PURPOSE: to establish a common framework for the systematic production of Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work.
LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work.
CONTENT: this Regulation establishes a common framework for the systematic production of Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work. The statistics must be produced in compliance with standards on impartiality, reliability, objectivity, cost-effectiveness and statistical confidentiality.
They must include, in the form of a harmonised and common data set, information required for Community action in the field of public health, for supporting national strategies for the development of high-quality, universally accessible and sustainable health care as well as for Community action in the field of health and safety at work.
The statistics must provide data for structural indicators, sustainable development indicators and European Community Health Indicators (ECHI), as well as for the other sets of indicators which it is necessary to develop for the purpose of monitoring Community actions in the fields of public health and health and safety at work.
Scope: the domains concerned are defined in detail in the Annexes and cover the following: health status and health determinants; health care; causes of death; accidents at work; and occupational diseases and other work-related health problems and illnesses.
ENTRY INTO FORCE : 20/01/2009.