9 Amendments of Joëlle MÉLIN related to 2016/0264(COD)
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) In the context of the Europe 2020 Strategy21 and the strengthening of economic governance, social indicators play an essential role in informing and supporting the Union's key priorities forSocial indicators must provide clear, robust and comparable data on growth and job creation, the reduction of poverty and social exclusion, skills, mobility and the digital economy. In particular, social indicators m, thust provideing a sound statistical basis for developing and, monitoring and assessing the policies introduced by the Union to address those priorities. __________________ 21Communication from the Commission - EUROPE 2020 A strategy for smartand Union investment. All action taken by the Commission in this area must keep the regulatory and administrative burden on Member States to a minimum, must be in keeping with the subsidiarity principle and with efficiency and value-for-money criteria, smustainable and inclusive growth COM (2010) 2020 of 3 March 2010. be the subject of transparent parliamentary scrutiny and must ensure that the privacy of data subjects is fully respected. __________________
Amendment 124 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) European statistics relating to persons and households are currently collected on the basis of a number of legislative acts covering surveys on persons and households, demographic statistics, population and housing censuses and statistics mainly collected from administrative sources. Some data are also gathered from business surveys. Despite significant improvements in recent years there is a need to further integrate the collection of statistics based on surveys conducted on persons and households, while ensuring that privacy is fully respected and the highest possible data protection standards are maintained.
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) In 2011, the European Statistical System (ESS) endorsed in Wiesbaden its Memorandum on a New Conceptual Design for Household and Social Statistics. In its view, the European surveys that provide data relating to persons and households should be streamlined, and additional, less frequent microdata collections should be used to complement those core social surveys. Furthermore, there should be better access to administrative data, and the re-use of existing data sources and access to new data sources should be developed at national and EU level.
Amendment 133 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The developments described above need to be gradually streamlined, and statistical legislation in the area of social statistics needs to be modernised, in order to ensure that therobust, comparable, high quality social indicators are produced in a more integrated, flexible and efficient manner manner and as cheaply as possible. At the same time, due consideration must be given to the needs of users, to the burden placed on respondents, to respondents’ privacy, to data protection procedures, to the Member States resources, required and to the reliability and accuracy of the methods used, the technical feasibility of producing the statistics, the time within which they can be available and the reliability of the results.
Amendment 163 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) Implementation of this Regulation could require major adaptations to the national statistical systems, and the Commission mayshould therefore grant derogations to Member Statesundertake not to create unnecessary red tape, to comply fully with the subsidiarity principle and national privacy and data retention laws and to ensure that Member States secure any derogations that are necessary.
Amendment 201 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point a
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point a
(a) such delegated acts do not impose a significantn additional burden or cost on the Member States or on respondents;
Amendment 229 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The Commission shall oversee the collection of data for social statistics without creating unnecessary red tape and in a manner that is fully consistent with national privacy and data retention laws.
Amendment 233 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
1. Data shall be based on representative samples drawn from sampling frames set up at national level that allow persons or households to be selected at random, with a known probability of selection. The sampling frames shall aim to cover exhaustively and exclusively the population of interest and shall be regularly updated. They shall contain all the information necessary for the sample design, such as information needed for stratification purposes and for contacting the persons or households. The sampling frame shall also include the information needed to link persons to other administrative records, in so far as is allowed under data protection rules.
Amendment 242 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1
Article 13 – paragraph 1
In order to improve the data sets, the Commission (Eurostat) shall, where necessary, institute and Member States shall cooperate in and without creating additional burdens for Member States, institute several feasibility and pilot studies, in particular, to improve quality including comparability, to contribute to modernising the consumption and time use domains, to explore and implement new ways of improving responsiveness to users' needs, to better integrate the collection of data and the use of other data sources, and to make data collection in Member States more efficient, taking into account technological developments.