Doc.A6465/16/03 Ag.no.16 A65 country manuals Working Group on Article 64 and Article 65 of the Staff Regulations Meeting in Luxembourg 21st & 22nd March 2016

Content of this presentation Follow up to discussion at A6465WG 2015 Progress report with detailed inventories Revised publication proposal Next steps

Reminder of previous discussions Agreement on manual structure (2011 WG) National data on public sector staff numbers Description of national remuneration system (gross salary components) + example calculation Description of statutory deductions (personal income tax, social security, occupation pension contribution, etc.) + example calculation Iterative drafting process 22 drafts at 2015 WG: agreed finalisation timetable For sample-of-11 (final 30.6.2015) For others (drafts at A6465WG 2016) Synthesis of lessons learned (2015 WG)

Progress with country manuals - situation at March 2016 Sample of 11 Other EU member states Σ Approved BE 11/15, FR 2010, NL12/15, AT 12/15 , PL 09/15, UK 06/15 CY 04/15, PT 08/14 8 Approval requested DE 03/14, IT 10/15, LU 05/14, SE 02/16 IE 04/15, HU 11/14, MT 03/16 7 Remarks received ES 09/14 BG 05/15, CZ 05/15 3 Draft for comment - DK 02/16, EL06/13, RO, SI m2015 4 Work begun EE m2014, HR m2015, LV, LT, SK, FI m2014 6 NB. DK, EL, FI were previously in EU15 sample. HR only joined EU 2013.

Original dissemination plans (WG 2014) Statistics Explained & Dedicated Section Finalise general introductory text Go live with country fiches Add link to EU Staff Regulations Add link to A65 and A64 methodology manuals Add link to time series of Eurostat Annual Reports Add link to Eurostat free data tables Went live Nov.2015 - see agenda point 13.1 TO DO: Add link to country manuals (as PDF) Add link to CIRCABC public archive?

Revised publication proposal Three pronged: Update Statistics Explained pages using tables, maps, etc. from Free Data Tables, GISCO, "Annex 2" report, etc Do not publish detailed inventories but it will still be essential to prepare them and to periodically update them Eurostat prepares a short "country assessment" report for publication

"Country assessments" Inspiration from the approach used by ECP team for price statistics, and by other domains Short summary document: Validation date for detailed inventory Brief organisational description (main sources) Review of most recent SRQ submission Comments about data quality on staff numbers Comments about data quality on Gross salary Comments about data quality on statutory deductions Other quality action points, if any See example (doc.A6465/16/03) Frequency? Rolling cycle eg. 5 years

Any clarification questions. Any suggestions for improvement Any clarification questions? Any suggestions for improvement? PROPOSAL FOR ADOPTION