CELEX: 51988PC0176
Language: en
Date: 1988-04-05
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE ( EEC ) ON THE HARMONIZATION OF DEFINITIONS OF GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT AT MARKET PRICES ( GNPMP ) AND IMPROVEMENTS TO THE BASIC STATISTICS NEEDED TO ESTIMATE IT

No C 137/12                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                     27. 5. 88
                                                                  ANNEX II
                                                EVALUATION OF RESEARCH RESULTS
             1. In future, JRC activities will fall into a number of distinct categories, one of which is the execution of
                  rnultiannual specific research programmes under Article 7 of the Euratom Treaty and Article 130 Q (2)
                  of the EEC Treaty in support of the implementation of Community policies as laid down by the
                  scientific and technical objectives of the framework programme for scientific research and technological
                  development.
             2. For these rnultiannual specific programmes proposed for the period 1988 to 1991, these will be formal
                  midterm evaluations in accordance with the principles laid down by the Commission in its plan of
                  action of November 1986 (').
             3. The Commission, after consulting the Board of Governors, will organize the evaluation of all JRC
                  research activities including the specific programmes.
             4. An indicative amount of 500 000 ECU has been set aside in the 1988 to 1991 appropriations to cover
                  the costs of the evaluations.
             5. The evaluations will have the following terms of reference:
                  (a) assessment of the scientific and technical achievements of the programme taking into account its
                      original objectives; quality and practical relevance of the results, and possible spin-offs;
                  (b) contribution of the programme to the development of other Community policies and to the social
                      and economic development of the Community in general;
                  (c) evaluation of the effectiveness of management and of resource utilization;
                  (d) recommendations for future orientation of the programme, management improvements, exploitation
                      of results, etc.
                  The results of the evaluations will be published by the Commission.
             (•') OJ No C 14, 20. 1. 1987, p. 5.
             Proposal for a Council Directive (EEC) on the harmonization of definitions of gross national
             product at market prices (GNPmp) and improvements to the basic statistics needed to estimate it
                                                             COM(88) 176 final
                                  (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 12 April 1988)
                                                                (88/C 137/05)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                   Having regard         to   the   opinion of  the European
                                                                           Parliament,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                      Whereas the creation of an additional own resource
Economic Community,                                                        based on gross national product at market prices
                                                                           (GNPmp) 6i the Member States makes it necessary to
                                                                           reinforce the comparability S.n.d reliability of this
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                      aggregate;
Atomic Energy Community,
                                                                           Whereas the completion of the internal market will
Having regard to the Council Decision of . . . 1988 on                     require modifications in the method of the collection of
the system of the Communities' own resources, and in                       statistical data;
particular Article 8 paragraph 2 thereof,
                                                                           Whereas these data are an analytical tool essential for
                                                                           the coordination of the economic policies of the Member
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                         States;
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Whereas GNPmp data must be comparable                   and       3. The output side:
representative of the Member States' economies;
                                                                      GDPmp (Nl) is calculated as the difference between
                                                                      output of goods and services (P10) and intermediate
Whereas GNPmp can be methodologically comparable                      consumption (P20) plus VAT on products (R21) and
only if the standards of the European system of inte-                 net taxes linked to imports (other than VAT)
grated economic accounts (ESA) are complied with;                     (R29-R39).
Whereas the improvement of GNPmp coverage depends                 The definitions and codes of the above operations are
on the improvements to basic statistics and assessment            taken from the ESA, which serves as a reference basis for
procedures;                                                       this Directive.
Whereas a system should be set up to verify and check                                       TITLE II
the comparability and representativity of G N P ;
                                                                           Provisions on the compilation of GNPmp
Whereas financial resources will have to be committed to                                    Article 3
improving basic information underlying G N P ,
                                                                  Member States shall compile data on GNPmp and its
                                                                  components according to the ESA definitions referred to
                                                                  in Articles 1 and 2.
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
                                                                                            Article 4
                          TITLE I                                 Member States, in cooperation with the SOEC, shall
                                                                 provide, at the latest within 12 months of the entry into
  Definition of gross national product at market prices           force of this Directive, an inventory of the methods and
                                                                  statistical bases used to calculate GNPmp and its
                                                                  components.
                         Article 1
According to the European system of integrated                                              Article 5
economic accounts (ESA), gross national product at
market prices (GNPmp) is calculated by adding to gross            Member States shall inform the Commission of any
domestic product at market prices (GDPmp, ESA code:              significant changes to the inventory referred to in Article
N l ) the compensation of employees (RIO) and the                4 when they communicate the data provided for in
property and entrepreneurial income (R40) received               Article 6 below.
from the rest of the world less the corresponding flows
paid to the rest of the world.
                                                                                           TITLE III
                                                                 Provisions on the communication by Member States of
                         Article 2
                                                                                       data on GNPmp
GDPmp (Nl) represents the final result of productive
activity by resident production units. It may be looked at                                  Article 6
from three points of view:
                                                                 Before 1 October of each year, Member States shall
                                                                 communicate to the Commission the previous year's
1. The expenditure side:                                         figures for GNPmp and its components as listed in
                                                                 Articles 1 and 2 and also revised figures for earlier years.
    GDPmp (Nl) is calculated as the sum of final
    consumption (P30) on the economic territory by
    households and private non-profit institutions and                                     TITLE IV
    general government, gross fixed capital formation            Provisions concerning      checks on the calculation of
    (P41), change in stocks (P42), and the difference                                       GNPmp
    between exports (P50) and imports (P60).
                                                                                            Article 7
2. The income side:                                               1.    An Advisory Committee on G N P shall be set up,
                                                                 hereinafter referred to as 'the committee'.
    GDPmp (Nl) is calculated as the sum of compen-
    sation of employees (RIO), gross operating surplus of        2.     The committee shall be composed of representatives
    the economy (N2), and taxes linked to production             of the Statistical Offices of the Member States and of the
    and imports (R20) less subsidies (R30).                      Commission (SOEC).
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A representative of the Commission shall chair the                                         TITLE V
committee.
                                                                         Financial provisions and human resources
The Commission shall provide secretarial services for the
committee's work.                                                                          Article 9
3.    The committee shall draw up its rules of procedure.        Funds are to be made available in order to:
                                                                 — enable the Commission to contribute towards the
                         Article 8                                   cost of the work which Member States will have to
The committee shall examine questions raised by its                  undertake on improving the statistical bases of
chairman, either on his own initiative or at the request of          GNPmp,
the representative of a Member State, relating to the
implementation of this Directive, in particular with             — fund the auditing and checking provided for in
regard to:                                                           Article 8.
(a) compliance each year with the definitions of GNPmp
    laid down in Articles 1 and 2;                                                         TITLE VI
(b) the examination each year of the information                                       Final provisions
    collected under the terms of Articles 4 and 5
    concerning the statistical sources and the procedures                                 Article 10
    for calculating GNPmp and its components.
                                                                 The Member States shall bring into force the measures
It shall assess any adjustments made by Member States            necessary to comply with this Directive within 12 months
to the sources and procedures in order to increase the           of its notification at the latest.
coverage of economic activities in GNPmp.
                                                                                          Article 11
It shall, if necessary, submit       to  the   Commission
suggestions for improvements.                                    This Directive is addressed to the Member States.