Community statistics: income and living conditions in the Union EU-SILC

ACT: Commission Regulation 29/2004/EC implementing Regulation 1177/2003/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning Community statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) as regards the detailed content of intermediate and final quality reports.

CONTENT: This Regulation acts as an implementing act and complements Regulation 1177/2003/EC, which establishes a common framework for the systematic production of Community statistics on income and living conditions, encompassing comparable and timely cross-sectional and longitudinal data on income and on the level and composition of poverty and social exclusion at national and European Union levels. As such the Regulation in:

-          Annex I: Sets the definitions to be applied to the intermediate and final quality reports of the Community statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC).

-          Annex II: Stipulates the quality evaluation criteria and the detailed content of the intermediate quality report to be produced by Member States, relating to the common cross-sectional EU indicators based on the cross-sectional component of the EU-SILC.

-          Annex III:  Stipulates the quality evaluation criteria and the detailed content of the final quality report to be produced by Member States, relating to the EU-SILC cross-sectional and longitudinal components focussing on internal accuracy.

-          Annex IV: Sets the content of the comparative intermediate and final quality reports to be produced by the Commission (Eurostat).

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 29 January 2004.