COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1153/2014
of 29 October 2014
amending Regulation (EC) No 198/2006 as regards the data to be collected, and the sampling, precision and quality requirements
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1552/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises (1), and in particular Articles 7(3), 8(2) and 9(4) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Regulation (EC) No 1552/2005 establishes a common framework for the production of European statistics on vocational training in enterprises.
(2)
Commission Regulation (EC) No 198/2006 (2) defines the specific data to be collected with respect to training and non-training enterprises and to the different forms of vocational training, the sampling and precision requirements, the quality requirements for the data to be collected, and the structure of the quality reports.
(3)
Requirements concerning the quality of the data to be collected and transmitted for European statistics on vocational training in enterprises, the standard quality report and any measures necessary for assessing or improving the quality of the data should be adopted.
(4)
It is appropriate to modify the coding scheme, sampling, precision and quality requirements in order to reduce the burden for future data collection on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises.
(5)
Regulation (EC) No 198/2006 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(6)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Annexes I, II, III and V to Regulation (EC) No 198/2006 are replaced by the texts set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 29 October 2014.