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Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 of 9 March 1999 concerning structural statistics on earnings and on labour costs
Consolidated text: Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 of 9 March 1999 concerning structural statistics on earnings and on labour costs
Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 of 9 March 1999 concerning structural statistics on earnings and on labour costs
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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 530/1999 of 9 March 1999 concerning structural statistics on earnings and on labour costs (OJ L 063 12.3.1999, p. 6) |
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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 530/1999
of 9 March 1999
concerning structural statistics on earnings and on labour costs
Article 1
General provisions
The national authorities and Eurostat shall produce Community statistics on the level and composition of labour costs and on the structure and distribution of employees' earnings, in the economic activities defined in Article 3.
Article 2
Reference period
Article 3
Scope
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Article 4
Taking into account the views of the Statistical Programme Committee, the Commission shall, within four years of the date of entry into force of this Regulation, compile a report taking into account the results of pilot studies, in particular, on the basis of existing sources in the area of statistical units with less than ten employees, and submit it to the Council. The report shall assess the application of the provisions of this Regulation relating to units with less than ten employees. The report shall weigh the importance of complete data against the reporting possibilities and the response burden. Following this report the Commission may, if necessary, submit appropriate initiatives to the Council for the amendment of this Regulation.
Article 5
Statistical units
The compilation of the statistics shall be based on local units and enterprises as defined in Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 of 15 March 1993 on the statistical units for the observation and analysis of the production system in the Community ( 6 ).
Article 6
Characteristics of the required information
In the case of statistics on the level and composition of labour costs, information shall be provided at least on:
the following characteristics relating to the local unit:
the following variables:
In the case of statistics on the structure and distribution of earnings, information shall be provided at least on:
the following characteristics relating to the local unit to which the sampled employees are attached:
the following characteristics relating to each employee in the sample:
the following details of earnings:
Article 7
Data collection
Article 8
Processing of results
The national authorities shall process the replies to the questions referred to in Article 7(2) or the information from other sources, as referred to in Article 7(3), so as to obtain comparable results.
Article 9
Forwarding of results
The results shall be forwarded to Eurostat within a period of 18 months from the end of the reference year.
Article 10
Quality
Article 11
Implementation measures
The following measures necessary for the implementation of this Regulation, including measures to take account of economic and technical changes, shall be adopted by the Commission for each reference period at least nine months before the beginning of the reference period:
the definition and breakdown of the information to be provided (Article 6),
the appropriate technical format for the transmission of the results (Article 9),
quality evaluation criteria (Article 10),
derogations, in duly justified cases, for the years 2004 and 2006 respectively (Article 13(2)).
The measures referred to in points (ii) and (iv) shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 12(2).
The measures referred to in points (i) and (iii), designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 12(3).
Article 12
Committee procedure
The period laid down in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at three months.
Article 13
Derogations
Article 14
Entry into force
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
ANNEX
DEROGATIONS
I. Derogations from Article 2
1. |
Germany: the first statistics on the structure and distribution of earnings under this Regulation shall be produced for the reference year 2001 instead of 2002. Subsequent statistics on the structure and distribution of earnings shall be produced for the reference year 2006 and at four-yearly intervals thereafter. |
2. |
France, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom: the statistics for the reference years 2000 and 2002 may refer to the financial year most closely corresponding to these calendar years, but this will not affect the deadlines for forwarding the data referred to in Article 9. |
II. Derogations from Article 3
1. |
Germany: the economic activities defined in sections H (Hotels and restaurants), I (Transport, storage and communications) and K (Real estate, renting and business activities) of ►M2 NACE Rev. 2 ◄ shall be optional for the reference years 2000 and 2001. |
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Ireland: the economic activities defined in section H (Hotels and restaurants) shall be optional for the reference year 2000. |
3. |
Ireland: the economic activities defined in sections I (Transport, storage and communications), division 67 of section J and section K (Real estate, renting and business activities) of ►M2 NACE Rev. 2 ◄ shall be optional for the reference year 2002. |
III. Derogations from Article 6
1. |
Austria, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands: for the reference years 2000 and 2002, the characteristics referred to in Article 6 may refer to the enterprise instead of the local unit. |
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Italy: for the reference year 2000 the characteristics referred to in Article 6(1)(b): payments to employees' savings schemes, other expenditures and taxes paid and also subsidies received by the employer shall be optional. |
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