Survey on industrial production

 

SUMMARY OF:

Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 — EU statistics on industrial production

WHAT IS THE AIM OF THE REGULATION?

• It introduces an EU-wide statistical survey of manufactured goods to measure production and allows the calculation of the apparent consumption by linking production statistics to foreign trade statistics.
• It seeks to provide the European Commission with reliable, comprehensive and up-to-date information on industrial production.

KEY POINTS

Scope

• The survey covers a list of products in Sections B and C of the EU’s statistical classification of economic activities. These NACE* sections relate to mining, quarrying and manufacturing.
• This list, which is known as the Prodcom list, contains around 3900 products which are identified by an 8-digit code derived from the NACE and the classification of products by activity (CPA) and are linked to the EU’s combined nomenclature.
• For each heading in the list, the survey covers:
  • the physical volume of production sold during the survey period; and
  • the value of production sold during the survey period.
• In certain cases the information in question is replaced by one of the following:
  • the physical volume of actual production during the survey period, including any that is incorporated into the manufacture of other products from the same company; or
  • the value and/or physical volume of actual production during the survey period with a view to marketing.

Representativeness

• The survey aims to record an accurate picture of the industrial production of businesses.
• An implementing regulation, Regulation (EC) No 912/2004, requires EU countries to:
  • adopt survey methods that allow for data to be collected from businesses representing 90% of national production per NACE class;
  • take account of all businesses employing at least 20 people in order to evaluate production.
• Where an EU country’s production of a certain good is under 1% of total EU production, data do not need to be collected.

Survey periods

As a general rule, the survey covers a 1-year period, although the Commission may decide that more frequent surveys be conducted.

Data collection

Information is collected by means of survey questionnaires unless an EU country has information from other sources that is at least equivalent in terms of precision and quality, in which case the survey may be waived.

Processing of results and their transmission

• The Commission adopts rules on how the completed questionnaires should be processed.
• EU countries must transmit their findings to Eurostat within 6 months of the end of the reference year. Where confidential data are contained therein, this must be explicitly stated.

Committee

• In 2009, the European Statistical System Committee replaced the Statistical Programme Committee in assisting the Commission for the implementation of this regulation, in particular for updating the Prodcom list and the information collected for each heading. The committee comprises EU countries’ representatives and is chaired by the Commission.

FROM WHEN DOES THE REGULATION APPLY?

It has applied since 31 December 1991.

BACKGROUND

For more information, see:

• ‘Industrial production statistics introduced — Prodcom’ (Eurostat)
• ‘Prodcom statistics’ (Eurostat).

KEY TERMS

MAIN DOCUMENT

Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 of 19 December 1991 on the establishment of a Community survey of industrial production (OJ L 374, 31.12.1991, pp. 1-3)

Successive amendments to Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 have been incorporated into the original text. This consolidated version is of documentary value only.

RELATED DOCUMENTS

Commission Regulation (EC) No 912/2004 of 29 April 2004 implementing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 on the establishment of a Community survey of industrial production (OJ L 163, 30.4.2004, pp. 71-72)

See consolidated version.

last update 13.11.2017