Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 established a common framework for the systematic production of European statistics on income and living conditions.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1983/20032 adopted the list of target primary variables, the codes for these variables and the technical format of data transmission for the main operation of EU-SILC.

At its meeting of 7 and 8 June 2010, the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council decided that the mid-term review of the Union headline target to be carried out in 2015 should also include a review of the indicators taking into account economic developments and improved measurement instruments.

In view of this, Commission Regulations (EU) No 112/20133 and (EU) No 67/20144 included new variables measuring material deprivation among households and individuals (adults) in the list of secondary target variables on which data is to be collected in 2014 and 2015.

It is also necessary to adapt the list of primary target variables for future data collections. This involves removing obsolete variables from and adding new variables to the Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1983/2003. These items have been selected for a robust measure of material deprivation after two in-depth statistical analyses, based on data collected in the 2009 and 2013 EU-SILC.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1983/2003 should therefore be amended accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,