Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

Article 3 Statistics on international migration, usually resident population and acquisition of citizenship

1. Member States shall supply to the Commission (Eurostat) statistics on the numbers of:

(a) immigrants moving to the territory of the Member State, disaggregated as follows:

(i)

groups of citizenship by age and sex;

(ii)

groups of country of birth by age and sex;

(iii)

groups of country of previous usual residence by age and sex;

(b) emigrants moving from the territory of the Member State disaggregated as follows:

(i)

groups of citizenships;

(ii)

age;

(iii)

sex;

(iv)

groups of countries of next usual residence;

(c) persons having their usual residence in the Member State at the end of the reference period, disaggregated as follows:

(i)

groups of citizenship by age and sex;

(ii)

groups of country of birth by age and sex;

(d) persons having their usual residence in the territory of the Member State and having acquired during the reference year the citizenship of the Member State and having formerly held the citizenship of another Member State or a third country or having formerly been stateless, disaggregated by age and sex, and by the former citizenship of the persons concerned and by whether the person was formerly stateless.

2. The statistics referred to in paragraph 1 shall relate to reference periods of one calendar year and shall be supplied to the Commission (Eurostat) within 12 months of the end of the reference year. The first reference year shall be 2008.