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Council Working Party on Statistics/ 23 March
2009
CZECH PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN
UNION 1 January 2009 30 June 2009 Council
Working Party on Statistics Date Monday 23 March
2009, 14h30 Place Justus Lipsius building, 1048
BRUSSELS Chairperson Mr Jan Fischer

• AGENDA
• Adoption of the agenda
• Recommendation of the ECB for a Council
  Regulation amending Council Regulation (EC)No
  2533/98 of 23 November 1998 concerning the
  collection of statistical information by the ECB
• (doc. 7600/09, 7601/09, ECBs non-papers)
• 3. Any other business

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Council Working Party on Statistics/ 23 March
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History of Recommendation

• the text adopted by the ECB on 15 September 2008
• previous discussions at the Council WPS held on
  24 October, 26 November and 17 December 2008
• the Commission published its opinion on the
  Recommendation on 13 January 2009
• the Council Legal Service provided on 4 February
  its opinion as regards powers of the Council to
  amend the Recommendation
• the European Data Protection Supervisor asked by
  the Council to provide an opinion on the
  Recommendation
• the report prepared by the EP voted in ECON
  Committee on 2 March (vote by the EP Plenary is
  scheduled for 24 March)

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Key points for discussion

• Recital on minimising reporting burden
• Confidentiality
• Definitions
• Statistical principles and recommendations
• Cooperation between the ESCB and the ESS
• Reference reporting population

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Recital on minimising reporting burden

• Extension of scope of measures for minimising the
  reporting burden in Recital 7, inclusion of
• - cost-effectiveness analyses,
• - assessment of reporting burden,
• - maximum use of existing surveys and
  infrastructure.

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Confidentiality

• New definition on use for statistical purposes in
  Article 1(7)
• Separate Article 8a on exchange of confidential
  data between the ESCB and the ESS
• New text in Article 8a(2) to reflect general
  principle that ESS data shall be used exclusively
  for statistical purposes
• (ECB advocates different approach)
• New Recital 10 on confidentiality

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Definitions

• Modification of definition on European Statistics
  in Art. 1
• (PRES invites MS to comment on text in square
  brackets)
• Definitions of development, production and
  dissemination were added

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Council Working Party on Statistics/23 March
2009 ECB Recommendation
Statistical principles and recommendations

• Text on statistical principles moved into
  separate Article 3a
• Obligation to publish the definition of
  principles
• Separate Recital 7 on best practices and
  recommendations
• European statistical standards substituted for
  Community ones in Article 3
• ECB non-paper on definition of statistical
  principles welcomed

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Cooperation between the ESCB and the ESS

• Slight modification of Recital 8a
• (consultative role of ESS Committee on ESCB
  programme)
• Separate Article 2a on Cooperation
• (mirrors the Regulation on European Statistics)

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Reference reporting population

• The original text of Art. 2 was reinstated
  still open for discussion
• ECB non-paper on enhancement of reporting
  population
• Necessary to consider together with new proposal
  on Recital 8a

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Council Working Party on Statistics/ 23 March
2009 Any Other Business
Any Other Business

• Recent and upcoming activities
• European statistics - Coreper adoption
  18.2.2009
• - Council adoption 19.2.2009
• Extrastat - Council adoption of CP 16.2.2009
• Intrastat - Coreper adoption 18.2.2009
• - Council adoption 19.2.2009
• Crops - EP 1st reading 19.2.2009
• - Council adoption 23.3.2009 (scheduled)
• Info society - Consideration of draft report
  in ITRE Committee 4.3.2009
• - Adoption of draft report in ITRE
  Committee 9.3.2009
• - Coreper 17.3.2009

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Council Working Party on Statistics/ 23 March
2009 Any Other Business
Any Other Business

• Recent and upcoming activities - comitology
• 3 fisheries Regulations - Coreper 25.2.2009
• - Council 26.2.2009
• Waste statistics - Coreper 25.2.2009
• - Council 26.2.2009
• National and Regional accounts - Coreper
  4.3.2009
• - Council 5.3.2009
• Carriage of goods by road - Coreper 11.3.2009
• FATS - sent to MSs3.3.2009
• - awaiting comments by 24.3.2009
• EU-SILC - sent to MSs13.3.2009

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