Reference metadata describe statistical concepts and methodologies used for the collection and generation of data. They provide information on data quality and, since they are strongly content-oriented, assist users in interpreting the data. Reference metadata, unlike structural metadata, can be decoupled from the data.
E11 - Statistical Business Register: enterprise groups, survey infrastructure, profiling of enterprises
1.3. Contact name
Confidential because of GDPR
1.4. Contact person function
Confidential because of GDPR
1.5. Contact mail address
Federal Statistical Office Germany (Destatis), Gustav-Stresemann-Ring 11, 65180 Wiesbaden, Germany
1.6. Contact email address
Confidential because of GDPR
1.7. Contact phone number
Confidential because of GDPR
1.8. Contact fax number
Confidential because of GDPR
2.1. Metadata last certified
16 May 2025
2.2. Metadata last posted
16 May 2025
2.3. Metadata last update
16 May 2025
3.1. Data description
The EuroGroups register (EGR) is the statistical business register of Eurostat and the EU Member States and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries for multinational enterprise groups. The purpose of the EGR is to offer to statistical users a tool for coordinating frame population, to derive consistent statistical output with an improved quality in measuring global activities of European enterprises part of multinational enterprise groups.
The EGR produces data in yearly cycles and covers microdata on the groups and their enterprises and legal units. The EGR aims to register all multinational enterprise groups that have enterprises in EU Member States or EFTA countries, including European and non-European groups.
The Member States, EFTA countries and Eurostat exchange data on multinational enterprise groups and on the units belonging to those groups for the purposes of the European framework for statistical business registers to ensure the quality of the multinational enterprise group’s information in the Union.
The EGR brings together microdata on multinational enterprise groups from the EU and the EFTA countries' national statistical institutes, in line with the requirements of the Regulation (EU) No 2152/2019, and from a commercial data source for data outside the EU and EFTA.
3.2. Classification system
Classification systems and main code lists used in the EGR are as follows:
Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE Rev. 2);
The coverage of the data transmitted to the EGR is defined in the Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 on European business statistics.
For the purposes of the European framework for statistical business registers, the following economic activities are considered:
any activity comprising the offer of goods and services on a given market;
non-market services contributing to the GDP;
direct and indirect holdings of active legal units.
Holding assets and/or liabilities are also considered an economic activity.
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
Global group head
The global group head (GGH) of an enterprise group is the parent legal unit that is not controlled either directly or indirectly by any other legal unit. The subsidiary legal units of a subsidiary legal unit are considered to be subsidiaries of the parent legal unit.
Global decision centre
The global decision centre (GDC) of an enterprise group is the unit where the enterprise group level’s strategic decisions are taken. A group may have several decision-making centres or several units dedicated to a particular internal function, for example accounting or human resources. However, the decisions about the group are made only in the GDC. The GDC may be the GGH or another legal unit under the GGH.
Ultimate Controlling Institutional unit
The ultimate controlling institutional unit (UCI) of a foreign affiliate means the institutional unit higher up a foreign affiliate’s chain of control that is not controlled by another institutional unit.
Activity of unit
A statistical unit is considered to have been active during the reference period, if in said period it either realized positive net turnover or produced outputs or had employees or performed investments. A legal unit can be legally or administratively active without any economic activity, when the legal unit is part of an enterprise in combination with other economically active legal units. A legal unit is also active, if it controls other legal units.
Number of employees
Number of persons employed is defined as the total number of persons who work in the unit, including wage-earners.
Number of employees and self -employed persons
Number of persons employed is defined as the total number of persons who work in the unit, including wage-earners and self-employed persons (i.e., working proprietors, partners working regularly in the unit and unpaid family workers) as well as persons who work outside the unit but who belong to it and are paid by it (e.g., sales representatives, delivery personnel, repair and maintenance teams).
Net turnover
Net turnover comprises the totals invoiced by the observation unit during the reference period, and this corresponds to market sales of goods or services supplied to third parties. Turnover also includes all other charges (transport, packaging, etc.) passed on to the customer, even if these charges are listed separately in the invoice.
Net turnover excludes VAT and other similar deductible taxes directly linked to turnover as well as all duties and taxes on the goods or services invoiced by the unit. Income classified as other operating income, financial income and extraordinary income in company accounts is excluded from turnover.
Principal activity
The principal (or main) activity is the activity that contributes most to the total value added of a unit under consideration. Ideally, the principal activity of the unit should be determined with reference to the value added to the goods and services produced, by applying the top-down method. The top-down method follows a hierarchical principle: the classification of the unit at the lowest level of the classification must be consistent with the classification of the unit at higher levels. The principal activity so identified does not necessarily account for 50 % or more of the unit’s total value added.
3.5. Statistical unit
The statistical units maintained in the EGR are defined in accordance with the Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 on the statistical units for the observation and analysis of the production system in the Community.
The EGR frame contains the following units: Legal units, Enterprises and Multinational enterprise groups.
Legal units include:
- legal persons whose existence is recognized by law independently of the individuals or institutions which may own them or are members of them,
- natural persons who are engaged in an economic activity in their own right.
The legal unit always forms, either by itself or sometimes in combination with other legal units, the legal basis for the statistical unit known as the 'enterprise'.
Enterprise
The enterprise is the smallest combination of legal units that is an organizational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. An enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations. An enterprise may be a sole legal unit.
Multinational enterprise group
A multinational enterprise group is an enterprise group that has at least two enterprises or legal units located in different countries. In business statistics also term ‘global enterprise group’ is used.
3.6. Statistical population
The data transmitted to the EGR during the cycle is made of the following datasets.
The data set with information on all incorporated resident legal units for the EGR Identification Service.
ISRLE file includes part of the population of resident legal units with an ID from national trade register is sent to EGR for identification.
The data set with information on foreign legal units for the EGR Identification Service.
ISNORLE file including full population of foreign legal units recorded in national statistical business register is sent to EGR for identification.
The data set with information on legal units.
LEU file including all resident legal units that have a LEID in EGR and belonging to a global enterprise group is sent to EGR for processing.
The data set with information on relationships of ownership and control.
REL file including all relationships between legal units that have a LEID in EGR is sent to EGR for processing:
two resident legal units
one resident and one foreign legal unit
two foreign legal units.
Relationships in the REL are:
control relationships (>50%)
The data set with information on enterprises.
ENT file including all enterprises made of legal units sent in LEU file is sent to EGR for processing.
The Data set with information on links between enterprises and legal units.
LEL file including all links between enterprises (ENT) and legal units (LEU) is sent to EGR for processing.
The Data set with information on enterprise groups of which country is the GDC country for the EuroGroups Register.
GEG file including all groups data is sent to the EGR for processing.
The groups’ variables are updated after receiving the preliminary frame:
Official name of the global enterprise group (GEG_NAME)
Number of employees and self-employed persons in the enterprise group (GEG_PERS_EMPL)
Net turnover of the global enterprise group in millions (GEG_TURNOV)
Currency of the net turnover of the global enterprise group (GEG_TURNOV_CUR_CODE)
Website of the global enterprise group (GEG_WEB)
Residence Country Code of Natural Person that controls the group (GEG_UCI_RCC)
3.7. Reference area
The data send to EGR covered global data of all enterprise groups having at least one enterprise and/or legal unit in Germany.
3.8. Coverage - Time
The EGR frames are available from reference year 2008 onwards. NSI transmits data for the EGR production cycle since 2008.
3.9. Base period
Not applicable
The economic variables on employment are recorded in absolute figures.
The net turnover for enterprises is recorded in EURO currency.
The net turnover and net total asset is recorded in millions in EURO currency.
The reference period for data sent to the EGR reflects the picture of 31 December of the given reference year.
Data transmitted to EGR during the EGR 2023 cycle includes data for the 2023 reference year. The identification, economic variables (number of employees, turnover and economic activity) refer to the 2023 reference year.
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements
The content of the national data sent to EGR is defined according the Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 on European business statistics.
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 of 30 July 2020 is laying down the technical specifications and arrangements pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European business statistics.
Annexes: Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 on European business statistics Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 of 30 July 2020 is laying down the technical specifications and arrangements pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European business statistics
6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing
The legal framework setting up the procedures for EGR data exchanges and access to confidential data for the purpose of the European framework for statistical business registers are defined in the Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 on European business statistics (Art.10).
The national legislative measures or other formal procedures which prevent unauthorised disclosure of data that identify a person or economic entity either directly or indirectly include:
§ 16 - Bundesstatistikgesetz (BStatG from 2022, Federal Statistics Law)
EGR data are stored by the Commission (Eurostat) and by the national statistical authorities (NSAs) in the EU Member States and EFTA countries in a secure area with restricted and controlled access.
The transmission of the EGR data is done in an encrypted form and by electronic means via the Commission (Eurostat) single entry point for exchange of confidential data eDamis
Rules applied for treating the data set to ensure statistical confidentiality and prevent unauthorised disclosure are defined according to the policy rules (see section 7.1).
8.1. Release calendar
Not applicable.
8.2. Release calendar access
Not applicable.
8.3. Release policy - user access
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
10.1. Dissemination format - News release
Not applicable.
10.2. Dissemination format - Publications
Not applicable.
10.3. Dissemination format - online database
Not applicable.
10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access
The micro-data exchange of confidential data on multinational enterprise groups and on the statistical units belonging to those groups takes place, exclusively for statistical purposes, between EU Member States and EFTA countries and the European Commission (Eurostat).
Where such exchange of confidential data is carried out to ensure the quality of the multinational enterprise groups information in the Union and the exchange is explicitly authorised by the competent NSA which provides the data, national central banks may be party to the exchange of confidential data, exclusively for statistical purposes.
NSI Germany exchanges information on multinational enterprise groups with:
Other Member States for correction of group structures in EGR and European Profiling and TOP TIER Profiling in IPT
National Central Bank (NCB) for FATS purposes and improving quality of EGR data
Publicly available information on the German statistical business register, its data, methodology, quality management is avilable on the website: Statistisches Unternehmensregister
Eurostat Data Quality Programme monitors the quality and compliance of the data transmitted by the countries to EGR using the instruments of the EBS quality framework.
At national level, the quality of the data sent to EGR is assured as follows:
Plausibility checks of all sources for information related to enterpise groups data
Manual treatment of the largest enterprise groups in Germany, including their structure and group data with the amendments done direct in the IPT and EGR IM tool or via a datafile sent through eDAMIS. In case of group structure changes where another EU/EFTA Member State is concerned these are contacted via Email in line with the EGR Priority rules.
11.2. Quality management - assessment
The quality assessment procedure includes:
automatic validation procedures to check coherence between statistical units and their variables,
data format and logical content of data
crosschecks of coherence between the frames (depending on availability of staff)
crosschecks with other sources and data from previous years.
12.1. Relevance - User Needs
The EGR provides harmonised information on multinational enterprise groups and their enterprises in the EU and EFTA countries. The statistical users can use EGR coordinated frame populations to derive consistent statistical output with an improved quality in measuring global activities of European enterprises that are part of multinational enterprise groups.
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction
In 2017, Eurostat conducted first SBR user consultation survey addressing users and potential users of the national statistical business registers (NSBR) and the EuroGroups Register (EGR). The second SBR user survey was opened for contributions by statistical users between November 2019 and March 2020. 2020 SBR survey results show that the EGR is widely used and users consider that its quality had been significantly improved in the recent years. The EGR data are used mostly in Economic globalisation domain (35%) and Economy and finance (25%). Most of the respondents (71%) stated that they currently use EGR data for the production of official statistics at national level.
12.3. Completeness
All information send by the member states and consolidated in EGR are available in the final frames.
13.1. Accuracy - overall
We assess the overall accuracy of the data transmitted to the EGR as follows:
Units
Assessment
Legal units
very good
Relationships between legal units
very good
Enterprises characteristics
very good
Enterprise perimeter
very good
Multinational enterprise group (with Global decision centre in my country)
very good
This accuracy assessment is based on:
data derives from the BR and BR units are constantly updated
The main issues regarding accuracy of the data and issue importance are as follows:
Units
Issue
Assessment of the impact
Legal units
1. natural persons, foundations, governments and public institutions have no trade register number and thus no basis for the national-id in Germany and there is no technical possibility to transmit them to the EGR at the moment; 2. only resident legal units can be updated with administrative data in the German BR, the non-resident legal units and their information derive from the commercial data provider and cannot be validated.
1. Lacking natural persons, foundations, governments and public institutions in EGR, especially if they are actually the GGH, leads to missing the whole picture of the group in EGR and to split group structures. 2. As we have no administrative data for non-resident legal units this is possibly a quality issue to the EGR which we attempt to validate in the matching process using the data of other Member states in the Batch identification.
Relationships between legal units
relationships of only a certain number of significant groups with a German GDC/GGH are manually checked and corrected if necessary, all the rest remains as received from the commercial data provider)
the quality of the relationships between legal units that do not belong to the groups whose quality was manually checked might be compromised
Enterprises characteristics
we can only guarantee the quality of characteristics of Intensively or desktop profiled enterprises, not those in the automatic profiling
characteristics of the automatic profiled enterprises might be compromised
Enterprise perimeter
we can only guarantee the quality of perimeters of Intensively or desktop profiled enterprises, not those in the automatic profiling
perimeters of the automatic profiled enterprises might be compromised
Multinational enterprise group (with Global decision centre in my country)
due to the lacking natural persons, foundations, governments or public institutions in the EGR (see "Legal units" above) which can be GGH of the MNE groups this can lead to split group structure and/or non-real part-groups
Overall number and perimeter of the global MNE groups in the EGR are as a result compromised. Truncated Germany-based groups (German parts of multinational groups) may differ in their perimeter in NSBR compared to EGR
The actions taken to reduce bias (if any) and to improve accuracy of the data are as follows:
depending on the availability of time and required staff further actions are taken in Germany:
crosschecking of the group structure of the largest and most significant grops with the GDC in Germany
crosschecking of the EU/EFTA-based groups´ structures on the request of other Member States
correcting of implausible constellations based on Eurostat EGR-Team´s plausibility checks.
13.2. Sampling error
Not applicable.
13.3. Non-sampling error
Not applicable.
14.1. Timeliness
The EGR process refers to a reference year T and is run yearly over a period of 11 months, between April T+1 and March T+2.
14.2. Punctuality
The data transmitted to the EGR during the cycle was on time.
15.1. Comparability - geographical
EGR frame allows geographical comparability of information on MNE groups provided by countries.
15.2. Comparability - over time
The data in EGR for reference year 2023 are comparable with the previous years.
15.3. Coherence - cross domain
Coherence of data sent to Eurostat with other data sources and statistical domains:
FATS Indicators
15.4. Coherence - internal
Data sent to EGR should be internally consistent. There is a set of standard quality checks that are routinely performed at national level before transmitting the data to Eurostat:
Plausibility checks of all sources for information related to enterpise groups data
Manual treatment of the largest enterprise groups in Germany, including their structure and group data
Not available.
17.1. Data revision - policy
Not applicable
17.2. Data revision - practice
Not applicable
18.1. Source data
The data deliverd to EGR comes from:
Commercial data provider
Administrative data (e.g. national trade register, tax offices)
National central bank
National profiling of enterprises
18.2. Frequency of data collection
National data sent to EGR annually
18.3. Data collection
Data sent to EGR are collected from:
National Statistical business registers
Administrative data sources
Commercial data provider
Manual treatment of the largest enterprise groups in Germany
18.4. Data validation
The EGR data validation process takes place continuously during EGR production process in between T+5 and T+15 months. The national statistical institutes contribute to the validation process at the group structures’ in repair phase by delivering relationships and data on enterprise groups to the EGR and also by pre-validating the EGR input file.
18.5. Data compilation
The data send to EGR are performed without any imputation operations. After plausibility checks all valid data is sent to EGR.
18.6. Adjustment
Not applicable.
No further comments.
The EuroGroups register (EGR) is the statistical business register of Eurostat and the EU Member States and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries for multinational enterprise groups. The purpose of the EGR is to offer to statistical users a tool for coordinating frame population, to derive consistent statistical output with an improved quality in measuring global activities of European enterprises part of multinational enterprise groups.
The EGR produces data in yearly cycles and covers microdata on the groups and their enterprises and legal units. The EGR aims to register all multinational enterprise groups that have enterprises in EU Member States or EFTA countries, including European and non-European groups.
The Member States, EFTA countries and Eurostat exchange data on multinational enterprise groups and on the units belonging to those groups for the purposes of the European framework for statistical business registers to ensure the quality of the multinational enterprise group’s information in the Union.
The EGR brings together microdata on multinational enterprise groups from the EU and the EFTA countries' national statistical institutes, in line with the requirements of the Regulation (EU) No 2152/2019, and from a commercial data source for data outside the EU and EFTA.
16 May 2025
Global group head
The global group head (GGH) of an enterprise group is the parent legal unit that is not controlled either directly or indirectly by any other legal unit. The subsidiary legal units of a subsidiary legal unit are considered to be subsidiaries of the parent legal unit.
Global decision centre
The global decision centre (GDC) of an enterprise group is the unit where the enterprise group level’s strategic decisions are taken. A group may have several decision-making centres or several units dedicated to a particular internal function, for example accounting or human resources. However, the decisions about the group are made only in the GDC. The GDC may be the GGH or another legal unit under the GGH.
Ultimate Controlling Institutional unit
The ultimate controlling institutional unit (UCI) of a foreign affiliate means the institutional unit higher up a foreign affiliate’s chain of control that is not controlled by another institutional unit.
Activity of unit
A statistical unit is considered to have been active during the reference period, if in said period it either realized positive net turnover or produced outputs or had employees or performed investments. A legal unit can be legally or administratively active without any economic activity, when the legal unit is part of an enterprise in combination with other economically active legal units. A legal unit is also active, if it controls other legal units.
Number of employees
Number of persons employed is defined as the total number of persons who work in the unit, including wage-earners.
Number of employees and self -employed persons
Number of persons employed is defined as the total number of persons who work in the unit, including wage-earners and self-employed persons (i.e., working proprietors, partners working regularly in the unit and unpaid family workers) as well as persons who work outside the unit but who belong to it and are paid by it (e.g., sales representatives, delivery personnel, repair and maintenance teams).
Net turnover
Net turnover comprises the totals invoiced by the observation unit during the reference period, and this corresponds to market sales of goods or services supplied to third parties. Turnover also includes all other charges (transport, packaging, etc.) passed on to the customer, even if these charges are listed separately in the invoice.
Net turnover excludes VAT and other similar deductible taxes directly linked to turnover as well as all duties and taxes on the goods or services invoiced by the unit. Income classified as other operating income, financial income and extraordinary income in company accounts is excluded from turnover.
Principal activity
The principal (or main) activity is the activity that contributes most to the total value added of a unit under consideration. Ideally, the principal activity of the unit should be determined with reference to the value added to the goods and services produced, by applying the top-down method. The top-down method follows a hierarchical principle: the classification of the unit at the lowest level of the classification must be consistent with the classification of the unit at higher levels. The principal activity so identified does not necessarily account for 50 % or more of the unit’s total value added.
The statistical units maintained in the EGR are defined in accordance with the Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 on the statistical units for the observation and analysis of the production system in the Community.
The EGR frame contains the following units: Legal units, Enterprises and Multinational enterprise groups.
Legal units include:
- legal persons whose existence is recognized by law independently of the individuals or institutions which may own them or are members of them,
- natural persons who are engaged in an economic activity in their own right.
The legal unit always forms, either by itself or sometimes in combination with other legal units, the legal basis for the statistical unit known as the 'enterprise'.
Enterprise
The enterprise is the smallest combination of legal units that is an organizational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. An enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations. An enterprise may be a sole legal unit.
Multinational enterprise group
A multinational enterprise group is an enterprise group that has at least two enterprises or legal units located in different countries. In business statistics also term ‘global enterprise group’ is used.
The data transmitted to the EGR during the cycle is made of the following datasets.
The data set with information on all incorporated resident legal units for the EGR Identification Service.
ISRLE file includes part of the population of resident legal units with an ID from national trade register is sent to EGR for identification.
The data set with information on foreign legal units for the EGR Identification Service.
ISNORLE file including full population of foreign legal units recorded in national statistical business register is sent to EGR for identification.
The data set with information on legal units.
LEU file including all resident legal units that have a LEID in EGR and belonging to a global enterprise group is sent to EGR for processing.
The data set with information on relationships of ownership and control.
REL file including all relationships between legal units that have a LEID in EGR is sent to EGR for processing:
two resident legal units
one resident and one foreign legal unit
two foreign legal units.
Relationships in the REL are:
control relationships (>50%)
The data set with information on enterprises.
ENT file including all enterprises made of legal units sent in LEU file is sent to EGR for processing.
The Data set with information on links between enterprises and legal units.
LEL file including all links between enterprises (ENT) and legal units (LEU) is sent to EGR for processing.
The Data set with information on enterprise groups of which country is the GDC country for the EuroGroups Register.
GEG file including all groups data is sent to the EGR for processing.
The groups’ variables are updated after receiving the preliminary frame:
Official name of the global enterprise group (GEG_NAME)
Number of employees and self-employed persons in the enterprise group (GEG_PERS_EMPL)
Net turnover of the global enterprise group in millions (GEG_TURNOV)
Currency of the net turnover of the global enterprise group (GEG_TURNOV_CUR_CODE)
Website of the global enterprise group (GEG_WEB)
Residence Country Code of Natural Person that controls the group (GEG_UCI_RCC)
The data send to EGR covered global data of all enterprise groups having at least one enterprise and/or legal unit in Germany.
The reference period for data sent to the EGR reflects the picture of 31 December of the given reference year.
Data transmitted to EGR during the EGR 2023 cycle includes data for the 2023 reference year. The identification, economic variables (number of employees, turnover and economic activity) refer to the 2023 reference year.
We assess the overall accuracy of the data transmitted to the EGR as follows:
Units
Assessment
Legal units
very good
Relationships between legal units
very good
Enterprises characteristics
very good
Enterprise perimeter
very good
Multinational enterprise group (with Global decision centre in my country)
very good
This accuracy assessment is based on:
data derives from the BR and BR units are constantly updated
The main issues regarding accuracy of the data and issue importance are as follows:
Units
Issue
Assessment of the impact
Legal units
1. natural persons, foundations, governments and public institutions have no trade register number and thus no basis for the national-id in Germany and there is no technical possibility to transmit them to the EGR at the moment; 2. only resident legal units can be updated with administrative data in the German BR, the non-resident legal units and their information derive from the commercial data provider and cannot be validated.
1. Lacking natural persons, foundations, governments and public institutions in EGR, especially if they are actually the GGH, leads to missing the whole picture of the group in EGR and to split group structures. 2. As we have no administrative data for non-resident legal units this is possibly a quality issue to the EGR which we attempt to validate in the matching process using the data of other Member states in the Batch identification.
Relationships between legal units
relationships of only a certain number of significant groups with a German GDC/GGH are manually checked and corrected if necessary, all the rest remains as received from the commercial data provider)
the quality of the relationships between legal units that do not belong to the groups whose quality was manually checked might be compromised
Enterprises characteristics
we can only guarantee the quality of characteristics of Intensively or desktop profiled enterprises, not those in the automatic profiling
characteristics of the automatic profiled enterprises might be compromised
Enterprise perimeter
we can only guarantee the quality of perimeters of Intensively or desktop profiled enterprises, not those in the automatic profiling
perimeters of the automatic profiled enterprises might be compromised
Multinational enterprise group (with Global decision centre in my country)
due to the lacking natural persons, foundations, governments or public institutions in the EGR (see "Legal units" above) which can be GGH of the MNE groups this can lead to split group structure and/or non-real part-groups
Overall number and perimeter of the global MNE groups in the EGR are as a result compromised. Truncated Germany-based groups (German parts of multinational groups) may differ in their perimeter in NSBR compared to EGR
The actions taken to reduce bias (if any) and to improve accuracy of the data are as follows:
depending on the availability of time and required staff further actions are taken in Germany:
crosschecking of the group structure of the largest and most significant grops with the GDC in Germany
crosschecking of the EU/EFTA-based groups´ structures on the request of other Member States
correcting of implausible constellations based on Eurostat EGR-Team´s plausibility checks.
The economic variables on employment are recorded in absolute figures.
The net turnover for enterprises is recorded in EURO currency.
The net turnover and net total asset is recorded in millions in EURO currency.
The data send to EGR are performed without any imputation operations. After plausibility checks all valid data is sent to EGR.
The data deliverd to EGR comes from:
Commercial data provider
Administrative data (e.g. national trade register, tax offices)
National central bank
National profiling of enterprises
Not applicable.
The EGR process refers to a reference year T and is run yearly over a period of 11 months, between April T+1 and March T+2.
EGR frame allows geographical comparability of information on MNE groups provided by countries.
The data in EGR for reference year 2023 are comparable with the previous years.
