Progress: Awaiting Council's 1st reading position
Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | EMPL | JOVEVA Irena ( Renew) | SKYTTEDAL Sara ( EPP), BRGLEZ Milan ( S&D), LANGENSIEPEN Katrin ( Verts/ALE), SZYDŁO Beata ( ECR) |
Committee Opinion | BUDG | ||
Committee Opinion | REGI | OMARJEE Younous ( GUE/NGL) | Mircea-Gheorghe HAVA ( PPE), Hannes HEIDE ( S&D) |
Committee Opinion | LIBE | TOOM Jana ( Renew) | Miguel URBÁN CRESPO ( GUE/NGL), Pietro BARTOLO ( S&D), Sylwia SPUREK ( Verts/ALE), Sara SKYTTEDAL ( PPE) |
Committee Opinion | FEMM |
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 57_o, TFEU 338-p1
Legal Basis:
RoP 57_o, TFEU 338-p1Subjects
Events
The European Parliament adopted by 433 votes to 116, with 23 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European statistics on population and housing, amending Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 and repealing Regulations (EC) No 763/2008 and (EU) No 1260/2013.
The European Parliament’s position adopted at first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure amends the proposal as follows:
The role of European statistics on population and housing
Parliament highlighted that European statistics on population and housing play a central role in policy-making and decision-making processes and, as such, are required for the design, implementation and evaluation of Union policies, in particular those addressing the demographic change, the green and digital transformations, the framework for the promotion of energy efficiency, economic, social and territorial cohesion, the implementation of the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda.
Hard-to-reach population groups
European statistics on population and housing should address the persistent lack of data on hard-to-reach population groups, such as people residing in institutions (e.g. military institutions, penal and correctional institutions, school and university dormitories, religious institutions, hospitals, residential care centres, including institutions for disabled people and orphans), people aged over 75, disabled people, homeless people, people with a migrant background and stateless people.
In order to bridge that data divide and to prevent social and economic inequalities arising from it, Member States should develop strategies and targeted solutions for collecting data about hard-to-reach population groups, in particular with regard to locating, contacting, persuading and interviewing such populations.
Members introduced a definition of ‘ hard-to-reach population groups ’, i.e. groups of individuals for whom there is a real or perceived barrier to full and representative inclusion in statistical data collection.
Statistical requirements
European statistics on population and housing should cover the following domains: (a) demography; (b) housing; (c) families; and (d) households.
Statistics in these domains should be organised into data sets following the topics and detailed topics as set out in the Annex. Where the statistical unit is a person, the data sets should be disaggregated by sex and age , and where relevant by other characteristics. Member States should aim to continuously develop innovative sources and methods and use them to improve statistics.
Timely access to and reuse of administrative data
National authorities in charge of administrative data sources relevant for the purposes of this Regulation should allow reuse of these data in time and frequency sufficient to produce and submit statistics within the deadlines and compliant with the specific quality requirements according to this Regulation. National statistical authorities and the national authorities in charge of the administrative records should establish the necessary cooperation mechanisms for the timely and free of charge access to those records.
For the purpose of producing statistics on the detailed topic of energy related characteristics of buildings, national statistical authorities should have timely and regular access to the national databases on energy performance of buildings and should be allowed to reuse administrative data from those databases.
For the purpose of producing population breakdowns by sex, national statistical institutes should use information available in national administrative data sources.
Data sharing
The Commission (Eurostat) and the national statistical authorities that use this secure data sharing infrastructure for the processing of personal data should be considered as joint controllers for the processing of personal data in the secure data sharing infrastructure.
Pilot and feasibility studies
The Commission (Eurostat) should, where necessary and appropriate for the purposes of this Regulation, launch pilot and feasibility studies that aim to:
- assess the availability of data sources and enhancing methods for providing statistics on the disability of persons and testing disaggregating statistics, including their comparability, in accordance with national law and practice on data protection and disclosure control;
- develop new methodologies and statistical techniques to reinforce quality and enhance information about hard-to-reach populations;
- reduce discrepancies in data of migration flows and ensuring their better comparability;
- reduce possible undercounting or double counting of people.
Financing
For the implementation of the Regulation, a financial contribution from the Single Market Programme should be made available to the national statistical authorities. In addition, the national statistical authorities should apply for support from other applicable EU financial programmes in accordance with the rules of those programmes.
The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs adopted the report by Irena JOVEVA (Renew, SI) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European statistics on population and housing, amending Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 and repealing Regulations (EC) No 763/2008 and (EU) No 1260/2013.
The committee responsible recommended that the position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure should amend the proposal as follows:
The role of European statistics on population and housing
European statistics on population and housing play a central role in policy-making and decision-making processes and, as such, they are required for the design, implementation and evaluation of Union policies aimed at implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda.
Members also pointed out that statistics on migration and international protection are essential to gain an overview of migratory flows within the European Union and to enable Member States to apply EU law correctly.
Hard-to-reach population groups
European statistics on population and housing should address the persistent lack of data on hard-to-reach population groups, such as people residing in institutions (e.g. military institutions, penal and correctional institutions, school and university dormitories, religious institutions, hospitals, residential care centres, including institutions for disabled people and orphans), people aged over 75, disabled people, homeless people, people with a migrant background and stateless people.
In order to bridge that data divide and to prevent social and economic inequalities arising from it, the Member States should develop strategies and targeted solutions for collecting data about hard-to-reach population groups, in particular with regard to locating, contacting, persuading and interviewing such populations.
Members introduced a definition of ‘hard-to-reach population groups’, i.e. groups of individuals for whom there is a real or perceived barrier to full and representative inclusion in statistical data collection.
Statistical requirements
European statistics on population and housing shall cover the following domains: (a) demography; (b) housing; (c) families; and (d) households.
The topics set out in the demography domain, as well as in other relevant domains, in the Annex should be disaggregated, in accordance with national law and practice on data collection and disclosure, by age, gender and disability and where relevant other characteristics in accordance with the United Nations Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics.
Data sources and methods
Member States and the Commission (Eurostat) should use data sources provided that the data is collected and processed in accordance with the applicable Union law on data protection, respecting data subjects’ fundamental rights.
Quality requirements and quality reporting
Member States should take appropriate and effective measures to:
- avoid possible risks of undercounting or double counting related to the free movement of persons in the Union, the access of persons to cross-border services linked to vital events and the person rights to buy cross-border, own and use housing property across the Union, for example by introducing single digital identifiers;
- avoid possible risks of undercounting or double counting and ensure better comparability of migration flows.
The Commission should adopt implementing acts defining the practical arrangements for the quality reports and their content. Any major adaptation provided for in these implementing acts could be the subject of financial and technical support or a derogation.
In a duly reasoned request from the Commission (Eurostat), Member States should provide necessary additional clarifications to evaluate the quality of the statistics without undue delay.
Data sharing
Members stated that data sharing should be allowed and could take place on a voluntary basis, provided that it is without prejudice to the rules on the protection of personal data in accordance with Regulations (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and (EU) 2018/1725.
Funding
Member States should apply for support under the Technical Support Instrument to improve the quality of statistics and to develop methods in line with the requirements of the Regulation. The Commission may also provide assistance for the coordination of the exchange of best practices between Member States.
Derogations
Where the application of this Regulation requires major adaptations to be made to a Member State’s national statistical system, the Commission may grant, by means of implementing acts, derogations to that Member State, for a maximum duration of seven years.
Where delegated or implementing acts adopted pursuant to this Regulation require major adaptations to be made to a Member State’s national statistical system, the Commission may grant, by means of implementing acts, derogations to that Member State, for a maximum duration of three years.
The extent of mandatory collection of data should be balanced against the additional administrative burden and the additional costs to the Member States. Taking this into account, it should be possible to grant derogations from the requirements on the timing of data collection.
PURPOSE: to establish a common legal framework for the design, production and dissemination of European statistics on population and housing.
PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council.
ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council.
BACKGROUND: European statistics on population and housing are required for the design, implementation and evaluation of Union policies, in particular those addressing the demographic change, the green and digital transformations, the promotion of energy efficiency, economic, social and territorial cohesion, and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda.
The evaluation of existing statistics on the population and housing censuses in the Union, statistics on international migration flows, migrant stocks and acquisitions of citizenship and demography statistics has shown that the current legal framework comprising Regulations (EC) No 862/2007, (EC) No 763/2008 and (EU) No 1260/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council has led to significant overall improvements of statistics compared to the 2005 situation without the current legal framework in force. That framework, however, has potential for a lack of coherence and comparability , which should be addressed.
Recent migration trends have created demands for timelier, more frequent, and more detailed European statistics on population , vital events and housing including details of topics or groups that have become politically and societally relevant during the past decade. Furthermore, the existing legal framework is not flexible enough to adapt to evolving policy needs and to enable the use of new sources at national and Union level. Furthermore, the structure of the existing legal framework in the form of three separate regulations, adopted at different times, has led to intrinsic inconsistencies of the statistics.
It is therefore necessary to replace the current legal framework by a new, more coherent and flexible one.
In the context of this initiative, European statistics on population mean official statistics at EU level on population, demographic events and migration and the various indicators based on these statistics.
CONTENT: the proposed regulation establishes a new framework for European statistics on population and housing. Integrating current statistics on demography, migration and censuses, it specifies that Member States must provide statistics on 3 domains ( demography, housing, families and households ), 11 related topics and 23 detailed topics.
The proposal contains:
- provisions to establish a harmonised definition of population based on sound statistical concepts for all products and to facilitate access to available data sources which will improve the production processes and the overall quality of social statistics;
- provisions to align population and international migration statistics more with statistics on administrative and judicial events related to asylum, legal and irregular migration
The new proposal is based on a common definition of the population based on the statistical concept of usual residence, without default exemptions. Moreover, scientific statistical estimation methods (such as ‘signs of life’ or ‘rate of stay’) are explicitly encouraged to make it possible to implement the definition starting from administrative data sources.
The details of data requirements would be specified in implementing acts, but the proposed regulation makes it possible to amend the list of detailed topics and their periodicity and reference times using delegated acts.
The proposal also provides the possibility of responding to upcoming data requirements with ad hoc data collections. It also requires pilot and feasibility studies to be launched as appropriate and offers potential co-financing to further modernise statistical production systems and test new topics.
In addition, a specific article on data sharing describes how confidential data can be shared under Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council for the specific purpose of population statistics.
Documents
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2024)394
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading: T9-0361/2024
- Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading: A9-0284/2023
- Committee opinion: PE749.075
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE749.193
- Committee opinion: PE746.870
- Committee draft report: PE746.665
- Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report: CES1729/2023
- Contribution: COM(2023)0031
- Contribution: COM(2023)0031
- Contribution: COM(2023)0031
- Document attached to the procedure: OJ C 123 05.04.2023, p. 0009
- Document attached to the procedure: N9-0024/2023
- Contribution: COM(2023)0031
- Document attached to the procedure: SEC(2023)0038
- Document attached to the procedure: EUR-Lex
- Document attached to the procedure: SWD(2023)0011
- Document attached to the procedure: EUR-Lex
- Document attached to the procedure: SWD(2023)0012
- Document attached to the procedure: EUR-Lex
- Document attached to the procedure: SWD(2023)0013
- Document attached to the procedure: EUR-Lex
- Document attached to the procedure: SWD(2023)0014
- Document attached to the procedure: EUR-Lex
- Document attached to the procedure: SWD(2023)0015
- Legislative proposal published: COM(2023)0031
- Legislative proposal published: EUR-Lex
- Document attached to the procedure: SEC(2023)0038
- Document attached to the procedure: EUR-Lex SWD(2023)0011
- Document attached to the procedure: EUR-Lex SWD(2023)0012
- Document attached to the procedure: EUR-Lex SWD(2023)0013
- Document attached to the procedure: EUR-Lex SWD(2023)0014
- Document attached to the procedure: EUR-Lex SWD(2023)0015
- Document attached to the procedure: OJ C 123 05.04.2023, p. 0009 N9-0024/2023
- Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report: CES1729/2023
- Committee draft report: PE746.665
- Committee opinion: PE746.870
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE749.193
- Committee opinion: PE749.075
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2024)394
- Contribution: COM(2023)0031
- Contribution: COM(2023)0031
- Contribution: COM(2023)0031
- Contribution: COM(2023)0031
Activities
- Irena JOVEVA
Plenary Speeches (1)
Votes
A9-0284/2023 – Irena Joveva – text as a whole – Am 56CP1 #
A9-0284/2023 – Irena Joveva – Article 2, § 1, point 3 – Am 57 #
A9-0284/2023 – Irena Joveva – Annex – Am 58 #
A9-0284/2023 – Irena Joveva – Annex – Am 56CP2 #
A9-0284/2023 – Irena Joveva – Commission proposal #
Amendments | Dossier |
155 |
2023/0008(COD)
2023/04/25
REGI
34 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 (7) To achieve the targets of the European Green Deal, the development and evaluation of effective policies require enhanced statistics relating to the energy use and efficiency of housing, detailed geographical data on the distribution of the population as well as deeper studies of the relationship between population and housing. With the COVID-19 pandemic the need for reliable, high frequency and timely statistics on deaths in the Union was manifested. The spiralling cost of living brought by high inflation and energy prices has reaffirmed the need for accurate and comparable data on housing affordability in order to monitor the situation and adequately inform policy makers. While data needs were met with a voluntary data collection from Member States to the Commission (Eurostat), the Union needs an adequate mechanism for mandatory collection of such data within the European Statistical System (ESS) with the necessary frequency, timeliness and detail.
Amendment 10 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11 Amendment 11 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 12 (12) ‘household’ means a group of two or more persons who share living quarters
Amendment 12 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13 (13) ‘
Amendment 13 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 20 (20) ‘statistical unit’ means
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 2 2. The population base shall include all usually resident persons, regardless of citizenship or whether the person is or was formerly stateless
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 6 – introductory part 6. When applying the definition of usual residence, Member States
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point e (e)
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c (c) famil
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part The Commission shall adopt implementing acts to specify the
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 (7) To achieve the targets of the European Green Deal, the development and evaluation of effective policies require
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 – point d (d)
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 18(2) at least
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 1. Member States shall produce European statistics on population and housing
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 5 5. The first reference date for which annual statistics on the topic ‘population stocks’ are to be provided shall be 31 December 202
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 8 – paragraph 2 – introductory part 2. When Member States publish statistics required by this Regulation at national level ahead of the provision deadlines established in accordance with
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point a (a) statistics of quarterly and six- monthly periodicity at the latest by up to
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point b (b) statistics of annual periodicity at the latest by up to
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point c (c) statistics of multi-annual and decennial periodicity at latest by up to
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 9 – paragraph 2 2. Member States shall assess and monitor the quality of their data sources
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 9 – paragraph 3 3. If need be, Member States shall continuously develop innovative sources and methods and use them to improve statistics compiled under this Regulation provided that they allow for producing statistics that meet the quality requirements laid down in Article 12.
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 10 (10) The evaluation of existing statistics25 on the population and housing censuses in the Union, statistics on international migration flows, migrant stocks and acquisitions of citizenship and demography statistics has shown that the current legal framework comprising Regulations (EC) No 862/200726 , (EC) No 763/200827 and (EU) No 1260/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council has led to significant overall improvements of statistics compared to the 2005 situation without the current legal framework in force. That framework, however, does not capture adequately the scale of informal housing and has potential for a lack of coherence and comparability, which should be addressed.
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 10 – paragraph 1 1. National authorities in charge of administrative data sources relevant for the purposes of this Regulation shall allow reuse of these data in time and frequency sufficient to produce and submit statistics within the deadlines and compliant with the specific quality requirements according to this Regulation. The timely access to administrative records, as well as its operational modalities, shall be included in cooperation agreements to be established between those national authorities and the national statistical authorities. National authorities holding administrative data sources shall provide the data to the national statistical offices on the basis of a unique statistical identifier or a personal identification number (PIN), where applicable;
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point b Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 19 – paragraph 1 1. Where the application of this Regulation, or the delegated or implementing acts adopted pursuant thereto, requires major adaptations to be made to a Member State’s national statistical system, the Commission may grant, by means of implementing acts, derogations to Member State, for a maximum duration of
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 20 – paragraph 1 – point 3 a (new) (3a) in Article 2(1), point (d) is replaced by the following: ‘citizenship’ means citizenship as defined in Article 2(1) of Regulation EU No XXXX/2023 [insert reference to COM (2023)31/ 2023/0008 (COD)]
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex 1 – paragraph 1 Reference Domain Topic
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 19 (19) The Union censuses should become more cost-effective through making full use of the rich set of administrative data available across the Member States or a combination of different sources including sources related to the Internet of Things (IoT) and provision of digital services. They should be also used to re-establish the demographic baseline
Amendment 5 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 20 (20) Member States and the Commission (Eurostat) should have sustainable access to the widest possible range of data sources to produce European statistics on population and housing of high quality and in a cost-effective manner. In this regard, it is crucial that national statistical authorities get timely access and are able to use promptly the administrative data owned by public administrations at national, regional and local level, in accordance with Article 17a of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009. For example, statistics on energy efficiency of buildings can be based on administrative data relating to the issuance of energy certificates of buildings under Directive 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council.
Amendment 6 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 30 (30) When data sharing entails processing of personal data according to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council37 or Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, the principles of purpose limitation, data minimisation, storage limitation and integrity
Amendment 7 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 34 (34) European statistics on population and housing should evolve to take into account emerging data needs stemming from changing policy priorities, as well as changes in the demographic, migratory, social or economic situation in the Union. The Commission (Eurostat) should undertake pilot studies assessing the feasibility of the adaptations concerned as appropriate and should take into account
Amendment 8 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 a (new) (8a) ‘hard-to-reach population groups’ means groups of individuals for whom a real or perceived barrier exists for full and representative inclusion in the collection of statistical data;
Amendment 9 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10 (10) ‘conventional dwellings’
source: 746.859
2023/06/09
LIBE
23 amendments...
Amendment 10 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 6 (6) In 2017, the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC) endorsed the Budapest Memorandum, which stated the need for annual statistics on the size and on certain social, economic and demographic characteristics of the population and improved statistics on migration.
Amendment 11 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 6 (6) In 2017, the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC) endorsed the Budapest Memorandum, which stated the need for annual statistics on the size and on certain social, economic and demographic characteristics of the population and improved statistics on migration. For the observance of the principles of equality and non-discrimination of its citizens in all activities and the individual citizens’ rights as enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union23 and Articles 10 and 19 TFEU, the Union needs reliable and comparable statistics. Migration and international protection statistics are essential to establishing an overview of migratory flows within the EU and to ensuring that Member States apply EU legislation correctly, in compliance with the legislation in force. Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 provides a framework for data collections from
Amendment 12 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 6 (6) In 2017, the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC) endorsed the Budapest Memorandum, which stated the need for annual statistics on the size and on certain social, economic and demographic characteristics of the population and improved statistics on migration. For the observance of the principles of equality and non-discrimination of its citizens in all activities and the individual citizens’ rights
Amendment 13 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 (7) T
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 20 (20) Member States and the Commission (Eurostat) should have sustainable access to the widest possible range of data sources to produce European statistics on population and housing of high quality and in a cost-effective manner. Those data sources should, however also contain the data related to people hard to survey and to capture in their national statistics, such as homeless people, people living in informal settings etc. In this regard, it is crucial that national statistical authorities get timely access and are able to use promptly the administrative data owned by public administrations at national, regional and local level, in accordance with Article 17a of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009. For example, statistics on energy efficiency of buildings can be based on administrative data relating to the issuance of energy certificates of buildings under Directive 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council31 . The national statistical institutes also need to be involved in decisions concerning the design and redevelopment of relevant administrative data sources to ensure that they can be further reused for compilation of official statistics.
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 20 (20) Member States and the Commission (Eurostat) should have sustainable access to
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 23 Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 29 (29) Data sources available at national level are not always able to capture accurately phenomena related to the free movement of persons in the Union, the access of persons to cross-border services on demographic vital events and the exercise of persons rights to buy and own housing property used as primary, holiday
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 30 (30) When data sharing entails processing of personal data according to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council37 or Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, the principles of purpose limitation, data minimisation, storage limitation and integrity and confidentiality should be fully applied. In particular, only data sharing mechanisms based on privacy enhancing technologies that are specifically designed to implement these principles should be
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 30 a (new) (30a) The processing of any data under this regulation has to be in full compliance with the safeguards relating to processing for statistical purposes under Article 89 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation) and Article 13 of the EUDPR.
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 33 (33) This Regulation is without prejudice to Regulations (EU) 2016/679
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 33 (33) This Regulation is without prejudice to Regulations (EU) 2016/679 and (EU) 2018/1725 and Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council.38 Within their respective scope of application, the latter Regulations are to apply to the processing of personal data under this Regulation. In particular, only anonymised or pseudonymised data should be used and shared for statistical purposes. _________________ 38 Directive 2002/58/EC of the European
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3 (3) ‘signs of life’ means any publicly- held information indicative of the actual presence and usual residence of a person on the territory of interest.
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13 (13) ‘family’ means a group of two or more persons who live in the same household and who are related through parenthood or through marital
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point c Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 10 – paragraph 2 2. For the purpose of this Regulation, the Commission (Eurostat) shall be allowed, upon request, to access and reuse in a timely manner
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point f (f)
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 13 – paragraph 3 – point b (b) based
Amendment 28 #
(a) assessing the availability of publicly-held data sources and their quality,
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point d (d)
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 20 – paragraph 1 – point 3 a (new) Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 20 – paragraph 1 – point 5 Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 Article 9c, Para 1 1.
Amendment 9 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 1 (1) European statistics on population and housing are required for the design, implementation and evaluation of Union policies, in particular those addressing the migrant crisis, demographic change, the green and digital transformations, the promotion of energy efficiency, economic, social and territorial cohesion, and
source: 749.311
2023/06/13
EMPL
98 amendments...
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 9 – paragraph 2 2. Member States shall assess and monitor the quality of their data sources
Amendment 101 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 9 – paragraph 4 4. The statistics compiled under this Regulation shall be based on statistically sound and well-documented methods taking into account international recommendations and best practice such as ‘signs of life’, ‘rate of stay’ and other scientifically-based statistical estimation methods used for compiling usually resident population in the Member States provided suitable measures to safeguard the data subjects’ rights and freedoms are respected.
Amendment 102 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 9 – paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 10 – paragraph 1 1. National authorities in charge of administrative data sources relevant for the purposes of this Regulation shall allow reuse of these data in time and frequency sufficient to produce and submit statistics within the deadlines and compliant with the specific quality requirements according to this Regulation. The timely access to administrative records, as well as its operational modalities, shall be included in cooperation agreements to be established between those national authorities and the national statistical authorities or in relevant national legal acts defining access to relevant data sources.
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point b Amendment 105 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new) (ba) disaggregate data, where relevant, by age, gender, disability, socio-economic status and other characteristics, in accordance with the United Nations Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics;
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point d Amendment 107 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point e (e) avoid possible risks of undercounting or double counting related to the free movement of persons in the Union, the access of persons to cross- border services linked to vital events and the person rights to buy cross-border, own and use housing property across the Union, not least via the introduction of single digital identifiers ;
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point f (f)
Amendment 109 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point g Amendment 110 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 4 4. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts setting out the practical arrangements for the quality reports and their contents. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 18(2) and shall not impose a significant additional burden and costs on the Member States.
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 5 5. Member States shall inform the Commission (Eurostat) as soon as possible of any relevant information or changes with regard to the implementation of this Regulation that would influence the quality of the statistics provided. Member States shall remedy the causes that may affect the quality of the statistics provided as soon as possible and no later than four months after the statistics have been provided.
Amendment 112 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 6 6. At the request of the Commission (Eurostat), Member States shall provide necessary additional clarifications to evaluate the quality of the statistics. The Commission has the right to organise visits to Member States’ national statistical authorities in case the level of statistics quality is not met.
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 6 6. At the request of the Commission (Eurostat), Member States shall provide necessary additional clarifications to evaluate the quality of the statistics without undue delay.
Amendment 115 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 13 – paragraph 1 1. Data
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 13 – paragraph 2 2. In the interest of secure data sharing within the ESS, all necessary safeguards with regard to the physical, technical and logical protection of data shall be taken. The Commission (Eurostat) shall set up a secure infrastructure to facilitate data sharing referred to in paragraph 1.
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 13 – paragraph 3 – point b (b) based
Amendment 118 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 13 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new) (b a) provided that the condition for ensuring the necessary protection of personal data, namely anonymisation or pseudonymisation, is met;
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 13 – paragraph 5 Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 14 – paragraph 2 2. Member States may participate in those studies but shall, together with the Commission (Eurostat), ensure the representativeness of those studies at Union level so that the diversity of national situations is well reflected.
Amendment 121 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 15 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. Financial contribution
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 15 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. Financial contribution
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 15 – paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Improving the quality of statistics and developing methodologies meeting the requirements of this Regulation can be eligible to benefit from the Technical Support Instrument or any other technical support and assistance from the Commission, which can also be provided via the exchange of best practices across Member States.
Amendment 124 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 17 – paragraph 2 2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Articles 5(3), 6(6) and 7(2) shall be conferred on the Commission for a
Amendment 125 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 17 – paragraph 4 4. Before adopting a delegated act, the Commission shall consult experts designated by each Member State in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making and keep the European Parliament informed about its delegated act’s preparatory work.
Amendment 126 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 19 – paragraph 1 1. Where the application of this Regulation, or the delegated or implementing acts adopted pursuant thereto, requires major adaptations to be made to a Member State’s national statistical system, the Commission may grant, by means of implementing acts, derogations to Member State, for a maximum duration of t
Amendment 127 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 19 – paragraph 1 1. Where the application of this Regulation, or the delegated or implementing acts adopted pursuant thereto, requires major adaptations to be made to a Member State’s national statistical system, the Commission may grant, by means of implementing acts, derogations to Member State, for a maximum duration of t
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 19 – paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Where a derogation as referred to in paragraph 1 remains justified by sufficient evidence at the end of the period for which it was granted, the Commission may, by means of implementing acts, grant a subsequent derogation for a maximum period of two years. The relevant Member State shall submit a request setting out the reasons and detailed grounds in support of such an extension to the Commission not later than six months before the end of the period of validity of the derogation granted pursuant to paragraph 1.
Amendment 129 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex I – table 1 Amendment 130 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex I – table 1 Demography Population The person's
Amendment 131 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex I – table 1 (new) Domain topics and detailed topics Demography sex age Employment status student grade employed unemployed retired contractor Geographical location / county town / canton settlement characteristics town capital city small town village hamlet Settlement characteristics centre agglomeration garden city edge of a settlement segregated settlement housing estate Regional characteristics alluvial location isolated village marshy soil sandy/loess soil clay soil Public utilities coverage street lighting guttering asphalt road network rubbish collection mobile internet network coverage Health service coverage family medicine practice for a given settlement for adults paediatrician district nurse family support service eldercare seniors’ residence social service – social worker dentist service for adults children’s dentist outpatient clinic hospital Educational crèche opportunities/coverage nursery school primary school secondary vocational institute post-secondary educational institute language school local library music school Cultural institutions local museum theatre child and youth centre cultural institute cinema Local media newspaper radio TV
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 1 (1) European statistics on population and housing play a central role in policy- making and decision-making processes and, as such, they are required for the design, implementation and evaluation of Union policies, in particular those addressing the demographic change, the green and digital transformations, the promotion of energy efficiency, economic, social and territorial cohesion, and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda as well as the headline targets of the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan.
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 1 (1) European statistics on population and housing are required for the design, implementation and evaluation of Union policies, in particular those addressing the demographic change, the green and digital transformations, the promotion of energy efficiency, economic, social and territorial cohesion, implementing the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 6 (6) In 2017, the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC) endorsed the Budapest Memorandum, which stated the need for annual statistics on the size and on certain social, economic and demographic characteristics of the population and improved statistics on migration. For the observance of the principles of equality and non-discrimination of its citizens in all activities and the individual citizens’ rights as enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union23 and Articles 10 and 19 TFEU, and for monitoring progress towards the achievement of the European Pillar of Social Rights, the Union needs reliable and comparable statistics. Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 provides a framework for data collections from samples that allow to collect data on equality and non- discrimination in so far as this is feasible on samples and to analyse some aspects of equality and discrimination by producing socio-
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 6 (6) In 2017, the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC) endorsed the Budapest Memorandum, which stated the need for annual statistics on the size and on certain social, economic and demographic characteristics of the population and improved statistics on migration. For the observance of the principles of equality and non-discrimination of its citizens in all activities and the individual citizens’ rights as enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union23 and Articles 10 and 19 TFEU, the Union needs reliable and comparable statistics. Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 provides a framework for data collections from samples that allow to collect data on equality and non-discrimination in so far as this is feasible on samples and to analyse some aspects of equality and discrimination by producing socio- economic indicators and information on experience of discrimination. In addition, the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) and the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) carry out specific studies and dedicated surveys that can further extend
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 (7) To achieve the targets of the European Green Deal, the development and evaluation of effective policies require enhanced statistics relating to the energy use and efficiency of housing, detailed geographical data on the distribution of the population as well as deeper studies of the relationship between population and housing. Furthermore, as the green transition is profoundly changing the European industry and economy, the changes in the labour market will be immense, thus the need for new evidence- based policies will be required to address the pressing challenges related to environmental and social aspects. Namely, better identifying and anticipating skills needs by timely disaggregated data collection is essential to adequately address the new ‘green jobs’ and prepare the workforce, especially workers with less training opportunities and urgent needs for up- and reskilling, throughout the transition. With the COVID-19 pandemic the need for reliable, high frequency and timely statistics on deaths in the Union was manifested. While data needs were met with a voluntary data collection from Member States to the Commission (Eurostat), the Union needs an adequate mechanism for mandatory collection of such data within the European Statistical System (ESS) with the necessary frequency, timeliness and detail.
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 (7) To achieve the targets of the European Green Deal and the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan, to tackle the economic and social crises caused by the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine and to fight the cost-of-living crisis, the development and evaluation of effective policies require enhanced statistics relating to the energy use and efficiency of housing, detailed geographical data on the distribution of the population as well as deeper studies of the relationship between population and housing. With the COVID-19 pandemic the need for reliable, high frequency and timely statistics on deaths in the Union was manifested. While data needs were met with a voluntary data collection from Member States to the Commission (Eurostat), the Union needs an adequate mechanism for mandatory collection of such data within the European Statistical System (ESS) with the necessary frequency, timeliness and detail.
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