Energy statistics

PURPOSE:to establish a common framework for the production, transmission, evaluation and dissemination of comparable energy statistics in the Community.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on energy statistics.

CONTENT: following the agreement reached at 1st reading with the European Parliament, the Regulation establishes a common framework for the production, transmission, evaluation and dissemination of comparable energy statistics in the Community. It shall apply to statistical data concerning energy products and their aggregates in the EU.

The Community needs to have precise and timely data on energy quantities, their forms, sources, generation, supply, transformation and consumption, for the purpose of monitoring the impact and consequences of its policy work on energy. The establishment of a public domain energy forecast model, as called for by the European Parliament in its Resolution of 14 December 2006 on a European Strategy for Sustainable, Competitive and Secure Energy requires detailed, up-to-date energy data.

Energy statistics have traditionally been focused on energy supply and on fossil energies. In the coming years, greater focus is needed on increased knowledge and monitoring of final energy consumption, renewable energy and nuclear energy. In the coming years, greater attention should be paid to the security of supply of the most important fuels and more timely and more accurate data at EU level is needed to anticipate and coordinate EU solutions to possible supply crises.

The set of annual nuclear statistics shall be established and may be modified in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny.

Every 5 years, Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with a report on the quality of the data transmitted as well as on any methodological changes that have been made.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 04/12/2008.