Commission Regulation (EC) No 1668/2003
of 1 September 2003
implementing Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 with regard to the technical format for the transmission of the structural business statistics and amending Commission Regulation No 2702/98 concerning the technical format for the transmission of structural business statistics
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 of 20 December 1996 concerning structural business statistics , as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1667/2003 , and in particular Article 12 (viii) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 established a common framework for the production of Community statistics on the structure, activity, performance and competitiveness of the banking and the pension fund sector in the Community.
(2)
In order to facilitate the transmission of statistics on environmental expenditure, the technical format provided for by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2702/98 of 17 December 1998 concerning the technical format for the transmission of structural business statistics , as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1614 /2002 , should be adjusted. Regulation (EC) No 2702/98 defined the technical format for the transmission of the structural business statistics characteristics listed in the common module and the detailed modules for industry, distributive trades and construction of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97. It is necessary to amend this technical format in order to take account of the addition of characteristics on environmental expenditure as well as the addition of the breakdown by environmental domains for some characteristics of the detailed module on industry of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97.
(3)
It is necessary to specify the technical format for the transmission of structural business statistics on credit institutions and pension funds listed in Annexes 6 and 7 to Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 in order to produce data comparable and harmonised between Member States, to reduce the risk of errors in the transmission of data and to increase the speed with which the data collected can be processed and made available to users. It is necessary to define another technical format for the transmission of the characteristics of the detailed modules on credit institutions and pension funds as the technical format defined in Regulation (EC) No 2702/98 for the transmission of the characteristics of the common module and the detailed modules on industry, distributive trades and construction provides for a different breakdown of results.
(4)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Statistical Programme Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2702/98 is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation.
Article 2
The technical format referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 for Annex 6 is defined in Annex II to this Regulation.
Article 3
The technical format referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 for Annex 7 is defined in Annex III to this Regulation.
Article 4
Member States shall apply this format for the data concerning the 2001 reference year and subsequent years, with the exception of the data of Annex 7 for which this format shall be applied for the data concerning the 2002 reference year and subsequent years.
Article 5
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th 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.
ANNEX I
The Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2702/98 is amended as follows:
1. In the record structure described in paragraph 2 the following row is added
Breakdown by environmental domains | A | 4 | Code for environmental domains (only used in industry)
2. The following series is added to the table in paragraph 3.1 The series type:
Series type | Code
‘Environmental protection expenditure broken down by size classes | 2O’
3. The following series is renamed in table in paragraph 3.1. The series type
Series type | Code
‘Environmental protection expenditure broken down by environmental domains | 2B’
4. The following variables are added to the table in paragraph 3.7. Variable
Variable | Code
‘Investment in equipment and plant linked to cleaner technology (“integrated technology”) | 21 12 0
Total current expenditure on environmental protection | 21 14 0’
5. The following table is added:
3.14.

Breakdown by environmental domains
Breakdown of products/environmental domains | Code
Protection of ambient air and climate | ED01
Wastewater management | ED02
Waste management | ED03
Other environmental protection activities | ED09
ANNEX II

TECHNICAL FORMAT FOR STATISTICS ON CREDIT INSTITUTIONS
1.

The form of the data
The data is sent as a set of records of which a large part describes the characteristics of the data (country, year, economic activity etc.). The data itself is a number which can be linked to flags and explanatory footnotes used for example to describe aggregations of NACE codes. Confidential data should be sent with the true value being recorded in the value field and a flag indicating the nature of the confidential data being added to the record.
In order to be precise about the nature of the data, it is necessary to distinguish the following special cases:
- data equal to zero (coded ‘0’): real values of zero only (the phenomenon it describes does not exist in the country),
- missing data (coded ‘m’): this is data which is currently missing but the Member State intends to supply when available,
- data not available: this is data which is not collected in a Member State. In this case, the corresponding record is not sent.
By default, if an entire dimension (a variable, a NUTS code, a Size Class code etc.) is not collected then the corresponding records will not exist (except for those which are missing because they form part of a regrouping of NACE codes. This is why it is important to distinguish data which is really missing by supplying a record (one per missing item) in which the data value is coded as ‘m’, and data which is really equal to zero by supplying the corresponding records in which the data value is set to 0.
2.

Data set structure
The data set shall consist of the following fields
NB:
A = Alphanumeric, N = Numeric
| Field | Type | Maximum length | Values
1 | Series | A | 2 | 6A, 6B, 6C, 6D, 6E, 6F, 6G, 6H. Alphanumeric code of the series (see list below)
2 | Year | A | 4 | Year in four characters e.g. 2001
3 | Territorial unit | A | 6 | Corresponds to the country code for national series or to the NUTS 99 code of the region for regional series: NUTS 99 is the new nomenclature put in place in December 1999
4 | Economic activity | A | 4 | NACE rev. 1 code
5 | Measurement | A | 3 | Variable — type of measurement —
6 | Unit | A | 4 | Unit
7 | Variable | A | 5 | Variable code. The codes laid down in Annex 6 of the SBS Regulation have 5 characters (see list below)
8 | Size class | A | 4 | Code for the size class (see list below)
or |
Residence of parent enterprise | Code for the country of residence of the parent enterprise (see list below)
or |
Category | Code for the category of credit institutions (see list below)
9 | Breakdown of products | A | 6 | Corresponds to the CPA code (see list below)
10 | Legal status or | A | 4 | Code for the legal status of enterprise (see list below)
Geographical breakdown | Code for the geographical breakdown of the partner countries (see list below)
11 | Data Value | A | 12 | Numeric value of the data (negative values are preceded by a minus sign) expressed as a whole number without decimal places. An ‘M’ should be used if the data is not sent because it is missing
12 | Quality flag | A | 1 | R: revised data, M: updated data, P: provisional data
13 | Confidentiality flag | A | 1 | A, B, C, D: indicates that the data is confidential and the reason for that confidentiality (see list below). A blank space indicates non-confidential data
14 | Dominance | N | 3 | A numeric value less than or equal to 100. This indicates the percentage dominance of one or two enterprises which dominate the data and make it confidential. The value is rounded to the nearest whole number: e.g. 90.3 becomes 90, 94.50 becomes 95. This field is blank for non-confidential data. This field is only used when the confidentiality flags B or C are used in the previous field
15 | Footnote | A | 250 | Free note on the data
3.

Description of the fields
3.1.

Series
Series type | Code
Annual enterprise statistics | 6A
Annual enterprise statistics broken down by legal status | 6B
Annual enterprise statistics broken down according to the country of residence of the parent enterprise | 6C
Annual enterprise statistics broken down by category of credit institutions | 6D
Annual enterprise statistics broken down by size class | 6E
Annual enterprise statistics broken down by product | 6F
Annual enterprise statistics by geographical breakdown | 6G
Annual regional statistics | 6H
3.2.

Year
3.3.

Territorial unit
This code corresponds to the country for national series or to the region for the regional series (series 6H). It is based on the NUTS 99 code. For regions, two characters are added to the two characters for the country (see NUTS 99).
Country | Code
Belgium | BE
Bulgaria | BG
Denmark | DK
Germany | DE
Greece | GR
Spain | ES
France | FR
Ireland | IE
Italy | IT
Luxembourg | LU
The Netherlands | NL
Austria | AT
Portugal | PT
Romania | RO
Finland | FI
Sweden | SE
The United Kingdom | UK
Iceland | IS
Liechtenstein | LI
Norway | NO
Switzerland | CH
3.4.

Economic activity
Economic activity title — NACE rev. 1 — | Code
Other monetary intermediation | 6512
Other credit granting | 6522
3.5.

Measurement
Measurement | Code
National currency | NC
Euro | EUR
Number | NBR
3.6.

Unit
Unit | Code
Unit | UNIT
Thousands | 1 000
Millions | MIO
Billions | BIO
3.7.

Variable
Variable title | Code
Structural data
Number of enterprises | 11 11 0
Number of enterprises broken down by legal status | 11 11 1
Number of enterprises broken down by residence of the parent enterprise | 11 11 4
Number of enterprises broken down by size classes of the balance sheet total | 11 11 6
Number of enterprises broken down by category of credit institutions | 11 11 7
Number of local units | 11 21 0
Total number of branches broken down by location in non-EEA countries | 11 41 0
Total number of financial subsidiaries broken down by location in other countries | 11 51 0
Accounting data: profit and loss account
Interest receivable and similar income | 42 11 0
Interest receivable and similar income arising from fixed-income securities | 42 11 1
Interest payable and similar charges | 42 12 0
Interest payable and similar charges linked to debt securities in issue | 42 12 1
Income from securities | 42 13 0
Income from shares and other variable-yield securities | 42 13 1
Commissions receivable | 42 14 0
Commissions payable | 42 15 0
Net profit or net loss on financial operations | 42 20 0
Other operating income | 42 31 0
General administrative expenses | 42 32 0
Other administrative expenses | 42 32 2
Other operating charges | 42 33 0
Value adjustments and value re-adjustments in respect of loans and advances and provisions for contingent liabilities and for commitments | 42 35 0
Other value adjustments and value re-adjustments | 42 36 0
Profit or loss on ordinary activities | 42 40 0
Extraordinary profit or loss | 42 50 0
All taxes (tax on profit or loss on ordinary activities, tax on extraordinary profit or loss, other taxes) | 42 51 0
Profit or loss for the financial year | 42 60 0
Production value | 12 12 0
Value added at basic prices | 12 14 0
Value added at factor cost | 12 15 0
Total purchases of goods and services | 13 11 0
Personnel costs | 13 31 0
Gross investment in tangible goods | 15 11 0
Accounting data: balance sheet
Loans and advances to customers | 43 11 0
Amounts owed to customers | 43 21 0
Total of capital and reserves | 43 29 0
Balance sheet total | 43 30 0
Balance sheet total broken down according to the residence of the parent enterprise | 43 31 0
Balance sheet total broken down by legal status | 43 32 0
Data by product
Interest receivable and similar income broken down by (sub)categories of the CPA | 44 11 0
Interest payable and similar charges broken down by (sub)categories of the CPA | 44 12 0
Commissions receivable broken down by (sub)categories of the CPA | 44 13 0
Commissions payable broken down by (sub)categories of the CPA | 44 14 0
Data on internationalisation
Geographical breakdown of the total number of EEA branches | 45 11 0
Geographical breakdown of interest receivable and similar income | 45 21 0
Geographical breakdown of balance sheet total | 45 22 0
Geographical breakdown of interest receivable and similar income via the freedom to provide services business (in other EEA countries) | 45 31 0
Geographical breakdown of interest receivable and similar income via branch business (in non-EEA countries) | 45 41 0
Geographical breakdown of interest receivable and similar income via the freedom to provide services business (in non-EEA countries) | 45 42 0
Data on employment
Number of persons employed | 16 11 0
Number of persons employed broken down by category of credit institutions | 16 11 1
Number of women employed | 16 11 2
Number of employees | 16 13 0
Number of female employees | 16 13 6
Number of employees in full-time equivalent units | 16 14 0
Residual data
Number of accounts broken down by (sub)categories of the CPA | 47 11 0
Number of loans and advances to customers broken down by (sub)categories of the CPA | 47 12 0
Number of automatic teller machines (ATM) owned by credit institutions | 47 13 0
3.8.

Size class/Residence of parent enterprise/Category
Size class of balance sheet total | Code
> EUR 99 999 Mio | SC01
EUR 10 000-99 999 Mio | SC02
EUR 1 000-9 999 Mio | SC03
EUR 100-999 Mio | SC04
< EUR 100 Mio | SC05
Country of residence of the parent enterprise | Code
Parent enterprise situated in the home Member State | RE01
Parent enterprise situated in other countries | RE02
Category of credit institutions | Code
Licensed banks | CA01
Specialised credit granting institutions | CA02
Other credit institutions | CA03
3.9.

Breakdown of products
Products | Code
Inter-industry deposit taking services | 651211
Standardised deposit taking services | 651212
Non-standardised deposit taking services | 651213
Inter-industry credit granting services | 651221
Consumer credit granting services | 651222
Mortgage credit granting services | 651223
Commercial credit granting services | 651224
Other credit granting services n.e.c. | 651225
Other monetary intermediation services n.e.c. | 65123
Financial leasing services | 6521
Inter-industry credit granting services | 65221
Consumer credit granting services | 65222
Mortgage credit granting services | 65223
Commercial credit granting services | 65224
Other credit granting services n.e.c. | 65225
Investment banking services | 65231
Other financial intermediation services n.e.c. | 65232
Security brokerage services | 67121
Fund management services | 67122
Other services auxiliary to financial intermediation n.e.c. | 6713
Brokerage services | 6721
Other services auxiliary to insurance and pension funding n.e.c. | 6722
3.10.

Legal status/Geographical breakdown
Legal status | Code
Incorporated enterprises limited by shares | LS01
Cooperative enterprises | LS02
Public-law enterprises | LS03
Branches of enterprises with head office in non-EEA countries | LS04
Others | LS05
Countries and groups of countries | Code
Belgique/België | BEL
България | BGR
Danmark | DNK
Deutschland | DEU
Eλλαδα | GRC
España | ESP
France | FRA
Ireland | IRL
Italia | ITA
Luxembourg | LUX
Nederland | NLD
Österreich | AUT
Portugal | PRT
România | ROU
Suomi/Finland | FIN
Sverige | SWE
United Kingdom | GBR
Island | ISL
Liechtenstein | LIE
Norge | NOR
Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera | CHE
USA | USA
Japan | JPN
In the Member State of head office | MSHO
In other Member States | OMS
In other EEA countries | OEEA
In other third countries (rest of the world) | THCO
3.11.

Data value
Monetary data is expressed in millions of national currency units or in euro (for countries members of the Euro-zone).
In order to be precise about the nature of the data, it is necessary to distinguish the following cases:
- data equal to zero (coded ‘0’): real values of zero only (the phenomenon it describes does not exist in the country),
- missing data (coded ‘m’): this is data which is currently missing but the Member State intends to supply when available,
- data not available: This is data which is not collected in a Member State. In this case the corresponding record is not sent.
By default, if an entire dimension (a variable, a NUTS code etc.) is not collected then the corresponding records will not exist except for those which are missing because they form part of a regrouping of NACE codes. This is why it is important to distinguish data which is really missing by supplying a record (one per missing item) in which the data value is coded as ‘m’.
3.12.

Quality flag
Data type | Flag
Revised data | R
Updated data | M
Provisional data | P
Revised data refers to data which are sent for a second (or more) time and are corrections of data which has been previously sent.
Updated data concerns data which was not previously available and was coded as missing in the data value field (see 3.11 above) but has since become available.
The flag indicating provisional data should be used in order to indicate that it is likely that the data being transmitted may be corrected.
3.13.

Confidentiality flag
Member States are asked to clearly indicate confidential data using the flags listed below:
Countries which cannot send confidential data are asked to set the value to ‘x’ (see 3.11 above) and to indicate using a flag that the data is missing due to confidentiality.
Reason for confidentiality | Flag
Too few enterprises | A
One enterprise dominates the data | B
Two enterprises dominate the data | C
Confidential data due to secondary confidentiality | D
3.14.

Dominance
A numeric value less than or equal to 100. This indicates the percentage dominance of one or two enterprises which dominate the data and make it confidential. The value is rounded to the nearest whole number: e.g. 90.3 becomes 90, 94.50 becomes 95. This field is blank for non-confidential data. This field is only used when the confidentiality flags B or C are used in the previous field.
3.15.

Footnote
Free note on the data with a maximal length of 250 characters.
4.

Electronic form
The data and metadata, supplied in conformance with this regulation shall be sent in electronic form from Competent National Authorities to Eurostat. Transmission shall conform to an appropriate interchange standard approved by the Statistical Programme Committee (SPC). Eurostat will make available detailed documentation in relation to approved standard(s) and will supply guidelines on how to implement this (these) standard(s) according to the requirements of this regulation.
5.

Transitional arrangements
During a transitional period, the data may be sent as a flat file in ASCII format with each data set being one record having the semi-colon ‘;’ as the field seperator and the the carriage return character (ASCII hexadecimal code ‘0D’) and/or the linefeed character (ASCII hexadecimal code ‘0A’) as the record separator.
6.

Examples of records

Example 1:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14
Series | Year | Territorial Unit | Economic activity | Measurement | Unit | Variable | Size class/Residence of parent enterprise/Category | Breakdown of products | Legal status/Geographical breakdown | Data value | Quality flag | Confidentiality flag | Dominance
6A | 2001 | BE | 6512 | NBR | UNIT | 11110 | | | | 87 | | |
Belgium declares in the series 6A (Annual enterprise statistics) for the reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 65.12: 87 enterprises. The data is non confidential.
6A; 2001; BE; 6512; NBR; UNIT; 11110; ; ; ; 87; ; ; ;

Example 2:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14
Series | Year | Territorial Unit | Economic activity | Measurement | Unit | Variable | Size class/Residence of parent enterprise/Category | Breakdown of products | Legal status/Geographical breakdown | Data value | Quality flag | Confidentiality flag | Dominance
6B | 2001 | DK | 6512 | NBR | UNIT | 11111 | | | LS02 | 25 | | |
Denmark declares in the serie 6B (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by legal status) for the reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 65.12: 25 enterprises with the legal status: co-operative enterprises. The data is non confidential.
6B; 2001; DK; 6512; NBR; UNIT; 11111; ; ; LS02; 25; ; ; ;

Example 3:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14
Series | Year | Territorial Unit | Economic activity | Measurement | Unit | Variable | Size class/Residence of parent enterprise/Category | Breakdown of products | Legal status/Geographical breakdown | Data value | Quality flag | Confidentiality flag | Dominance
6C | 2001 | PT | 6512 | EUR | MIO | 43310 | RE01 | | | 23567 | P | A |
Portugal declares in the series 6C (Annual enterprise statistics broken down according to the country of residence of the parent enterprise) for the reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 6512: a balance sheet total of EUR 23 567 Mio for credit institutions which parent enterprise is situated in the home Member State. The data is provisional as well as confidential because of too few enterprises.
6C; 2001; PT; 6512; EUR; MIO; 43310; RE01; ; ; 23567; P; A; ;

Example 4:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14
Series | Year | Territorial Unit | Economic activity | Measurement | Unit | Variable | Size class/Residence of parent enterprise/Category | Breakdown of products | Legal status/Geographical breakdown | Data value | Quality flag | Confidentiality flag | Dominance
6D | 2001 | ES | 6512 | NBR | UNIT | 16111 | CA01 | | | 130 | | |
Spain declares in the series 6D (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by category of credit institutions) for the reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 65.12: 130 persons employed in the category of licensed banks. The data is non confidential.
6D; 2001; ES; 6512; NBR; UNIT; 16111; CA01; ; ; 130; ; ; ;

Example 5:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14
Series | Year | Territorial Unit | Economic activity | Measurement | Unit | Variable | Size class/Residence of parent enterprise/Category | Breakdown of products | Legal status/Geographical breakdown | Data value | Quality flag | Confidentiality flag | Dominance
6E | 2001 | FI | 6512 | NBR | UNIT | 11116 | SC05 | | | 6 | | |
Finland declares in the series 6E (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by size class) for the reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 65.12: 6 enterprises with a balance sheet total in the size class of less than EUR 100 million. The data is non confidential.
6E; 2001; FI; 6512; NBR; UNIT; 11116; SC05; ; ; 6; ; ; ;

Example 6:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14
Series | Year | Territorial Unit | Economic activity | Measurement | Unit | Variable | Size class/Residence of parent enterprise/Category | Breakdown of products | Legal status/Geographical breakdown | Data value | Quality flag | Confidentiality flag | Dominance
6F | 2001 | UK | 6512 | NC | MIO | 44130 | | 651211 | | 1489 | | |
United Kingdom declares in the series 6F (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by product) for the reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 65.12: commissions receivable of GBP 1 489 million in the product class ‘Inter-industry deposit taking services’. The data is non confidential.
6F; 2001; UK; 6512; NC; MIO; 44130; ; 651211; ;1489; ; ; ;

Example 7:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14
Series | Year | Territorial Unit | Economic activity | Measurement | Unit | Variable | Size class/Residence of parent enterprise/Category | Breakdown of products | Legal status/Geographical breakdown | Data value | Quality flag | Confidentiality flag | Dominance
6G | 2001 | FR | 6512 | NBR | UNIT | 11510 | | | ESP | 5 | | |
France declares in the series 6G (Annual enterprise statistics by geographical breakdown) for the reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 65.12: 5 financial subsidiaries in Spain. The data is non confidential.
6G; 2001; FR; 6512; NBR; UNIT; 11510; ; ; ESP; 5; ; ; ;

Example 8:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14
Series | Year | Territorial Unit | Economic activity | Measurement | Unit | Variable | Size class/Residence of parent enterprise/Category | Breakdown of products | Legal status/Geographical breakdown | Data value | Quality flag | Confidentiality flag | Dominance
6H | 2001 | 2IT51 | 6512 | NBR | UNIT | 11210 | | | | 38 | | |
Italy declares in the series 6H (Annual regional statistics) for the reference year 2001, in NACE rev. 1 class 65.12: 38 local units in the region ‘Toscana’ (IT51). The data is non confidential.
6H; 2001; IT51; 6512; NBR; UNIT; 11210; ; ; ; 38; ; ; ;
ANNEX III

TECHNICAL FORMAT FOR STATISTICS ON PENSION FUNDS
1.

The form of the data
The data is sent as a set of records of which a large part describes the characteristics of the data (country, year, economic activity etc.). The data itself is a number which can be linked to flags and explanatory footnotes used for example to describe aggregations of NACE codes. Confidential data should be sent with the true value being recorded in the value field and a flag indicating the nature of the confidential data being added to the record.
In order to be precise about the nature of the data, it is necessary to distinguish the following special cases:
data equal to zero (coded ‘0’): real values of zero only (the phenomenon it describes does not exist in the country),
missing data (coded ‘m’): this is data which is currently missing but the Member State intends to supply when available,
data not available: this is data which is not collected in a Member State. In this case, the corresponding record is not sent.
By default, if an entire dimension (a variable, a NUTS code, a Size Class code etc.) is not collected then the corresponding records will not exist (except for those which are missing because they form part of a regrouping of NACE codes. This is why it is important to distinguish data which is really missing by supplying a record (one per missing item) in which the data value is coded as ‘m’, and data which is really equal to zero by supplying the corresponding records in which the data value is set to 0.
2.

Data set structure
The data set shall consist of the following fields
NB:
A = Alphanumeric, N = Numeric
| Field | Type | Maximum length | Values
1 | Series | A | 2 | 7A, 7B, 7C, 7D and 7E Alphanumeric code of the series (see list below)
2 | Year | A | 4 | Year in four characters e.g. 2002
3 | Territorial unit | A | 6 | Corresponds to the country code for national series or to the NUTS 99 code of the region for regional series: NUTS 99 is the new nomenclature put in place in December 1999
4 | Economic activity | A | 4 | NACE rev. 1 code
5 | Measurement | A | 3 | Variable — type of measurement —
6 | Unit | A | 4 | Unit
7 | Variable | A | 5 | Variable code. The codes laid down in Annex 7 of the SBS Regulation have 5 characters (see list below)
8 | Size class | A | 4 | Code for the size class (see list below)
9 | Currency breakdown | A | 6 | Corresponds to currency (see list below)
10 | Geographical breakdown | | | Code for the geographical breakdown of the partner countries (see list below)
11 | Data value | A | 12 | Numeric value of the data (negative values are preceded by a minus sign) expressed as a whole number without decimal places. An ‘M’ should be used if the data is not sent because it is missing
12 | Quality flag | A | 1 | R: revised data, M: updated data, P: provisional data
13 | Confidentiality flag | A | 1 | A, B, C, D: indicates that the data is confidential and the reason for that confidentiality (see list below). A blank space indicates non-confidential data
14 | Dominance | N | 3 | A numeric value less than or equal to 100. This indicates the percentage dominance of one or two enterprises which dominate the data and make it confidential. The value is rounded to the nearest whole number: e.g. 90.3 becomes 90, 94.50 becomes 95 This field is blank for non-confidential data. This field is only used when the confidentiality flags B or C are used in the previous field
15 | Footnote | A | 250 | Free note on the data
3.

Description of the fields
3.1.

Series
Series type | Code
Annual enterprise statistics | 7A
Annual enterprise statistics broken down by size classes | 7B
Annual enterprise statistics broken down by currencies | 7C
Annual enterprise statistics by geographical breakdown | 7D
Annual enterprise statistics on non-autonomous pension funds | 7E
3.2.

Year
3.3.

Territorial unit
This code corresponds to the country for national series or to the region for the regional serie (serie 6H). It is based on the NUTS 99 code. For regions, two characters are added to the two characters for the country (see NUTS 99).
Country | Code
Belgium | BE
Bulgaria | BG
Denmark | DK
Germany | DE
Greece | GR
Spain | ES
France | FR
Ireland | IE
Italy | IT
Luxembourg | LU
The Netherlands | NL
Austria | AT
Portugal | PT
Romania | RO
Finland | FI
Sweden | SE
The United Kingdom | UK
Iceland | IS
Liechtenstein | LI
Norway | NO
Switzerland | CH
3.4.

Economic activity
Economic activity title — NACE rev. 1 — | Code
Pension funding 6602 | 6602
Non-autonomous pension funds: Total sections C-K | CK
Non-autonomous pension funds: Section C: Mining and quarrying | C
Non-autonomous pension funds: Section D: Manufacturing | D
Non-autonomous pension funds: Section E: Electricity, gas and water supply | E
Non-autonomous pension funds: Section F: Construction | F
Non-autonomous pension funds: Section G: Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles and personal and household goods | G
Non-autonomous pension funds: Section H: Hotels and restaurants | H
Non-autonomous pension funds: Section I: Transport, storage and communication | I
Non-autonomous pension funds: Section J: Financial intermediation | J
Non-autonomous pension funds: Section K: Real estate, renting and business activities | K
3.5.

Measurement
Measurement | Code
National currency | NC
Euro | EUR
Number | NBR
3.6.

Unit
Unit | Code
Unit | UNIT
Thousands | 1 000
Millions | MIO
Billions | BIO
3.7.

Variable
Variable title | Code
Number of enterprises | 11 11 0
Number of enterprises broken down by size of investments | 11 11 8
Number of enterprises broken down by size classes of members | 11 11 9
Number of enterprises with non-autonomous pension funds | 11 15 0
Number of pension schemes | 11 61 0
Accounting data: profit and loss (income and expenditure) account
Turnover | 12 11 0
Pension contributions receivable from members | 48 00 1
Pension contributions receivable from employers | 48 00 2
Incoming transfers | 48 00 3
Other pension contributions | 48 00 4
Pension contributions to defined benefits schemes | 48 00 5
Pension contributions to defined contributions schemes | 48 00 6
Pension contributions to hybrid schemes | 48 00 7
Investment income (PF) | 48 01 0
Capital gains and losses | 48 01 1
Insurance claims receivable | 48 02 1
Other income (PF) | 48 02 2
Production value | 12 12 0
Value added at basic prices | 12 14 0
Value added at factor cost | 12 15 0
Total expenditure on pensions | 48 03 0
Regular pensions payments | 48 03 1
Pension payments of lump sums | 48 03 2
Outgoing transfers | 48 03 3
Net change in technical provisions (reserves) | 48 04 0
Insurance premiums payable | 48 05 0
Total operational expenses | 48 06 0
Total purchases of goods and services | 13 11 0
Personnel costs | 13 31 0
Gross investment in tangible goods | 15 11 0
All taxes | 48 07 0
Turnover of non-autonomous pension funds | 48 08 0
Balance sheet data: assets
Land and buildings (PF) | 48 11 0
Investments in affiliated enterprises and participating interests (PF) | 48 12 0
Shares and other variable-yield securities | 48 13 0
Shares traded on a regulated market | 48 13 1
Shares traded on a regulated market specialised in SMEs | 48 13 2
Non-publicly traded shares | 48 13 3
Other variable yield securities | 48 13 4
Units in undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities | 48 14 0
Debt securities and other fixed-income securities | 48 15 0
Debt securities and other fixed-income securities issued by public administrations | 48 15 1
Other debt securities and other fixed income securities | 48 15 2
Participation in investment pools (PF) | 48 16 0
Loans guaranteed by mortgages and other loans not covered elsewhere | 48 17 0
Other investments | 48 18 0
Total investments of pension funds | 48 10 0
Total investments invested in ‘the sponsoring enterprise’ | 48 10 1
Total investments at market values | 48 10 4
Other assets | 48 20 0
Balance sheet data: liabilities
Capital and reserves | 48 30 0
Net technical provisions (PF) | 48 40 0
Other liabilities | 48 50 0
Data on internationalisation
Geographical breakdown of turnover | 48 61 0
Shares and other variable-yield securities broken down by location | 48 62 0
Total investments broken down by location | 48 63 0
Total investments broken down into euro and non-euro components | 48 64 0
Data on employment
Number of persons employed | 16 11 0
Residual data
Number of members | 48 70 0
Number of members of defined benefits schemes | 48 70 1
Number of members of defined contributions schemes | 48 70 2
Number of members of hybrid schemes | 48 70 3
Number of active members | 48 70 4
Number of deferred members | 48 70 5
Number of retired persons | 48 70 6
3.8.

Size classes
Size class of investments | Code
> EUR 5 000 Mio | SC11
EUR 2 501-5 000 Mio | SC12
EUR 501-2 500 Mio | SC13
EUR 50-500 Mio | SC14
< EUR 50 Mio | SC15
Size classes of members (Unit) | Code
> 100 000 members | SC21
10 001-100 000 members | SC22
1 001-10 000 members | SC23
101-1 000 members | SC24
50-100 members | SC25
< 50 members | SC26
3.9.

Currency breakdown
Currency breakdown | Code
Euro | EURO
Others | OTH
3.10.

Geographical breakdown
Groups of countries | Code
Home country | HOME
Other EU countries | OEU
Other EEA countries | OEEA
USA and Canada | US_CA
Japan | JPN
Rest of the world | THCO
3.11.

Data value
Monetary data is expressed in millions of national currency units or in Euro (for countries members of the Euro-zone).
In order to be precise about the nature of the data, it is necessary to distinguish the following cases:
data equal to zero (coded ‘0’): real values of zero only (the phenomenon it describes does not exist in the country),
missing data (coded ‘m’): this is data which is currently missing but the Member State intends to supply when available,
data not available: This is data which is not collected in a Member State. In this case the corresponding record is not sent.
By default, if an entire dimension (a variable, a NUTS code etc.) is not collected then the corresponding records will not exist except for those which are missing because they form part of a regrouping of NACE codes. This is why it is important to distinguish data which is really missing by supplying a record (one per missing item) in which the data value is coded as ‘m’.
3.12.

Quality flag
Data type | Flag
Revised data | R
Updated data | M
Provisional data | P
Revised data refers to data which are sent for a second (or more) time and are corrections of data which has been previously sent.
Updated data concerns data which was not previously available and was coded as missing in the data value field (see 3.11 above) but has since become available.
The flag indicating provisional data should be used in order to indicate that it is likely that the data being transmitted may be corrected.
3.13.

Confidentiality flag
Member States are asked to clearly indicate confidential data using the flags listed below:
Countries which cannot send confidential data are asked to set the value to ‘x’ (see 3.11 above) and to indicate using a flag that the data is missing due to confidentiality.
Reason for confidentiality | Flag
Too few enterprises | A
One enterprise dominates the data | B
Two enterprises dominate the data | C
Confidential data due to secondary confidentiality | D
3.14.

Dominance
A numeric value less than or equal to 100. This indicates the percentage dominance of one or two enterprises which dominate the data and make it confidential. The value is rounded to the nearest whole number: e.g. 90.3 becomes 90, 94.50 becomes 95. This field is blank for non confidential data. This field is only used when the confidentiality flags B or C are used in the previous field.
3.15.

Footnote
Free note on the data with a maximal length of 250 characters.
4.

Electronic form
The data and metadata, supplied in conformance with this regulation shall be sent in electronic form from Competent National Authorities to Eurostat. Transmission shall conform to an appropriate interchange standard approved by the Statistical Programme Committee (SPC). Eurostat will make available detailed documentation in relation to approved standard(s) and will supply guidelines on how to implement this (these) standard(s) according to the requirements of this regulation.
5.

Transitional arrangements
During a transitional period, the data may be sent as a flat file in ASCII format with each data set being one record having the semi-colon ‘;’ as the field seperator and the the carriage return character (ASCII hexadecimal code ‘0D’) and/or the linefeed character (ASCII hexadecimal code ‘0A’) as the record separator.
6.

Examples of records

Example 1:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
Series | Year | Territorial Unit | Economic activity | Measurement | Unit | Variable | Size classes | Currency breakdown | Geographical breakdown | Data value | Quality flag | Confidentiality flag | Dominance | Footnote
7A | 2002 | BE | 6602 | NBR | UNIT | 11110 | | | | 120 | | | |
Belgium declares in the series 7A (Annual enterprise statistics) for the reference year 2002, in NACE rev. 1 class 66.02 120 autonomous pension funds enterprises. The data is non confidential.
7A; 2002; BE; 6602; NBR; UNIT; 11110; ; ; ; 120; ; ; ;

Example 2:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
Series | Year | Territorial Unit | Economic activity | Measurement | Unit | Variable | Size classes | Currency breakdown | Geographical breakdown | Data value | Quality flag | Confidentiality flag | Dominance | Footnote
7B | 2002 | DK | 6602 | NBR | UNIT | 11118 | SC14 | | | 38 | | | |
Denmark declares in the series 7B (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by size classes) for the reference year 2002, in NACE rev. 1 class 66.02: 38 autonomous pension funds which investments fall between EUR 50-500 million. The data is non confidential.
7B; 2002; DK; 6602; NBR; UNIT; 11118; SC14; ; ; 38; ; ; ;

Example 3:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
Series | Year | Territorial Unit | Economic activity | Measurement | Unit | Variable | Size classes | Currency breakdown | Geographical breakdown | Data value | Quality flag | Confidentiality flag | Dominance | Footnote
7C | 2002 | PT | 6602 | EUR | MIO | 48640 | | USD | | 1008 | | | |
Portugal declares in the series 7C (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by currencies) for the reference year 2002, in NACE rev. 1 class 66.02: investments of EUR 1 008 million which are broken down by USD. The data is non confidential.
7C; 2002; PT; 6602; EUR; MIO; 48640; ; USD; ; 1008; ; ; ;

Example 4:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
Series | Year | Territorial Unit | Economic activity | Measurement | Unit | Variable | Size classes | Currency breakdown | Geographical breakdown | Data value | Quality flag | Confidentiality flag | Dominance | Footnote
7D | 2002 | FI | 6602 | EUR | MIO | 48610 | | | OEU | 12548 | | | |
Finland declares in the series 7D (Annual enterprise statistics by geographical breakdown) for the reference year 2002, in NACE rev. 1 class 66.02: turnover of EUR 12 548 million which are declared in other EU countries. The data is non confidential.
7D; 2002; FI; 6602; EUR; MIO; 48610; ; ; OEU; 12548; ; ; ;

Example 5:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
Series | Year | Territorial Unit | Economic activity | Measurement | Unit | Variable | Size classes | Currency breakdown | Geographical breakdown | Data value | Quality flag | Confidentiality flag | Dominance | Footnote
7B | 2002 | ES | 6602 | NBR | UNIT | 11119 | SC21 | | | M | | | |
Spain declares in the series 7B (Annual enterprise statistics broken down by size classes) for the reference year 2002, in NACE rev. 1 class 66.02: missing data of number of enterprises which fall under the size class > 100 000 members. This data is non confidential.
7B; 2002; ES; 6602; NBR; UNIT; 11119; SC21; ; ; M; ; ; ;

Example 6:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
Series | Year | Territorial Unit | Economic activity | Measurement | Unit | Variable | Size classes | Currency breakdown | Geographical breakdown | Data value | Quality flag | Confidentiality flag | Dominance | Footnote
7E | 2002 | BE | H | NBR | UNIT | 11150 | | | | 35 | | | |
Belgium declares in the series 7E (Annual enterprise statistics on non-autonomous pension funds) for the reference year 2002, in NACE rev. 1 section H (Non-autonomous pension funds: Section H: Hotels and restaurants): 35 enterprises with non-autonomous pension funds. This data is non confidential.
7A; 2002; BE; H; NBR; UNIT; 11150; ; ; ; 35; ; ; ;
OJ L 14, 17.1.1997, p. 1.
See page 1 of this Official Journal.
OJ L 344, 18.2.1998, p. 102.
OJ L 244, 12.9.2002, p. 7.
Inserted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1792/2006 of 23 October 2006 adapting certain regulations and decisions in the fields of free movement of goods, freedom of movement of persons, competition policy, agriculture (veterinary and phytosanitary legislation), fisheries, transport policy, taxation, statistics, social policy and employment, environment, customs union, and external relations by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania.