Main Achievements in 2006 and Developments for 2007-2008

/ EUROPEAN COMMISSION
EUROSTAT
Directorate F: Social Statistics and Information Society /
Doc. Eurostat/F/07/SDG/01/02/EN
Documents for point II
Main achievements in 2006 and Developments for 2007-2008
Strategic Development Group
Brussels, 2 February 2007-01-18
54 rue Joseph ii
Building J-54
Room 2/121

Main achievements in 2006 and developments for 2007-2008

1. Main achievements of Directorate F (Social and Information statistics) will be presented orally

2. Concerning the planned developments for 2007-2208, you will find:

- The legislative planning 2007-2008.

NB: The new planned acts are put in bold.

The usual annual commission regulations concerning the ad-hoc modules are put in italic.

The other acts concern regulations in the pipe-line

Depending on the issue of the discussions concerning the Comitology procedure (regulatory procedure with scrutiny) some or all of the implementing acts (Commission regulations) could be splitted into two different regulations (with and without scrutiny).

- The Grants programme for 2007.

You will note the big amount (3 000 000 € !) subdelegated by DG JLS for translating and testing a victimisation survey module and the nice one (1 000 000 €) subdelegated by DGEMPL for testing the European Socio-economic Classification (ESeC)

- An extract of the 2007 Financial Decision concerning some Call for Tender (the more methodological ones) that will be issued by Directorate F, for your information.

- Three CEIES seminars are also scheduled in 2007:

- "Innovation indicators- More than Technology?" Arhus, Denmark, 5-6 February 2007

- "Ethnic Discrimination on the Labour Market" Malta, June 2007

- "Aspects of Welfare" with a session about "Measuring Poverty" Finland, September 2007

- "Family composition" could be proposed for 2008...

3. The SDG is required to give its opinion on these developments.

Legislative planning 2007-2008 Point II-2

Legislative planning 2007-8

Demography, Census, Migration and Asylum

Regulations of the European Parliament and of the Council

Regulation on migration and international protection statistics expected to come into force Quarter 1, 2007
Regulation on population and housing censuses hoped to come into force end of second half, 2007
Regulation on Demographic statistics, to be launched in 2008

Commission Regulations - implementing legislation

Migration and asylum statistics

Regulation on asylum statistics

Regulation on migration flows, acquisition of citizenship, and foreign population stocks

Regulation on statistics on measures against unauthorised entry and stay, and on removals of unauthorised migrants

Regulation on statistics on authorised resident of third-country nationals (residence permits)

The first reference year defined in the framework legislation is 2008. Data for 2008 may be supplied according to alternative national definitions.

These Commission regulations shall be drafted following Task force and on-line discussions during 2007. Finalisation and submission to the SPC is expected in 2008.

The Regulation on Residence Permit statistics may be delayed as this is an area of statistics under development and there is not a well established data collection process on which to base the Regulation.

Population and housing censuses

Implementing regulation on population and housing censuses expected to be presented to the SPC early 2008

Legislative planning 2007-8

Labour market statistics

Regulations of the European Parliament and of the Council

Regulation on quarterly statistics on Community job vacancies expected to be adopted by the Commission in March 2007; start of discussions in Council in 2007Q2
Regulation introducing salaries in the Labour Force Survey to be transmitted to EP (following the agreement at Council level end-November 2006)
Possibly Amendment of Council Regulation 530/1999 on LCS and SES (extension to NACE L and/or inclusion of micro-enterprises, SPC November 2008)

Commission Regulations - implementing legislation

Regulation on the 2008 LFS ad-hoc module on migrants expected to be adopted by the Commission in 2007Q1
Regulation on the implementation of the labour cost index expected to be adopted by the Commission in 2007Q1
Regulation on the 2009 LFS ad-hoc module (SPC November 2007)
Regulation on the calendar of LFS ad-hoc modules 2010 – 2012 (SPC November 2007)
Regulation on implementing NACE Rev.2 and on introducing a new codification for the wage variables in the Labour Force Survey (SPC November 2007)
Regulation on the implementation of the EP/Council regulation on quarterly statistics on Community job vacancies (SPC November 2008)

Regulation on the 2010 LFS ad-hoc module (SPC November 2008)

Legislative planning 2007-8

Living conditions and Social Protection Statistics

Regulations of the European Parliament and of the Council

EP and Council Regulation on the European System of integrated Social Protection Statistics (ESSPROS) expected to be adopted during the 1st quarter of 2007

This regulation is expected to come into force in 2008, for the 2006 data collection.

Commission Regulations - implementing legislation

Social Protection Statistics

Draft Commission Regulation (EC) implementing European Parliament and Council Regulation on the European System of integrated Social Protection Statistics (ESSPROS) with regard to ESSPROS Core System and Pension beneficiaries concerning the measures to be adopted in accordance with regulatory procedure expected to be adopted by the SPC in November 2007

This regulation is expected to come into force in 2008, for the 2006 data collection.

EU-SILC (Community Statistics on Income and Living Conditions)

Draft Commission Regulation (EC) implementing European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1177/2003 on Community Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) concerning the 2009 list of target secondary variables on material deprivation expected to be adopted by the SPC in November 2007

Draft Commission Regulation (EC) implementing European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1177/2003 on Community Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) concerning the 2010 list of target secondary variables expected to be adopted by the SPC in November 2008

Legislative planning 2007-8

Education, Science and Culture

Regulations of the European Parliament and of the Council

Regulation on statistics on lifelong learning, to be expected in the first semester 2007

Commission Regulations - implementing legislation

Life long learning statistics: two implementing acts are foreseen

Data collection on education systems (UOE data collection). Work is expected to start in 2007 and an adoption could be proposed in 2008
Adult education survey: the drafting of the implementing act will come after the evaluation of the currently on-going first implementation, in 2009

Legislative planning 2007-8

Health and safety

Regulations of the European Parliament and of the Council

Regulation on statistics on public health and on health and safety at work: written procedure - for adoption of the proposal by the Commission - will be launched end January 2007; first meeting in the Council Working group is planned for March 2007 – adoption planned for second half of 2008.

Commission Regulations - implementing legislation

Statistics on public health

Implementing Regulation on the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) corresponding to the 1st domain as referred to in annex I of the proposed EP/Council Regulation – preparation will start in 2007, adoption by SPC planned for 2009;
Implementing Regulation on Causes of Death (COD) statistics corresponding to the 3rd domain as referred to in annex III of the proposed EP/Council Regulation – preparation will start in 2008, adoption by SPC planned for 2010;
Implementing Regulation on Health care statistics (CARE) corresponding to the 2nd domain as referred to in annex II of the proposed EP/Council Regulation – preparation will start in 2009, adoption by SPC planned for 2011.

These Commission Regulations shall be drafted following the discussions in the respective Core Groups under Partnership Health and in the relevant Eurostat Technical Groups and Working Group on Public Health statistics.

Statistics on health and safety at work

Implementing Regulation on European Statistics on Accidents at Work (ESAW) – preparation corresponding to the 4rth domain as referred in annex IV of the proposed EP/Council Regulation will start in 2008, adoption by SPC planned for 2010.

This Commission Regulation shall be drafted following the discussions in the Eurostat Technical Group on ESAW and in the Eurostat Working Group on Statistics on Health and Safety at Work.

Legislative planning 2007-8

Information Society, Tourism

Regulations of the European Parliament and of the Council

Regulation on tourism statistics replacing Council Directive 95/57, to be presented to the SPC end 2007/beginning 2008
Extension of Regulation 808/2004 on information society statistics, to be launched in 2008

Commission Regulations - implementing legislation

Information society statistics

Annual implementing Regulation of Regulation 808/2004 on information society statistics (defining the contents of the surveys), to be presented to SPC each May

The Grants programme for 2007

Point II-2

GRANTS PROGRAMMING for 2007

Theme code / Title of the project / Budget / Expected results / Cofinancing (%) / Budget (euros) / Launch (estimated date)
32 / Pilot studies and quality improvement of the LFS and its modules / ESTAT / Improvement of data sets of the LFS and its modules / 30% / 300.000 / April 2007
32 / Implementation of the NACE Rev.2 in labour market statistics / ESTAT / Preparation of the conversion from NACE Rev.1 to NACE Rev.2 / 30% / 300.000 / April 2007
32 / Job vacancy survey: collect and develop quarterly and annual data / EMPL / Extended and improved data sets on job vacancies / 30% / 500.000 / April 2007
32 / 2008 LFS ad hoc module on migrants / EMPL / Preparation of the 2008 exercise / 30% / 1 900 000 / April 2007
32 / European socio-economic classification / EMPL / Testing the classification in Member States (across the relevant sources) and recommendations for further improvement / 30% / 1 000 000 / April 2007
32 / Implementation of the integrated system of earnings and labour costs statistics / EMPL / Improved integrated system and related data sets / 30% / 200.000 / April 2007
35 / Support for the implementation of the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) / ESTAT
SANCO / Performance of activities and development of tools related to the first EHIS implementation at national level / 30% / 500.000
(200.000) / 1st quarter of 2007
35 / Support for the implementation of the System of Health Accounts (SHA) / SANCO / Performance of activities related to implementation at national level / 20 % / (200.000) / 2nd quarter of 2007
35 / Partnership Health / ESTAT / Operationalisation of the agreement of the Directors of Social Statistics on the partnership arrangements for Public Health statistics within the European Statistical System (ESS) / 20% / 200.000 / 1st quarter of 2007
35 / Feasibility study of Health labour accounts (HLA) / ESTAT / Preparation of guidelines and carrying out a pilot data collection on health labour accounts statistics / 30 % / 150.000 / 2nd quarter of 2007
35 / Pilot projects on morbidity statistics / ESTAT / Pilot data collections of morbidity statistics also via possible new sources, eg insurance data / 30 % / 200.000 / 1st quarter of 2007
35 / Assistance for implementation and quality improvement of causes of death (COD) statistics / ESTAT / Assistance to Member States for improvement of data quality on causes of death statistics: certification, coding, implementation of automated coding etc (training of certifier and coders) / 30 % / 150.000 / 1st quarter of 2007
35 / Analysis of the results of the LFS 2007 survey module / EMPL / Analysis and preparation of on-lie and paper publications / To be defined / (300.000) / ?
35 / Implementation of the ESAW and EODS methodology / EMPL / Assistance to Member States to implement the common methodology / To be defined / (150.000) / ?
36 / EU-SILC: impact study on comparability of national implementations (2nd phase) / ESTAT / Selected national studies to evaluate the impact on comparability of national implementations of the SILC project / 10% / 250.000 / 1st quarter of 2007
36 / EU-SILC: 2008 operation in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Slovak Republic and United Kingdom / ESTAT
EMPL / Implementation of EU-SILC in accordance with regulation No. 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the SILC project and with the corresponding Commission regulations / 33% / 5.500.000 / 1st quarter of 2007
37 / ESSPROS: Pilot data collection on net social benefits to be carried out in 2008 / ESTAT / Results in accordance with regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the ESSPROS project (annex III to the regulation) / 10% / 300.000 / 1st quarter of 2007
38 / Support for pilot tests on a common victimisation survey module / JLS / Assistance to Member States for translation and testing (cognitive and field testing) of a victimisation survey module / To be defined / (3.000.000) / 2nd quarter of 2007
49 / ICT usage in households / INFSO / Statistics on ICT usage in households / 10% / 1.250.000 / After approval by SPC (May) provided FD of DG INFSO is ready
49 / ICT usage in enterprises / INFSO/ENTR / Statistics on ICT usage in enterprises / 10% / 1.250.000 / After approval by SPC (May) provided one of the FDs (DG INFSO or DG ENTR is ready

Call for Tender

Point II-2

Tenders programming 2007 Directorate F

(Extract)

Title and description of project planned / Expected Results / Date Foreseen
Unit / Theme code / Name (Theme) / EN / Objective Number / EN / Launch / Renewal
F.1 / 31 / Population / Support for the implementation of legislation for migration statistics / 102 / Documented methodological support to Member States for implementation of legislation for migration statistics / 1st Qtr 2007
F.1 / 31 / Population / Analysis and methodological support for demography, migration and population projections at national and regional level. / 102 / Advanced analysis on demographic issues, model specifications for national and regional population projections, implementing the forthcoming regulation on migration statistics. / N.A. / Y
F.4 / 33 / Education / Small scale methodology study on Education expenditure / 101 / Recommendations for better methodology on education expenditure / 4th Qtr 2006
F.4 / 33 / Education / Education accounts / 101 / Education accounts, methodology and practice in UOE / 2nd Qtr 2007
F.4 / 34 / Culture / Culture: Indicators and methodological development / 202 / Cultural Statistics: new indicators and methodology / 4th Qtr 2006
F.3 / 36 / Distribution of incomes and living conditions / EHS: Statistical services for the elaboration of the detailed proposal for the structure of the new instrument / 101 / Methodological document giving the detailed proposed structure of the EHS, in particular on content, sampling, sample size, statistical unit, mode of data collection, input/output harmonisation / 1st Qtr 2007
F.3 / 36 / Distribution of incomes and living conditions / EU-SILC: Expertise for the development of the EU-SILC secondary target variables for 2009 / 104 / Technical annex (questions and definitions) for the Commission regulation on module 2009 implementing regulation N° 1177/2003 / 1st Qtr 2007
F.3 / 36 / Distribution of incomes and living conditions / EU-SILC: Methodological studies and advanced analysis of EU-SILC / 105 / Recommendations for the improvment of the EU-SILC framework and advanced analysis of EU-SILC micro data / 2nd Qtr 2007
F.5 / 38 / Other work in the field of demographic and social statistics / Development of a system of statistics on crime, victimisation and criminal justice / 105, 107 / Statistics on crime, victimisation and criminal justice / N.A. / Y
F.6 / 50 / Tourism statistics / Tourism satellite accounts: evaluation of the implementation of TSAs in the Member States with a view to achieving harmonised results / 106 / Assessment of national TSAs; Recommendations for the implementation of TSAs; Key indicators; Workshop; Publication; / 2nd Qtr 2007
F.4 / 73 / Science and technology / Improvement of high tech indicators (trade, venture capital , etc.) / 201 / New high tech indicators / 1st Qtr 2007
F.4 / 73 / Science and technology / Canberra Manual revision / 108 / First revised draft of the Canberra Manual / 2nd Qtr 2007
F.4 / 73 / Science and technology / Preparation of the CIS 2008 / 104 / CIS 2008 prepared / 3rd Qtr 2007
F.4 / 73 / Science and technology / R & D statistics: nowcasting and methodology / 103 / R&D statistics: Nowcasted data and national methodologies / N.A. / Y
F.4 / 73 / Science and technology / Patent statistics (new patent indicators) / 106 / New patent indicators developped / N.A. / Y