EGR and BR ESS work and plans ESTP TRAINING ON EGR Luxembourg - 30-31 May 2013 EGR and BR ESS work and plans Horizon 2017 Eurostat

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

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

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. 

ESS Architecture, current situation

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.

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

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

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.

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 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

4 Objectives and duration Objective Description Duration   Preparation. Setting up and running the governance structure January 2013 – December 2017 A Implementation of a European system of interconnected statistical registers as a backbone for business statistics March 2013 – December 2017 B Implementation of EGR data quality management July 2013 – December 2017 C Development of e-Services

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"

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

7 Risk analysis

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

Proposed ESBRs governance structure

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

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

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

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