CELEX: 31973R3192
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-22 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3192/73 of the Council of 22 November 1973 on the organization of a survey on labour costs in wholesale and retail distribution, banking and insurance

27 . 11 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 326/ 1
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                                     REGULATION ( EEC) No 3192/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                          of 22 November 1973
                 on the organization of a survey on labour costs in wholesale and retail distribu­
                                                      tion , banking and insurance
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                             based on accounting data for the year 1974, in order
 COMMUNITIES,                                                           to bring up to date the results of the preceding survey
                                                                        based on data for the year 1970,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 213
 thereof ;
                                                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by
 the Commission ;
                                                                                                Article 1
Whereas, in order to carry out the tasks assigned to it
 under the Treaty, in particular, those set out in Arti­                On the basis of the accounting data for the year 1974,
 cles 2, 3 , 117, 118 , 119 , 120 and 122 thereof, the
                                                                        the Commission shall carry out in 1975 a survey on
 Commission must be kept informed of the position                       labour costs (manual and non-manual workers) in
 and trend of wages and other labour costs in the nine                  retail and wholesale distribution , banking and insur­
 countries of the Community, in particular as regards                   ance .
 labour costs ;
Whereas , in the absence of statistical information
                                                                                                Article 2
which will allow reliable comparisons to be made, the
best method of ascertaining the level , composition
and trends both of labour costs and employees'                          The survey shall cover all undertakings employing 10
income is to carry out specific Community surveys, as                   or more employees of which the main activities are
has been done since 1 959, pursuant to Regulations                      within scope of Divisions 61 , 64/65, 81 and 82 of the
 No 10 ('), No 1 4 (2 ), No 28 (3), No 151 (4), No 101 /                Nomenclature of Economic Activities in the Euro­
66/ EEC (5 ), (EEC) No 1 899/68 (*) and (EEC) No                        pean Communities (NACE), with the exception of
2259/71 ( 7) on the basis of accounting data for the                    Groups 651 , 652 and 811 . However, in the case of
years 1959 to 1964, 1966, 1969 and 1972 for industry,                   insurance undertakings in Luxembourg, the survey
 No 100/66/ EEC (8), on the basis of data for the year                  shall be carried out without reference to a minimum
 1967 for road transport, and (EEC) No 2053/ 69 (9) on                  number of workers employed .
the basis of accounting data for 1970 for retail distribu­
tion , banking and insurance ;                                          The statistical unit shall be the undertaking, whatever
                                                                        its legal form . The survey may be carried out by
Whereas, since expenditure by undertakings on wages,                    means of random sampling.
salaries and related costs is subject to substantial
change, it is appropriate to carry out a new survey
                                                                                                Article 3
(')  OJ No   56 , 31 . 8 . I960 , p . 1199/ 60 .
(2)  OJ No   55 , 16 . 8 . 1961 , p . 1054/ 61 .
(3 ) OJ No   41 , 28 . 5 . 1962, p . 1277/ 62.                          Employers shall , in respect of given undertakings
(4 ) OJ No   133 , 13 . 12 . 1962, p . 2841 / 62.                       which are subject to investigation , supply the informa­
(5 ) OJ No   134, 22. 7 . 1966, p . 2540 / 66 .                         tion needed to determine labour costs (manual and
(o)  OJ No   L 289 , 29 . 11 . 1968 , p . 4.
C)   OJ No   L 238 , 23 . 10 . 1971 , p . 1 .                           non-manual workers) on the basis of the accounting
(8)  OJ No   134, 22. 7 . 1966, p . 2538 / 66 .                         data for the whole of the year 1974, in the manner set
(')  OJ No   L 263 , 21 . 10 . 1969 , p . 8 .                           out hereafter.
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                        Article 4                             The     statistical  offices  of the   Member States  shall
                                                               analyse the replies to the questionnaires. They shall
The survey shall cover :                                       forward to the Commission the overall results of the
(a) costs of wages and salaries, including bonuses and         survey, excluding individual items of information ; the
    allowances, and all incidental expenditure, in parti­      results shall be broken down in accordance with proce­
    cular employers' contributions to social security          dures to be decided upon jointly.
    and supplementary schemes, expenditure and
    other social payments, including the cost of voca­                                     Article 6
    tional training of employees ;
(b) the number of employees engaged in the undertak­           Individual items of information supplied for purposes
    ings ;                                                     of the survey shall be used for statistical purposes
(c) the number of hours worked by the employees .              only. It shall be prohibited to use the information for
                                                               taxation purposes, or to communicate it to third
                        Article 5                              parties .
                                                               Member States ' shall take appropriate measures to
Information shall be gathered by the statistical offices       avoid any, infringement of :
of the Member States by means of questionnaires
drawn up by the Commission in cooperation with                 (a) the obligation to supply the information referred
those offices .                                                    to in Article 3 ;
                                                               (b) the obligation , under the first paragraph of this
The Commission shall , in cooperation with those
                                                                   Article, to maintain secrecy as regards the informa­
offices determine the detailed procedure for the                   tion obtained .
survey, and where necessary, the plan for random
sampling. Furthermore, it shall lay down in the same
way the starting and closing dates of the survey and                                       Article 7
the time limit for replying to the questionnaires .
                                                               The expenditure incurred by Member States in
Persons required to supply information shall reply to          connection with the survey shall be entered against
the questionnaires truthfully, fully, and within the           appropriations provided for that purpose in the
time limit set.                                                budget of the European Communities .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels , 22 November 1973 .
                                                                              For the Council
                                                                               The President
                                                                              J. KAMPMANN