CELEX: 31971R2259
Language: en
Date: 1971-10-19 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2259/71 of the Council of 19 October 1971 on the organisation of a survey on wages and salaries in industry

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                                   REGULATION (EEC) No 2259/71 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                      of 19 October 1971
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                              on the organisation of a survey on wages and salaries in industry
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            1972, in order to bring up to date the results of the
                                                                    preceding survey based on data for the year 1969 ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
 European Economic Community, and in particular                     Whereas it is important to obtain, by means of a
 Article 213 thereof;                                               single uniform survey, a complete picture of labour
                                                                    costs and workers' incomes in industry as a whole;
 Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by                 whereas it is therefore necessary, in view of the scope
 the Commission ;                                                   of the investigation, to carry it out by means of
                                                                    random sampling, so that it does not constitute too
 Whereas, in order to carry out the tasks entrusted to              heavy a burden on undertakings and on the budget
 it under the Treaty, in particular by Articles 2, 3 , 117,         of the European Communities ;
 11 8, 1 20 and 122 thereof, the Commission must be
kept informed of the position and trend of wages and
salaries in the six countries of the Community as                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
regards both labour costs and workers' incomes ;
                                                                                            Article 1
Whereas statistical information available in each of
 the six countries does not provide a valid basis for
 comparison and surveys must therefore be based on                  Within the framework of its periodical surveys on
 uniform definitions and made according to a uniform                labour costs and workers' incomes, the Commission
 method ;                                                         . shall carry out in 1973 on the basis of accounting
                                                                    data for 1972, a survey on labour costs (manual and
                                                                    clerical workers) and on workers' incomes in industry.
Whereas the best method of ascertaining the level,
composition and trends of labour costs and workers'
incomes in industry is to carry out specific                                                Article 2
Community surveys, as was done from 1959 onwards
in implementation of Council Regulations Nos 10,1                   The survey shall include all establishments or
 14,2 28 ,3 151 ,4 101 /66/EEC5 and (EEC) No 1899/68«               undertakings in industry and, where appropriate,
on the basis of accounting data for the years 1959 to               small craft industry. It shall cover the whole field of
1964, 1966 and 1969 ;                                               industrial activity, including the energy and water
                                                                    sectors, the building industry and civil engineering.
Whereas, since expenditure by undertakings on                       The scope of the survey shall be restricted to
wages, salaries and related costs is subject to                     Divisions 1 to 5 of the Nomenclature of Economic
substantial change, it seems difficult for the results of           Activities in the European Communities (NACE).
surveys to be projected beyond a certain period of                 The statistical unit shall be the establishment or
time ; whereas it is consequently desirable to carry                undertaking, whatever its legal form, employing not
out a fresh survey on the basis of data for the year                less than ten w.orkers.
                                                                   The survey shall be carried out by means of random
                                                                   sampling.
1  OJ  No 56, 31.8.1960, p. 1199/60.
2  OJ  No 55 , 16.8.1961 , p. 1054/61 .
                                                                                            Article 3
3  OJ  No 41 , 28.5.1962, p. 1277/62 .
4  OJ  No 133 , 13.12.1962, p. 2841/62.
5  OJ  No 134, 22.7.1966, p. 2540/66.                              Employers shall, in respect of their undertakings or
6  OJ  No 289, 29.11.1968, p. 4.                                    establishments dependent thereon which are listed for
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random sampling, supply the information needed to               Persons required to supply information shall reply to
determine labour costs (manual and clerical workers)            the questionnaires truthfully, fully, and within the
 and workers' incomes on the basis of the accounting            time limit set.
data for the whole of the year 1972.
                                                                                         Article 6
                                                                The statistical offices of Member States shall analyse
                         Article 4
                                                                the replies to the questionnaires. They shall forward
                                                                to the; Commission the overall results of the survey
The survey shall cover:                                         excluding individual items of information ; the results
                                                                shall be broken down by branch of industry, by
 ( a ) cost of wages and salaries, including bonuses and        region and by category of establishment or under­
       allowances, and all incidental expenditure, in           taking according to size.
       particular employers' contributions to social
       security and supplementary schemes, and other
       social payments, including the cost of vocational                                 Article 7
       training of workers ;
                                                                Individual items of information supplied for purposes
( b) the number of persons employed in the                      of the survey shall be used for statistical purposes
       establishments or undertakings ;                         only. It shall be prohibited to use the information for
                                                                taxation purposes or to communicate it to third
(c) the number of hours put in by workers .                     parties.
                                                                Member States shall take appropriate measures to
                                                                provide sanctions against any infringement of:
                         Article 5                              (a) the obligation to supply the information referred
                                                                      to in Article 3 ;
Information shall be gathered by the statistical offices        (b ) the obligation, under the first paragraph of this
of the Member States by means of questionnaires                       Article, to maintain secrecy as regards
drawn up by the Commission in co-operation with                       information obtained.
those offices .
The Commission shall, in co-operation with those                                         Article 8
 offices, determine the detailed procedure for the
survey, and in particular the plan for random                   The expenditure incurred by Member States in
sampling. Furthermore, it shall lay down in the same            connection with the survey shall be entered against
way the starting and closing dates of the survey, and           appropriations provided for that purpose in the
the time limit for replying to the questionnaires.              budget of the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .                                            .
                Done at Brussels, 19 October 1971 .
                                                                                        For the Council
                                                                                         The President
                                                                                     C. DONAT CATTIN