35 Amendments of Claudiu Ciprian TĂNĂSESCU related to 2016/0264(COD)
Amendment 113 #
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 for growth and job creation, the reduction of poverty and social exclusion, skills, mobility and the digital economy. In particular, social indicators must provide a sound statistical basis for evaluating, developing and monitoring the policies introduced by the Union to address those priorities. __________________ 21 Communication from the Commission - EUROPE 2020 A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth COM (2010) 2020 of 3 March 2010.
Amendment 125 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The possibility to use administrative sources for statistical purposes has widened significantly, thanks to rapid technological advances. The use of administrative sources should be actively promoted in the area of social statistics, while always ensuring the quality, accuracy, timeliness and comparability of those statistics.
Amendment 127 #
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 core social 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 surveysimplified, and they should be complemented by additional, less frequent microdata. Furthermore, there should be better access to administrative data, and. Likewise, the re-use of existing data sources and access to new data sources should be developed should be greater access to new data sources and greater re-use of existing data at national and EUuropean level.
Amendment 134 #
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 the high quality social indicators are produced in a more integrated, flexible and, efficient mannerand speedy manner, in order to keep up with developments in society. At the same time, due consideration must be given to the needs of users, to the burden placed on respondents, to Member States resources, the reliability and accuracy of the methods used, technical feasibility of producing the statistics, the time within which they can be available and the reliability of the results.
Amendment 142 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) In order to better streamline and rationalise the reference framework for European social statistics collected from samples, existing European statistics on persons and households based on data at individual level should be brought together under one framework. This would guarantee that European social statistics collected from samples including the domains of labour market, income and living conditions, health, education and traivocational training, lifelong learning and use of information and communication technologies would be undertaken in a consistent, coherent and coordinated way.
Amendment 143 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) The existing regulations dealing with social statistics data collection at individual level have been adopted to answer policy needs existing at the time of their adoption. Since then new social circumstances and phenomena have emerged, which will certainly change in the future. This Regulation should ensure an adequate coverage of present and future needs for social data. It is also essential that the content of the data collections is kept up to date with the needs of users and with technological changes. Therefore, flexibility for further evolution should be embedded in the legal architecture of this Regulation.
Amendment 147 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Data collections in the domains of time use and consumption are currently carried out voluntarily by many Member States, on the basis of agreed general guidelines. These two domains including the collection of data should be modernised, so as to take full advantage of new technological advances. Data collections in these two domains should be organized in accordance with this Regulation so as to open possibilities and create opportunities for further developments in the future, ensuring data that are more timely and relevant, and produced more efficiently. In the meantime, the Member States’' current approaches should not be changed.
Amendment 150 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Statistics are no longer considered as just one of many sources of information for policy-making purposes, but instead play a central roleand they are a key component in the decision-making process. Evidence-based decision-making requires statistics that meet high-quality criteria, as set out in Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council25, in accordance with the purposes they are serving. __________________ 25 Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics and repealing Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1101/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities, Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on Community Statistics, and Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom establishing a Committee on the Statistical Programmes of the European Communities (OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p. 164).
Amendment 157 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 includes rules on the transmission of data from the Member States, including the transmission of confidential data. Measures taken in accordance with this Regulation should ensure that confidential data is well protected and that no unlawful disclosure or non-statistical use of data occurs during the production and dissemination of European statistics.
Amendment 162 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) In order to take account of economic, social and technical developments, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of the detailed topics set out in Annex I. The Commission should also have the power to put in place or adapt the eight-year multiannual rolling planning for the collection of data covered by this Regulation in accordance with the periodicity specified in Annex IV and in accordance with the European Statistical Programme. It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level, and that those consultations are conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making of 13 April 2016. In particular, to ensure equal participation in the preparation of delegated acts, the European Parliament and the Council receive all documents at the same time as Member States' experts, and their experts systematically have access to meetings of Commission expert groups dealing with the preparation of delegated acts.
Amendment 165 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) Implementation of this Regulation could require major adaptations toin the national statistical systems, and the Commission may therefore grant derogations to Member States. In order to facilitated the implementation of this Regulation financial contributions from the Union budget should be provided to Member States in the form of grants.
Amendment 169 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) The European social statistics collected from samples and the data collection process should become more efficient and relevant. The comparability and coherence of the data in the long run should be ensured. European statistics on persons and households based on data at individual level collected from samples are currently regulated in a number offive separate legislative acts which should be completely or partially replaced by this Regulation. It is therefore necessary to repeal Council Regulation (EC) No 577/9831 and Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council32 are covered in their totality by this Regulation and it is therefore necessary to repeal them. Regulation (EC) No 808/200432a concerning Community statistics on the information society, Regulation (EC) No 1338/200832b on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work and Regulation (EC) No 452/200832c concerning the production and development of statistics on education and lifelong learning, cover other statistical units besides individuals and households, as well as other domains and topics besides those covered by this Regulation. While these three regulations should be maintained they should be amended in order to exclude from their scope the respective parts dealing with the collection of data from individuals and households which are covered by this Regulation. __________________ 31 Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98 of 9 March 1998 on the organisation of a labour force sample survey in the Community (OJ L 77, 14.3.1998, p. 3). 32 Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 June 2003 concerning Community statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) (OJ L 165, 3.7.2003, p. 1). 32aRegulation (EC) No 808/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004concerning Community statistics on the information society (OJ L 143, 30.4.2004, p. 49) 32bRegulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work (OJ L 354, 31.12.2008, p. 70) 32cRegulation (EC) No 452/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2008 concerning the production and development of statistics on education and lifelong learning (OJ L 145, 4.6.2008, p. 227)
Amendment 173 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point -a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point -a (new)
(–a) 'microdata' means non-aggregated observations or measurements of characteristics of individual units;
Amendment 181 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
(ga) 'private household' means a person living alone or a group of people who live together in the same private dwelling and share expenditures, including the joint provision of the essentials of living;
Amendment 183 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) labour marketforce,
Amendment 187 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point a
Amendment 188 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point b
Amendment 189 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) working conditions including working hours and working time arrangements, part-time and full-time,
Amendment 190 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point e
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point e
Amendment 192 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point h
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point h
(h) income, consumption and wealth, including debts,
Amendment 195 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point k
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point k
Amendment 196 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point l
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point l
Amendment 200 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – introductory part
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 15 to amend the detailed topics listed in Annex I so as to reflect relevant technical, social and economic developments and respond to the new needs of users and in accordance with the European Statistical Programme. In exercising this power, the Commission shall ensure that:
Amendment 203 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 15 to establish or adapt a multiannual rolling planning for eight years for the collection of data covered by this Regulation, in accordance with the periodicity specified in Annex IV and in accordance with the European Statistical Programme. The Commission shall ensure that such delegated acts do not impose a significant additional burden or cost on the Member States or on the respondents.
Amendment 205 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) ad hoc subjects requested by the users, for the labour marketforce and income and living conditions domains, as provided for in Annex IV. In exceptional and justified cases, these data may cover detailed topics other than those listed in Annex I.
Amendment 207 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The Commission ishall be empowered to adopt implementdelegated acts ing acts for the purpose ofcordance with Article 15 to specifying the following technical items of the individual data sets, in order to cover the needs, identified in the relevant detailed topics:
Amendment 209 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the number, title and description of variables;
Amendment 222 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3
Article 6 – paragraph 3
3. For the data sets on monthly unemployment relating to the labour marketforce domain, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt implementing acts for the purpose of describing the variables and the length, quality requirements and level of detail of the time series to be transmitted.
Amendment 235 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) be regularly updated and guarantee that the data collected is protected when it is transmitted to another Member State.
Amendment 243 #
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 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 and the speed of change in this area.
Amendment 247 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the development and/or implementation of data collections or data collection methods for social statistics, including sampling frames, during the first four yearscycle of the collection of the data sets for each domain covered by this Regulation;
Amendment 248 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) developing methodologies, including participation in the feasibility and pilot studies referred to in Article 13;
Amendment 295 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – point 1 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Annex III – point 1 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Sample characteristics of the Labour MarketForce domain shall include:
Amendment 297 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 1
Annex IV – point 1
1. For the Labour MarketForce domain, the data sets shall consist of information collected quarterly, annually, biennially and every 8 years. Data on variables relating to ad-hoc subjects shall be collected every four years.
Amendment 302 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – point 1 – introductory part
Annex V – point 1 – introductory part
1. For the Labour MarketForce domain, the Member States shall transmit :