COMMISSION DECISION
of 11 April 2011
granting derogations to certain Member States with respect to the transmission of statistics pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work, as regards statistics on accidents at work
(notified under document C(2011) 2403)
(Only the German, Greek, English, French, Latvian and Dutch texts are authentic)
(2011/231/EU)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work (1), and in particular Article 9(2) thereof,
Having regard to the requests made by the Kingdom of Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, Ireland, the Hellenic Republic, the French Republic, the Republic of Latvia, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
Whereas:
(1)
In accordance with Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008, it applies to the production of statistics on accidents at work as defined in Annex IV.
(2)
Article 9(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 provides, if necessary, for derogations and transition periods for Member States, both to be based upon objective grounds.
(3)
It emerges from the information provided to the Commission that the requests for derogations made by Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Greece, France, Latvia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom result from the need for major adaptations to national administrative and statistical systems in order to comply in full with Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008.
(4)
Such derogations should therefore be granted as requested to those Member States.
(5)
The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
Derogations as set out in the Annex are granted to the Member States listed therein.
Article 2
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, Ireland, the Hellenic Republic, the French Republic, the Republic of Latvia, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Done at Brussels, 11 April 2011.