1. OECD-Eurostat Expert Meeting on Trade in Services Statistics
Draft Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on the structure and activity of foreign affiliates
Item 13a
September 14-15, 2005
OECD-Eurostat Expert Meeting

2. OECD-Eurostat Expert Meeting
State of the art (1)
On 15th March 2005 the Commission presented to the Council and the Parliament a formal proposal.
The proposal provides for collection of inward FATS statistics on a mandatory basis and, for outward FATS statistics, pilot studies on a voluntary basis.
This was the compromise reached after the Commission original proposal, in which both inward and outward FATS were mandatory.
The Council Working Group on Statistics drafted on 14th June 2005 a compromise text.
The main point under discussion concerns the procedures for evaluating the results of the pilot studies on outward FATS.
September 14-15, 2005
OECD-Eurostat Expert Meeting

3. OECD-Eurostat Expert Meeting
State of the art (2)
The draft FATS Regulation is foreseen to be discussed in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament 14th September 2005.
Further discussion will take place once the opinion of the European Parliament is known.
September 14-15, 2005
OECD-Eurostat Expert Meeting

4. OECD-Eurostat Expert Meeting
Pilot studies
The Commission shall draw up a programme for pilot studies to be carried out by national authorities ( … ) on a voluntary basis to investigate the feasibility and costs of collecting data on additional variables and breakdowns for inward statistics on foreign affiliates, and of collecting data on outward statistics of foreign affiliates.
On the basis of the conclusions of the pilot studies, the Commission shall adopt the necessary implementation measures ( … ).
September 14-15, 2005
OECD-Eurostat Expert Meeting

5. Variables for inward FATS
Code
Title
Number of enterprises
Turnover
Production value
Value added at factor cost
Total purchases of goods and services
Purchases of goods and services purchased for resale in the same condition as received
Personnel costs
Gross investment in tangible goods
Number of persons employed
Total intra-mural R&D expenditure
Total number of R&D personnel
September 14-15, 2005
OECD-Eurostat Expert Meeting

6. Pilot study for outward FATS
Code
Title
Turnover
Number of employees
Number of enterprises
Personnel costs
Export of goods and services
Import of goods and services
Intra-group export of goods and services
Intra-group import of goods and services
Value added at factor costs
Gross investment in tangible goods
September 14-15, 2005
OECD-Eurostat Expert Meeting

7. Recommendations manual
Article 7:
The Commission shall, in close co-operation with the Member States, publish a recommendations manual which contains supplementary guidance concerning the Community statistics produced pursuant to this Regulation.
September 14-15, 2005
OECD-Eurostat Expert Meeting

8. Draft recommendations manual - content
Definitions
Statistical unit
Target population of statistical units
Target population of reporting units
Special cases
General aspects
50-50 Joint ventures
Multiple minority ownership
Natural persons as owners
Requested characteristics
General remarks
Specific characteristics
enterprises, turnover, Persons employed, personnel costs
Gross investment in tangible goods, value added,
Exports and imports
September 14-15, 2005
OECD-Eurostat Expert Meeting

9. Draft recommendations manual - content
Coverage
Cut-off thresholds
Geographical breakdown
Activity breakdown
Metadata
Data sources
Surveys
Statistical registers
Other sources
Data transmission
Data transmission guidelines
Integrity rules for data transmission
September 14-15, 2005
OECD-Eurostat Expert Meeting

10. Eurostat/OECD co-operation
In order to
reduce the burden of responses for Member States, and
avoid Member States sending different data sets to Eurostat and OECD
the FATS questionnaires concerning data requests and the deadlines for data transmission of both institutions are identical.
September 14-15, 2005
OECD-Eurostat Expert Meeting

11. Thank you for your attention
September 14-15, 2005
OECD-Eurostat Expert Meeting