CELEX: 31972R2723
Language: en
Date: 1972-12-19 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2723/72 of the Council of 19 December 1972 on the organisation of a sample survey of manpower

36                           Official Journal of the European Communities
28.12.72                     Official Journal of the European Communities                  No L 291/35
                     REGULATION (EEC) No 2723/72 OF THE COUNCIL
                                           of 19 December 1972
                         on the organisation of a sample survey of manpower
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNI-                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
TIES,
                                                                            Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community, and in
particular Article 213 thereof;                        The Commission shall undertake in the spring
                                                       of 1973 a sample survey of manpower in house­
Having regard to the draft Regulation sub­             holds in each of the Member States .
mitted by the Commission;
Whereas in order to carry out the tasks which
are assigned to it by the Treaty, in particular                             Article 2
in Articles 2, 117, 118 , 122 and 123 thereof,
the Commission must know the situation and             The survey shall be carried out in the form of
the developments in employment and un­                 personal interviews in each of the Member
employment;                                            States, in a sample of households whose resi­
                                                       dence is in the territory of these States at the
Whereas the statistical information available          time of the survey. The information shall be
in each of the Member States does not provide          collected for each of the persons in the house­
a suitable basis for comparison, particularly          holds included in the sample.
because of the differences between the laws,
rules and the administrative practices of the
Member States on which these statistics are
based;                                                                      Article 3
Whereas by reason of the considerable changes          The sample shall cover between 60 000 house­
which take place in the field of employment            holds and 100 000 for Germany, France and
and unemployment, it appears necessary to              Italy; between 30 000 and 50 000 for Belgium
make available data issued at regular intervals        and the Netherlands and approximately 10 000
permitting     proper    comparisons       between     households in Luxembourg.
Member States ;
Whereas the best method of knowing the level
and the structure of employment and un­                                     Article 4
employment consists in carrying out harmonised
and sychronised Community sample surveys of            The basic survey shall cover:
manpower; whereas only the renewal in 1973
of the survey already carried out previously in        (a) the individual characteristics of all the per­
1968 , 1969, 1970 and 1971 , enables this informa­         sons in the households questioned;
tion to be obtained;                                   (b) the occupations of the persons (status, type
Whereas, as a result of the accession of the new           of activity, hours of work, etc.) at the time
Member States to the European Communities,                 of the survey and one year prior to it;
certain special problems arise in these States         (c) seeking employment, while taking account
concerning their participation in such a survey            of the type of employment sought, reasons
and whereas this situation should be taken into            for seeking it and the length of time spent
account ;                                                  seeking it.
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                      Article 5                         forward to the Commission the results of the
                                                        survey for each person questioned, while
A specific survey covering 'vocational training'        observing anonymity.
shall be carried out at the same time as the
basic survey. Its purpose shall be to gather the
following information concerning all the persons                             Article 8
aged from fourteen to sixty-five included in the
sample referred to in Article 3 :
                                                        The individual items of information provided
(a) level of education reached and currently            in the context of the survey may only be used
    being obtained in general educational estab­        for statistical purposes. They may not be used
    lishments;
                                                        for fiscal or other purposes and may not be
(b) level of vocational training reached and            communicated to third parties.
    currently beir.g obtained within the educa­
    tional system;                                      The Adember States shall take appropriate
                                                        measures :
(c) level of vocational training reached and
    currently being obtained in the place of            (a) to ensure that the information requested is
    employment in specialised institutions, in              furnished truthfully and in its entirety
    vocational training centres, etc.                       within the fixed times ;
                                                        (b) to punish any infringement of the obligation
                      Article 6
                                                            to keep secret the information gathered, in
                                                            accordance with the provisions of the first
                                                            subparagraph.
The information shall be gathered by the
statistical authorities of the Member States on
the basis of a list of questions drawn up by
the Commission in cooperation with the said                                  Article 9
departments.
The Commission shall determine, in collabor­            The new Member States of the European
ation with these authorities, the technical details     Communities may participate in the survey
of the survey (basic survey and specific survey         referred to in this Regulation, in accordance
on vocational training), in particular the layout       with procedures to be adopted by way of
of the survey. Ii shall establish in addition,          common agreement between these States and
under the same conditions, the starting and             the Commission .
closing dates of the survey and the time allowed
for answers to the questionnaires .
                                                                            Article 10
                      Article 7                         The expenses incurred by the Member States
                                                        in connection with the survey shall be set off
The statistical authorities of the Member States        against the credits provided for this purpose in
shall check the snswers collected. They shall           the budget of the European Communities.
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
            Member States .
            Done at Brussels, 19 December 1972 .
                                                                        For the Council
                                                                         The President
                                                                        T. WESTERTERP