Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2295

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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2025/941 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 May 2025 on European Union labour market statistics on businesses, repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 and Regulations (EC) No 450/2003 and (EC) No 453/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council^note, and in particular Article 4(7) thereof,Whereas:

(1)In order to ensure the accurate implementation of the data collections of the topics ‘job vacancies’, ‘labour cost index’ and ‘gender pay gap’, the Commission is to specify the content and technical items of the data sets, the statistical concepts, the breakdowns, the precision targets, the metadata and the formats for transmission of information.

(2)Statistics on economic sectors should be comparable internationally. The Member States and the Union institutions should therefore use a statistical classification for economic sectors that is compatible with the NACE^note classification.

(3)Predetermined metadata are needed for the interpretation and usage of the quarterly statistics.

(4)In order to make it easier to compare and interpret results and to increase the coherence between data disseminated nationally and data disseminated internationally over time, seasonal or calendar adjustment is needed for the compilation of short-term statistics.

(5)It is important for analytical purposes that an appropriate amount of back data is available to assess the evolution of short-term indicators over time.

(6)The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,

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