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The EC Business Register Regulation –
a brief introduction
Workshop on Business Registers
and their Role in Business Statistics
in the Eastern UNECE region
5 October 2009, Luxembourg
05-10-09
Eurostat is responsible to prepare
Community Legislation on ‘Statistical
Business Registers’ and to supervise their
implementation in EU Member States
 Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European
Parliament and of the Council establishing a
common framework for business registers for
statistical purposes
See EUR-Lex: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/
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The Purpose of the Regulation (Article 1) :
 Establishment of a common framework for one or more
harmonised business registers for statistical purposes in
the Community
– as a tool for setting up surveys (e.g. for structural business
statistics and short-term statistics)
– as a source of information for statistics statistical (e.g.
business demography)
– for the use of administrative data (e.g. tax data)
– for the identification and construction of statistical units
(e.g. enterprise unit)
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The Scope of Business Registers (Article 3) :
 all enterprises carrying on economic activities
contributing to the gross domestic product (GDP)
 their local units
 the legal units of which those enterprises consist;
 Enterprise groups (all-resident, truncated, multinational,
enterprise groups)
Statistical units defined in separate Legislation: Regulation
(ECC) No 696/93
Covers agricultural sector and public enterprises
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Data sources for Business Registers (Article 4)
 Enabling Member States to use any data sources that
they consider relevant for obtaining the register data
 This covers surveys and access to administrative and legal
files
Estimations are possible, while respecting the need for
accuracy and quality
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Register characteristics (Article 5)
 Different set of characteristics for: legal units, local
units, enterprise units, and enterprise group units as
regards to:
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Identification characteristics
Demographic characteristics
Economic/stratification characteristics
Links with other registers
Links with other units
(see Annex of the Regulation)
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Time reference and periodicity (Article 8)
– Units in the registers shall be updated at
least annually.
– Store annual register population for at
least 30 years
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Exchange of confidential data
1. between Member States (NSI<-> NSI) optional
according to Article 10
2. between Eurostat and Member States on units
belonging to a Multinational Enterprise group (NSI <->
Eurostat <-> NSI) mandatory according to Article 11
– Implementing provision (EC) No 192/2009
– Precondition for establishing the EuroGroups Register
3. between Eurostat and central banks on units belonging
to a Multinational Enterprise group (NSI > Eurostat ->
NCB/ECB) optional according to Article 12
– Implementing provision in preparation
– requires explicit authorization by the NSI
 Security treatment for confidential data is determined
in Article 13
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Further Provisions
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Definitions (Article 2)
Quality standards and reports (Article 6)
Recommendations manual (Article 7)
Annual reports in order to monitor Member States
compliance (Article 9)
 Derogations (Article 14)
 Implementing Measures Comitology (Article 15 and 16)
 Repeal and entry into force (Article 17 and 18)
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