Article 5, Paragraph 10. · Regulation (EU) 2022/2379

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10.The Commission shall adopt implementing acts to define the data sets to be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat). Those implementing acts shall specify the following technical elements of the data to be provided, where appropriate:

(a)the list of variables;

(b)the description of variables, including:

(i)the characteristics of the observation unit,

(ii)the measurement unit for the characteristics of the observation unit,

(iii)the organic and regional dimensions for the characteristics of the observation unit;

a variable is counted as a combination of a characteristic of an observation unit with the corresponding measurement unit and one of its dimensions;

(c)the observation units;

(d)the precision requirements;

(e)the methodological rules;

(f)the deadlines for transmitting the data, taking into account the necessary time to produce national data complying with the quality criteria defined in Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 and the need to minimise the administrative burden and costs on the Member States and the respondents; the deadlines for transmitting the data shall not be modified before 1 January 2030.Where the Commission identifies the need to modify the deadlines for transmitting the data, it shall launch feasibility studies as set out in Article 11 of this Regulation and the results of those feasibility studies shall be duly taken into account. When modifying the deadlines for transmitting the data, those deadlines shall not be reduced by more than 20 % of the days which separate the end of the reference period from the deadline for transmitting the data as set out in the first implementing act adopted pursuant to this paragraph, unless the reduction of the deadline for transmitting the data is solely due to the introduction of an innovative approach or the use of new digital data sources, such as Earth observation or big data, available in all Member States.

Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 19(2) at least 12 months before the beginning of the relevant reference year.