The EuroGroups Register: a tool to share information on globalisation Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers Tallinn, 27 – 30 September 2010 Session No 2: Concepts and Methods for Information and Data Sharing

What is the EuroGroup Register EGR Central system 2

Information stored in the EGR (v.1.0) Starting with a population of 5000 EU MNEs Enlarge to 10.000 EU MNEs Legal Unit ID information Control relationship Ownership shares Enterprise Economic characteristics (Employment, Turnover, NACE Rev. 2, etc.) Multinational Groups Global Group Head (GGH) Ultimate Institutional Unit (UCI) Reporting Unit (RU) Nationality

EGR ambitions to become the platform that supports the production of micro based statistics on globalisation in Europe by offering compilers access to integrated and up-to-date register data on multinational enterprise groups by way of collecting, comparing and selecting information from different commercial and institutional sources the EGR provides a set of pooled information that allows compilers of statistics to organise the data collection and to produce statistics on the basis of shared and coordinated information basis. Secure remote access facilities for register staff and statistical compilers become necessary

Who are these compilers, in the first place Inward FATS needs: list of resident enterprises controlled by a foreign enterprise the country of the decision centre of the ultimate controlling institution (UCI) for those foreign controlled enterprises Outward FATS needs: list of resident UCIs who control foreign enterprises Information on foreign enterprises controlled by an resident UCI FDI needs: Identification of the Ultimate Investing Country/Controlling Parent Identification of the Special Purpose Entities Identification of FDI relations

Deriving statistical units from administrative data

EGR information and user needs

The interactions between the EGR and Profiling Profilers should use the EGR: The legal/administrative structure of the groups in the EGR will assist to define the economic structure Profilers should provide information on global and national enterprises to the EGR: For the top-500 MNEs global and national enterprises should be defined according to a profiling process, stored in the EGR, and disseminated to all the statistical compilers Profilers should validate the core economic variables of the top-500 MNE available in the EGR

The EGR: a place for coordination between register staff and statistical compilers – all over the EU

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… and another example on coordination: the validation of the UCI 1) Process started on compilers requirement: 2) Annual process started under BR staff coordination:

… and coordination with central banks Esperienze tematiche in corso in Istat in ambito SDMX: l’EuroGroups Register … and coordination with central banks EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK National Central Banks Central EuroGroup Register (EUROSTAT) National Statistical Institutes