Legislation
Legislation in force
- EU regulation 184/2005 on balance of payments, international trade in services and foreign direct investment
- EU regulation 2019/2152 on European business statistics, repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics
- Implementing EU regulation 2020/1197 laying down technical specifications and arrangements pursuant to EU regulation 2019/2152
- Implementing EU regulation 2020/1470 on the nomenclature of countries and territories for the European statistics on international trade in goods and on the geographical breakdown for other business statistics
- Delegated EU regulation 2019/505 on the geographical breakdown levels
European business statistics regulation
Annual statistics on trade in services by enterprise characteristics (STEC) and international supply of services by mode of supply (MoS) are provided on the basis of the EU regulation 2019/2152, known as the European business statistics (EBS) regulation. They start with reference years 2022 (for STEC) and 2023 (for MoS). More information on the changes and new data requirements introduced by the EBS regulation can be found in the article European business statistics.