Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1315

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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 Articles 4(7) and 7(5) thereof,Whereas:

(1)The detailed practical arrangements and content of the quality reports should be specified by the Commission in relation to the data to be transmitted by the Member States to Eurostat.

(2)The metadata to be submitted with the data sets should be specified by the Commission.

(3)The metadata for the topics ‘job vacancies’, ‘labour cost index’ and ‘gender pay gap’ are already specified in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2295^note.

(4)A common method for defining statistical precision in sample surveys is needed for evaluating the efforts made towards achieving precision targets.

(5)Commission Recommendation (EU) 2023/397^note on reference metadata and quality reports invites Member States to ensure that their national statistical authorities apply, when compiling reference metadata and quality reports, the statistical concepts listed in the latest version of the Single Integrated Metadata Structure.

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

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