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Amendments (22)
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) In accordance with Article 16(4) of the Treaty on European Union, as from 1 November 2014, a qualified majority shallis to be defined inter alia on the basis of the population of the Member States.
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS), that enables the collection, compilation and dissemination of harmonized, regional statistics in the Community, all Member States’ statistics transmitted to the Commission which are broken down by territorial units must use the NUTS classification. Consequently, in order to establish comparable regional statistics, the territorial units should be defined in accordance with the NUTS classification.
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Pursuant to Article 175, paragraph 2, of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the Commission submits every three years a report to the European Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on the progress made towards achieving economic, social and territorial cohesion. The preparation of these reports and the regular monitoring of demographic developments and of possible future demographic challenges in the EUnion regions, including different types of regions such as cross-border regions, metropolitan regions, rural regions, mountain and island regions, require annual regional data at NUTS 3 regional level. Since demographic ageing displays strong regional differences, the Commission (Eurostat) is requested to prepare regional projections on a regular basis in order to complement the demographic picture of the NUTS 2 regions in the European Union.
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The EU sustainable development strategy, launched by the European Council in Gothenburg in 2001 and renewed in June 2006, seeks the continuous improvement of the quality of life for current and future generations. The Commission (Eurostat) monitoring report, which is published every two years, provides an objective statistical picture of progress, based on the EU set of sustainable development indicators.
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Demographic statistics on population constitute an essential component for the estimation of total population in the framework of the European System of Accounts (ESA). The updating and purging of data are the important elements for the establishment of statistics at European level.
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) The information on demography should be consistentfully in line with the relevant information collected pursuant Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 July 2007 on Community statistics on migration and international protection and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 311/76 on the compilation of statistics on foreign workers and Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 on population and housing censuses.
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) In the development, production and dissemination of European statistics, the national and European statistical authorities, and where applicable, other relevant national and regional authorities, should take account of the principles set out in the European Statistics Code of Practice as reviewed and updated by the European Statistical System Committee on 28 September 2011.
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) ‘national’ means the same as in Article 2(f) of Regulation (EC) No 763/2008, where the territory is as defined inrefers to the territory of a Member State according to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 in the version applicable at the reference time;
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) ‘regional’ means the same as in Article 2(g) of Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 NUTS level 1, NUTS level 2 or NUTS level 3 according to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 in its version applicable at the reference time; for countries that are not members of the European Union, it means the statistical regions at level 1, 2 or 3 as agreed between those countries and the Commission (Eurostat), according to the version applicable at the reference time;
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) ‘usually resident population’ means all persons having their usual residence in a Member State of the Union at the reference time;
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point d – introductory part
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point d – introductory part
(d) ‘usual residence’ means the same as in Article 2(d) first paragraph of Regulation (EC) No 763/2008place where a person normally spends the daily period of rest, regardless of temporary absences, such as recreation, holidays or business. The following persons alone shall be considered to be usual residents of the geographical area in question:
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point d – subparagraph 2
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point d – subparagraph 2
Where the circumstances described in point (i) or (ii) cannot be established, ‘usual residence’ shall mean the place of legal or registered residence, except in relation to Article 4; In applying the definition of ‘usual residence’, Member States shall treat special cases as in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1201/2009.
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point h
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point h
(h) ‘validated data’ means statistical data that fulfil a set of quality criteria for data compilation, including all the checks made in terms of the quality of the data to be published or already published.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with statistical data on the population as referred to in Article 2 and (d) at the reference time. Where the circumstances described in Article 2 (d)i. or (d)ii. cannot be established, Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with data on population at their place of legal or registered residence at the reference time; in this case, they shall undertake proportionate efforts to compute data which are the closest possible approximation to the population referred to in Article 2 and (d) and shall cover the following variables: (a) age; (b) sex; (c) region of residence.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with data on vital events atoccurring in the reference time, regardless of the place where the events occurred. Member States shall use the same population definition as for the data referred to in paragraphperiod. Member States shall use the same population definition as they use for the data referred to in paragraph 1 and shall cover the following variables: (a) live births by sex, month of occurrence, live birth-order, mother’s age, mother’s year of birth, mother’s country of birth, mother’s country of citizenship and mother’s region of residence; (b) deaths by age, sex, year of birth, region of residence, country of birth, country of citizenship and month of occurrence.
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3
Article 3 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall use the same population definition for all national and regionadefinition of population for all levels, as definedgiven in Article 2 (a) and (b).
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
For the purposes of qualified majority voting in the Council, Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with data on the total population at national level at the reference time, as referred to in Article 2, within 8 months from the end of the reference year. For the purposes of this Article, Member States shall not provide data on population at their place of legal or registered residence at the reference time. In case the data is not available the total usually resident population may be estimated from the legal or registered population using scientifically based, well documented, and publically available statistical estimation methods, monitored by the Commission (Eurostat).
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph -1 (new)
Article 5 – paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Each year Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with statistical data, for the previous year, concerning the variables referred to in Article 3 (1) and in Article 3(2), points (a) and (b), as well as the total population at national level as referred to in Article 4.
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 1
1. The reference time for population data shall be the end of the reference period (midnight of 31 December).
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2
Article 5 – paragraph 2
2. The reference timeperiod for vital events data shall be the calendar year in which the events occurred.
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 3
Article 5 – paragraph 3
3. The first reference timeperiod to be taken into account for the purposes of this regulation shall be 2013. The last reference timeperiod shall be 2027.
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 5
Article 8 – paragraph 5
5. Member States shall ensure that the population data as required by of this Regulation are consistent with those required by Article 3 (1), point (c), of Regulation (EC) No 862/2007.