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Title: COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/... supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council by specifying the number and the title of the variables for the 2022 ad hoc subject ‘job skills’ and the eight-yearly variables on ‘pension and labour market participation’ in the labour force domain

EUROPEAN
                            COMMISSION
                                                     Brussels, 12.8.2020
                                                     C(2020) 5463 final
               COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/...
                                         of 12.8.2020
   supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the
   Council by specifying the number and the title of the variables for the 2022 ad hoc
    subject ‘job skills’ and the eight-yearly variables on ‘pension and labour market
                          participation’ in the labour force domain
                                  (Text with EEA relevance)
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 ---pagebreak---                                     EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
   1.        CONTEXT OF THE DELEGATED ACT
   Under Article 6(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and Council
   establishing a common framework for European statistics on persons and households, based
   on data at individual level collected from samples, the Commission is empowered to adopt
   delegated acts specifying the number and title of variables of the different data sets.
   According to Article 6(2), the number of variables laid down in the delegated act shall not
   exceed by more than 5% the number of variables for each domain of those already required
   by the Commission (Eurostat) when Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 entered into force.
   The Labour Force Survey (LFS) comprises a core LFS and a system combining, over an
   eight-year period, six regular modules and two ad hoc subjects. The variables of the core LFS,
   plus the first regular module to be implemented in 2021 (and then repeated every 8 years) on
   the ‘labour market situation of migrants and their immediate descendants’ to be transmitted to
   the Commission (Eurostat), are provided in Commission delegated Regulation (EU)
   2020/257.
   The present delegated Regulation covers the number and the title of the variables for the data
   set in the labour force domain related to the ad hoc subject ‘job skills’ to be implemented in
   2022 and to the regular module on ‘pension and labour market participation’ to be
   implemented in 2023 (and then repeated every 8 years).
   The other four regular modules on ‘work organisation and working time arrangements’,
   ‘accidents at work and work-related health problems’, ‘reconciliation of work and family life’
   and ‘young people on the labour market’ as well as the ad hoc subjects to be included from
   2026 will be covered by separate delegated Regulations that will be adopted later and apply
   from 2024.
   2.        CONSULTATIONS PRIOR TO THE ADOPTION OF THE ACT
   The Commission has carried out the appropriate consultations on this delegated act.
   It consulted national experts orally on the draft delegated act during expert meetings. It
   consulted the European Directors of Social Statistics in writing in March 2020. It also
   consulted the ‘National Statistical Institutes of the European Statistical System’ expert group.
   The Commission has kept both the European Parliament and the Council duly informed of the
   consultations.
   3.        LEGAL ELEMENTS OF THE DELEGATED ACT
   The purpose of this delegated Regulation is to adopt the number and title of the variables for
   the 2022 ad hoc subject ‘job skills’ and the regular module on ‘pension and labour market
   participation’ in the labour force domain, as provided for in Article 6(1) of Regulation (EU)
   2019/1700.
   In line with Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2019/22401, the number of variables for both the
   2022 ad hoc subject ‘job skills’ and the regular module on ‘pension and labour market
   participation’ should not exceed 11.
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           Commission implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2240 of 16 December 2019 specifying the technical
           items of the data set, establishing the technical formats for transmission of information and specifying
           the detailed arrangements and content of the quality reports on the organisation of a sample survey in
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 ---pagebreak---    Combined with the quarterly, annual and biennial variables included in Annex I of Regulation
   (EU) 2019/2240, the number of variables to be collected in both 2022 and 2023 should not
   exceed by more than 5% the number of variables collected for the labour force domain at the
   time when Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 entered into force, thereby fulfilling the requirement
   of Article 6(2) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1700.
   The delegated act has no implications for the EU budget.
   The delegated act concerns a matter relating to the European Economic Area (EEA) and its
   application should therefore extend to the EEA.
           the labour force domain in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and
           of the Council (OJ L 336, 30.12.2019, p. 59).
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 ---pagebreak---                     COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/...
                                               of 12.8.2020
       supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the
       Council by specifying the number and the title of the variables for the 2022 ad hoc
        subject ‘job skills’ and the eight-yearly variables on ‘pension and labour market
                               participation’ in the labour force domain
                                        (Text with EEA relevance)
   THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
   Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
   Having regard to 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 577/982, and in particular
   Article 6(1) thereof,
   Whereas:
   (1)     To cover the needs identified in the relevant detailed topics, the Commission should
           specify the number and title of the variables for the data set in the labour force domain.
   (2)     The Commission should establish the number and title of the variables on the ad hoc
           subject ‘job skills’ and the eight-yearly variables on the detailed topic ‘pension and
           labour market participation’ in the labour force domain.
   (3)     The number of variables to be collected should not exceed by more than 5% the
           number of variables collected for the labour force domain at the time when Regulation
           (EU) 2019/1700 entered into force,
   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                 Article 1
   The number and the titles of the variables for the 2022 ad hoc subject ‘job skills’ and of the
   eight-yearly variables for ‘pension and labour market participation’ in the labour force
   domain are set out in the Annex.
                                                 Article 2
   This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in
   the Official Journal of the European Union.
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           OJ L 261I, 14.10.2019, p. 1.
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 ---pagebreak---    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
   Done at Brussels, 12.8.2020
                                                 For the Commission
                                                 The President
                                                 Ursula VON DER LEYEN
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 ---documentbreak---                            EUROPEAN
                           COMMISSION
                                                    Brussels, 12.8.2020
                                                    C(2020) 5463 final
                                                    ANNEX
                                           ANNEX
                                            to the
                COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) xxx
   supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the
   Council by specifying the number and the title of the variables for the 2022 ad hoc
    subject 'job skills' and the eight-yearly variables on 'pension and labour market
                         participation' in the labour force domain
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 ---pagebreak---                                                                              ANNEX
                                          Number and title of the variables for the 2022 ad hoc subject 'job skills' and
                            the eight-yearly variables on 'pension and labour market participation' in the labour force domain
                                                                       Variable
  Topic                      Detailed topic                                            Variable name
                                                                       identifier
                                                                       DIGITAL         Time spent on working on digital devices in main or last job
                                                                                       Time spent on reading work-related manuals and technical documents in main or
                                                                       READING
                                                                                       last job
                                                                       CALCULATE       Time spent on doing relatively complex calculations in main or last job
                                                                       PHYSICAL        Time spent on doing hard physical work in main or last job
                                                                       DEXTERITY       Time spent on tasks involving finger dexterity in main or last job
      03c. Labour market
      participation - 11
                                                                                       Time spent on interacting with people from the same enterprise or organisation in
    collected variables (11  Job skills                                COMMINT
                                                                                       main or last job
     relating to an ad hoc
            subject)
                                                                                       Time spent on interacting with people from outside the enterprise or organisation
                                                                       COMMEXT
                                                                                       in main or last job
                                                                       GUIDANCE        Time spent on advising, training or teaching other people in main or last job
                                                                       JOBAUTON        Degree of autonomy on tasks in main or last job
                                                                       REPETITIVE      Repetitiveness of tasks in main or last job
                                                                       PROCEDURE       Tasks precisely described by strict procedures in main or last job
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 ---pagebreak---                                                                     Variable
  Topic                     Detailed topic                                       Variable name
                                                                    identifier
                                                                    PENSTYP1     Old age pension
                                                                    AGEPENSO     Age at which the person started receiving an old age pension
                                                                    STATRECE     First statutory old age pension receipt with reduction or bonus
                                                                    PENSTYP2     Disability pension and other disability periodic cash benefit
                                                                                 Age at which the person started receiving the disability pension or other disability
                                                                    AGEPENSD
     03d. Labour market                                                          periodic cash benefits
      participation - 11
                            Pension and labour market participation
    collected variables (11                                         PROVTYPE     Financial old age provisions
         eight-yearly)
                                                                    PENSSITU     Situation at beginning of old age pension receipt
                                                                    WSTPREAS     Main reason to stop working with the beginning of the old age pension receipt
                                                                    WCONREAS     Main reason to continue working with old age pension receipt
                                                                    LMREENT      Re-enter the labour market after beginning of old age pension receipt
                                                                    LMENTREAS    Main reason to re-enter the labour market
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