Activites

• 2003/07/18 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Regulation 2003/1267
  • OJ L 180 18.07.2003, p. 0001-0022
• 2003/06/16 Final act signed
• 2003/06/16 End of procedure in Parliament
• 2003/05/13 Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading
  • T5-0197/2003 summary

    The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Astrid LULLING (EPP-ED, L) and approved the common position.�

• 2003/04/23 Vote in committee, 2nd reading
  • A5-0120/2003
• 2003/03/13 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 2nd reading
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• 2003/02/18 Council Meeting
  • 15091/1/2002 summary

    The Council's common position adheres very closely to the Commission proposal, departing from that text only to introduce a strict minimum of necessary derogations, without which Member States would not be able to implement the Regulation. These derogations have been kept to a minimum so as not to impair the calculation of euro area and EU aggregates, and therefore so as to ensure that the Regulation's objective is met as soon as possible. At the request of Germany, the Regulation also abrogates a number of derogations applying to Germany, since the German authorities have made great efforts to provide the data covered by the derogations, which are therefore no longer required. The changes introduced by the Council are as follows: - reference is made to the Monetary Committee, since this is the body that made the report in question. All other changes relate to Annex III, introducing derogations where Member State will be unable to provide data from the entry into force of the Regulation (and deleting redundant derogations for Germany): - a derogation until 2005 for employment data according to the unit hours worked is introduced for Austria. - derogations until 2005 for quarterly and annual data on acquisitions less disposals of valuables are introduced for Spain. - derogations allowing for first transmission of main aggregate data at t+90 days in 2004 and first transmission at t+70 days in 2008 are introduced for Ireland. - a derogation until 2005 on the provision of data for final consumption expenditure of NPISHs is introduced for Ireland. - a derogation until 2004 on transmission of employment data according to the unit hours worked is introduced for Italy. - derogations allowing for first transmission of main aggregate data at t+90 days in 2003 and first transmission at t+70 days in 2010 are introduced for Luxembourg. - a derogation until 2007 on transmission of employment data according to the unit hours worked is introduced for Portugal.�

• 2002/09/24 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0424/2002 summary

    The European Parliament adopted the report by Astrid LULLIG (EPP-ED, Luxembourg) and approved the Commission's proposal without amendment.�

• 2002/08/27 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0272/2002
• 2002/05/16 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2002/05/15 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(2002)0234 summary

    OBJECTIVE: to reduce the transmission time for the main aggregates of quarterly national accounts, scrap the derogations granted to Member States which prevent the preparation of the main aggregates for the quarterly and annual national accounts for the euro zone and the European Union and implement the transmission of data for the use of national accounts in the 'hours worked' unit. CONTENT: the transmission time in the quarterly and annual main aggregates table in annex B of SEC 95 is currently fixed, for the quarterly data, at four months from the end of the reference period. Under the proposed regulation, that period would be reduced to 70 days from the end of the reference period. In order to work out the main aggregates for quarterly national accounts for the euro zone and the European Union, the main quarterly and annual aggregates for the national accounts of all the Member States are required. The regulation proposes the scrapping of all derogations granted to Member States in annex B of SEC 95 that are an obstacle to the preparation of the main aggregates for the quarterly national accounts for the euro zone and the European Union (the aggregate shown in table I in annex B to SEC 95). The regulation refers to both the annual and the quarterly derogations that are preventing their preparation. Annex II to the regulation indicates, country by country, the amendments to be made to annex B of SEC 95. In accordance with annex B of SEC 95, the unit used to transmit the employment figures in the national accounts is thousands of persons or full-time equivalence. To improve the comparability of employment data in national accounts, the regulation proposes that the transmission of employment figures be added to the 'hours worked' unit on both an annual and a quarterly basis. Annex III sets out the amendments to be made to table I in annex B to incorporate that unit in the transmission programme. �

  • DG [{'url': 'http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home', 'title': 'Eurostat'}],

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(2002)0234
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A5-0272/2002
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0424/2002
• Council position published: 15091/1/2002
• Committee recommendation tabled for plenary, 2nd reading: A5-0120/2003
• Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading: T5-0197/2003
• : Regulation 2003/1267
• : OJ L 180 18.07.2003, p. 0001-0022

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)