Transcript EuroGroups Register Project – Further Development in 2008/2009 Session 6c Measurement of multinationals and enterprise groups Matthias Nahm 24-27/11/2008 21st Meeting of the Wiesbaden Group on.

EuroGroups Register Project –
Further Development in 2008/2009
Session 6c
Measurement of multinationals and enterprise groups
Matthias Nahm
24-27/11/2008
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Contents
1. Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Legal Basis
2. The EuroGroups Register Project
2.1 Approach
2.2 Project Organisation
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3.1
3.2
3.3
Further Development
Data Acquisition
IT Development
ESSnet
4.
4.1
4.2
4.3
Road Map for the Future
Time Schedule in 2009
Potential Access to the EGR for NSIs
Related MEETS Project
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1. Introduction
1.1 Background
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Growing importance of multinational enterprise groups (MNEs) in
increasing globalisation of worldwide economy
Fragmented picture of MNEs at NSIs (mainly only links between
resident units)
Need for a Community register: The EuroGroups register (EGR)
The EGR as necessary infrastructure
 Harmonisation and development of the measurement of
globalisation
 Serving as basis for coordinated European surveys at group
level on globalisation related issues
 Providing a source of information for demographical changes
of MNEs in and outside the EU
Stakeholders in Eurostat/NSIs: BR domains, FATS, FDI, Intragroup Trade, National Accounts and Balance of Payment…; further
stakeholders in ECB/NCBs
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1. Introduction
1.2 Legal Basis
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New BR Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 was adopted on 21 January
2008 by the European Parliament and Council (repealing Council
Regulation (EEC) No 2186/93)
 Exchange of confidential data on MNEs between Eurostat and
national authorities only for statistical purposes.
 Eurostat will provide data to appropriate national authorities in
case of corresponding legal units are located in their territories.
Implementing Commission Regulations
 Mandatory data exchange between Eurostat and NSIs
 Format
 Security and confidentiality measures
 Procedure of data transmission
 Optional data exchange between Eurostat and ECB/NCBs
 Deduced from the mandatory data exchange
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2. The EuroGroups Register Project
2.1 Approach (1)
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EGR will be established as a network of registers in Member
States and on the EU level, the national BRs of NSIs and the
central EGR at Eurostat
An efficient process flow has to be established, including clear
responsibilities (Eurostat/NSIs and NSIs themselves)
Common task for the EU
 Eurostat will acquire data on MNEs from private sources and
consolidates it in the central EGR
 A subset of the merged data will be sent to NSIs for correction
and updating the provided data; feedback to Eurostat by NSIs
 Eurostat will send data received before to other concerned
NSIs to ensure that the data kept at Eurostat will be identical to
all subsets kept in NSIs
Up-to-date EGR network of linked and coordinated statistical
registers of MNEs active in the EU, exclusively for statistical
purposes becomes available
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2. The EuroGroups Register Project
2.1 Approach (2)
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Although the EGR is in the interest of several statistics related to
globalisation it has, for practical reasons, to limit its scope in the
starting phase to certain statistics
A first stakeholder analysis was made in spring 2008. Statisticians
in Member States and in Eurostat working with Foreign Affiliates
Statistics (FATS) and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) were
approached
Compilers of statistics consider as critical features (selection)
 Identification of units (including matching of units in different
registers)
 Sharing of information as well as the access to the central EGR
 Coverage and content of the EGR
 Cost/benefit analysis
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2. The EuroGroups Register Project
2.2 Project Organisation
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The overall project organisation of the EGR network can be
described in the following way
BR Working Group
(NSIs, EFTA, Candidates)
ESSnet
(methodology)
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IT Development
(at Eurostat serving
for NSIs)
EGR Program Manager
Eurostat (unit G-1)
Data Acquisition
(from private data
providers)
EGR Steering Group
(Eurostat, ECB, NSIs,
NCBs)
EGR Operation
(exchange with NSIs)
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Legal Affaires
(Commission Reg.
on data exchange)
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3. Further Development
3.1 Data Acquisition (1)
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Call for Tender on ‘Acquisition of data on MNEs’
Two lots
 Lot 1: Acquisition of global data on controlled enterprises
for 5 000 MNEs
 Lot 2: Acquisition of European data on share ownership for
5 000 MNEs
Published in the Official Journal 2008/S 103-137368 on 12 June
2008
Awarded contracts
 Lot 1 to Dun & Bradstreet Ltd
 Lot 2 to Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing GmbH
Contract signed in mid October 2008
Next Steps
 Delivery of test data in November 2008
 Delivery of final data by mid of December 2008
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3. Further Development
3.1 Data Acquisition (2)
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Starting population for the EGR Version 1.0
 From the input of the EU and the EFTA countries starting
population was defined for 22 European countries consisting in
2700 European MNEs
 In addition 9 countries partly defined, further groups will be
acquired from the commercial data providers
 Outside country specific selection 300 further European groups
will be selected by the data providers
 200 non-European groups with DUNS number and BvD ID
number from FDI and FATS lists are available
 500 further non-European groups will be acquired from the
data providers
 Starting population of the EGR will consist of at least 5 000
MNEs in total
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3. Further Development
3.2 IT Development (1)
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EGR IT development is outsourced to a IT service provider (IBM
Belgium)
Last IT contract was closed in August 2008 including (selection)
 EGR Administrator web application interface (first version):
Structured communication basing on SDMX (data and metadata),
progress bar, error handling, user management
 EGR End User web application interface (first draft): Advanced
search, tree structure, export search results
The next IT contract will include the following tasks (selection)
 Technical Maintenance (e. g. update of EGR according to data
changes (structure and/or format) of private sources)
 Evolutionary Maintenance (e. g. updated use cases provided by
Eurostat and ESSnet)
 Analysing and improving the data exchange (automating
eDAMIS and encryption/decryption process, see next 2 pages)
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3. Further Development
3.2 IT Development (2)
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Transfer of data from Eurostat to NSIs via eDAMIS
 By using the public key provided from each participating NSI
Eurostat will encrypt the data and send it via eDAMIS to the
corresponding NSI
 The NSIs will use the corresponding private key to decrypt
the received data
NSI
Eurostat
eWA
Data
Encryption
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eDAMIS
server
Send data
Decryption
Data
eDAMIS
Web
Application
Notifies
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3. Further Development
3.2 IT Development (3)
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Transfer of data from NSIs to Eurostat via eDAMIS
 NSI will encrypt the data by using eWA for sending the files
(the public key of Eurostat is integrated into the eWA
(accessible by NSIs))
 Eurostat will receive the encrypted files and will decrypt them
by using the private key
Eurostat
NSI
eWA
Data
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(eDAMIS
Web
Application),
encryption
integrated
Send data
eDAMIS
server
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Data
Notifies
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3. Further Development
3.3 ESSnet
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ESSnet is based on a Frame Work Partnership Agreement with a 4
years working program with ES, IT (coordinator), NL and UK
 Development of methodology and specifications
 Development of data quality management program
 Support integration of EGR in statistical production processes
ESSnet will carry out the necessary methodological work and
produces detailed specifications according to functional and nonfunctional requirements of Eurostat
IT service provider should be enabled to program the updated or
new functionalities (use cases) for the EGR at Eurostat from the
detailed specifications of ESSnet
It is essential that both, ESSnet and IT service provider, will
guarantee an efficient cooperation: The ESSnet will offer
understandable and high quality specifications and the IT service
provider will make available high quality in terms of programming
and documentation
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4. Road Map for the Future
4.1 Time Schedule in 2009 (1)
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Step 1 (January): Loading, standardising and transforming the
data from private sources (5 000 MNEs from BvD and DnB,
situation end of 2008) in the EGR at Eurostat
Step 2 (January): Matching of the units from private sources and
the creation of unique EU legal units in the EGR
Step 3 (February): Data sets with results of the matching and the
creation of unique EU legal units to be sent to NSIs
Step 4 (April): NSIs check the results of the matching, the
creation of unique EU legal units, carry out the matching with
their BR and prepare data sets with feedback to the central EGR
including data on legal units and relationships as registered in the
national BR
Step 5 (April): Processing of NSIs feedback in the EGR on the
results of the checking of the central matching and matching with
the national BR
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4. Road Map for the Future
4.1 Time Schedule in 2009 (2)
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Step 6 (November): Data sets with results of the processed data
and the compilation of the cluster of control and preliminary
enterprise groups to be sent to NSIs
Step 7 (December): Consolidation of NSIs feedback in the EGR
and compilation of the cluster of control and preliminary
enterprise groups
Step 8 (December): Building up of the EGR quality: NSIs check
the results of the consolidation process, the compilation of the
cluster of control and preliminary enterprise groups and prepare
feedback to Eurostat
Step 9 (December): Processing of feedback from the NSIs to
improve the quality in the EGR
Step 10 (December): Compilation of the final population frame of
enterprise groups at Eurostat
Step 11 (to be defined): Data sets with final population frame of
enterprise groups for compilers of statistics are available
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4. Road Map for the Future
4.2 Potential Access to the EGR for NSIs
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One thinkable basic alternative
Firewall
Eurostat Environment
Firewall
Secure Environment in Eurostat
Eurostat User
WebClient
National data
extract
National data
National data
extract
Corrected nat.
data
National data
Stadium / Statel
eDAMIS
Corrected nat.
data
National data
National data
extract
EGR Full Content
- all process areas
Corrected nat.
data
…
NSI BR User
EGR Annex B subset
- all process areas
Annex B
subset
selection
WebClient
Authorised access
NSI Compiler of
Statistics
WebClient
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Firewall
Eurostat Environment
Firewall
Secure Environment in Eurostat
Eurostat User
WebClient
National data
extract
National data
National data
extract
Corrected nat.
data
National data
Stadium / Statel
eDAMIS
Corrected nat.
data
National data
National data
extract
EGR Full Content
- all process areas
Corrected nat.
data
…
NSI BR User
EGR Annex B subset
- all process areas
Annex B
subset
selection
WebClient
Authorised access
NSI Compiler of
Statistics
WebClient
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4. Road Map for the Future
4.3 Related MEETS Project (1)
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MEETS (Modernisation of European Enterprise and Trade
Statistics) project 1.2.2: Development of Statistics on Enterprise
Groups
Objectives
 To identify useful and meaningful indicators based on the
enterprise group as the observation unit in co-operation with
OECD, where appropriate
 To test the collection of a set of indicators in feasibility studies
 To make available statistical data on enterprise groups
 Methodological guidelines for collection and compilation of
sets of indicators on enterprise groups
Project leader Eurostat
 Project team covering FATS, BOP, Foreign Trade, National
Accounts, Business Statistics, Methodology
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4. Road Map for the Future
4.3 Related MEETS Project (2)
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Some data needs
 Trade Statistics: Intra-group trade, contribution of enterprise
groups to trade
 FATS: performance of MNEs, profitability of foreign-owned
versus domestic groups
 National Accounts: Merchanting, toll/global manufacturing,
special purpose entities
 Business Statistics: SME data (SME not controlled by EG)
Seminar in 2009
 Exchange experience with completed/ongoing data collections
 Identify useful indicators
 Provide input for further development of the MEETS project
concerning scope, indicators, methods
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