CHAPTER 4a

TRADE BY BUSINESS CHARACTERISTICS

Compilation of statistics on trade by business characteristics
Article 13a
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National authorities shall compile annual statistics on trade by business characteristics.
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The statistical units shall be enterprises as defined in the Annex to Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/93.
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Statistical units are constructed by linking the identification number allocated to the party responsible for providing information pursuant to Article 9(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 with the legal unit of the Business Register in accordance with the variable 1.7a referred to in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
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The following characteristics shall be compiled:
a
trade flow;
b
statistical value;
c
partner Member State;
d
commodity code, according to the section or two-digit level as defined in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
e
number of enterprises;
f
activity carried out by the enterprise according to the section or two-digit level of the statistical classification of economic activity (NACE) as laid down in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
g
size class, measured in terms of the number of employees according to the definitions of characteristics for structural business statistics as laid down in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EC) No 250/2009.
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The following datasets shall be compiled:
a
matching rates between trade and business registers;
b
trade by activity and enterprise size class;
c
share of largest enterprises in terms of value of trade by activity;
d
trade by partner Member State and activity;
e
trade by number of partner Member States and activity;
f
trade by commodity and activity.
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OJ L 76, 30.3.1993, p. 1 .
OJ L 61, 5.3.2008, p. 6 .
OJ L 145, 4.6.2008, p. 65 .
OJ L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1 .
OJ L 86, 31.3.2009, p. 1 .
Inserted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 96/2010 of 4 February 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 1982/2004 implementing Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States, as regards the simplification threshold, trade by business characteristics, specific goods and movements and nature of transaction codes.
Art. 13a(6)-(8) revoked (31.12.2020) by The Statistics of Trade (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/47), regs. 1(4), 4(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)