Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 99/2013 on the European statistical programme 2013-17

The implementation of EU policies requires comparable and reliable statistical information about the economic, social and environmental situation in the EU and the different components at national and regional level. European statistics are also indispensable for ensuring that Europe is understood by the general public and for allowing citizens to take part in the democratic process and debate the present and future of the EU.

Against this background, Regulation (EU) No 99/2013 on the European statistical programme 2013-17 was adopted on 15 January 2013 to provide an overall framework for the development, production and dissemination of European statistics over the period from 2013 to 2017.

The Commission proposal for this Regulation included a financial envelope of €299.2 million for the five years of the programme, which was questioned by neither the Council nor the European Parliament during the ordinary legislative procedure. However, in its resolution of 13 June 2012 on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and own resources, the European Parliament stressed that the negotiations on the legislative proposals relating to the multiannual programmes would be finalised once an agreement on their financial envelopes had been reached.

This is why Regulation (EU) No 99/2013 only sets the financial envelope for 2013, covered by the programming period 2007-2013, and invites the Commission to make a legislative proposal introducing the financial allocation for the period 2014-2017 to the European Parliament and the Council no later than three months after the adoption of the MFF for the years 2014-2020.

EUR-Lex: COM(2013)525: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2013:525:FIN

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