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[F1CHAPTER 4a U.K. TRADE BY BUSINESS CHARACTERISTICS

Article 13a U.K. Compilation of statistics on trade by business characteristics

1. National authorities shall compile annual statistics on trade by business characteristics.

2. The statistical units shall be enterprises as defined in the Annex to Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 (1) .

3. Statistical units are constructed by linking the identification number allocated to the party responsible for providing information pursuant to Article 9(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 with the legal unit of the Business Register in accordance with the variable 1.7a referred to in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) .

4. The following characteristics shall be compiled:

(a) trade flow;

(b) statistical value;

(c) partner Member State;

(d) commodity code, according to the section or two-digit level as defined in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3) ;

(e) number of enterprises;

(f) activity carried out by the enterprise according to the section or two-digit level of the statistical classification of economic activity (NACE) as laid down in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council (4) ;

(g) size class, measured in terms of the number of employees according to the definitions of characteristics for structural business statistics as laid down in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EC) No 250/2009 (5) .

5. The following datasets shall be compiled:

(a) matching rates between trade and business registers;

(b) trade by activity and enterprise size class;

(c) share of largest enterprises in terms of value of trade by activity;

(d) trade by partner Member State and activity;

(e) trade by number of partner Member States and activity;

(f) trade by commodity and activity.

6. The first reference year for which annual statistics are to be compiled shall be 2009. Member States shall provide data for every calendar year thereafter.

7. Statistics shall be transmitted within 18 months of the end of the reference year.

8. Member States shall ensure that statistics are provided in such a way that dissemination by the Commission (Eurostat) does not make it possible to identify an enterprise or trader. National authorities shall specify what data are affected by confidentiality provisions.]

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