Activites

• 2005/12/22 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Regulation 2005/2103
  • OJ L 337 22.12.2005, p. 0001-0006
• #2700
• 2005/12/12 Council Meeting
• 2005/12/12 End of procedure in Parliament
• 2005/12/12 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• #2688
• 2005/11/08 Council Meeting
• 2005/06/23 Results of vote in Parliament
  • Results of vote in Parliament
  • T6-0249/2005 summary

    The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Jean-Paul GAUZÈS (EPP-ED, FR) making  some amendments to the proposal. (Please see the summary of 07/06/2005.) Parliament also added in the recitals that the European Statistics Code of Practice, which will be set up jointly by the national statistical institutes and Eurostat, should enhance the principles of professional independence, adequacy of resources and quality of statistical data.  With regard to the data, Parliament inserted a new clause that if the planned government deficit and debt figures do not use the "common external assumptions", made public by the Commission in the context of the coordination of economic and fiscal policies to make comparisons between Member States, the Member States shall explain in depth the reason for the divergence and calculate the differential between the projections.Finally, Parliament stipulated that quality of actual data means the compliance with the European System of Accounts 1995 (ESA 95) standards, rather than “accounting rules” as in the original text.

• 2005/06/07 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A6-0181/2005
• 2005/04/27 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2005/03/02 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(2005)0071 summary

    PURPOSE: the improvement of the quality of national statistical data in the context of the excessive deficit procedure PROPOSED ACT: Council Regulation CONTENT: The Commission adopted on 22 December 2004 the Communication to the European Parliament and the Council “Towards a European governance strategy for fiscal statistics”, which included three lines of action for the improvement of fiscal statistics: completing the legal framework, developing the operational capacity, and the development of European minimum standards for the institutional set-up of statistical authorities. The measures proposed in this draft Regulation relate to the first and second lines of action. They are designed to set up surveillance mechanisms, define procedures to resolve methodological issues and increase accountability and transparency throughout the whole process. The Commission is currently working to develop the third line of action included in the Communication. There is a need to establish European-wide minimum standards in the domain of statistics, which reinforce the independence, integrity and accountability of the National Statistical Institutes and of Eurostat, in order to respond to the invitation of the ECOFIN Council by June 2005. FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS: - Human resources: 2.2 million EUR/year (EUROSTAT: EUR 1.7m/year;  ECFIN: 0.5 million EUR/year); - Other administrative expenditures: 0.355 million EUR/year (EUROSTAT: 0.28 million EUR/year; ECFIN: 0.075 million EUR/year); Total indicative cost: EUROSTAT: 1.98 million EUR/year; ECFIN: 0.575 million EUR/year.

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

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(2005)0071
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A6-0181/2005
• Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T6-0249/2005
• : Regulation 2005/2103
• : OJ L 337 22.12.2005, p. 0001-0006

History

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