1. 11 Access to EGR applications
ESTP Training on EGR
6-7 September 2016

2. Overview Legal background
Maintenance procedure of the access rights for EGR applications
Technical procedure of accessing EGR applications
The technical procedure should be approved by the BR Working Group meeting of the Member States and Eurostat on September 2016

3. Legal background Appropriate national authorities of MS
Access to data on multinational enterprise groups and constituent units when at least one LEU of the group is located in a respective territory
Reg. 177/2008 Art. 11(2)
National central banks and ECB
Specific authorization needed
Reg. 177/2008 Art. 12(1) and Reg. 1097/2010 Art. 2

4. Preconditions for data access for NCBs
Authorization procedure:
NSI authorize Eurostat to forward data on MNE and constituent units to the members of ESCB
The specific NCB signs a confidential declaration and gets access to the micro-data
Status quo:
NSI from 28 MS and 4 EFTA countries signed the necessary authorization agreement for the NCBs
19 NCB from MS signed the necessary confidential declaration and now have access to the micro-data;

5. The EGR 2.0 applications EGR IS EGR CORE EGR IM EGR FATS
CDP web- service
EGR IS
EGR CORE
NSIs
EGR IM
NSIs and CDPs
NSIs
EGR FATS
NSI and NCB users

6. Access to the EGR applications in practice

7. Annual maintenance procedure (1)
Users working with EGR in NSIs and NCBs are changing
The access rights of persons left during the year will be still valid
Eurostat created a technical procedure for the annual maintenance of the access rights

8. Annual maintenance procedure (2)
Member States nominate one EGR contact person (EGR coordinator) in the NSI and NCB separately, in charge of national users
The person in charge should be able to define the user roles of the other national users in the institution
In February Eurostat sends a list to the EGR contact persons (EGR coordinators) covering all users of the respective institution

9. Annual maintenance procedure (3)
The EGR contact person (EGR coordinator) has to confirm or change all access rights
For new users the following information has to be provided: application, name, , ECAS UID
The list shall be returned to Eurostat by 15 March of each year at the latest
Send list to:
If Eurostat receives no list from a national EGR contact person (EGR coordinator), all access rights for users in the corresponding institution will be deleted on 1 April of the same year

10. Technical procedure for new access
Create your ECAS Account
Register your mobile phone
Request access via the contact person of your institution
Eurostat grants access to EGR applications

11. Step 1 - How to create an ECAS account?
Register at the European Commission Authentication Service (ECAS) to get your personnel account:

12. Step 2 - How to register the mobile number?
My Account => My ECAS Account Details => insert the mobile phone number
Every time accessing the EGR applications, ECAS will provide a 9-digit code by text message to the mobile phone. This code must be entered during the login procedure.

13. Step 3 - Request access to EGR applications via the contact person of your institution
The national EGR contact person (EGR coordinator) needs first to decide on the role of the potential user and accordingly send to the EGR Team:
The name of the application the user should have access
The user's first name and family name
The user's address
The user's unique identifier at the Commission, the uid (visible in My ECAS Account Details)

14. Step 4 - Granting access to EGR applications
NSIs should send the requests to:
Having the applications received Eurostat will grant access according to the request of the contact person
All users of EGR application get automatically access to the EGR wiki

15. Detailed instructions
EGR wiki: Access to the EGR data

16. ESTP training on EGR 6-7 September 2016
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