CHAPTER 3COMPILATION OF STATISTICS ON TRADE BY BUSINESS CHARACTERISTICS AND STATISTICS ON TRADE BROKEN DOWN BY INVOICING CURRENCY

Article 15Compilation of statistics on trade by business characteristics

1.

National statistical authorities shall compile annual statistics on trade by business characteristics.

2.

The statistical units shall be enterprises as defined in the Annex to Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/935.

3.

Statistical units are constructed by linking the trader identification number according to Article 13 with the legal unit of the Business Register according to the variable 1.7a referred to in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council6.

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5.

The following characteristics shall be compiled:

(a)

trade flow;

(b)

statistical value;

(c)

partner country;

(d)

goods 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 Council8;

(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 Council9;

(g)

size class, measured in terms of number of employees according to the definitions of characteristics for structural business statistics as laid down in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EC) No 250/200910.

6.

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 country and activity;

(e)

trade by number of partner countries and activity;

(f)

trade by goods and activity.

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