1. The role of the Business Register in a formal administrative register co-operation
Anders Haglund
Statistics Norway

2. Today’s presentation
Project on establishment of a central register for economic entities in Norway
State of the art
Reflections of advantages and disadvantages
The Surveillance System in our BR

3. Project on establishment of a central register for economic entities in Norway
Project launched by the Ministry of Finance
Establish the Central Coordination Register of Legal Entities (CCRLE)
One common register for all economic entities
Single identifier and public sharing of register information
Simplify the administrative burden for the Businesses
Establish a new authority for this task

4. Statistic Norway’s role in the project
Wanted to play a central role
Adjustment in the Statistical Act
Task of merging all units into the CCRLE
Managed to include local units in the register
Our BR is one of seven associated registers

5. Associated Registers to the CCRLE
Brønnøysund
Register Centre
Register of
Business
Enterprises
CCRLE
Norwegian Labour
and
Welfare Organization
Register of
Employers
Lottery
Inspection
Register of
Foundations
Directory of
taxes
Statistics Norway
Central
Register of
Establishments
and Enterprises (CRE)
Corporate
Taxation
Data Register
VAT
register

6. SINGLE IDENTIFIER State of the art
Associated registers Legal units Local units
CCRLE, BRC
Reg. of Business Ent., BRC VAT register, DoT Corp. Tax. Data reg., DoT Reg. of foundations, Lottery insp
Reg. of Employers, LWO CRE, SN
SINGLE IDENTIFIER

7. State of the art
Our BR is a true reflection of the administrative Base Register
SN responsible for updating Local units, Governmental sector and Nace & Sector codes on all units
Common case handler system for updating units on-line
All changes in the CCRLE update our BR every night

8. Co-operation in practise
Actions affect associated registers directly
Direct actions on different register units
New regulations that affect register behaviour
Governmental bodies do not co-operate – people do!
Co-operation Forum
Case Handler Forum

9. Co-operation in practise!
We are going in a direction where SN are doing less activity coding on individual units and more macro on the quality of activity codes.

10. Co-operation progress over time
Adjustment of the sharing of work
SN as the driving force
Formal responsibility vs efficiency
Tactical reasons
Handling bi-products based upon the CCRLE
Different electronic reporting systems
Common electronic portal for data to the Governmental sector

11. Advantages and disadvantages for SN
Main advantages
All units has a common id in different registers
Daily updates on all units
Access to data collected by other authorities via common id
Rapid growth in electronic reporting give us administrative data in electronic form
An increased influence on decisions affecting the CCRLE

12. Advantages and disadvantages for SN
Main disadvantages
SN can’t update specific characteristics on legal units directly
Local units are assigned for nearly all legal units before they prove to be economically active
SN has to perform administrative tasks on the expense of pure statistical ones
Electronic reporting demands a common id and as a provider of official id numbers SN is contacted by reporting units not recognized as legal units

13. The Surveillance system
How to use administrative registers for maintenance of the statistical units?
Source
Variable
Frequency
Time lag
Reg of employers
Employees
Month
1,5 month
VAT payments
Turnover
Bimonthly
2-6 months
Company accounts
Running income
Year
1 year
Income tax reg
Agriculture reg
Prod subsidy
6 months
VAT register
Reg in VAT
Week
1 week

14. The Surveillance system
The systems run every time we receive a new source
Allocate a code of activity and source for the legal unit
Active
Has been active
Has never been active
Unknown
The statistical units are followed-up by a determined set of rules

15. The Surveillance system
Typical register progress during a Year
Growing over-coverage downsized in December