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Community statistics: analysis of continuing vocational training in enterprises

2004/0041(COD)

ACT : Commission Regulation 198/2006/EC implementing Regulation 1552/2005/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises

CONTENT : The main provisions of this Regulation are as follows:

- Regulation 1552/2005/EC establishes a common framework for the production of Community statistics on vocational training in enterprises. In order to implement that Regulation, measures concerning the sampling and precision requirements and sample size needed to meet these requirements, and the detailed NACE and size categories into which the results can be broken down, are adopted, and specified in Annex II. The specific variables to be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) shall be as specified in Annex I.

- The Commission has defined the specific data to be collected with respect to the training and non-training enterprises and to the different forms of vocational training. It has also adopted implementing measures concerning the quality requirements for the data to be collected and transmitted for Community statistics on vocational training in enterprises, the structure of the quality reports and measures necessary for assessing or improving the quality of the data. Member States will be responsible for data checking, error correction, imputation and weighting. Imputation and weighting of variables shall follow the principles laid down in Annex III. Derogation from these principles shall be fully justified and reported in the quality report. Data shall be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) by the means and in the format specified in Annex IV.

- The first reference year for which the data are to be collected shall be the calendar year 2005.

- Provisions are also adopted concerning the appropriate technical format and interchange standard of the electronically transmitted data.

- With a view to achieving a high level of harmonisation of the survey results across countries, the Commission (Eurostat) in close cooperation with Member States, will propose methodological and practical recommendations and guidelines for the implementation of the survey in the form of a ‘European Union Manual’.

ENTRY INTO FORCE:24 February 2006.