02-04 February 2011 Geneva The latest EU Regulations on trade statistics and their relationship with the international recommendations Valdonė Kasperiūnienė Eurostat

Outline EU legislation as an instrument of quality assurance and methodological harmonisation among EU MS The link between EU Regulations and international recommendations Implementation of international recommendations in EU 2

3 Trade statistics legislation EU Regulations in trade statistics : –Directly applicable and binding in all EU Member States –Without the need for any national implementing legislation International recommendations –is not legal text –is not legally binding for EU Member States

4 Characteristics of the EU legislation on external trade in goods statistics Defines detailed requirements for data collection systems, data elements, additional data sources, specific cases, confidentiality and quality framework Allows high harmonisation among Member States and ensures comparable data quality

5 Legislation on trade in goods statistics Extrastat Regulation No 471/2009 EP & Council Commission Regulation No 92/2010 Commission Regulation No 113/2010 Intrastat Regulation No 638/2004 EP& Council amended by Regulation No 222/2009 of 11 March 2009 Commission Regulation No 1982/2004 amended by Regulation No 91/2010 by Regulation No 96/2010 Regulation (EC) 1915/2005 Custom provisions Modernised Custom Code and it’s implementing provisions Fiscal provisions VAT Directive Nomenclatures Goods: - Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87: Combined Nomenclature (CN) - Commission Regulation (EC) No 948/2009: amending the codes of the CN - Communication: explanatory note to the CN Countries: - Commission Regulation: 1833/2006 of 13 December 2006 nomenclature of countries and territories

6 New External trade in goods Regulations and International Recommendations New Regulations - entered in to force in 2009 and 2010 –To respond to the burden reduction initiatives –To enhance data quality requirements –To reflect changes in Customs systems within the Modernised Customs Code and find solutions for statistics in case of simplifications applied by Customs –To produce new statistics and better use of SAD data – trade data by business characteristics, currency, nature of transaction, etc. The EU Regulations follow to the maximum extent International Recommendations

Contribution of Eurostat to the development of international recommendations 7 Provision of proposals and comments to the virtual discussion forums and world wide consultations Participation at the work of Expert Group and Inter-agency Task Force on IMTS and SITS groups on trade in goods and trade in services

8 Implementation of International recommendations in EU trade in goods Regulations Scope, commodity classifications (HS, SITC), valuation principles, partner country attributions Introduced change of economic ownership principle Data elements : quantitative data, second partner country, transport, trader ID, customs procedures, NoT, etc. Requirements for data quality Requirements of dissemination of data and metadata Linking trade and business statistics

9 Legislation related to international trade in services statistics The requirements for ITSS are incorporated in EU BoP Regulation (EC) No 184/2005 Is output oriented, provides definitions, defines data elements and timeliness Follows principles of international recommendations The new implementing Regulation is passing the legislative process and should be adopted in 2011.