COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 439/2014
of 29 April 2014
amending Regulation (EC) No 250/2009 implementing Regulation (EC) No 295/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning structural business statistics, as regards the definitions of characteristics and the technical format for the transmission of data
(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 295/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2008 concerning structural business statistics (1), and in particular Article 11(1)(a) and (c) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Regulation (EC) No 295/2008 of the European Parliament and the Council established a common framework for the collection, transmission and evaluation of European statistics on the structure, activity, competitiveness and performance of businesses in the Union.
(2)
Commission Regulation (EC) No 250/2009 (2) established the definitions of characteristics and the technical format for the transmission of data.
(3)
It is necessary to specify definitions for the characteristics of the demography of enterprises with at least one employee to respond to the need for increased international comparability of results, especially for statistics on entrepreneurship. These definitions should be added in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 250/2009. The technical format for the transmission of data as set out in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 250/2009, including the list of data set identifiers, the series and the list of variables should therefore be updated accordingly.
(4)
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 and II to Regulation (EC) No 250/2009 are amended in accordance with 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 the Member States in accordance with the Treaties.
Done at Brussels, 29 April 2014.