The flexible module referred to in Article 3(2)(j) of Regulation (EC) No 295/2008 shall be used to produce statistics on access to finance by businesses. The scope of the data collection shall be enterprises in the non-financial business community with 10 to 249 persons employed in 2005 and which were still active in 2008 and have 10 or more persons employed in the reference period as stated in Article 6, and as sub-populations high-growth enterprises (average annualised employment growth of more than 20 % per annum over the period from 2005 to 2008) and ‘gazelles’ (high-growth enterprises that are up to five years old), first established in 2003 or 2004.