1. PROFILING FOR THE EGR : THE FRENCH VIEW

2. What we expect from the profiling activity
« To define, in the frame of a group of legal units, by grouping some of them, statistical units called « enterprises » that will be used to observe and compile statistics in order to improve the relevance of the business statistics »
The profiling aims to solve problems of relevance of the statistics by defining the real economic actors
Enterprise group (EG): actor on strategy (development, financing, geographical location)
Enterprise: producer of goods and services with a sufficient autonomy of decision
The profiling is useful only if the ‘strategic actor’ EG has more than one ‘producer’
The profiled units « enterprises » have to be meaningful for the group

3. The enterprise’s delineation
The enterprise needs to be delineated at the global level (the enterprise only exists at the global level)
The global enterprises only are meaningful for the groups
The truncated enterprise needs to be defined
Need to produce national statistics
This truncated enterprise is not a real enterprise, only a part of an enterprise
Problem of the definition of the characteristics of the truncated enterprise
Principal activity
Size
Should be those of the global enterprise
or should be defined at the truncated level ?

4. What is expected from the EGR
« EGR should support the production of micro based statistics by offering compilers access to an integrated and up-to-date register on multinational enterprise groups (MNEs) in order to compile consistent statistics »
Role of harmonisation of information and treatments between Member States
Tool to share information between MS : MS need to agree on groups’ main characteristics
Operational structure (profiling)
Nationality
Activities and principal activity
Size

5. What is expected from the EGR (cont’d)
Which units need to be in the EGR
Global enterprise groups
Their relevent operational units (global enterprises)
Globally defined
Do we need economic information in the EGR ?
Who should do the profiling
Country of the head quarters of EG?

6. An illustration of the group’s structure to a group’s point of view

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