COMITOLOGY ITEMS (Point 4. on the agenda) Christine COIN Head of Unit «Education, science and culture statistics » (Unit F4)

Reminder Basic act: Regulation 452/2008 EP & Council Statistics on education and lifelong learning Implementing measures (Commission Regulation): Statistics on education and training: « UOE data » (point 4.3 on the agenda) Statistics on the participation of adults in lifelong learning: « AES » (point 4.1 on the agenda) Basic act: Regulation 1552/2005 EP & Council Statistics on vocational training in enterprises Implementing measure (Revised Commission Regulation): « CVTS » (point 4.2 on the agenda) LUXEMBOURG, 11-12 March 2010 Meeting of European Directors of Social Statistics

«AES» and «CVTS» Commission Regulations Were prepared with the aim of optimising consistency between: AES (structural data, each 5 years) LFS (annual trends) Complementarity between: AES (focus on individuals training activities) CVTS (focus on enterprises’s strategy relating to lifelong learning) LUXEMBOURG, 11-12 March 2010 Meeting of European Directors of Social Statistics

«AES» and «CVTS» Commission Regulations TFs and WG in 2009 DSS meeting in September 2009: first discussion DSS written consultation in December 2009 (see next slides for the outcome) DSS meeting in March 2010: opinion (No derogation requested for «AES») ESSC meeting on 20 May 2010: vote Support for implementation through: TF « AES » and TF »CVTS » meetings in March and June 2010 Grants (…; launched in May) for AES + LFS (education variables) in 2010 (methodology and field work) LUXEMBOURG, 11-12 March 2010 Meeting of European Directors of Social Statistics

«AES» Commission Regulation Main changes following the written consultation: Sample sizes Reduced requirements with regard to the confidence intervals for MS: - with a 25-64 aged population of ≤ 1 million - with a 25-64 aged population between 1 mil. and 3.5 mil. Information on non-formal education and training activities 2 «additional» variables allowing to limit to 2 mandatory activities LUXEMBOURG, 11-12 March 2010 Meeting of European Directors of Social Statistics

«AES» Commission Regulation Two comments: Eurostat decision to include ALL core variables (including «Household income ») - In line with the agreed strategy on CV - Support through grants Variables on ICT & Internet Structure and contents to be defined in the Manual in line with ICT Survey  LUXEMBOURG, 11-12 March 2010 Meeting of European Directors of Social Statistics

«CVTS» Commission Regulation Amendment to previous Regulation Simplification in relation to AES However, new variables because of new « skill » needs TF in March (technical aspects to be introduced in the Manual) No grant award (in line with Eurostat strategy) Eurostat position on optional coverage of sectors O, P and Q LUXEMBOURG, 11-12 March 2010 Meeting of European Directors of Social Statistics

«UOE» Commission Regulation TF meetings in 2008 ETS WG in 2008 and 2009 (including written consultation launched end of January 2010) DSS meeting on 11-12 March (first consultation) UOE ad hoc meeting on 26-28 April for remaining issues (quality report) DSS (final) written consultation: June/July 2010 (including Regulation on derogations) ESSC meeting on 1 October 2010: vote (2 Regulations) LUXEMBOURG, 11-12 March 2010 Meeting of European Directors of Social Statistics

«UOE» Commission Regulation Making mandatory for the 27 MS the transmission to Eurostat of an existing data collection common to UNESCO, OECD and Eurostat (UOE) Concepts, definitions and transmission programme are common to UOE Relates to administrative data usually available at national level and already transmitted to Eurostat Application of the Regulation: from 1 January 2012 (first mandatory transmission in 2012 with school/academic year 2010/2011 ; financial year 2010 as reference periods) LUXEMBOURG, 11-12 March 2010 Meeting of European Directors of Social Statistics

«UOE» Commission Regulation Accompagnying « measures » Grants to be awarded in 2010 (capacity building) Workshop organised by Eurostat on 12-13 April on estimation guidelines (missing data) «Limited derogations and transition periods», subject to an ad hoc Commission Regulation LUXEMBOURG, 11-12 March 2010 Meeting of European Directors of Social Statistics

«UOE» Commission Regulation Main issues outlined in the last ETS consultation: - Compliance with deadlines for some tables - Coverage of private educational institutions - Completeness of Finance tables - Detailed breakdowns by Isced for some tables (…) Bilateral discussion (National authorities including NSI / Eurostat) between mid March and mid May to discuss limited derogations and transition periods LUXEMBOURG, 11-12 March 2010 Meeting of European Directors of Social Statistics