http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/eur/2007/973

Commission Regulation (EC) No 973/2007

of 20 August 2007

amending certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains implementing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 and amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 as well as certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains1, and in particular Article 6(1)(b) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

The establishment of an up-to-date classification system is central to the Commission’s ongoing efforts to modernise the production of Community statistics, in order to truly reflect economic reality by taking into account technological developments and structural changes in the economy.

(2)

Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 established for this purpose a revised statistical classification of economic activities, called NACE Revision 2 (hereinafter referred to as NACE Rev. 2).

(3)

By virtue of Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006, the Commission is required to adopt the necessary implementing measures for implementing this Regulation in relation to the use of NACE Rev. 2 in various statistical domains.

(4)

The establishment of a revised statistical classification of economic activities makes it necessary to modify specifically certain references to NACE Rev. 1 or NACE Rev. 1,1, as well as to amend a number of relevant instruments. It is therefore necessary to amend the following instruments: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1726/1999 of 27 July 1999 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 concerning structural statistics as regards the definition and transmission of information on labour costs2; Commission Regulation (EC) No 1916/2000 of 8 September 2000 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 concerning structural statistics on earnings and on labour costs as regards the definition and transmission of information on structure of earnings3; Commission Regulation (EC) No 2163/2001 of 7 November 2001 concerning the technical arrangements for data transmission for statistics on the carriage of goods by road4; Commission Regulation (EC) No 1216/2003 of 7 July 2003 implementing Regulation (EC) No 450/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the labour cost index5; Commission Regulation (EC) No 1983/2003 of 7 November 2003 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning Community statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) as regards the list of target primary variables6; Commission Regulation (EC) No 753/2004 of 22 April 2004 implementing Decision No 1608/2003/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards statistics on science and technology7; Commission Regulation (EC) No 912/2004 of 29 April 2004 implementing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 on the establishment of a Community survey of industrial production8; Commission Regulation (EC) No 1450/2004 of 13 August 2004 implementing Decision No 1608/2003/EC of the European Parliament and Council concerning the production and development of Community statistics on innovation9; Commission Regulation (EC) No 430/2005 of 15 March 2005 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98 on the organisation of a labour force sample survey in the Community concerning the codification to be used for data transmission from 2006 onwards and the use of a sub-sample for the collection of data on structural variables10; Commission Regulation (EC) No 782/2005 of 24 May 2005 setting out the format for the transmission of results on waste statistics11.

(5)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Statistical Programme Committee, established by Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom12,

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