Commission Regulation (EC) No 1178/2008 of 28 November 2008 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics and Commission Regulations (EC) No 1503/2006 and (EC) No 657/2007 as regards adaptations following the revision of statistical classifications NACE and CPA (Text with EEA relevance)

29.11.2008 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 319/16
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1178/2008
of 28 November 2008
amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics and Commission Regulations (EC) No 1503/2006 and (EC) No 657/2007 as regards adaptations following the revision of statistical classifications NACE and CPA
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 of 19 May 1998 concerning short-term statistics (1), and in particular Article 17 indents (b), (e) and (j) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 established a common framework for the production of short-term Community statistics on the business cycle.
(2) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1503/2006 of 28 September 2006, implementing and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics as regards definitions of variables, list of variables and frequency of data compilation (2), provided methodological definitions of variables used in short-term statistics.
(3) Commission Regulation (EC) No 657/2007 of 14 June 2007, implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics as regards the establishment of European sample schemes (3), specified the rules and conditions with regard to transmission of data by Member States participating in European sample schemes for short-term statistics.
(4) It is necessary to update the list of variables, the levels of breakdown and aggregation to be applied to certain variables and the rules and conditions for the European sample schemes following the adoption of Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006, establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 and amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 as well as certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains (4), and Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2008, establishing a new statistical classification of products by activity (CPA) and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3696/93 (5).
(5) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Statistical Programme Committee,