Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the implementation of the Regulation (EC) No 295/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning structural business statistics

Under Article 13(1) of Regulation (EC) No 295/2008 on structural business statistics (hereinafter referred to as ‘the SBS Regulation’), ‘the Commission shall, by 29 April 2011 and every three years thereafter, submit a report to the European Parliament and the Council on the statistics compiled pursuant to this Regulation and in particular on their quality and the burden on business’.

This report follows on from the May 2011 report submitted pursuant to Article 14(1) of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 (an earlier regulation, now replaced by the SBS Regulation referred to above).

This report gives an overview of progress in implementing the SBS Regulation based on final data for 2010, the reference year, as regards structural business statistics on:
- services;
- industry;
- trade;
- construction;
- business services; and
- business demography.

It provides information on the measures taken by the Commission to ensure that high quality European structural business statistics are made available, and on the implementation of the SBS Regulation by Member States. It also provides information on the burden that providing statistics places on businesses and the actions taken by Eurostat and Member States to reduce that burden.

• Primary Source

EUR-Lex: COM(2014)243: Follow the progress of this report through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2014:243:FIN

ESO: Background information: Website: Statistics: Structural business statistics http://www.europeansources.info/record/website-statistics-structural-business-statistics/

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