Commission Regulation (EC) No 973/2007 of 20 August 2007 amending certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains implementing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2

Member States shall transmit to the Commission (Eurostat) labour cost survey results referring to the calendar year 2008 according to both NACE Rev. 2 and NACE Rev. 1,1, where the latter is compulsory only for Table A and only at the NACE Rev. 1,1 section level.’;

Annex I and Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1916/2000 are amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.

In Regulation (EC) No 2163/2001 the term ‘NACE Revision 1’ is replaced by ‘NACE Rev. 2’ in the Annex.

Regulation (EC) No 1216/2003 is hereby amended as follows: 1. ‘NACE Rev. 1’ is replaced by ‘NACE Rev. 2’ throughout the text and the Annexes; 2. ‘Sections L, M, N and O’ are replaced by ‘Sections O to S’ in Article 4 and in Annex IV; 3. ‘Sections C to K’ are replaced by ‘Sections B to N’ in Annex IV.

In Regulation (EC) No 1983/2003, ‘NACE Rev. 1,1’ is replaced by ‘NACE Rev. 2’ and ‘Rev. 1,1’ is replaced by ‘Rev. 2’ in footnote 22 of the Annex.

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 753/2004 is amended in accordance with Annex III to this Regulation.

The field covered by the survey referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 is to be identified by reference to the survey population and the observation unit. The survey population of the reference period shall be enterprises whose principal activity or one of its secondary activities is listed in sections B or C of the classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE Rev. 2), set out in Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council . The observation unit shall be the enterprise as defined in Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 on the statistical units for the observation and analysis of the production system in the Community. Member States may collect data using another statistical unit as observation unit as long as they transmit enterprise data to Eurostat.

The obligation of Member States to adopt survey methods designed to facilitate the collection of data from units representing at least 90 % of national production per NACE class referred to in Article 3(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 is to be implemented as Member States’ adoption of survey methods designed to enable the collection of data, representing at least 90 % of national production for each NACE Rev. 2 class of sections B and C.’

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1450/2004 is amended in accordance with Annex IV to this Regulation.

In Regulation (EC) No 430/2005 ‘NACE Rev. 1,1’ is replaced by ‘NACE Rev. 2’ throughout Annexe 2.

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 782/2005 is amended in accordance with Annex V to this Regulation.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 1 January 2008, except Article 4 which shall apply from 1 January 2009.