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

OBJECTIVE: To amend the Regulation concerning structural business statistics in order to extend the scope to credit institutions, pension funds, other financial intermediation and activities auxiliary to financial intermediation and insurance. COMMUNITY MEASURE: Regulation (EC) 2056/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC, Euratom) 58/97. CONTENT: The regulation extends the scope of Annex 1 to the regulation to other financial intermediation (NACE Rev. 1 group 65.2) and to activities auxiliary to financial intermediation and insurance (NACE Rev. 1 division 67), inserts into Annex 2 of the regulation two new characteristics relating to expenditure on environmental protection and adds two new annexes, the first concerning credit institutions and the second concerning pension funds. ENTRY INTO FORCE: 22/11/02.�