1. EGR and BR ESS work and plans
ESTP TRAINING ON EGR
Luxembourg May 2013
EGR and BR
ESS work and plans
Horizon 2017
Eurostat

2. The "Vision" and the Vision Infrastructure Programme
EU main initiatives
Horizon 2017
The "Vision" and the Vision Infrastructure Programme
VIP.ESBRs
FRIBS

3. and its implementation: Vision Infrastructure Programme
The Vision
and its implementation: Vision Infrastructure Programme

4. The Vision
Commission Communication on the production method of EU statistics: a vision for the next decade (2009) – proposes:
new measures to increase the ESS flexibility and hence its ability to respond to new needs and challenges.
full re-engineering of the production methods of statistics within the EU, going from a production system often based on numerous parallel processes to a more integrated production model.
objectives:
increase efficiency and cost-effectiveness
improve the coherence and comparability of data. 

5. ESS Architecture, current situation

7. The ESS.VIP Programme consists of three parts:
Building up common infrastructure for sharing information services;
Piloting the sharing of information, services and costs in selected statistical domains;
Developing frameworks and administrative mechanisms for sharing information, services and costs.

8. ESBRs
European System of interoperable statistical Business Registers a Vision Infrastructure Project (VIP)

9. 1 Overall purpose of the project
To obtain better business statistics, through the interoperability of business registers.
avoid inconsistencies and inefficiencies
better globalisation statistics
To develop statistical business registers across the European Statistical System (ESS) into a net of consistent Business Registers (BR net) so that they serve as the backbone for the production of European businesses statistics.
EuroGroups Register (EGR) - at the heart of this system, allowing the production of better statistics on globalisation

10. 2 Problem statement 2.1 National statistical BRs
Registers differ from country to country
Different roles of BRs in the statistical production by countries and by statistical domains.
Different manipulations by country and by domain, resulting in different reference populations.
2.2 The EuroGroups Register (EGR)
EGR quality and usability need improvement
Efficient, intelligent and modern way of information sharing and information exchange (e-Services) is needed.

11. In 2013 ESBRs overlaps with previous projects (EGR and Profiling)
Objectives and duration 3
In 2013 ESBRs overlaps with previous projects (EGR and Profiling)
Preparation
Implementation

12. 4 Objectives and duration Objective Description Duration
Preparation. Setting up and running the governance structure
January 2013 – December A
Implementation of a European system of interconnected statistical registers as a backbone for business statistics
March 2013 – December B
Implementation of EGR data quality management
July 2013 – December C
Development of e-Services

13. 5 Relationships with other projects Within the ESS.VIP Programme
Cross-cutting (CRC) projects - Standards/ Information Model, Data Exchange Network, Shared services, etc.
Business (BUS) projects - Single Market Statistics (SIMSTAT), Administrative data, Information Society – Web Infrastructure
Other Relationships
SICON 1, FRIBS, RIAD (register of financial institutions), Interoperability of administrative business registers, previous ESSnets
1 It will become part of the CRC project "Data Exchange Network"

14. 6
Resources
Some human resources will be made available in Eurostat from 2014
A dedicated ESSnet will support the ESBRs objectives from 2014 to 2017
Financial resources will be available to support:
ESSnet functioning
MS implementing interoperability and profiling

15. 7
Risk analysis

16. 8 Governance structure Keywords: Continuity Efficiency
Avoid unnecessary increases in the meeting burden/cost for MS
ESBRs project builds on work that has been already accomplished over the past years
Eurostat plans to rely on already existing bodies

17. Proposed ESBRs
governance structure

18. FRIBS
Framework Regulation Integrating Business Statistics a new legal framework expected to be implemented in 2017

19. FRIBS
Main ideas:
A single regulation instead of plenty of specific, not integrated regulations (around 12 Council and EP Regulations and numerous Commission Regulations) – goals: comparability, consistency & efficiency  in the style of ESA
Main elements:
Well defined statistical units
Key role of business registers (including EGR)
Common metadata and classifications
Exchange of micro-data

20. FRIBS Roadmap: Discussions are going on (WGs, BSDG, etc.)
A preliminary version was produced in 2012 and an almost final version should be ready by end 2013
Commission proposal in the first half of 2014
Legislative procedure (Parliament and Council): adoption by end 2015
Expected implementation (first reference year): 2017

21. Any question?