Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/359 of 4 March 2015 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards statistics on healthcare expenditure and financing Text with EEA relevance

This Regulation lays down rules for the development and production of European statistics in the area of healthcare expenditure and financing, one of the subjects for statistics on healthcare listed in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008.

The definitions to be used in applying this Regulation are set out in Annex I.

Member States shall provide data on the areas specified in Annex II.

1 Member States shall provide the required data and the associated standard reference metadata on an annual basis. The reference period shall be the calendar year.

2 Data and reference metadata for the reference year N shall be transmitted by 30 April N+2.

3 Data and reference metadata shall be provided to the Commission (Eurostat) using the single entry point services or should be made available for retrieval by the Commission (Eurostat) by electronic means on an annual basis.

4 The first reference year shall be 2014.

5 The last reference year shall be 2020.

6 By way of derogation from paragraph 2, Member States shall provide the data and reference metadata for the reference year 2014 by 31 May 2016.

1 Member States shall provide data at the level of aggregation specified in Annex II.

2 Member States shall provide the necessary reference metadata, in particular concerning the data sources, their coverage and the compilation methods used, information on features of national healthcare expenditure and financing specific to the Member States that deviate from definitions provided in Annex I, references to national legislation where this forms the basis for healthcare expenditure and financing, as well as information on any changes to the statistical concepts mentioned hereto.

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