1. Doc.A6465/16/03
Ag.no.16 A65 country manuals
Working Group on Article 64 and Article 65 of the Staff Regulations
Meeting in Luxembourg 21st & 22nd March 2016

2. Content of this presentation
Follow up to discussion at A6465WG 2015
Progress report with detailed inventories
Revised publication proposal
Next steps

3. Reminder of previous discussions
Agreement on manual structure (2011 WG)
National data on public sector staff numbers
Description of national remuneration system (gross salary components) + example calculation
Description of statutory deductions (personal income tax, social security, occupation pension contribution, etc.) + example calculation
Iterative drafting process
22 drafts at 2015 WG: agreed finalisation timetable
For sample-of-11 (final )
For others (drafts at A6465WG 2016)
Synthesis of lessons learned (2015 WG)

4. Progress with country manuals - situation at March 2016
Sample of 11
Other EU member states Σ
Approved
BE 11/15, FR 2010, NL12/15, AT 12/15 , PL 09/15, UK 06/15
CY 04/15, PT 08/14 8
Approval requested
DE 03/14, IT 10/15, LU 05/14, SE 02/16
IE 04/15, HU 11/14, MT 03/16 7
Remarks received
ES 09/14
BG 05/15, CZ 05/15 3
Draft for comment -
DK 02/16, EL06/13, RO, SI m2015 4
Work begun
EE m2014, HR m2015, LV, LT, SK, FI m2014 6
NB. DK, EL, FI were previously in EU15 sample. HR only joined EU 2013.

5. Original dissemination plans (WG 2014)
Statistics Explained & Dedicated Section
Finalise general introductory text
Go live with country fiches
Add link to EU Staff Regulations
Add link to A65 and A64 methodology manuals
Add link to time series of Eurostat Annual Reports
Add link to Eurostat free data tables
Went live Nov see agenda point 13.1
TO DO:
Add link to country manuals (as PDF)
Add link to CIRCABC public archive?

6. Revised publication proposal
Three pronged:
Update Statistics Explained pages using tables, maps, etc. from Free Data Tables, GISCO, "Annex 2" report, etc
Do not publish detailed inventories
but it will still be essential to prepare them and to periodically update them
Eurostat prepares a short "country assessment" report for publication

7. "Country assessments"
Inspiration from the approach used by ECP team for price statistics, and by other domains
Short summary document:
Validation date for detailed inventory
Brief organisational description (main sources)
Review of most recent SRQ submission
Comments about data quality on staff numbers
Comments about data quality on Gross salary
Comments about data quality on statutory deductions
Other quality action points, if any
See example (doc.A6465/16/03)
Frequency? Rolling cycle eg. 5 years

8. Any clarification questions. Any suggestions for improvement
Any clarification questions? Any suggestions for improvement? PROPOSAL FOR ADOPTION