CELEX: 51990PC0324
Language: en
Date: 1990-07-13
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION ESTABLISHING THE EUROPEAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON STATISTICAL INFORMATION IN THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SPHERES ( CEIES )

21. 8.90                                Official Journal of the European Communities                              No C 208/9
              Proposal for a Council Decision establishing the European Advisory Committee on statistical
                                   information in the economic and social spheres (CEIES)
                                                       COM(90) 324 final
                                        (Submitted by the Commission on 23 July 1990)
                                                          (90/C 208/12)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           of the single market provided for in the Single European
                                                                   Act, leading representatives from the scientific, economic
                                                                   and social fields must be consulted regularly with a view
                                                                   to determining the objectives and nature of the infor-
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                   mation required to support Community policies;
Economic Community,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                 Whereas, in almost all Member States, there are consul-
                                                                   tative bodies of uses and producers of statistical infor-
                                                                   mation concerned mainly with the problems of the
Having regard       to   the   opinion    to  the   European       countries in question;
Parliament,
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                   Whereas it is therefore necessary to estabish an Advisory
                                                                   Committee on economic and social statistical infor-
Social Committee,
                                                                   mation, made up of representatives of the producers and
                                                                   users of this information, whose task it will be to help
                                                                   the Council and the Commission to coordinate the
Whereas the implementation, monitoring and assessment              objectives of the Community's statistical information
of Community policies depend to a great extent on the              policy;
availability of reliable statistics in the economic and
social fields;
                                                                   Whereas, in carrying out this task, the Committee will
Whereas in April 1989 the Commission presented to the              provide particular assistance to the Council in coordi-
Council a communication on the adoption of a                       nating the Member States' economic policies, as
Community statistical policy;                                      provided for by Article 145 of the EEC Treaty and,
                                                                   more especially, to the Economic Policy Committee
                                                                   established by the Council for the purposes of this co-
                                                                   ordination;
Whereas, on the basis of this communication and acting
on a proposal from the Commission, the Council
adopted a resolution on the implementation of a plan of
priority actions in the field of statistical information for
the period 1989 to 1992 0 ;                                        Whereas this Committee will also have the task of
                                                                   assisting the Council and the Commission in the process
                                                                   of multilateral surveillance put in place during the first
                                                                   stage of the monetary and economic union,
Whereas by its Decision 89/382/EEC (2) the Council
established the Statistical Programme Committee, which
comprises the presidents and the directors-general of the
national statistical institutes and which is responsible for
coordinating the work, resources, schedules and methods            HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
involved in Community and national                  statistical
programmes;
                                                                                             Article 1
Whereas in order to achieve the objectives set for the             A European Advisory Committee on statistical infor-
European Communities, in particular the establishment              mation in the economic and social spheres, hereinafter
                                                                   called the CEIES, shall be established. Its task shall be to
0) OJ No C 161, 28. 6. 1989, p. 1.                                 assist the Council and the Commission in the coordi-
(2) OJ No L 181, 28. 6. 1989, p. 47.                               nation of the objectives of the Community's statistical
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  information      policy,   taking    into    account     user     The CEIES shall draw up an annual report on the
  requirements and the costs borne by the information               progress of European economic and social statistical
  producers.                                                        information, which shall be sent to the Council, the
                                                                    European Parliament, the Commission and the
                                                                    Economic and Social Committee.
                            Article 2
                                                                                                Article 4
 The CEIES shall consider and make suggestions on
                                                                    The CEIES shall consist of:
 projects to be implemented and the resources needed to
 achieve the objectives of the statistical information policy
 decided upon by the Community.
                                                                    — four members representing the Commission, one of
                                                                        whom shall be the Member of the Commission
                                                                         responsible for statistical information policy,
 The CEIES shall deliver an opinion on the Community's
 statistical programme and on the way in which it is                — the twelve Presidents or Directors-General of the
 designed and monitored. In particular, it shall comment                national statistical institutes of the Member States,
 on:
                                                                    — twenty-four members (two per Member State) whom
                                                                        the Council shall appoint after consulting the
                                                                        Commission        and the Economic and             Social
 — the relevance of statistical programmes to the                       Committee, from among leading representatives of
      requirements of European integration, as expressed                the various economic and social categories and the
      by the Community institutions, national and regional              scientific field. With a view to the appointment of
      authorities and the various           socio-professional          these members, each Member State shall provide the
      categories,                                                       Council with a list containing four candidates. The
                                                                        Council shall take account of the need for the
                                                                       various categories to be adequately represented.
 — the coherence of the various components of the
      Community statistical infrastructure as regards                                          Article 5
      organization and programmes,
                                                                   The members appointed by the Council shall hold office
                                                                   for a four-year term, which shall be renewable. They
                                                                   shall hold office in a personal and honorary capacity.
                                                                   The list of members shall be published in the Official
 — the costs of the sectoral statistical programmes,               Journal of the European Communities, 'C series.
     including both the costs directly incurred by
     Community, national and regional authorities and
     the cost to society of providing the basic information,
                                                                                               Article 6
                                                                   The CEIES shall be chaired by the Member of the
                                                                   Commission responsible for statistical information policy.
— the resources needed to implement the sectoral stat-
     istical programmes, their origin and conformity with
    the objectives.                                               It shall elect three vice-chairmen from among its
                                                                  members for a two-year term of office which shall be
                                                                  renewable once.
                           Article 3
                                                                  Secretarial services shall be provided by the Statistical
The CEIES may be consulted by the Council and the                 Office of the European Communities.
Commission on any matter relating to statistical infor-
mation policy. It shall deliver opinions or present reports
to the Council and the Commission whenever it
                                                                                              Article 7
considers this necessary for the fulfilment of its task. It
shall work in close cooperation with the Statistical              The Chairman shall convene the CEIES whenever
Programme Committee, to which it shall send its                   necessary and at least once a year, either on his own
opinions and reports, principally in so far as requests           initiative or at the request of a minimum of one-third of
which imply new statistical works are concerned.                  its members.
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                        Article 8                                                     Article 10
The     Chairman     may      invite  the     Commission       The CEIES shall draw up its own rules of procedure, in
Directors-General involved in the subjects under               agreement with the Commission.
discussion to attend the meetings as observers, or any
other person able to contribute to the discussions.                                  Article 11
                        Article 9                              The CEIES may set up its own working parties, whose
The CEIES shall take decisions which shall be                  operating procedures shall be laid down in the rules of
considered valid if at least half of the members are           procedure.
present. A member may delegate his vote to another
Committee member.