European Safety Survey : News on the draft Council and European Parliament Regulation 21-22 March 2011

Background 23/24 September 2010 Presentation of proposal to Directors of Social Statistics (DSS)  agreement to limit the regulation to one operation to be implemented in 2013 and to forward it to the ESSC for its opinion 10 February 2011 Presentation of revised draft Council/EP Regulation to European Statistical System Committee (ESSC) 21-22 March 2011 European Safety Survey

ESSC discussion 10 February – general issues Placing of the survey in the ESS Administrative burden, costs and financial support Comparability – international and national Future plans: repetitition Need for a delegated act as single survey Need for a ‘sunset clause’ to set an end date 21-22 March 2011 European Safety Survey

ESSC discussion 10 February – implementation of requested changes Annex 1: No delegated act – List of variables added Article 3: derogation on covering violence between household members for FR and IE Article 4: Collection period: 2013 (no more second semester of 2013) Article 5: Reduction of sample size from 5,000 to 3,000 persons for countries with population over 16 under 0. 5 million 21-22 March 2011 European Safety Survey

ESSC discussion 10 February – implementation of requested changes Article 6 and Annex II: Small parts of the national territory excluded in FR, NL, IE and UK Articles 7.2 and 9: Change of deadline for: Publication of results by Eurostat from 31/03/2015 to 31/12/2014 Date for the MS to send data from 31/10/2014 to 31/07/2014 21-22 March 2011 European Safety Survey

Next steps Adoption by the Commission (ISC and written procedure/translation) planned in April/May Discussion in Council and EP 21-22 March 2011 European Safety Survey