Commission Regulation (EU) 2021/1901 of 29 October 2021 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards statistics on health care expenditure and financing (Text with EEA relevance)

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

For the purpose of this Regulation, the definitions set out in Annex I shall apply.

Member States shall provide data for the areas and at the level of aggregation 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. The first reference year shall be 2021.

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 be made available for retrieval by the Commission (Eurostat) by electronic means.

Member States shall provide the necessary reference metadata, in particular concerning: (a) the data sources and their coverage; (b) the compilation methods used; (c) information on features of national health care expenditure and financing specific to the Member States and deviations from the definitions listed in Annex I; (d) references to national legislation where it forms the basis for health care expenditure and financing; (e) information on any changes to the statistical concepts mentioned in Annex I.

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