Article 13F2Quality

1

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following quality criteria shall apply to the statistics to be transmitted:

a

‘relevance’, which refers to the degree to which statistics meet current and potential needs of the users;

b

‘accuracy’, which refers to the closeness of estimates to the unknown true values;

c

‘timeliness’, which refers to the period between the availability of the information and the event or phenomenon it describes;

d

‘punctuality’, which refers to the delay between the date of release of the data and the target date (the date by which the data should have been delivered);

e

‘accessibility’ and ‘clarity’, which refer to the conditions and modalities by which users can obtain, use and interpret data;

f

‘comparability’, which refers to the measurement of the impact of differences in applied statistical concepts, measurement tools and procedures where statistics are compared between geographical areas, sectoral domains or over time;

g

‘coherence’, which refers to the adequacy of the data to be reliably combined in different ways and for various uses.

2

Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with an annual report on the quality of the statistics transmitted.

3

In applying the quality criteria laid down in paragraph 1 to the statistics covered by this Regulation, the modalities and structure of the quality reports shall be defined in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 14(2).

The Commission (Eurostat) shall assess the quality of the statistics transmitted.

F14

The Commission shall adopt, by means of implementing acts, any measures necessary to ensure the quality of the statistics transmitted in accordance with the quality criteria, avoiding excessive costs for the national authorities.

Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 14(2).