Structural business statistics: additional sectors, credit institutions and pension funds

PURPOSE : to amend Regulation 58/97/EC/Euratom concerning structural business statistics. CONTENT : Council Regulation 58/97/EC/Euratom concerning structural business statistics (SBS Regulation) is the main legal framework for the collection, compilation, transmission and evaluation of statistics on the structure, activity, competitiveness and performance of business. The proposed Regulation aims to complement the SBS Regulation with two additional sector specific annexes on credit institutions (Annex 6) and pension funds (Annex 7). Moreover, it will extend the coverage of the horizontal module (Annex 1) to the following activities that are not yet included: other financial intermediation services, pension funds and financial auxiliaries. Finally, it introduces two additional variables in the area of environment to Annex 2 of the SBS Regulation (on industry activities).�