STATEC

(National Institute of statistics and economic studies of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg)

National Statistical Business Register

STATEC

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L-2013 Luxembourg

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.

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.

EGR provides harmonised information on:

• multinational groups, enterprises, legal units;
• identification of multinational groups, enterprises, legal units;
• demographic events,
• stratification parameters,
• control and ownership information,
• economic variables for groups, enterprises and legal units.

The EGR is a database for statistical use only and it is restricted to users of EU and EFTA NSAs, EU National Central Banks (NCB) and the European Central Bank (ECB).

Member States, including Luxembourg, shall transmit annually the quality and metadata reports for the data transmitted under the EBS Regulation (EU)2019/2152.

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);
• Institutional sector code of the enteprise;
• European System of Accounts (ESA 2010);
• List of 2-digit country codes ( ISO 3166-1);
• List of 2 digit state codes for US and CA;
• List of legal forms of the legal units;
• Currency codes (ISO 4217).

The coverage of the data transmitted to the EGR is defined in the Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 on European business statistics. The EGR frames cover units, which wholly or partially, exercise an economic activity comprising the offer of goods and services on a given market and contributing to the gross domestic product (GDP).

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.

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.

GEG_UCI_RCC -  Only the Residence Country Code of Natural Person/UCI that controls the group is in the EuroGroups register (EGR).

Activity of unit

Units that had either turnover or employment at any time during the reference period are active. A unit is also deemed to be active when it is in investment phase, but still does not generate turnover. Activities can be determined by reference to a specific level of NACE.

Article 2(3) of the EBS regulation(Regulation (EU) 2020) on the coverage of the SBRs defines the economically active units. A legal unit can be legally or administratively active without any economic activity, when the inactive legal unit is part of an enterprise in combination with economically active legal units. Holding assets and/or liabilities is also considered an economic activity.

Number of employees

The number of employees represents the average number of persons who were, at some time during the reference period, employees of the statistical unit. (Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 of 30 July 2020 on the technical specifications and arrangements pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 on European business statistics, Annex IV).

Number of employees and self -employed persons

This is defined as a count of the number of employees converted into FTEs.

Figures for the number of persons working less than the standard working time of a full-year full-time worker should be converted into full-time equivalents, with regard to the working time of a full-time full-year employee in the unit. It is the total hours worked divided by the average annual number of hours worked in full-time jobs within the economic territory. Since the lengths of a full-time job has changed through time and differs between industries, methods that establish the average proportion and average hours of less than full-time jobs in each job group have to be used. A normal full-time week must first be estimated in each job group. If possible, a job group can be defined, inside an industry, according to people’s sex and/or kind of work. Hours contractually agreed upon can constitute the appropriate criteria for determining those figures for employee jobs. Full-time equivalents are calculated separately in each job category, and then added up.

Included in this category are people working less than a standard working day, less than the standard number of working days in the week or less than the standard number of weeks/months in the year. The conversion should be carried out on the basis of the number of hours, days, weeks or months worked. (Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 of 30 July 2020 on the technical specifications and arrangements pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 on European business statistics, Annex IV)

Net turnover

For all activities except for NACE 64, 65 and some activities of NACE 66 net turnover consists of all income arising during the reference period in the course of ordinary activities of the statistical unit, and is presented net of all price reductions, discounts and rebates granted by it. 

Income is defined as increases in economic benefits during the reference period in the form of inflows or enhancements of assets or decreases of liabilities that result in increases in equity, other than those relating to contributions from equity participants.
The inflows referred to are arising from contracts with customers and are realized through the satisfaction by the statistical unit of performance obligations as foreseen in said contracts. Usually, a performance obligation is represented by the sale (transfer) of goods or the rendering of services, however, the gross inflows can also contain revenues obtained as a yield on the use by others of the statistical unit’s assets.

Excluded from net turnover are:
— all taxes, duties or levies linked directly to revenue;
— any amounts collected on behalf of any principal, if the statistical unit is acting as an agent in its relationship with said principal;
— all income not arising in the course of ordinary activities of the statistical unit. Usually, these types of income are classified as ‘Other (operating) income’, ‘Financial income’, ‘Extra-ordinary income’ or under a similar heading, depending on the respective set of generally accepted accounting standards used to prepare the financial statements.
Infra-annual statistics may not be able to take into account aspects such as annual price reductions, subsidies, rebates and  discounts.
For the activities of NACE K6411, K6419 and K649 net turnover is defined as the value of output minus subsidies or government grants.
For the activities of NACE K642 and K643 net turnover can be approximated by the total operating costs, if net turnover is not available in the financial statements.
For the activities of NACE K6511, K6512 and K652 net turnover is defined as Gross premiums earned.
For the activities of NACE K653 the net turnover is defined as total pension contributions.
For activities of NACE K66 for which net turnover is not available in the financial statements, net turnover is defined as the value of output minus subsidies or government grants. For activities of NACE K66 for which net turnover is available in the financial statements, the standard definition of net turnover applies.

(Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 of 30 July 2020 on the technical specifications and arrangements pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 on European business statistics, Annex IV)

Total assets

The total assets refers to the sum of the balance sheet items at the end of the accounting period. It covers economic assets, which are divided into financial and non-financial assets.

The total assets of the enterprise group is measured in millions.

Principal activity and secondary activities

Activities can be determined by reference to a specific level of NACE.

If a unit carries out more than one activity, all the activities that are not ancillary activities are ranked according to the gross value added. On the basis of the preponderant gross value added generated, a distinction can then be made between principal activity and secondary activities. Ancillary activities are not isolated to form distinct entities or separated from the principal or secondary activities of entities they serve.

Frame reference year

Reference dates of all variable in the final frame refers to the reference year T, reflecting the final picture of the EGR of the reference year T.

EGR final frame

Statec, the Luxembourg NSA, make annually a copy that reflects the state of the national statistical business registers at the end of the year and keep that copy for at least 30 years for the purpose of analysis. Eurostat shall make annually a copy that reflects the state of the EuroGroups Register (EGR) at the end of the cycle including all units at the end of the reference year and keep that copy for at least 30 years for the purpose of analysis.( REGULATION (EU) 2019/2152 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 November 2019 ANNEX III)

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 EuroGroups register EGR frame contains the following units: Legal units, Enterprises and Multinational enterprise groups.

Legal units include all resident incorporated legal units that can potentially be a parent or a subsidiary.

Natural persons, government-owned public legal entities, international institutions, and financial funds do not constitute the legal units targeted by the EuroGroups Register (EGR).

The information on national hosted branches, by definition a subsidiary owned by a foreign incorporated legal unit, are considered as legal units for EGR use.

The legal entity identifier number (LEID number) is the unique identification number assigned by the EGR Identification Service. The structure of LEID numbers has been created by Eurostat specifically for the purposes of the EGR only for legal persons. The LEID number is a combination of the country code, register code and national identification number of the legal unit ( NATIONAL ID formats in EGR V12 July2022.doc).

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 the term ‘global enterprise group’ is also used.

The data transmitted to the EGR during the cycle is made of the following three datasets for the EGR Identification Service and five datasets for the EGR Interactive Module/EGR Core.

• The data set with information on all incorporated resident legal units for the EGR Identification Service.

an ISRLE file including 163 506 resident legal units is sent to EGR for identification.

• The data set with foreign legal units already having a LEID number for re-identification and update with the recent data of the foreign legal units (LEID number, name, address details, status, etc.).

an ISLEID file including 708 998 foreign legal units recorded in the national statistical business register with LEID number is sent to EGR for re-identification(increase of 5.83% compared to the previous reference year).

• The data set with information on foreign legal units without LEID number for the EGR Identification Service.

an ISNORLE file including 156 130 foreign legal units without a valid LEID number recorded in the national statistical business register is sent to EGR for identification. A significant increase due to new national data sources and the change of supplier for the UK's LEIDs. 

The ad hoc identification data flows(EGR_SPECIAL flow in EDAMIS Production) of previous cycles on the identification of national legal units in national business registers is necessary to ensure quality and completeness of EGR.

The data transmitted to the EGR Core or to EGR Interactive Module.

• The data set with information on legal units.

a LEU file including 106 504 resident legal units belonging to a global enterprise group is sent to EGR for processing (increase of 19.84% compared to the previous reference year).

• The data set with information on relationships of ownership and control.

a REL file including 125 613 relationships between legal units is sent to EGR for processing (increase of 17.08% compared to the previous reference year):

Looking at the nationality of the units making up the relationship, relationships can be divided into three categories.

1. two resident legal units (48 454 LU-LU relationships)
2. one resident and one foreign legal unit (71 691 notLU-LU or LU-notLU relationships)
3. two foreign legal units (5 468 notLU-notLU relationships).

The relationships in the REL shared according to the percentages are:

1. control relationships (>50%)   : 101 215 control relationships: 80.58% control relationships
2. minority relationships (<50% or =50%) : 24 331 minority relationships : 19.37% minority relationships
3. cumulative control / control through accounts one legal unit owns more than 50% of the voting rights, but for the shares the ownership is not above 50%: 67 cumulative control: 0.05% cumulative control

Additional data transmitted to the EGR Core or to EGR Interactive Module.

•  The data set with information on enterprises ( ENT file).

an ENT file including 94 203 enterprises made of legal units sent in LEU files is sent to EGR for processing.

•  The data set with information on links between enterprises and legal units (LEL file).

a LEL file including 107 128 links between enterprises (ENT) and legal units (LEU) is sent to EGR for processing.

•  The data set with information on enterprise groups for the EuroGroups Register(GEG file).

a GEG file including 23 148 groups is sent to the EGR for processing.

The number of transmission GEGs down around 48% compared to the previous reference year, due to a change in methodology: each country can send the groups for which it holds the GDC legal unit. Luxembourg is involved in a large number of multinational companies, of which only the financing structure of the group is located in Luxembourg.

The groups’ variables are updated after receiving the preliminary frame:

• Name of the group, GEG_NAME, the official name of the global enterprise group
• Nace of the enterprise group, GEG_NACE_CODE_DIV, NACE Rev 2 main activity code of the enterprise group at 3-digit level
• Number of persons employed by the enterprise group,
• Employment economic flag of the enterprise group,
• Number of persons employed in activities outside EU and EFTA countries,
• Net turnover of the enterprise group in millions,
• Currency of the net turnover of the enterprise group for the LCU groups
• Residence Country Code of UCI that controls the group, GEG_UCI_RCC
• Short text description of the enterprise group, GEG_DESCR, only for significant groups
• Website of the enterprise group, GEG_WEB, only for significant groups

The EGR offers a coordinated frame population that enables European national statistical authorities to derive consistent statistical output in measuring global activities of European enterprises part of multinational groups.

The final frame of the EGR includes the following statistical population: multinational groups of companies having at least one legal unit located in Luxembourg and groups under foreign control as well as all the components of these two types of groups: their legal units, their relationships, their entreprises and the UCI countries.

Multinational enterprise group's information can be used for statistics related to globalisation, as foreign affiliates statistics (FATS), foreign direct investment (FDI) statistics, intra-group trade
statistics, contributions of multinational groups to international trade, balance of payments (BoP), national accounts (NA), gross national income (GNI) statistics, etc.

Luxembourg (Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) is the geographic area to which the national EGR  data relates.

The Reference area of the EGR is the world, although the main interest is the area of EU and EFTA countries. Multinational enterprise groups active exclusively outside the EU and EFTA are not of interest to the EGR.

The EGR frames are available from reference year 2008 onwards. The NSI transmits data for the EGR production cycle since the year 2013.

The EGR version 1.0 was set up in 2008. As legal background the new version of the business register regulation was published in 2008 allowing micro data exchanges for the creation of the EGR. EGR 1.0 produced 4 yearly frames for reference years from 2008 to 2011.

In 2011 the new concept of EGR, version 2.0 was launched. The EGR redesign was targeting several goals:

• Improve EGR process
• Improve EGR functionalities
• Create on-line applications, the EGR IM for users with remote access 
• Create a system assigning unique identifiers(EGR IS) to the legal entities applied in the EGR data exchanges
• Improve the quality of output 
• Targeting complete coverage

In 2021, new European regulations regarding EGR are in place and the concept of continuity over the years of data in EGR has been launched.

From 2022, the concept of group continuity over the years of EGR data is implemented, at the same time as the results of profiling are introduced into the EGR.

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The economic variables on employment are recorded in absolute figures.

The net turnover for enterprises is recorded in € (EUR) currency. The corresponding Currency code is indicated for all monetary variables.

The net turnover and net total asset of the groups are recorded in millions of € or $( EUR or USD).

The reference period for data sent to the EGR reflects the figures on December 31st of the given reference year.

Data transmitted to EGR during the EGR 2022 cycle includes data for the 2022 reference year. The identification, economic variables (number of employees, turnover and economic activity) refer to the same 2022 reference year.

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.

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). 

European legislation:

• Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics;
• Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 on European business statistics (Art.10).

In order to ensure a consistent record of data, the Commission (Eurostat) shall, exclusively for Statistical purpose(s), transmit to the appropriate national authorities of Member States other than the reporting country, data concerning Multinational enterprise group(s) and their constituent units, including Confidentiality flags, when at least one Legal unit of the group is located in the territory of that Member State.
The same policy applies to the data exchange between the Commission (Eurostat) and the EFTA countries.

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:

• STATEC, Personal data protection policy

Information security policy - Statistics Portal - Luxembourg (public.lu)

• STATEC, Information security policy (in French, English, German)

Information Security Management System (ISMS) (public.lu)

• European Statistical System, European Statistics Code of Practice (2017) 

European Statistics Code of Practice - Eurostat (europa.eu)

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 eDamis4.

The transmission format is conforming to international SDMX data and metadata exchange standards specified by the Commission (Eurostat).

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).

The EGR final frame is released in T+15 months.

Information on the release calendar is communicated to the EGR correspondents in the respective NSAs in the EU Member States and EFTA countries.

The final frame from EGR data is released to users in the national statistical institutes (NSI) of the EU MSs and EFTA countries exclusively for statistical purposes.

Members of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) also have access to EGR data explicitly for the statistical purpose to ensure the quality of the multinational enterprises (MNE) information in Europe. A specific authorisation procedure is applied according to the register legislation.

EGR data are not accessible to the general public.

Accessing EGR data is further restricted to information of those MNE groups where at least one legal unit of a MNE group is located in the territory of the country of that NSI or NCB. The EGR user thus can access the country specific sub-population of the total EGR population via the EGR FATS and EGR IM user interfaces or by downloading EGR data vie eDamis.

The EGR final frame is released annually.

Not applicable.

Eurostat publishes an experimental statistics article on the Multinational enterprise groups and their structure. The article presents some aggregated statistics based on the EGR data.

The experimental statistics article is available at the Eurostat Statistics Explained website.

The EGR FATS and EGR IM user interfaces allow statistical users to consult and to download the EGR data via online applications. EGR FATS and EGR IM applications are accessible to all NSIs in the EU and EFTA countries and to the ESCB members.

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 exchanges information on multinational enterprise groups with:

• Other Member States for cross-checking information on multinational companies.
• National Central Bank (NCB) for the issue of the determination of the SPEs.

Not applicable.

The descriptive text and references to methodological documents are available on:

• EuroGroups Register communication space ( EGR wiki with restricted access)
• European business statistics methodological manual for statistical business registers — 2021 edition - Products Manuals and Guidelines - Eurostat (europa.eu) outlines the methodology to be used for the national statistical institutes.
• EuropeanExperimental statistics "Multinational enterprise groups and their structure"https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/experimental-statistics/multinational-enterprise-groups are public available descriptions and references to methodological documents.

The content of the national data sent to EGR is defined according to 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.

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.

Public available information on the EGR quality management is available on the Eurostat website.
Information on ESS Data Quality Programme for statistical business registers is available on CIRCABC.

The EGR 2.0 system calculates quality indicators on the input files - input indicators; on the EGR data processing - throughput indicators; and on the EGR output files - output indicators.

The EGR input quality indicators measure the completeness and consistency of the NSI input files (legal units, relationships, enterprises, enterprise groups). All input indicators are calculated by Eurostat based on the quality of the NSIs delivery to the EGR.

Eurostat monitors the input indicators during the process and contacts the NSIs where problems are detected. Thresholds are defined as minimum criteria for acceptance of input data.

The throughput indicators or key process indicators measure the changes of source data during the EGR data processing, via the transformation area until the consolidation area. Data on legal units, relationships, enterprises and enterprise groups are monitored and throughput quality indicators calculated by Eurostat. The throughput indicators are checked during the process and Eurostat reacts on eventual problems occurred in the process flow.

Where needed, concerned NSIs are contacted during the EGR production cycle.

The EGR output quality indicators are calculated for measuring the completeness of the EGR output data, as they are disseminated in EGR FATS application.

EGR producers in the NSIs and statistical users in the NSIs and NCBs find more detailed information on EGR process, methodology, quality indicators can consult on EGR wiki (restricted access).

EGR quality management is based on a set of coordinated procedures between the business registers team in national statistical institutes and in Eurostat.

Eurostat Data Quality Program monitors the quality and compliance of the data transmitted by the countries to EGR using the instruments of the EBS quality framework.

Quality management in the EGR input domain
The quality of the data files sent by national statistical institutes is validated twice:

• Business registers team in national statistical institutes must validate data files before sending them to Eurostat, according to the rules provided
• Eurostat process validates the received data using Input Hall (Conval and Struval validation tools).

Quality management in the EGR throughput domain
The quality of the EGR data during the process is checked by Eurostat and validated by NSIs under request. When errors are identified, Eurostat corrects them or if necessary notifies the respective business register team of the NSI.

Quality management in the EGR output domain
The final EGR frame is validated by Eurostat before dissemination.
Monitoring data quality in the EGR output domain is only one essential part to assure the EGR quality as the entire quality of the EGR cannot be tackled in isolation but it strictly depends on the process and on the quality if the input data sent by the national statistical business registers (NSBR).
Therefore, the management of the EGR quality is embedded in the data quality programme (DQP) for statistical business registers in Europe.

At national level, the quality of the data sent to EGR is assured as follows: 

• double checks
• comparisons with previous year's EGR dataset
• take into consideration the list of EGR problems resolved
• make allowances the list of solved Profiling issues
• count on the results of analyzes carried out by LCU on large multinational groups with a direct impact on national GDP
• national working groups on globalization.

The quality assessment procedure includes:

• automatic validation procedures to check the consistency between statistical units and their variables,
• data format and logical data content,
• cross-checks with administrative sources
• cross-checks with other sources and data from previous years,
• management of metadata in the context of regulatory developments,
• methodological solidity,
• ensure consistency and comparability between EGR and the national database,
• the solidity of the implementation of methodological changes,
• ensure the timeliness of information and punctuality of transfers,
• manage the statistical standards imposed in European regulations,
• manage relationships with data providers and data users,
• ensure the confidentiality and security of EGR/NSBR statistic datas.

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. Multinational enterprise groups'information is used for statistics related to globalisation, such as Statistics on foreign affiliates(FATS), Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Gross National Income (GNI), Large Case Unit(LCU), Forecasting and analysis Department, etc.

The EGR country specific frames are used as a basis for European profiling of the largest and most complex multinational enterprise groups in the EU.

EGR information is used as a mandators source or for all deriving statistics on multinational enterprise groups.

The EGR assessment results are provided to EU Member States and EFTA countries and presented at the Statistical Business Registers Working Group (SBR WG).

The completeness of EGR final frame is annually assessed by Eurostat.

The actions taken to monitor and to improve accuracy of the data sent to EGR are the following: 

• Analysis of national SBR data information for resident and non-resident legal units, entreprises, relationships, entreprises-legal unit links, multinational groups(MNE groups) in crosschecking with informations from LCU, Inward FATS, Outward FATS, FDI, BCL and NA statistical domains.
• Multiannual analysis of information transmitted to the EGR.

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Not applicable.

The EGR process refers to a reference year T and is run yearly over a period of 11 months, between May T+1 and March T+2.

General timetable of the EGR data exchanges:

The EGR final frame is delivered on time without delays.

EGR frame allows geographical comparability of information on MNE groups provided by countries.

The unit data provided by countries are based on harmonised statistical units defined in Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 and the MNE groups information defined in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 of 30 July 2020 is comparable across the countries.

EGR frames for reference years 2008 to 2011 are comparable as the process was based on the EGR system version 1.0 by using commercial data as basis.

EGR frames for reference years 2012 and 2013 are comparable as they were produced during the transition from EGR system version 1.0 to EGR system version 2.0. The input process was based on system version 2.0; the throughput and output processes are based on system version 1.0. Data basis were national statistical business registers of EU MSs and EFTA countries.

The EGR frame for reference year 2014 is the first frame produced in the EGR system version 2.0. From EGR frame 2015 to 2019, the annual frames are comparable to the previous/following EGR frames.

New regulations at EU level, new EGR variables, change of meaning of variables (see GGH; GDC and UCI topic), change of data provider in EGR IS, big changes in validation rules (like for example that the GDC must have a LEID number) make it difficult to compare the final EGR frame for the years 2020 and 2021 with the previous reference years and between them.

Coherence of data sent to Eurostat with other data sources and statistical domains:

• Inward FATS
• Outward FATS
• FDI/BoP
• NA
• LCU

The purpose of the EGR is to increase the consistency of statistics on globalization and to ensure the comparability of the different statistical results compiled at the national level.

Data sent to EGR must be internally consistent as far as possible taking into account the different applicable methodologies. 

There is a set of standard quality checks that are routinely perform at national level before transmitting the data to Eurostat:

• check that it is the latest information available  for the reference date,
• check for LEID identification for the reference year, overall up-data of the information,
• check all characteristics of the legal units in different administrative data,
• check for the uniqueness and completeness of the information before transmitting the EGR data to Eurostat.

EGR data are mandatory for the NSA and provided by the national statistical business registers staff; no additional costs or burden on enterprises are created.

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Not applicable.

The national statistical business register is set up in accordance with EBS Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 using any relevant data source while avoiding excessive burden on respondents and taking due account of the cost effectiveness of the NSAs.

NSI uses the following data sources, including a combination thereof for the national statistical business register and the EGR transmisions:

• National register of legal persons set up by the IT department of the LU government (new LEU, LEU characteristics),
• VAT register set up by the VAT administration (new LEU, LEU characteristics),
• VAT returns register set up by the VAT administration (turnover, import, export,...data),
• Employer register set up by Social Security (new LEU),
• Employment register set up by social Security (employment data),
• EGR set up by Eurostat (EG data),
• LBR register set up by Luxembourg Business Register (EG data, LBR ID for new LEU, Legal form changes, bankruptcies),
• Commercial data (EG data),
• Central accounting database (LBR ID),
• Survey on economic activity (NACE, Enterprise, Institutional sector, Legal form changes),
• SBS survey (NACE, Enterprise, Local units),
• FDI survey (EG data),
• National accounts (NACE, Institutional sector, EG data),
• National Central Bank (NACE, institutional sector, SPE, EG data),
• Public consolidated accounts (MNE),
• EGR IPT profiling results,
• LCU groups informations for very large and very important groups.

The national statistical business register shall be updated by means of entries and removals at least annually (monthly update of most data covered by NSBR). The frequency of updating shall depend on the kind of unit, the variable considered, the size of the unit and the source generally used for the update.

The frequency of updating the units and variables in the national statistical business register is as follows:

• Legal units - monthly (there are no removals).
• Enterprises - monthly for new enterprises, continously for existing enterprises.
• Local units - monthly for all local units which are considered to be identical to the enterprise, annually for enterprises covered by SBS survey having more than one local unit.
• Kind of activity units - not yet implemented, will be implemented as Enterprise characteristic.
• Enterprise groups - annually.

Data sent to EGR are collected from:

• National Statistical business register,
• Administrative data sources (Central accounting database, Public consolidated accounts, ...),
• Survey on economic activity, FDI survey, SBS survey,
• National accounts, National Central Bank and LCU data,
• Profiling results,
• Commercial data.

Statistical analysis of raw EGR data is performed to ensure the quality of the data and frame populations provided to EGR IS and to EGR IM.

EGR IS data validation procedures include:

• Analysis, checking and validation of residents legal units data before transmission to EGR,
• For the reference year 2021, forty-two validation rules have to be applied,
• Over and above that, for the same reference year, 12 cross-checks must be implemented.

EGR IM data validation procedures include the analysis of each data transmission file: LEU, REL, ENT, LEL and GEG.

• Analysis, verification and validation of data from non-resident legal units before transmission of the relationship to EGR,
• Analysis, verification and validation of relationships data( REL),
• Analysis, verification and validation of enterprise data(ENT),
• Analysis, verification and validation of links between enterprises and legal units data( LEL),
• Analysis, verification and validation of legal units data( LEU),
• Analysis, verification and validation of groups data( GEG).

The procedures used in SBR to combine data from different sources:

• Data from all administrative sources are matched using the National ID, except LBR ID from LBR register which is added in the NSBR using Name matching,
• Data from commercial data provider is matched by using LBR Id (or VAT ID if available),
• Data from surveys is collected either at LEU or enterprise level, matching can be done by using National or enterprise ID,
• New LEU and LEU characteristics update is done by using priority rules between the different data sources,
• New Enterprises and enterprise characteristics update is done by using priority rules between the different data sources and manual checking work,
• EG data is updated by using priority rules between the different data sources and manual checking work,
• Employment data is only available from one source, matching is done by National ID (no priority rules necessary),
• VAT data is only available from one source, matching is done by using National ID (only internal data priority rules necessary),
• EGR data is matched by using National or LBR ID.

The  frame populations and annual copy of national statistical business register are produced as follows:

• Frame populations are compiled by using data stored in the different tables of the NSBR database (additional data sources may be used to complete the NSBR data) according to predefined rules,
• The annual frame population for EG is compiled by combining the different data sources available according to priority rules.

Not applicable.

The production of the Eurogroup Resistor EGR is a very complex annual workflow that involves a significant and time-consuming investment on the part of the National Statistical Authority (NSA) to ensure the accuracy and quality required in the EU regulation.