1. SBS Working Group 14 April 2015
Item 11 Framework Regulation Integrating Business Statistics: current status and next steps Eurostat G1: Business Statistics – Co-ordination and registers

2. General setting of FRIBS
FRIBS launched for modernizing business statistics in the context of the Vision and REFIT (integration of content and legal acts; streamlining/simplifying and burden reduction; more responsive to user needs)
Governance by and commitment of the BSDG
New Commission has re-examined all legal projects: FRIBS has been re-validated and is strongly supported, including important recent changes in the scope of FRIBS

3. Recent changes in FRIBS' scope
Maintaining the current SU definition in FRIBS
! Outside of FRIBS: revised operational SU rules
& the national plans on better SU compliance
New project Redesign Intrastat: additional measures for rationalising on top of SIMSTAT

4. The main projects of FRIBS
What is the project's
- Value added
- Status & planning
- Interdependency
Development of the FRIBS Monitoring Tool together with BSDG(-SDG)
Drafting Legal Act
Impact Assessment
Data requirements
Definitions of variables
EBS manual
SIMSTAT
Redesign of Intrastat
BR package (incl EGR)

5. Value added of the projects: Charters
Development of Charters for each of the projects
covering: problem statement, business case, goal
and objective, project scope, interdependency of
other projects and risks
Approval of the Charters by BSDG in June 2015
For FRIBS as a whole: assessment by the FRIBS TF against Vision2020 criteria (also to be approved in June 2015)

6. FRIBS projects Summary overview Status Reports Infrastructure
Project is on track & no important issues
Project is on track, but with some issues
Risk of project delay & important issues
FRIBS projects
Overall
status
Project
Changes
Schedule
Issues
Risk
Deadline
Comment
Infrastructure
Legal text
Dec 2016
Impact Assessment
April 2016
Business registers package
Jun 2015
Data architecture
Definitions of variables
June 2015
Data requirements
Jun 2015
Common breakdowns
EBS Manual
Dec 2015
SIMSTAT
Dec 2015
Redesign Intrastat
April 2016
ESBRs
Dec 2017

8. Milestones of Legal text project
Jun 2015 BSDG: Basic Act + template Impl. Acts
Dec 2015 BSDG: Basic Act + Impl. Acts
Jan-April 2016: written consultation BSDG
May 2016 & Sep 2016 ESSC: consultation
Dec 2016 Commission: internal approval
: Adoption Basic Act by Council and EP
: In parallel Impl. Acts by ESSC/BSDG

9. Deadline of the projects FRIBS into force Final draft legal text
Redesign Intrastat
Impact Assessment
SIMSTAT
Data requirements
Definitions of variables
BR package (incl. EGR)
Common breakdowns
FRIBS launch
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
Basic Act
first draft
Impl. Acts
first draft

10. Interdependency of the projects ESBRs Business Register
package of FRIBS
(incl EGR)
Legal text
Basic Act
(incl. Annexes)
Impact Assessment
Report
Delegated and/or
Implementing Acts
Non-binding measures
Data requirements
EBS manual
SIMSTAT
Redesign Intrastat
Impact Assessment
LEGEND
Definitions of variables
FRIBS PROJECTS
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11. Other parts of the legal act of FRIBS
Article on financial support to the MS
Sustainable use of administrative data sources
Solid confidentiality provisions covering statistics in general and the exchange of micro-data exchange for the EGR and – if agreed - SIMSTAT
Standard & efficient metadata and quality reporting
Uniform technical transmission standards

12. Impact Assessment Report of FRIBS
The IA Report of FRIBS based on intensive consultation of stakeholders (NSIs/NCBs, users, data providers) interviews and further cost-benefit analysis, covering:
FRIBS' infra-structural proposals [Q Q1 2015]
FRIBS' additional data requirements [Q3-Q4 2015]
Redesign of Intrastat [Q – Q1 2016]
Consultation covers qualitative and quantitative surveys
Expected impact in costs/burden: work-in-progress

13. Current costs of NSIs &NCBs
This diagram displays the relative shares of the current operational costs of NSIs and NCBs as regards the various statistical domains covered by FRIBS. The two main ones are the Short Term Statistics and the International Trade in goods, in total representing ½ of the total costs of Business Statistics. The relative large share for STS may seem surprising, but it can be explained by the fact that STS is not a single statistical production system, but comprises many different smaller systems, such as producer prices, building permits, production indexes, persons employed, wages and salaries, etc., which may seem small each of them but add up to being the largest one.

14. If we look at the current administrative burden of the statistical domains, Intrastat ranks at the top, responsible for more than ½ of the total burden of business statistics. It is a picture which is already quite well-known and is really at the very root why SIMSTAT is included as one of the initiatives of REFIT, the Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme of the Commission.
The Impact of SIMSTAT on the administrative burden is, however, more complicated, as it is left up to the individual NSIs to decide if and to what extend it re-uses intra-export records from other MS for compiling its intra-imports.

15. Provisional IA results of step 1
Significant potential for burden reduction, but to be pinpointed more precisely (SIMSTAT/Redesign)
Highly positive user appreciation
Modest increases in operational and one-off costs indicated by the NSIs
NSIs indicated the need for sufficient (financial) resources

16. Focus points in second half of 2015
Consultation of the MS on the IA of the additional data requirements and redesign options of Intrastat.
Your contribution/support is highly appreciated!!
Drafting the full legal package of FRIBS, including also all domain specific provisions.
Both BSDG and WGs will be informed in detail on the legal work in progress.

17. Further questions: ESTAT-G1@ec.europa.eu
Thank you for your attention!
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