Legislation

European business statistics regulation

• EU regulation 2019/2152 on European business statistics
• EU implementing regulation 2020/1197 laying down technical specifications and arrangements pursuant to EU implementing regulation 2019/2152
• EU implementing regulation 2020/1470 on the nomenclature of countries and territories
• EU implementing regulation 2022/918 laying down technical specifications of data requirements for the topic global value chains 

Globalisation in business statistics are provided on the basis of the European business statistics (EBS) regulation as of the 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.

Foreign direct investment

• EU regulation 184/2005 on statistics concerning balance of payments, international trade in services and foreign direct investment