LAMAS Working Group 19-21 June 2017 Agenda Item 1 INTRODUCTION Anne.CLEMENCEAU@ec.europa.eu Eurostat

IESS Framework Regulation Is under the responsibility of the co-legislators (Council/EP) EP: Discussed by Employment and Social Affairs Committee In January/February/April/May 2017 Parliament is gradually reaching political compromises on the amendments proposed by the EMPL committee A vote is tentatively foreseen on 21 June at the Committee level Eurostat

IESS Framework Regulation Council: Discussed 7 times by Council Working Party on statistics under SK/MT Presidencies (September/November 2016; January/March/April/May/June 2017) No compromise agreed yet Discussion on: scope (TUS), burden (number of variables), flexibility but also elements specific to LFS such as timeliness, MUR, input harmonisation No new discussion planned before September 2017 Eurostat

IESS IM: work of the 3 TFs + MUR training Met on 24/25 April 2017 Will not meet anymore (written consultation) TF2: Met on 27/28 April 2017 Will continue its work till end 2019 Next meetings: 12/13 October 2017 (Paris) and 2 meetings in 2018 New co-chair: Cornelia Moser (AT) TF3: Met on 7/8 February 2017 Next meeting(s) still to be decided: October 17 and/or March 18 + MUR: Training on the Dutch estimation method in Heerlen (May 17) Eurostat