1. EuroGroups Register (EGR)
A project on the development of profiling on large and complex MNEs
Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers
Paris, 25 November 2008

2. Aim of the EGR
To offer compilers of statistics one and only one view on the structure of MNEs
To offer national register staff a platform to take coordinated decisions on statistical units and their characteristics.
To offer national register staff and compilers of statistics possibility to share and exchange information
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EGR Profiling

3. Why profiling needed?
To get consistent statistics (domains, time and internationally)
To collect and present more relevant data through reference to economic instead of administrative business units.
To following actual developments of MNEs as close as possible (acquisitions etc.)
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EGR Profiling

4. Project objectives (in phases)
Definition of the scope of a project on profiling of large and complex MNEs, the statistical domains to be considered and the merits and costs for MNEs and statistical offices.
Development of a method for profiling of large and complex MNEs
Test the method on a small number of these MNEs
Implementation of profiling for Top 500.
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5. Time table and organisation
2009: feasibility study and methodology
2010: methodology and testing
2010: start of the implementation
Organisation:
ESSnet (European Statistical System Network)
(ESSnet = a partnership of EU countries, interested in collaborating in the development of specific methodological domains with the objective to disseminate the results to the entire ESS)
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EGR Profiling