Commission Regulation (EC) No 1982/2004Show full title

2. Accuracy is one of the main needs of users. It can be assessed by indicators made up as follows:

(a)

Thresholds

(i)

member States shall report the levels of current threshold.

(ii)

in order to monitor the levels at which thresholds have been set, Member States shall report:

• the coverage rate (%), expressed in terms of value, of trade above the exemption threshold.

(iii)

in order to monitor the impact of the thresholds, Member States shall report:

• the method of adjustment used to estimate trade below the thresholds,

• the share (%) of estimated trade below the thresholds.

(b)

Non-response

In order to assess the level of non-response, Member States shall report:

• the method of adjustment used to estimate missing trade,

• the share (%) of values estimated for missing trade.

(c)

Statistical value

In order to assess the impact of calculating the statistical value, Member States shall report:

• the methodology used to calculate the statistical value,

• the quantitative impact of calculating the statistical value.

(d)

Revisions

In order to assess the impact of the revisions procedures, Member States shall report:

• a description of the revision policy,

• the change (%) of the total trade value between the first results and the last available results.

(e)

Confidentiality

In order to assess the impact of confidential trade, Member States shall report:

• a description of confidentiality rules,

• the share (%) of confidential trade expressed in value terms,

• the number of product codes within the CN affected by confidentiality.

(f)

Other links to accuracy

Other indicators are useful for assessing the quality of data, so Member States shall include the following in the quality report:

• description of control procedures,

• monthly average number of lines in the declarations,

• number of PSIs (Providers of Statistical Information),

• % of electronic declarations,

• % of values declared electronically.