Activities of Eoin RYAN related to 2008/0026(COD)
Reports (1)
REPORT Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 on Community statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States PDF (173 KB) DOC (201 KB)
Amendments (3)
Amendment 6 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) The future introduction of a single flow system could be another step forward. To this end, the value and viability of the introduction of single flow reporting should be investigated by the Commission, if appropriate, inter alia, by launching a pilot project.
Amendment 7 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) As regards Regulation (EC) No 638/2004, power should be conferred on the Commission in particular to define the conditions under which the Commission may adopt different or specific rules applying to specific goods or movements, adapt the reference period to take into account the linkage with value added tax and customs obligations, determine the arrangements for the collection of this information, particularly the codes to be employed, define the minimum Intrastat coverageadapt the thresholds for Intrastat coverage to technical and economic developments, define the conditions and quality requirements under which Member States may simplify the information to be provided for small individual transactions, define the aggregated data to be transmitted and the criteria the estimates are to comply with, adopt implementing provisions for compiling the statistics by linking data on business characteristics recorded under Regulation (EEC) No 2186/93 with the statistics on dispatches and arrivals of goods, determine the indicators and standards enabling the quality of the data to be assessed, determine the structure of the quality reports to be presented by the Member States, and take any other steps necessary for assessing or improving the quality of the data. Since these measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 or to supplement it by the addition of new non- essential elements, they should be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC.
Amendment 9 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – point 4 a (new)
Article 1 – point 4 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 638/2004
Article 11
Article 11
(4a) Article 11 shall be replaced by the following: "Article 11 Statistical confidentiality Only where the parties who have provided information so request, the national authorities shall decide whether statistical results which make it possible indirectly to identify the said provider(s) are to be disseminated or are to be amended in such as way that their dissemination does not prejudice statistical confidentiality.";