Legislation

European business statistics regulation

• EU regulation 2019/2152 on European business statistics 
• EU regulation 2020/1197 on technical specifications and arrangements 
• EU decision 2021/1003 granting derogations 

Structural Business Statistics are provided on the basis of the European business statistics (EBS) regulation starting with reference year 2021. More information on the changes and new data requirements introduced by the EBS regulation can be found in the article on  European business statistics.

Previous regulations

• EU regulation 446/2014 on the series of data to be produced and the criteria for evaluation of the quality of structural business statistics
• EU regulation 439/2014 on the definitions of characteristics and the technical format for the transmission of data
• EU regulation 251/2009 on the series of data to be produced for structural business statistics
• EU regulation 275/2010 on the criteria for the evaluation of the quality of structural business statistics