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1.1. Contact organisation | Federal Statistical Office Germany (Destatis) |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | E11 - Profiling of Enterprises, Enterprise Groups, Statistical Units |
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1.5. Contact mail address | Federal Statistical Office Germany (Destatis), Gustav-Stresemann-Ring 11, 65180 Wiesbaden, Germany
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2.1. Metadata last certified | Restricted from publication | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | Restricted from publication | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | Restricted from publication |
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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.
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3.2. Classification system | |||
Classification systems and main code lists used in the EGR are as follows:
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3.3. Coverage - sector | |||
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:
Holding assets and/or liabilities are also considered an economic activity. |
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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. 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. |
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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. |
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3.6. Statistical population | |||
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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. |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | |||
The EGR frames are available from reference year 2008 onwards. NSI transmits data for the EGR production cycle since 2008. |
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3.9. Base period | |||
Not applicable |
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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. |
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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 2022 cycle includes data for the 2022 reference year. The identification, economic variables (number of employees, turnover and economic activity) refer to the 2022 reference year. |
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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. |
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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). |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
European legislation:
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:
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
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). |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
Not applicable. |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
Not applicable. |
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8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
Not applicable. |
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Not applicable. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
Not applicable. |
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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:
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
Public available information on the German statistical business register, its data, methodology, quality management is avilable on the website:
Annexes: Quality report |
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11.1. Quality assurance | |||
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:
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
The quality assessment procedure includes:
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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. |
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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 |
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12.3. Completeness | |||
All information send by the member states and consolidated in EGR are available in the final frames. |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
The actions taken to monitor and to improve accuracy of the data sent to EGR are the following:
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
Not applicable. |
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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. |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
The data transmitted to the EGR during the cycle was on time. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
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15.4. Coherence - internal | |||
Restricted from publication |
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Not available. |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
Not applicable |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
Not applicable |
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18.1. Source data | |||
The data deliverd to EGR comes from:
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
National data sent to EGR annually |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
Data sent to EGR are collected from:
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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-validate the EGR input file. |
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
Not applicable. |
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No further comments. |
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