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

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1982/2004 of 18 November 2004 implementing Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States and repealing Commission Regulations (EC) No 1901/2000 and (EEC) No 3590/92

Article 26

1.Member States shall supply the Commission (Eurostat) no later than 10 months following the calendar year with a quality report containing all information that it requests to assess the quality of the data transmitted.

2.The quality report aims at covering quality of statistics with reference to the following dimensions:

  • relevance of statistical concepts,

  • accuracy of estimates,

  • timeliness in transmission of results to the Commission (Eurostat),

  • accessibility and clarity of the information,

  • comparability of statistics,

  • coherence,

  • completeness.

3.The quality indicators are defined in Annex VI to this Regulation.