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Legal instrument	Regulation
Number legal act	Regulation 1993/2186
Original proposal	COM(1992)352
CELEX number i	31993R2186

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Council Regulation (EEC) No 2186/93 of 22 July 1993 on Community coordination in drawing up business registers for statistical purposes

Official Journal L 196 , 05/08/1993 P. 0001 - 0005

Finnish special edition: Chapter 13 Volume 24 P. 0150

Swedish special edition: Chapter 13 Volume 24 P. 0150

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2186/93 of 22 July 1993 on Community coordination in drawing up business registers for statistical purposes

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 213 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas the Single Market increases the need to improve statistical comparability in order to meet Community requirements; whereas, in order to achieve that improvement, common definitions and descriptions have to be adopted for enterprises and other relevant statistical units to be covered;

Whereas registers should be drawn up and updated in order to be able to collect information on these units;

Whereas there is a growing need for information on the structure of enterprises, a need which current Community statistics are not able to meet;

Whereas business registers for statistical purposes are a necessary tool in keeping track of the structural changes in the economy brought about by such operations as joint ventures, partnerships, buy-outs, mergers and takeovers;

Whereas the important role played by public undertakings in the national economies of the Member States has been acknowledged, particularly in Commission Directive 80/723/EEC (1), Article 2 of which also defines such undertakings; whereas they should therefore be identified in business registers;

Whereas some statistics are not currently available, particularly in sectors with many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), such as services, because a register of these enterprises for statistical purposes does not exist;

Whereas business registers are one element in reconciling the conflicting requirements for increased information on enterprises and lightening their administrative burden, in particular by using existing information in administrative and legal registers, especially in the case of SMEs, pursuant to recommendation 90/246/EEC (2);

Whereas business registers for statistical purposes represent a basic element of systems of information on enterprises, making it possible to organize and coordinate statistical surveys by providing a sampling base, possibilities of extrapolation and means of monitoring the replies from enterprises, in particular those covered by Directives 78/660/EEC (3) and 83/349/EEC (4);

Whereas the setting-up of a new statistical collection system covering trade in goods and services between Member States necessitates a register of those persons required to give information; whereas it is desirable to derive that register of persons required to give information from a central register of enterprises used for statistical purposes;

Whereas the business registers for statistical purposes are at a different stage of development in each Member State; whereas the long and costly development of these registers can be carried out only in two stages, the first of which must relate to harmonization of the basic units in those registers in accordance with an established timetable,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Aims Member States shall set up for statistical purposes one or more harmonized registers with the definitions and scope specified in the following Articles.

Article 2

Definitions 1. For the purposes of this Regulation:

(a) 'legal unit' shall mean a legal unit as defined in Section II.A.3 of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 (5);

(b) 'enterprise' shall mean an enterprise as defined in Section III.A of the Annex to that Regulation.

Hereinafter the connection between the enterprise and the legal unit shall be expressed as...

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