Intra and Extra EU Trade Statistics

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• Intra and Extra EU Trade Statistics

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General Provisions - Amsterdam Treaty
Article 285 (Co-decision procedure) -
Council Regulation (EC) No 322/1997) (Statistical
law Subsidiarity) - Council Regulation
(EC) No 1588/1990 (Confidentiality) -
Council Decision (1999/468/EC) (Comitology
procedures)
Extrastat Council Regulation (EC) No
1172/95 Commission Regulation (EC) 1917/2000
Intrastat European Parliament and Council
Regulation(EC) No 638/2004 Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1982/2004
Nomenclatures Goods - Council Regulation (EEC)
No 2658/87 Combined Nomenclature (CN) -
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1810/2004 amending
the codes of the CN - Communication
explanatory note to the combined
nomenclature Countries - Commission Regulation
nomenclature of countries and territories (EC) No
750/2005
Custom provisions Council Regulation (EEC) No
2913/1992 Custom Code Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 2454/93 implementing rules of the
Customs Code
Fiscal provisions Directive Sixth Council
Directive on VAT (77/388/EEC)
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Coordination with Member States

• Partner administration at national level
• Statistical Offices, Customs administration,
  Central bank, Fiscal administration
• Tasks at national level
• Data collection/capture control and correction
  processing dissemination

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Coordination with Member States

• Committee on Intra- and Extrastat
• Project groups
• Visiting Member States

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METADATA

• Documentation in Special Data Information
  Standards (SDDS) Format
• User Guide (updated March 2005)
• Guidelines for the Implementation of the
  Intrastat legislation (in preparation)
• Summary legislation
• Quality report

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Background

• Foreign trade Statistics in general based on
  customs declarations
• A new system necessary with the single market
  in 93 Intrastat

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Main characteristics

• Intrastat
• Direct collection of information from companies
• A close link with the VAT system
• A threshold system

• Extrastat
• Dependent on Customs rules
• Total coverage (excl.e.g. tourists)

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Scope

• Records on the physical movement of goods

• Intrastat
• Community goods
• Goods in free circulation
• Goods which enter/leave the statistical territory
  of the reporting Member State supplied from or
  bound for another Member State
• Traded by VAT registered companies

• Extrastat
• Non Community goods Lodged by Customs
• Special trade system (no Transit, Warehouses,
  Free zones)

• Some goods are excluded for methodological
  reasons
• For some goods particular provisions are applied

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Data collection

• Intrastat
• Parties registered for VAT in the reporting
  Member State
• which have concluded the trade contract,
• provide monthly Intrastat declarations directly
  to the national administration

• Extrastat
• Individuals or companies fill in Customs
  declarations in view to export out or import in
  the European Community
• Customs provide monthly declarations to the
  national statistical administration

National administration transmit statistics to
Eurostat
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Data to be collected for Intra and Extrastat

1. Flow
2. Commodity
3. Partner Country
4. Value
5. Quantity
6. Nature of the transaction (Intra optional
   Extra)
7. Identification number of the PSI (Intra)
8. Customs/Statistical procedure (Extra - 0ptional
   Intra)
9. Transport data (Extra optional Intra )
10. Preference (Extra imports)
11. Delivery terms (optional Extra/Intra)
12. Other data made available by Customs (optional
    Extra)

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Future steps

• Extrastat
• New legislation (2008)
• Collection of revised customs data
• Take into consideration E-Customs, Centralised
  Customs Clearance
• Increase quality of the information (revisions)
• Compile complementary related statistics

• Intrastat
• Reflection on further simplification
• Studies carried out in 2006
• Analysing the results in 2007
• Options
• Simplification of the CN
• Increase threshold
• One flow system