Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1891
of 30 November 2018
amending Implementing Decision 2014/403/EU on granting derogations to Member States with respect to the transmission of statistics pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union
(notified under document C(2018) 7943)
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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union1, and in particular Article 6(1),
Having regard to Commission Implementing Decision 2014/403/EU of 26 June 2014 on granting derogations to Member States with respect to the transmission of statistics pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union2,
Whereas:
Pursuant to Article 6(1) of Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 Implementing Decision 2014/403/EU granted temporary derogations to Member States on the basis of requests justified by the need for major adaptations to national administrative and statistical systems in order to fully comply with that Regulation.
Pursuant to Article 6(3) of Regulation (EU) No 549/2013, the Commission checked the justifications for the granted derogations, consulted the European Statistical System Committee and adopted a report on the application of the granted derogations3.
In accordance with that report, the availability of data under Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 has improved and most Member States have adapted its national administrative and statistical systems and have started providing all or some of the data covered by derogations even before the first transmission date.
Of the 365 derogations expiring in 2018, 2019 or 2020, 244 derogations (67 %) have valid justifications and should remain unchanged, 98 derogations (27 %) should be withdrawn since they no longer have any valid justifications, and the scope of 23 derogations (6 %) should be narrowed since their justifications are only partially valid.
Implementing Decision 2014/403/EU should therefore be amended accordingly.
The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: