1. The EuroGroups Register: a tool to share information on globalisation
Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers Tallinn, 27 – 30 September 2010
Session No 2:
Concepts and Methods for Information and Data Sharing

2. What is the EuroGroup Register
EGR Central system 2

3. Information stored in the EGR (v.1.0)
Starting with a population
of EU MNEs
Enlarge to
EU MNEs
Legal Unit
ID information
Control relationship
Ownership shares
Enterprise
Economic characteristics
(Employment, Turnover, NACE Rev. 2, etc.)
Multinational Groups
Global Group Head (GGH)
Ultimate Institutional Unit (UCI)
Reporting Unit
(RU)
Nationality

4. EGR ambitions
to become the platform that supports the production of micro based statistics on globalisation in Europe
by offering compilers access to integrated and up-to-date register data on multinational enterprise groups
by way of collecting, comparing and selecting information from different commercial and institutional sources
the EGR provides a set of pooled information that allows compilers of statistics to organise the data collection and to produce statistics on the basis of shared and coordinated information basis.
Secure remote access facilities for register staff and statistical compilers become necessary

5. Who are these compilers, in the first place
Inward FATS needs:
list of resident enterprises controlled by a foreign enterprise
the country of the decision centre of the ultimate controlling institution (UCI) for those foreign controlled enterprises
Outward FATS needs:
list of resident UCIs who control foreign enterprises
Information on foreign enterprises controlled by an resident UCI
FDI needs:
Identification of the Ultimate Investing Country/Controlling Parent
Identification of the Special Purpose Entities
Identification of FDI relations

6. Deriving statistical units from administrative data

7. EGR information and user needs

8. The interactions between the EGR and Profiling
Profilers should use the EGR:
The legal/administrative structure of the groups in the EGR will assist to define the economic structure
Profilers should provide information on global and national enterprises to the EGR:
For the top-500 MNEs global and national enterprises should be defined according to a profiling process, stored in the EGR, and disseminated to all the statistical compilers
Profilers should validate the core economic variables of the top-500 MNE available in the EGR

9. The EGR: a place for coordination between register staff and statistical compilers – all over the EU

10. … and an example

11. … and an example

12. … and an example

13. … and an example

14. … and another example on coordination: the validation of the UCI
1) Process started on compilers requirement:
2) Annual process started under BR staff coordination:

15. … and coordination with central banks
Esperienze tematiche in corso in Istat in ambito SDMX: l’EuroGroups Register
… and coordination with central banks
EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
National Central Banks
Central EuroGroup Register (EUROSTAT)
National Statistical Institutes