Commission Regulation (EC) No 601/2006 of 18 April 2006 implementing Regulation (EC) No 184/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the format and the procedure for the transmission of data

Member States shall transmit to the Commission (Eurostat) data in electronic form, through the Single Entry Point for data, maintained by the Commission (Eurostat). The Commission (Eurostat) shall make available detailed documentation in relation to this Single Entry Point and shall supply guidelines on how to implement data transmission approaches compatible with it.

Member States shall use the data format ‘Gesmes’, in conformity with the interchange standards specified by the Commission (Eurostat). The Commission (Eurostat) shall make available detailed documentation in relation to these standards and shall supply guidelines on how to implement these standards in accordance with the requirements of this Regulation. No proprietary data format shall be used.

The technical specifications of the data structure shall be as given in the Annex to this Regulation.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.