Article 11a, Paragraph 1. · Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197

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1.For the reference year 2025, Member States shall, in addition to reporting on the basis of NACE Rev. 2.1, use NACE Rev. 2 as set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council^note in its version prior to the date of application of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/137^note (‘original NACE Rev. 2’) to compile and transmit to the Commission (Eurostat) the data of annual periodicity that are referred to in the following tables of Annex I, Part B:

(a)table 10. Country-level business statistics on activities of enterprises;

(b)table 11. Country-level business statistics on activities of enterprises broken down by size classes or broken down by legal form;

(c)table 12. Country-level business statistics on demographic events for enterprises;

(d)table 13. Country-level business statistics on high-growth enterprises;

(e)table 14. Country-level business statistics on enterprises by country of ultimate control;

(f)table 15. Country-level business statistics on foreign-controlling enterprises and domestic affiliates active in the reporting country;

(g)table 17. Country-level business statistics on trade in services by enterprise characteristics (STEC) – annual data;

(h)table 18. Country-level business statistics on intramural R & D expenditure, for the following breakdowns:

—point 5. ‘Breakdown by activity (for business enterprise sector only)’;

—point 6. ‘Breakdown by industry orientation (for business enterprise sector only) (optional)’;

(i)table 19. Country level business statistics on employment in R&D, for the following breakdowns:

—point 6. ‘Breakdown by activity’;

—point 8. ‘Breakdown by activity and gender’;

(j)table 20. Country-level statistics on publicly funded R&D;

(k)table 21. Country-level business statistics on purchases by enterprises (only annual data);

(l)table 22. Country-level business statistics on changes in stock of enterprises;

(m)table 26. Country-level business statistics on industrial production;

(n)table 27. Country-level business statistics on investments in tangible non-current assets by enterprises;

(o)table 33. Statistics on international activities – control by institutional units of the reporting country on enterprises abroad.

The data referred to in paragraph 1 shall be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) within 12 months from the data transmission deadlines set out in the respective tables of Annex I, part B ‘Elements of data requirements’.

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aircraft
means finished aeroplanes and other aircraft whose unladen weight exceeds 2000 kg;
aircraft parts
means parts falling within Chapter 88 of the Combined Nomenclature in force during the reference period.
Commodity
means goods according to the Combined Nomenclature in force during the reference period.
component part
means a delivery for an industrial plant which is made up of goods which all belong to the same chapter of the Combined Nomenclature in force during the reference period.
consignment
means all transactions during the reference month which are subject of the same invoice.
Container
means information about whether or not the goods are transported in containers when crossing the border of the statistical territory of the Union.
Country of origin
means the Member State or the country where the goods originate.
customs declaration
means the ‘customs declaration’ as defined in the Union Customs Code;
decision by customs
means any official act by customs authorities relating to accepted customs declarations and having legal effect on one or more persons;
delivery of goods to vessels and aircraft
means the delivery of products for the crew and passengers for consumption during the journey, and for the operation of the engines, machines and other equipment of vessels or aircraft;
economic ownership
means the right to claim the benefits associated with the use of an asset by virtue of accepting the associated risks;
electrical energy
means electrical energy transferred in border-crossing electricity grids.
exports of goods
means all physical movements of goods which subtract from the stock of material resources of a Member State by leaving the statistical territory of this Member State to a destination in the statistical territory of another Member State or a non-member country;
goods
means all movable property, including electrical energy and natural gas;
goods delivered to offshore installations
means the delivery of products for the crew, for the operation of engines, machines and other equipment of offshore installation;
goods in quasi-export
means goods which are brought from another Member State to the Member State in which the goods are located at the time of release into the customs procedure, for the purpose of declaring these goods for export, on condition that the exporter is not established in the Member State in which the goods are located at the time of release into the customs procedure, and that the entry into the Member State where the goods are located at the time of release into the customs procedure is not an intra-Union acquisition of goods or transaction treated as such as referred to in Council Directive 2006/112/EC;
goods in quasi-import
means goods which are released for free circulation in a Member State, without the importer being established in that Member State, and which are subsequently exported to another Member State;
goods in transit between Member States
means goods which, on their way to the Member State of destination, move through any intermediate Member State or stop for reasons related only to the transport of the goods, without such movement being an import or export of goods in that Member State;
goods obtained from or produced by offshore installations
means products extracted from the seabed or subsoil, or manufactured by the offshore installation, and goods obtained from the dismantling of the offshore installation;
goods to be used for the building of offshore installation
means the delivery of durable goods to build a new or extend an existing offshore installation;
imports of goods
means all physical movements of goods which add to the stock of material resources of a Member State by entering the statistical territory of this Member State from the statistical territory of another Member State or from a non-member country;
industrial plant
means a combination of machines, apparatus, appliances, equipment, instruments and materials which together make up large-scale, stationary units producing goods or providing services;
Member State of consignment
means the Member State from which the goods were initially exported to the Member State of import if neither a commercial transaction (e.g. sale or processing) nor a stoppage unrelated to transport has taken place in an intermediate Member State.
Member State of destination
means the last Member State to which it is known, at the time of export, that the goods are to be exported.
Member State of extra-Union export
means the Member State in the statistical territory of which the goods are located at the time of release into the customs procedure or at the time of re-export.
Member State of extra-Union import
means the Member State in the statistical territory of which the goods are located at the time of release into the customs procedure.
Member State of intra-Union export
means the Member State from the statistical territory of which goods are exported to their destination in another Member State;
Member State of intra-Union import
means the Member State in the statistical territory of which goods are imported from another Member State.
Member State or non-member country of construction
means the Member State or non-member country where the last, substantial, economically justified processing or working was carried out on an unfinished good.
Mode of transport at the border
means the active means of transport by which the goods are presumed to:
motor vehicle parts
means parts falling within Chapter 87 of the Combined Nomenclature in force during the reference period;
natural gas
means natural gas in gaseous state supplied through natural gas distribution systems.
Nature of transaction
means the different features (purchase/sale, work under contract, etc.) which are deemed to be useful in distinguishing one transaction from another, in particular for the purposes of Balance of Payments and National Accounts.
non-member country
means any country or territory which does not form part of the statistical territory of the European Union;
non-Union goods
means ‘non-Union goods’ as defined in the Union Customs Code;
offshore installation
means equipment and devices to be installed, or installed and stationary in the sea outside the statistical territory of any Member State;
processing
means actions or operations (manufacturing, transformation, construction, assembling, enhancement, renovation etc.) with the objective of obtaining or producing a new or significantly improved good;
sea products
means fishery products, minerals, salvage and all other products, if not covered by the provisions of Section 23, which have not yet been landed by seagoing vessels;
spacecraft
means satellites and other goods able to travel outside the earth’s atmosphere, and parts of these goods;
specific goods or movements
means the goods or movements of goods referred to in Chapter III of this Annex, which by their very nature, diverge from the principle to record physical movements of goods across the border of a Member State or require specific methodological provisions different from the provisions applicable to all other goods or movements;
Statistical procedure
means the different characteristics used in distinguishing different types of imports and exports, in particular according to their placement under a customs procedure, as specified in Table 3 of Part C to Annex I to this Regulation.
Union goods
means ‘Union goods’ as defined in the Union Customs Code;
vessel
means finished vessels considered as seagoing in accordance with Chapter 89 of the Combined Nomenclature in force during the reference period, tugs, warships and floating structures;