Considerations on COM(2006)565 - Amendment of Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98 on the organisation of a labour force sample survey in the EC

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dossier COM(2006)565 - Amendment of Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98 on the organisation of a labour force sample survey in the EC.
document COM(2006)565 EN
date October 23, 2007
 
table>(1)In accordance with the Lisbon Strategy, and as confirmed by the mid-term review of that strategy in 2005, Europe must focus its policies further on growth and employment in order to achieve the Lisbon goals.
(2)The development of the Community and the operation of the internal market increase the need for comparable data which allow the impact of the structure and distribution of wages on the labour market to be assessed, particularly as a means of analysing progress as regards economic and social cohesion.

(3)In order to carry out the tasks assigned to it, the Commission requires data on the ranking of wages by socio-economic characteristics and also in relation to different forms of paid employment, which are essential to analyse and understand the labour market and the changes taking place in the structure of the labour force. In this regard, the advantages of having data on wages by deciles in relation to other employment characteristics are widely recognised.

(4)The Community Labour Force Survey is essentially the first and most authoritative reference source for labour market information in the European Union, and information on wages, as a fundamental variable to explain labour market behaviour, should be a standard element of this survey in order to allow for a more complete analysis of labour markets.

(5)The Statistical Programme Committee, established by Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom (2), has been consulted in accordance with Article 3 of that Decision.

(6)Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98 (3) should therefore be amended accordingly,