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

15.6.2007 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 155/7
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
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(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) Regulation (EC) No 1158/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2005 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics (2) imposed an obligation on Member States to supply a new indicator (import prices in the industry sector) and to transmit data on non-domestic indicators according to the distinction into euro area and non-euro-area. As a consequence, substantial costs could have been created for national statistical systems.
(3) Regulation (EC) No 1158/2005 introduced the possibility of establishing European sample schemes in order to reduce the costs for national statistical systems, to ensure that European data requirements are met and to enable the Commission (Eurostat) to produce credible European estimates for the indicators concerned.
(4) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Statistical Programme Committee,