Commission Regulation (EU) No 461/2012 of 31 May 2012 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics and Commission Regulations (EC) No 1503/2006, (EC) No 657/2007 and (EC) No 1178/2008 as regards adaptations related to the removal of the industrial new orders variables Text with EEA relevance

Annex A to Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation.

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1503/2006 is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.

European sample schemes may be applied when compiling statistics that distinguish between the euro area and non-euro-area for the following two variables specified in Annex A to Regulation (EC) No 1165/98: VariableName312Output prices of the non-domestic market340Import prices

Member States participating in the European sample scheme referred to in Article 1 shall transmit data to the Commission (Eurostat) at least for the NACE activities, for variable No 312, and CPA products, for variable No 340, specified in the Annex.’.

Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1178/2008 is amended in accordance with Annex III to this Regulation.

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