1.Member States shall transmit to the Commission (Eurostat) the monthly results of their statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States no later than:
[F1(a) 40 calendar days after the end of the reference month for the aggregated data to be defined by the Commission. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, inter alia , by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 14(3).]
(b)70 calendar days after the end of the reference month in the case of detailed results including the information referred to in Article 9(1), first subparagraph, points (b) to (h).
As regards the value of the goods, the results shall include the statistical value only, as defined in the Annex.
Member States shall transmit to the Commission (Eurostat) the data which are confidential.
2.Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with monthly results which cover their total trade in goods by using estimates, where necessary.[F2 The results of the estimates shall comply with criteria defined by the Commission. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, inter alia , by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 14(3).]
3.Member States shall transmit the data to the Commission (Eurostat) in electronic form, in accordance with an interchange standard. The practical arrangements for the transmission of data shall be determined in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 14(2).
[F24. Member States shall transmit to the Commission (Eurostat) annual statistics on trade by business characteristics, namely economic activity carried out by the enterprise according to the section or two-digit level of the common statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE), as established by Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council (1) , and size-class measured in terms of number of employees.
Those statistics shall be compiled by linking data on business characteristics recorded according to Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 February 2008 establishing a common framework for business registers for statistical purposes (2) with the statistics referred to in Article 3 of this Regulation.
Implementing provisions for compiling those statistics shall be determined by the Commission. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, inter alia , by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 14(3).]
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