COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 844/2010
of 20 September 2010
amending Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on energy statistics, as regards the establishment of a set of annual nuclear statistics and the adaptation of the methodological references according to NACE Rev. 2
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to the Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 on energy statistics (1), and in particular Articles 4(3) and 8 thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 establishes a common framework for the production, transmission, evaluation and dissemination of comparable energy statistics in the Union.
(2)
In accordance with Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008, the Commission (Eurostat), in cooperation with the European Union nuclear energy sector, should define a set of annual nuclear statistics to be reported and disseminated from 2009 onwards, that year being the first reported period.
(3)
The Commission has developed the required dataset and discussed feasibility, production costs, confidentiality and reporting burden with the Member States.
(4)
Pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 and amending Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 as well as certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains (2), energy statistics should be produced in accordance with NACE Rev. 2 from 1 January 2009 onwards.
(5)
Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 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 A and B to Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 are replaced by 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, 20 September 2010.