1. Michaela Grell – Unit G1 – SBS Michaela.Grell@ec.europa.eu
OECD Joint ITS and TIS Session 10. d) Globalisation projects at Eurostat STD/NAES/TASS/ITS(2007)19
Michaela Grell – Unit G1 – SBS
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10. d) Globalisation projects at Eurostat

2. FATS – Foreign AffiliaTes Statistics
FATS-Regulation (adopted 20 June 2007) covering inward and outward FATS
Mandatory data collection from reference year 2007 onwards
Voluntary data collection reference years
FATS-Recommendations Manual (published July 2007)
Consistency as much as possible with HEGI and MSITS
Pilot studies testing the feasibility of additional data requirements: results in 2009 / 2010
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FATS – Pilot studies
Inward FATS pilot studies:
Total and intra-group imports and exports, broken down by goods and services (11)
Size class breakdown (5)
NACE sections M, N and O (3)
R&D variables for service activities (3)
Outward FATS pilot study:
Total imports and exports, broken down by goods and services (12)
Intra-group imports and exports, broken down by goods and services (11)
personnel costs (13), value added at factor costs (11), gross investment in tangible goods (12), other variables (2)
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4. FATS-pilot: Definition of exports and imports
According to ESA95/SNA93:
Exports and imports of goods and services: transactions from residents to non-residents or vice versa
Goods: change of ownership
Services: Services rendered
Definitions apply for inward and outward FATS, therefore:
Inward FATS: residents  foreign-controlled affiliates located in (data-) compiling country
Outward FATS: residents  foreign-controlled affiliate located in host country
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5. FATS-pilot: Definition of intra-group exports and imports
According to ESA95/SNA93:
Subset of total intra-group exports and imports
Intra-group exports and imports: all trade transactions between foreign affiliates, the ultimate controlling unit and all non-resident affiliates controlled by the ultimate controlling unit
Not included: trade partners in the same country as the foreign affiliate in question
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6. FATS-pilot: Valuation of trade variables
Goods: f.o.b. at the border of the exporting country
Services: Market prices according to MSITS
Possible limitations in comparability to BoP and Trade statistics:
Legal constraints with forbid to use BoP and Trade data, e.g. confidentiality
SBS-Variables can be used, but estimation of f.o.b. and market prices needed:
exports: turnover
imports: total purchases of goods and services
Breakdown by industrial activities (BoP and FATS) vs. breakdown by products (Trade)
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7. FATS-pilot: Relevant trade transactions
Example for inward FATS
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8. FATS-pilot: Relevant trade transactions
Example for outward FATS
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9. International Sourcing
Provisions of services outside the EU
Aim of the project: Factors driving international sourcing of goods and services, e.g.
impact on the competitiveness of the enterprises
motivations
benefits
barriers
consequences for employment
relocation of domestic (or domestically sourced) production to producers located abroad
14 Member States participating, results: mid-2008
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EuroGroups Register
New Business Register Regulation in progress: aims at including recording of enterprise groups as well as the exchange of data on MNEs and their constituent units between Member States and Eurostat for statistical purposes
 The exchange of data implies the creation of a Community register of MNEs: EuroGroups register
Feasibility study 2006: 4 National Statistical Institutes, 600 MNEs, over 80,000 units
Data from private sources, consolidated at Eurostat and checked by Member States
Implementation planned
Ultimate aim: cover all MNEs which operate in Europe
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11. Modernisation of European Enterprise and Trade Statistics (MEETS)
provides financing for the development of enterprise and trade statistics in the years 2008 until 2013
Legal basis in progress
Reaction to changes in world economy combined with reduction of administrative burden on businesses
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12. Main objectives of MEETS
Identification of new areas and areas of lesser importance
One priority is globalisation (seminar, task force, grants)
Streamlining of all statistics related to business:
integration of concepts and methods in business statistics
focus on European perspective
co-ordination of the legal acts
harmonisation of the methodologies
work on the further integration
linking of statistical classifications
linking of business registers and related sources,
inclusion of MNEs into the business register
set up of the reporting on MNEs
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13. Main objectives of MEETS
Integration of data collection and treatment
single system or micro-data linking
use of administrative data
ensure that the data that still needs to be collected can be obtained easily from the company accounts.
Development of standard estimation techniques
Simplifications to the Intrastat system:
thresholds, ICT improvements, nomenclatures etc.
Investigation of a single flow system
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14. Thank you very much for your attention!
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