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Document 21994D0330(04)

    Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 4/94 of 8 February 1994 amending Protocol 30 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in the field of statistics

    OJ L 85, 30.3.1994, p. 66–70 (ES, DA, DE, EL, EN, FR, IT, NL, PT)

    ⏵This document has been published in a special edition(s) (FI, SV, CS, ET, LV, LT, HU, MT, PL, SK, SL, BG, RO, HR)

    Legal status of the document In force

    ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/1994/4(4)/oj

    30.3.1994   

    EN

    Official Journal of the European Communities

    L 85/66

    DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE

    No 4/94

    of 8 February 1994

    amending Protocol 30 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in the field of statistics

    THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,

    Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, as adjusted by the Protocol Adjusting the Agreement on the European Economic Area, hereinafter referred to as the Agreement, and in particular Article 98 thereof,

    Whereas in order to ensure the feasibility, consistency and comparability of all the statistical information required, Protocol 30 to the Agreement provides for participation by the EFTA States in Community actions in the field of statistics;

    Whereas the financial and administrative provisions of Protocol 30 should be updated to provide for a joint EEA Statistical Programme;

    Whereas the EEA Statistical Programme should be based on the European Communities' Framework Programme for priority actions in the field of statistical information 1993 to 1997 and should include those programme elements which are necessary for describing and monitoring all relevant economic, social and environmental aspects of the EEA;

    Whereas the specific actions of the EEA Statistical Programme should be carried out with particular attention to minimising the burden on respondents in answering statistical questionnaires, to the cost of data gathering and with strict adherence to the principle of statistical confidentiality,

    HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

    Article 1

    Protocol 30 to the Agreement shall be amended as set out in Articles 2 to 7 hereof.

    Article 2

    Paragraph 2 shall be replaced by the following:

    ‘2.

    The EFTA States shall, from 1 January 1994, participate within the framework of plans for priority actions in the field of statistical information. In particular, an EEA Statistical Programme shall be established as a subset of the EC Statistical Programme set up under the Council Decision to which reference is made in paragraph 9. The EEA Statistical Programme shall be the framework within which all the EEA statistical activities are carried out. The elements of the EEA Statistical Programme are listed in the Appendix.

    Each year, the Conference to which reference is made in paragraph 1 shall draw up the guidelines for the implementation of the EEA Statistical Programme in the following year. These guidelines shall be established in parallel with the annual guidelines for implementing the Community Statistical Programme according to Article 3 of the Council Decision referred to in paragraph 9.

    The Conference shall, as necessary, propose the EEA Joint Committee items to be added or deleted from the list contained in the Appendix.’

    Article 3

    The following shall be added as a new paragraph 3:

    ‘3.

    The EFTA States shall participate fully in the EC Committees which assist the EC Commission in the management or development of the actions referred to in paragraph 2 in so far as the subjects dealt with are covered by the Agreement.’.

    Article 4

    Former paragraphs 3, 4 and 6 shall be combined to become three subparagraphs of a new paragraph 4.

    Article 5

    Paragraph 5 shall be replaced by the following:

    ‘5.

    From 1 January 1994, the EFTA States shall contribute financially to actions included in the EEA Statistical Programme in accordance with Article 82 (1) (a) of the Agreement and the financial regulations thereto.

    The EFTA States shall defray the additional cost incurred by Eurostat for storing, processing and disseminating data from their countries according to the provisions of the Agreement. The amounts involved shall be fixed periodically by the EEA Joint Committee.

    The EFTA States shall contribute financially to the Community's overhead costs other than those incurred for storing, disseminating or processing data in accordance with Article 82 (1) (b) of the Agreement.’

    Article 6

    The following shall be added as new paragraphs 6, 7, 8 and 9:

    ‘6.

    The EFTA States shall be included in the statistical activities covered by the EEA Statistical Programme to the same extent as EC Member States in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement.

    7.

    Responsibility for implementing the specific statistical actions in the EFTA States shall lie with the national statistical authorities; implementing procedures shall take account of the organization of each EFTA State's official statistics.

    Where implementation measures for EC Member States, based on Article 4 (c) of the Council Decision referred to in paragraph 9, imply the transmission of available data or other available information concerning activities covered by the EEA Statistical Programme to the Commission, they shall also apply to EFTA States in accordance with paragraph 4.

    8.

    At the request of the EEA Joint Committee, and at all events in the third year of cooperation and again at the end of the period covered by the EEA Statistical Programme, the Conference to which reference is made in paragraph 1 shall examine the progress made. In particular, it shall assess whether the objectives, priorities and actions planned during the period have been achieved and shall submit a report for the approval of the EEA Joint Committee.

    9.

    The following Community act is the object of this Protocol:

    393 D 0464: Council Decision 93/464/EEC of 22 July 1993 on the framework programme for priority actions in the field of statistical information 1993 to 1997 (OJ No L 219, 28. 8. 1993, p. 1).’.

    Article 7

    An Appendix shall be added as set out in the Annex hereto.

    Article 8

    This Decision shall enter into force on 1 May 1994, provided that all the notifications required under Article 103 (1) of the Agreement have been made to the EEA Joint Committee.

    Article 9

    This Decision shall be published in the EEA Section of, and in the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European Communities.

    Done at Brussels, 8 February 1994

    By the EEA Joint Committee

    The President

    N. VAN DER PAS

    ANNEX

    ‘Appendix

    List of programme elements of the EEA statistical programme

    Standardization and new EDP methods

    Architecture of the European statistical information system

    NSI network

    General digests

    Gross national product

    European system of integrated economic accounts (ESA)

    Current methodological questions in national accounts

    Development of balance sheets

    Green national accounts

    National accounts aggregates

    Quarterly national accounts

    Accounts of general government

    Accounts of other institutional sectors

    Accounts of branch — structural database

    Input-output tables

    Capital stocks

    Methodology of purchasing power parities

    Price surveys of capital goods

    Methodology and harmonization of consumer price indices

    Production of consumer price indices

    Surveys of final consumption prices

    Coordination of monetary, financial and balance of payments statistics

    Ecu and EMS Statistics

    General government financial balance sheets

    Financial accounts

    Financial balance sheets

    Financial and monetary indicators — short term indicators

    Financial and monetary indicators — structural indicators

    Balance of payments methodology

    EFTA collection system for balance of payments data

    Short-term on statistics on the balance of payments

    Statistics on international movements of capital

    Statistics on international trade in serviceds and geographical breakdown of the current-account balance

    Nomenclature of economic activities

    Classification of products by activities (CPA)

    Nomenclature server

    Functional and derived classifications

    Coordination of statistics and accounts — general

    Coordination of statistics and accounts — macro-economic

    Coordination of statistics and accounts — micro-macro

    Relations with the Member States

    Institutional matters and statistical systems

    Analysis of external trade

    Statistics relating to the trading of goods EC/EFTA and EEA with third countries: methodology Nomenclature of goods for extra EEA and intra-EEA trade

    Country nomenclature

    Foreign trade statistics — production

    Foreign trade statistics — dissemination

    Statistical confidentiality

    Methodology of energy statistics

    Surveys on energy consumption

    Survey on the combined production of electricity and heat

    Structure, balance sheets and input-output tables

    Renewable energy source

    Energy prices

    Special actions in support of the new Community policies

    Raw materials (balance sheets and recovery of raw materials)

    Adaptation of industrial statistics to the needs of the Single Market after 1992

    Links with business

    Industrial statistics: methodology

    Industrial statistics: analysis

    Annual European survey of business — industry

    Industrial short-term indicators

    Prodcom

    SMEs

    Special and priority actions

    Production and dissemination of iron and steel statistics

    Statistics on research and development (R&FD) and innovation

    Statistical research

    Statistical techniques for measuring and processing data (registers, panels, measures of competitiveness and cohesion)

    Services — methodology, methodological coordination of statistics on enterprises

    Services: production and dissemination

    Services products

    Services — short term trends

    Financial services including insurance

    Business services

    Communications and audio-visual services

    Services for individuals and institutions

    Public sector companies and government: micro-economics aspects of the public sector

    Distributive trade

    Tourism: methodology

    Tourism: production and dissemination

    Horeca and travel agencies

    Transport — methodology

    Transport — production and dissemination

    Inland transport of goods

    Sea transport

    Air transport

    Passenger transport

    Activities of transport enterprises

    European statistics on road traffic accidents

    Community labour force survey (LFS)

    The labour force, employment and unemployment

    Working time and volume of work

    Definitions and methods for employment statistics

    Current demographic statistics

    EEA census programme

    Migration and migrants

    Demographic projections in EEA

    European forum for population studies

    Social protection — Esspros financial flows (receipts and expenditure) and numbers of beneficiaries

    Social protection: analysis of functions

    Social protection: micro-economic studies

    Poverty indicators

    Household panel

    Harmonization of family budget surveys

    Household incomes

    Statistics on household living conditions

    Social and regional databank

    Social statistgics observatory

    General time budget survey

    Social situation of “target groups” and “target situations”

    Education

    Vocational training

    Definitions and methods of education and training statistics

    European statistics on accidents at work

    European statistics on home and leisure accidents (Ehlass)

    Harmonization of data on occupational diseases

    Short-term wage indicators

    Harmonized statistics of earnings in industry and services

    Survey on labour costs

    Survey on the structure of wages

    Regional accounts

    Social statistics at regional level

    Agricultural statistics at regional level

    Other regional statistics (transport, energy, environment, R&D, etc...)

    Nuts nomenclature

    Regio data bank and publications

    Local data

    Community surveys on the structure of agricultural holdings

    Eurofarm

    Forestry statistics

    Community typology of agricultural holdings

    Economic accounts for agriculture (EAA)

    Agricultural land use

    Agricultural land use — cereals

    Crop products — cereal production

    Crop products — cereal balance sheets

    Production and balance sheets — fishery products

    Publication of environment statistics

    Water statistics

    Atmospheric emission statistics

    Waste statistics

    Collection of economic information on the environment (Seriee)

    Environmental expenditure stratistics industry and services

    Statistics of government expenditure

    Household expenditure statistics

    Statistics concerning econoic and financial instruments of environmental policy

    Transport, tourism and the environment

    Enterprises and the environment, eco-industries

    Energy and the environment

    Agriculture, forestry and the environment

    Material flows of selected products and substanced that are harmful to the environment of health

    Frameworks, accounts and indicators

    Development of official Community and EEA environment statistics

    Spatialo statistics

    Envstat Database’

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