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1 EU SASU legislative process
14-15 February 2012

2 Council Working Party on Statistics
5 discussions in Council Working Party under the Polish Presidency (12 July, 20 September, 11 October, 23 November and 15 December), 14-15 February 2012

3 Council Working Party on Statistics
Main changes in the text of the regulation: socio-demographic background of respondents as well as technical variables may be taken from administrative sources. The sample size for Malta - minimum of 2000 persons Only one person per household shall be interviewed. The Commission (Eurostat) shall, in close cooperation with Member States, draw up a methodological manual which contains guidelines on the statistics produced under this Regulation, including definitions to be applied to the characteristics of the required information and common standards designed to ensure the quality of the data. 14-15 February 2012

4 Council Working Party on Statistics
Main changes in the text of the regulation: Member States shall transmit the micro-data by 15 September 2014 The Commission (Eurostat) shall disseminate the statistics on safety from crime by 15 February 2015. Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) not later than 15 October with a report on the quality of the micro-data. By 31 December 2015 the Commission shall submit an evaluation report to the European Parliament and to the Council on the statistics produced under this Regulation and , in particular on their relevance for policy  and their comparability between Member States as well as on their quality. This Regulation shall cease to apply on 31 December 2015. 14-15 February 2012

5 Council Working Party on Statistics
Main changes in the text of the regulation: Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply. Where the committee delivers no opinion, the Commission shall not adopt the draft implementing act and the third subparagraph of Article 5(4) of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply. Commission strongly opposed to such an insertion. 14-15 February 2012

6 Council Working Party on Statistics
Main changes in the text of the regulation: Questions on violence referred to in Annex I point 7 shall be asked separately from the rest of the questionnaire. Member States shall choose whether to include the questions on sexual violence. 14-15 February 2012

7 Council Working Party on Statistics
List of variables The variable “past relationships” deleted (it will become an answer code in the screening question), After EDPS intervention, Change of wording ‘identification of respondent’ to ‘respondent code’; question ‘who did it’ substituted by ‘ relation of the perpetrator to the victim’ 14-15 February 2012

8 Council Working Party on Statistics
List of variables Non-partner sexual violence (optional): sequence of question was changed on MS request clarification was introduced – by adding the words: ‘or forced into’ whether anyone, for example someone at school or work, a friend or a neighbour or a stranger, attempted to force the respondent into sexual intercourse or forced into an unwanted sexual act or did anything else sexually to the respondent that was unwanted, whether anyone of the persons mentioned above forced the respondent into an unwanted sexual intercourse for example by threatening or holding down the respondent or putting the respondent in a situation where refusal was impossible; 14-15 February 2012

9 EU Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties Justice and Home Affairs
Rapporteur: KIRKHOPE Timothy (European Conservatives and Reformists) 1st discussion on the regulation at the LIBE meeting (12 January 2012) needed to have uniform statistics gathered by police and judicial authorities, use of the proposed data as regards authority efficiency and the real problem (e.g. aggressive behavior, threats). credibility of the statistics and on the ultimate purpose – the statistics should be used only for statistical purposes EDPS opinion question if the envisaged act is useful at all (what is the added value); why question on bicycles and gun ownership why exclusion of part of the territory of the Netherlands from the survey 14-15 February 2012


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