
data sets on time (76 out of 81 transmissions on time, 2 within a 2-week delay and 3 within a 4-week 
delay). 

(19)  Eurostat 

home 

page 

(http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat) 

and 

database 

(http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database) (both available only in English, French and German). 

(20)  https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/population-demography/demography-population-stock-

balance/database (available only in English, French and German). 

(21)  https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/population-demography/demography-population-stock-

balance/publications (available only in English, French and German). 

(22)  https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Category:Population  (available  only 

in English). 

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events (23). A recent evaluation identified this as one of the key issues of the status quo 
(see Section 4), while the Commission initiative to redevelop the legal basis emphasised 
the  need  for  good  estimation  practices  to  improve  the  comparability  of  demographic 
statistics from administrative sources (see Section 5). 

Apart  from  this  key  issue,  demographic  statistics  are  mostly  comparable  over  time  for 
each  country.  Some  discontinuities  arise  typically  when  Member  States  improve  or 
change their methodology, including using a new census round to assess and rebase their 
population  estimations,  or  adjusting  the  territorial  units  used  in  statistics.  These  are 
indicated  in  the  tables  in  Eurostat’s  database  and  documented  for  users  through  the 
metadata on the Eurostat website or in relevant publications. 

3.6.  Compliance monitoring 

The  Commission  (Eurostat)  continues  to  follow  up  sporadic  cases  of  non-compliance 
with  the  Regulation  where  data  were  incomplete,  of  low  quality  or  not  delivered  in 
accordance  with  the  legal  deadlines.  It  monitors  and  assesses  these  aspects  of  data 
provision on an ongoing basis and contacts the Member States concerned at technical and 
administrative level to resolve the issues. 

4.  EVALUATION OF THE CURRENT STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK  

In  2021,  the  Commission  conducted  a  comprehensive  evaluation  of  the  entire  current 
legal  framework  and  resulting  European  statistics  on  population  and  housing (24).  It 
included statistics under Article 3 of this Regulation and all statistics under Regulations 
(EC) No 862/2007 (25) and (EC) No 763/2008 (26). The scope of the evaluation was much 
wider  than  the  regular  monitoring  described  in  Section  3  as  views  from  all  relevant 
stakeholder groups – including institutional, policy and research users – were collected in 
a  systematic  stakeholder  consultation (27).  The  goal  was  to  assess  whether  the  original 
objectives of the current framework were achieved and identify significant gaps. 

The  evaluation  found  significant  overall  improvements  had  been  made  in  European 
population  statistics  thanks  to  the  current  framework,  compared  to  the  initial  problems 
and needs faced by the statistical community before its entry into force. In particular, the 

(23)  According to the most recent quality reports, for demographic statistics (except total population counts 
for  qualified  majority  voting  in  the  Council),  18  Member  States  apply  the  narrow  concept  of  usual 
residence consistently, while 9 apply other national or mixed concepts. For total population counts for 
qualified  majority  voting  in  the  Council,  where  the  narrow  concept  of  usual  residence  is  legally 
required,  there  are  divergent  practices  between  Member  States  on  certain  population  groups,  most 
notably asylum seekers (17 Member States include them, 10 do not), irregular migrants (13 vs 14), and 
nomads (19 vs 8). 

(24)  SWD(2023) 13 

(25)  Regulation  (EC)  No  862/2007  of  the  European  Parliament  and  of  the  Council  of  11  July  2007  on 
Community  statistics  on  migration  and  international  protection  and  repealing  Council  Regulation 
(EEC) No 311/76 on the compilation of statistics on foreign workers (Text with EEA relevance) (OJ L 
199, 31.7.2007, p. 23). 

(26)  Regulation  (EC)  No  763/2008  of  the  European  Parliament  and  of  the  Council  of  9  July  2008  on 

population and housing censuses (Text with EEA relevance) (OJ L 218, 13.8.2008, p. 14). 

(27)  SWD(2023) 15 

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current legal framework has significantly increased EU value added by improving – for 
the data sets that became mandatory – several statistical quality dimensions at EU level, 
including completeness, consistency and timeliness. Moreover, the current legislation has 
delivered  on  all  relevant  needs  for  policymaking  and  institutions  at  EU  level  that  were 
known  when  it  was  developed  (2005-2013).  This  has  improved  the  effectiveness, 
efficiency  and  coherence  of  statistical  production  compared  to  the  previous  situation, 
which  relied  solely  on  voluntary  data  collections.  In  the  stakeholder  consultation,  most 
respondents  across  all  key  stakeholder  groups  confirmed  these  improvements  and 
stressed  the  added  value  of  the  current  legal  framework  at  EU  level.  Nevertheless,  the 
evaluation also identified four significant gaps in the current legislation. 

4.1.  Gap 1: Coherence, comparability, completeness   

Although  the  Regulation  sets  common  definitions  for  key  statistical  concepts,  some 
flexibility remains in the population definition itself. Member States currently apply three 
different concepts (usual residence, registered residence, legal residence) allowed by the 
Regulation, sometimes using different concepts for different data sets. This central issue 
has  caused  a  lack  of  comparability  and  coherence  in  the  data  from  different  Member 
States,  reducing  the  EU  added  value  of  the  data  collections.  Moreover,  statistics  that 
remain  voluntary  are  often  incomplete  at  EU  level  due  to  data  missing  from  a  few 
Member States. This reduces the overall cost-effectiveness significantly, as the majority 
of Member States spend resources on producing them, but a complete EU picture is not 
achieved. 

4.2.  Gap 2: Timeliness and frequency 

The  Regulation  covers  only  annual  demographic  statistics,  with  most  data  sets  to  be 
provided 12 months after the end of the reference period. Even though overall timeliness 
has  therefore  improved  mainly  because  excessive  delays  by  very  few  Member  States 
been  resolved,  it  remains  below  user  expectations.  The  data  provided  under  the 
Regulation  are  less  timely  than  comparable  national  statistical  publications  and  other 
transmissions  of  international  statistics  across  a  majority  of  Member  States.  Under  the 
Regulation, the legal deadlines and periodicities of statistics cannot be improved, e.g. to 
cover infra-annual population statistics such as those recently developed  voluntarily for 
mortality.  

4.3.  Gap 3: Details of societally relevant topics and groups 

The Regulation  focuses  on data needs  that correspond to  policy priorities at  the time it 
was  developed.  Over  time,  priorities  have  changed,  and  the  available  demographic 
statistics no longer adequately cover policy-relevant characteristics, topics or population 
groups (28).  Most  notably,  the  gaps  confirmed  in  the  stakeholder  consultation  revolve 
around  characteristics  of  relevant  topics  and  groups.  There  are  also  gaps  relating  to 
insufficient geographic granularity, in particular functional typologies and georeferenced 
data for urban/rural integration and cross-border analysis. 

(28)  E.g.  housing  data  for  the  Green  Deal;  data  on  migrants  and  EU  mobility;  data  on  the  urban/rural 
population;  and  data  on  vulnerable  minority  groups  for  policies  on  non-discrimination  and 
fundamental rights. 

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4.4.  Gap 4: Lack of flexibility of the legal framework 

Compounding  the  above-mentioned  weaknesses,  the  existing  legislation  lacks  the 
flexibility  to  adapt  to  meet  new and emerging needs for  statistics.  New  data sources in 
Member  States  and  at  EU 
including 
interoperability  systems  and  privately  held  data)  also  offer  potential  improvements  in 
terms  of  costs  and  timeliness,  but  the  current  legislation  does  not  allow  these 
developments to be embraced. The legal framework has therefore not been able to adapt 
to  any  policy-relevant  changes  since  it  was  adopted,  and  has  therefore  been  losing 
relevance rather quickly.  

level  (in  particular  administrative  data, 

5.  MODERNISATION  OF  EUROPEAN  DEMOGRAPHIC  STATISTICS  AS  PART  OF  THE 

REDEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN STATISTICS ON POPULATION 

For  the  significant  gaps  outlined  in  Section  4,  the  evaluation  identified  four  legislative 
drivers that also apply to this Regulation: 

•  Only  mandatory  data  collections  with  defined  common  rules  can  ensure 
completeness  and  timeliness  of  statistics  at  EU  level.  Regulating  voluntary  data 
collections  that  already  have  high  completeness  may  significantly  improve 
effectiveness and efficiency as considerable EU added value can be generated at 
limited incremental cost. 

•  Voluntary data collections are appropriate instruments to pilot the production of 
new  topics  or  characteristics,  and  boost  the  incremental  capability  of  national 
statistical  systems  to  provide  such  new  data.  However,  they  tend  to  become 
inefficient  over  time  because  recurrent  production  costs  eventually  fail  to 
generate EU value added in terms of completeness across Member States. 

•  Loose legal definitions of statistical topics lead to loss of control over conceptual 
harmonisation.  This  ultimately  leads  to  a  loss  of  coherence  and  comparability 
over time. The example of the definition of the population base has shown how a 
default clause originally introduced as an exception with limited scope has turned 
into a new factual standard (29). 

•  A legal framework that is too rigid makes it difficult to maintain relevance over 
time.  The  current  framework  has  been  losing  relevance  rather  quickly  –  this 
already  started  during  the  implementation  period  due  to  the  lack  of  flexibility 
mechanisms  to  adapt  data  collections  to  evolving  needs  or  profit  from 
opportunities driven by new data sources becoming available. 

Moreover,  the  evaluation  pointed  to  administrative  redundancies  in  compliance, 
enforcement  and  monitoring  because  the  current  legislation  on  population  statistics  is 
scattered  across  three  legal  acts  that  were  not  developed  together.  Based  on  the 
evaluation and  an impact assessment (30), the Commission therefore adopted a proposal 
for a new framework regulation on population and housing that addresses the legislative 

(29)  As  noted  in  Section  4.1,  the  Regulation  allows  for  three  different  population  base  concepts:  usual 
residence  or,  in  default,  registered  or  legal  residence  (according  to  national  rules)  where  the 
circumstances  for  usual  residence  described  in  the  Regulation  cannot  be  established.  This  default 
clause  was  originally  introduced  as  an  exception  for  a  small  number  of  Member  States  but  has 
meanwhile  turned  into  a  new  factual  standard,  as  more  and  more  Member  States  apply  national 
population base definitions in the wake of embracing administrative data sources. 

(30)  SWD(2023) 11 

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drivers  for  significant  gaps  above,  while  aiming  to  integrate  the  legal  basis  into  one 
single regulation (31). 

The  legislative  proposal  contains  ambitious  elements  to  strengthen  general  consistency 
and the links between all EU social statistics based on people and households, including 
under  Regulation  (EU)  2019/1700 (32).  The  proposal  contains  provisions  to  support  the 
implementation  of  a  harmonised  population  definition  based  on  sound  statistical 
estimation  concepts,  and  enable  access  to  available  data  sources  that  will  improve  the 
production processes and general quality of social statistics. The proposal also contains 
provisions  to  align  population  and  international  migration  statistics  more  with  statistics 
on asylum and administrative and judicial  procedures related to immigration legislation 
remaining  under  Articles  4  to  7  of  Regulation  (EC)  No  862/2007.  At  the  time  of  this 
report, the ordinary legislative procedure on the proposal was ongoing (33). 

6.  CONCLUSIONS 
Thanks  to  the  continued  joint  efforts  of  the  European  Statistical  System (34),  the 
Regulation  is  well  implemented.  This  leads  to  the  regular  publication  of  overall  high-
quality European demographic statistics, needed by EU institutions and policymakers at 
all  levels.  Legal  compliance  and  statistical  quality  are  monitored  regularly  in  line  with 
the Regulation. As in the first report of 2018, there are no major compliance issues. 

Nevertheless, a recent evaluation of the current legal framework for population statistics 
identified  four  significant  gaps  in  the  legislation  currently  in  force  and  that  are  partly 
linked  to  the  fact  that  population  statistics  are  scattered  across  three  regulations, 
including  this  one.  These  gaps  are  (i)  lack  of  harmonisation  of  statistical  concepts,  in 
particular the population definition; (ii) insufficient timeliness and frequency of statistical 
publications; (iii) lack of detail on relevant groups and topics; and (iv) lack of flexibility 
to adapt to changing needs or new data sources. The Commission has therefore proposed 
a single new framework regulation on European statistics on population and housing that 
would consolidate the legal framework and address all four gaps. 

Efforts continue to advance the ordinary legislative procedure on the new integrated legal 
framework  for  European  population  statistics  that  would  incorporate  and  extend  the 
demographic statistics under the Regulation. 

(31)  COM(2023) 31 

(32)  Regulation  (EU)  2019/1700  of  the  European  Parliament  and  of  the  Council  of  10  October  2019 
establishing a common framework for European statistics relating to persons and households, based on 
data  at  individual  level  collected  from  samples,  amending  Regulations  (EC)  No  808/2004,  (EC)  No 
452/2008  and  (EC)  No  1338/2008  of  the  European  Parliament  and  of  the  Council,  and  repealing 
Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation 
(EC) No 577/98 (Text with EEA relevance) (OJ L 261I , 14.10.2019, p. 1). 

(33)  Procedure 2023/0008/COD 

(34)  https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/european-statistical-system  

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