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The EC Business Register Regulation – a brief introduction

Learn about the EC Business Register Regulation and its importance in statistics and data collection within the EU. Explore its scope, data sources, characteristics, and exchange protocols.

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The EC Business Register Regulation – a brief introduction

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  1. The EC Business Register Regulation – a brief introduction Workshop on Business Registers and their Role in Business Statistics in the Eastern UNECE region 5 October 2009, Luxembourg

  2. Eurostat is responsible to prepare Community Legislation on ‘Statistical Business Registers’ and to supervise their implementation in EU Member States • Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a common framework for business registers for statistical purposes See EUR-Lex: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/ The EC Business Register Regulation

  3. The Purpose of the Regulation (Article 1) : • Establishment of a common framework for one or more harmonised business registers for statistical purposes in the Community • as a tool for setting up surveys (e.g. for structural business statisticsand short-term statistics) • as a source of information for statistics statistical (e.g. business demography) • for the use of administrative data (e.g. tax data) • for the identification and construction of statistical units (e.g. enterprise unit) The EC Business Register Regulation

  4. The Scope of Business Registers (Article 3) : • all enterprises carrying on economic activities contributing to the gross domestic product (GDP) • their local units • the legal units of which those enterprises consist; • Enterprise groups (all‑resident, truncated, multinational, enterprise groups) Statistical units defined in separate Legislation: Regulation (ECC) No 696/93 Covers agricultural sector and public enterprises The EC Business Register Regulation

  5. Data sources for Business Registers (Article 4) • Enabling Member States to use any data sources that they consider relevant for obtaining the register data • This covers surveys and access to administrative and legal files Estimations are possible, while respecting the need for accuracy and quality The EC Business Register Regulation

  6. Register characteristics (Article 5) • Different set of characteristics for: legal units, local units, enterprise units, and enterprise group units as regards to: • Identification characteristics • Demographic characteristics • Economic/stratification characteristics • Links with other registers • Links with other units (see Annex of the Regulation) The EC Business Register Regulation

  7. Time reference and periodicity (Article 8) • Units in the registers shall be updated at least annually. • Store annual register population for at least 30 years The EC Business Register Regulation

  8. Exchange of confidential data • between Member States (NSI<-> NSI) optional according to Article 10 • between Eurostat and Member States on units belonging to a Multinational Enterprise group (NSI <-> Eurostat <-> NSI) mandatory according to Article 11 • Implementing provision (EC) No 192/2009 • Precondition for establishing the EuroGroups Register • between Eurostat and central banks on units belonging to a Multinational Enterprise group (NSI > Eurostat -> NCB/ECB) optional according to Article 12 • Implementing provision in preparation • requires explicit authorization by the NSI • Security treatment for confidential data is determined in Article 13 The EC Business Register Regulation

  9. Further Provisions • Definitions (Article 2) • Quality standards and reports (Article 6) • Recommendations manual (Article 7) • Annual reports in order to monitor Member States compliance (Article 9) • Derogations (Article 14) • Implementing Measures Comitology (Article 15 and 16) • Repeal and entry into force (Article 17 and 18) The EC Business Register Regulation

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